The weather was a real mixture on Sunday, we awoke to frozen snow on the vehicles but in bright sunshine, so it wasn’t long in warming up. Conditions generally good for flying although it was cold and the air pressure was high. RAD sitting at 103, DA at -1000ft! Ken did try to run up an F2A model but he couldn’t get the engine to run to his satisfaction, I think the fuel may have been quite cold, so he didn’t even roll out the lines. We had some fun with sport jet, we were running metering jets ten sizes bigger than normal. Barrie Lever had his sport jet engine strapped to his spare fast jet so we gave him a good bit of pylon practice with that model before he had a go for real with a proper fast jet. He is improving every time he comes out flying.
Nigel Frith set a new record and would probably have gone faster yet in round two if I had not let him fly for 20 laps in round one. I think it fried his ESC.
We had the one man starter available but didn’t need to use it in anger. Fast jet pitting was one man and sport jet pitting was two man with the spark box man making full use of the 5 metres of cable to keep at least 2m separation.
Dick Hart 12/04/21
Area Centralized results 11 04 21
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