G' Day All
                  Well it's time of year again, so from all committee members to all members, families and friends have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and keep it safe. Hope 2017 is better flying weather.

4/12/16

G'Day all
                Sorry about the late blog had alot going on.
  Ok Xmas barbie went well good food,weather and company. Guests were Fred C,Mike S,Bob H,Martin T,Brad C, Rebecca C and Alex C. Special thanks to fred for the food and cooking, tamara h for the potatoe salard and suzanne s for the scones,jam and cream.

  Bobby H enjoys flying his small electric stick

 Rebecca and alex c checking over the zepher before take off

Mike S having a cuppa before flying his bi plane

Fred C looking busy as usual.

                         

Alex's war bird after he gave it a hard time it decided to do a wing slap.

G'Day all
                Saturday 3/12/16 the field will be closed due to the pattern flyers having their comp at

our field. And don't forget on sunday 4/12/16 our xmas get together BBQ. The day was over cast but the wind was around 20kms
Fred C put up his dragon lady for a hair raising flying skills test.

Matt J brought out his dragon lady gave it a crack and did some nice moves but the old timer had the edge.

As for Martin T it was a bad hair day. A picture tells a thousand words.

G'Day all
                Another beautiful day for flying, low wind, blue and clear skies.
Brad C a former president. Brad flew a multi coloured type zepher.

 Fred C setting up his two favourite planes






























Matt J with his katana still running it in. A recovered sky walker that performed great in the sky.

     











                                                                                                                                                             
Mike S with his gas powered ultimate biplane ripping up the sky. Below with his quad with all it crazy lights. Stop, revs and indicators.

G.day all

 Last friday was one of those few days you could flying. So fred C, matt J and martin T made the most of it. Sun was shining wind around 20 to 30 Ks and the field was short and green. Perfect

Matt J with a couple of his war birds a 3D,trainer and the dragon lady and if you check back in a previous blog matt did some serious damage and had to rebuild the fuse from the back of the wing forward. He did a good job, looks good and flies well. If any body has got a single drive prime mover with a dry pan trailer for sale see matt his trailer getting to small. just joking matt LOL

 Fred C With the misfit and dragon lady. Fred likes to show of  his pilot skills with both these planes and it's nice to watch. Good on you pal HA HA















Martin T's RV 4 only one toy for the day. Had about 4 good flies of it. A good day had by all except Chris H who was in the next paddock cutting hay sorry Chris PS the burgers tasted great to.

                DON'T FORGET CHRISTMAS BREAK UP ON 4th DECEMBER
                           ALL WELCOME MEMBERS and GUESTS

Swamps christmas barbecue

Sunday

December

4 th

It's back again

Our christmas barbecue is on

Hopefully we will have decent weather by then

(Those famous scones might make an appearence)

DAVID CHIGWIDDEN MEMORIAL BBQ AND FLY DAY

 

Guest list
Fred C , Mike S, Chris H and son Clay, Bob H, David K, Former president Adrian K, Ben, Martin T and Geoff White from the b/dale club
Special thanks to Tamara H for the salad and Suzanne S for the scones, cream and jam.

 Bobby H had no trouble flying his pattern plane in the windy conditions and put it thru it's paces.

 Chris H with his gee bee put on a bit of a show with inverted,knife edge and stall turns

Fred C here with the dragon lady flew it with no troubles. But uncle bob was a different story, the wind play merry hell with it.

G'day all
 Fred and I went for a fly this morning. The field is still a bit wet in patches the wind was all over the place around 25KPH. Patches of sunlight but over all a good day

Fred doesn't know the name of the plane he just got so I called it MISFIT he is very happy with it seeing it hasn't be flown for about 10 years

My little brumby didn't like the wind much but it's still in one piece

Some of the big puddles on the field and with the forecast over the next few days it's not looking real good.

A few models belonging to members and visitors

David Chigwidden memorial barbecue/fly in

We will be holding a barbecue lunch at the field in memory of David on Sunday 6th November.

Members, past members and friends are invited to come along and fly or watch and reminisce.

We would like to know of who wish to attend for catering purposes.

RSVP: 30/10/2016 to Mike

mike.suzanne@bigpond.com

See you then

  

Our annual and general meeting was held today after a great feast of snags and burgers (thanks Fred)

and a thank you to Chris's wife for the potato salad.

Was attended by 60% of club members.

Some good flying time as well.

 A pretty good line up

 Trailers seem to be the way to go these days

Matt had a battery that didn't want to play anymore

Notice to all members:-

It's that time of year again for our General & Annual General meetings.

Date: 11 September 2016.

Held at the field.

Time: approx 1:00 pm.

Barbecue lunch will be provided before meeting.

Don't forget to bring something to fly.

See you all then.

Mike.

Message from Fred C ----

David's Memorial Service is at Forster
The Prom Motel  at 11am on Tuesday 2nd of August           

David and Alex

David Chigwidden 

Sad news, David passed away Monday evening 25th of July.

David has had a long long medical fight, which he faced with unswerving bravery and cheerfulness.

Team Chigwidden (May2014)

He was a founding member of SWAMPS and an absolutely passionate aero modeler, flyer  and competitor, he provided our first flying field on his own property in Harkers Road, Lang Lang.

He leaves behind his wife Rebecca, children Christy, Owen and Alex, father Fred, and their extended families.
 The Club wishes to acknowledge sympathy and support to his loved ones.

SWAMPS Sunday 28.2.16

    SWAMPS Sunday 28.2.16

 Hi all, another great day for flying, light winds early increasing a little after lunch. Bob H always first on the scene with his collection of Little Sticks, Heli's and even a Bixler glider. Neil Busby after a long holiday turned up early too, must of been in two minds as what to bring so why not bring them all, petrol powered Baja included. Below is a Big Stick that Neil recently purchased and wanted to test, OS GT 33 up front, run and flew well, as sticks do......

 Mike turned up later morning and put the Quad through its paces........

 After changing the carby on the Saito 65 which caused a no idle problem last week, a run through the drain caused the under cart to depart from the Dragon Lady. Typical ARF as far as that goes. Engine run good though........

Myself and Alex with our trusty fleet, blew the dust of the Fokker DR1 for the Foster show so thought we would give it a go, hadn't started in 12 months and fired up first spin, flew just as well as it always did. A patched up wheel the only problem when I tried to turn on the field, $50 dollars for a new set?????

  Foster Show  27.2.16

My own Fokker triplane and a Greens model Tiger Moth by organiser Brian Mellor. The electric Mustang  yacht from a Walkerville Nth local, free flight models, tanks etc all from a Foster locals. My Large Spitfire and Alex's electric Cub in back ground.....

 Still  amazes me at the number of people who say, do they actually fly, also surprises me as how many people have planes and haven't flown them and talk of others in area that do. Hopefully that may change as a reported sighting of a few, flying models from a private strip at Stony Creek. I have been to this strip before in search of a full size Nanchang that gets around, there is a large hanger and some other buildings on big open paddock, but no one ever there when I have visited....