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So, I joined yet another club! RWMAC
« on: February 06, 2025, 00:34:00 AM »
We’ll, when you love, you don’t count I guess 🤣

I have been invited a few times by Tony Green (thank you! 😘) to come and visit the club, located near Roundwood in Co. Wicklow.
I finally managed to get my arse in gear, and paid the club a visit a few months ago, and I was not disappointed!

The welcoming was just superb, and the setup is fantastic! I had the trusty Lentus with me, and was allowed to use the field as a full member for the day, and well, I joined! 😁😁 they know how to talk to men 🤣

More seriously, the guys are great, the ambiance is fantastic as a result, and the field is big with plenty of space for the big stuff.

Anyway, more later, but for now, enjoy a couple of photos :)

And if you want to know more, you can visit https://rwmac.ie
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Re: So, I joined yet another club! RWMAC
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2025, 00:40:42 AM »
I also wanted to fly my MaxiLift during the new year break. Could not get the engine to run properly for more than 5 minutes!
Was driving me mad, and even more after Cork as it was running great after Brendan tweaked it. Anyway, I tried and failed.
Weeks later, brought it back and Tony setup the engine in like 2 minutes from scratch and it is now purring like a kitten! No ideas how he managed that as we spent hours on the damn thing, so it is still a dark magic to me!
Thanks Tony for fixing it 😘
Have to fly it now!…
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Re: So, I joined yet another club! RWMAC
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2025, 20:59:56 PM »
Another good day at the RWMAC with a bit of flying with the Tommy jr and the good old Lentus.
Plus, witnessing manual work at the club. The usual, one working, everybody else watching, commenting etc 🤣🤣
With all the rain, today’s job was to drain the water from part of the model pit. And more rain forecast tomorrow! Will that weather give us a break at some point! 😢
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Re: So, I joined yet another club! RWMAC
« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2025, 18:22:05 PM »
With the rubbish weather for slope soaring in Kilakee, time to pay a visit to the field again this weekend.
The usual good banter and flying. Good old Lentus  managed to get a proper thermal and was just a small spec in the sky for a long flight. All that with 30sec motor run 😁 so happy days! Then cold came in, so the other flights were in the short spectrum 😢

Good flying with the MPX Tommy jr. Very stable plane I have to say. Great fun.
Then Sunday was little tow plane flying with about 7 or 8 flights and that was the end of a good weekend!
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