Dried out 450

[moyesboy]

Thanks to a quick swap for a replacement ESC with the other "moyesboy" who frequents this forum, my 450 is back in the air after its bog snorkling championship flight at nuneaton a week ago.
All the electric survived the dunking except the ESC.

[David Drew]

Go on, do tell us the story

[funfreex]

I still think sticking it in the drink is worse than jamming it in a door!!

[Leebert]

Fantastic to hear it

More importantly, how did the jeans and trainers fair?

[BobJ]

Gordon wrote}

"with the other "moyesboy" who frequents this forum"

Dam and I thought the ****ed stained old gimmers were dying out or is that just the plank flying kind:-)

Be kind to me, it's my birthday and I've had a few:-)

Bob J

[funfreex]

Be kind to me, it's my birthday and I've had a few:-)

Bob J[/quote]


I'm not as think as you drunk I am!

[moyesboy]

The moyesboy with fewer carbon extras is a lot younger than both of us Bob!
but with a name like funfreex I suspect he may have experience with floppy and baggy aviation like yourself.
(Jamie, BobJs got an airwave pulse locked in his garage that he is too much of a wuss to fly).

Dave, the stories been told elswhere on the forum.
The second chapter was the tail blades flying off the raptor soon afterward.

[BobJ]

Hi Gordon

Freex, must have some thing to do with Andy Shaw then, top bloke and a mate of mine.
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(Jamie, BobJs got an airwave pulse locked in his garage that he is too much of a wuss to fly).
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It's actauly hanging up in the store room at the back of the shop, where it has been for a few years until I have time and can be arsed to get past HG EP level, I realised then that there are less days when it's actually flyable on a HG than a PG a while back although they do go a bit better into wind I have to admit:-)

Cheers
Bob

[moyesboy]

Bob, the days you think are PG but not HG days are mostly still HG days on a bigger hill (like we have for most directions in the peaks) - and they are all good aerotow days.
Aerotow is great. Takoff when you want into an empty sky, fly all you want and come back for a cup of tea.
And fly the 450 in between
All those days I wasted sitting on a hill waiting for the wind with a good sky above. Now I only do that at hill based comps.
Problem is there are few places to get a tow becuase all the HG pilots would rather carry up a big hill and wait about, or not bother at all, than pay £15 for a tow.