So, with no one else contributing much to the forum at the moment, here’s a tail of two “Keiths’ “ :lol:
The west slope of Big L was very gusty today. Although the wind was originally coming straight on to the slope at around 30 - 60 Kph it backed to south westerly by early afternoon.
My trusty Skua bounced around the skies as the first model airborne followed by Big Keith’s Mijet. The Mijet seemed to be having trouble penetrating out into the smoother lift so B. Keith landed it, and instead, flew his Zagi. All went well for a while until the Skua suddenly went into a downward spiral,…..and disappeared from view.
I couldn’t understand why she had so suddenly become uncontrollable?
Off I trekked through the heather and down the slope. I looked around but couldn’t find the poor old thing. I’d left the Tx back at the top of the slope so I decided that I’d have a better chance of finding the model by returning to the top of the slope, grabing the Tx and returning to the search area armed with the tx so I could operate the servos in the hope of hearing where the model was lying amongst the thick, and deep, heather. Must admit my idea was severely floored because of the noise of the wind which was likely to have drowned out the sound of the servos, but it was the best idea I could think of in terms of recovering my much beloved, and much abused, Skua.
When I got back to the top of the slope Big Keith said he thought I’d been looking in the wrong place :shock: and insisted he knew where it was. :roll: Enthusiastically he walked off down the hill while I regained my breath, confident that he was wrong in his assumption. :wink:
Less than a couple of minutes later I heard a loud whistle. I looked down the slope, and there was my Skua being held aloft in the hands of the “Big Fella” What more can I say?! :oops: :oops:
Nothing was found to be wrong with her (the Skua, not the big fella) so back up into the air she went, this time with B. Keith at the helm while I flew his Zagi. For a time we both tried a wee bit of combat but to no avail. Suddenly the Zagi I was flying spiralled into the hillside. A few minutes later The Skua that B.K. was flying did the same thing! We each retrieved the respective models to establish the cause of their sudden inability to continue flying. Well, my Skua had developed a “twitchy” servo, even with the Tx turned off. :? B.K.’s Zagi had one servo that only worked when it felt like it. Strange how both combat wings had developed a fault at much the same time! :?:
But fear not dear reader, our flying was not curtailed by these unfortunate mishaps. We each had alternative (secondary) models. For B.K. it was to be his Mijet, but this time with a sizable lump of roofing lead stuck to the underside of the fuse around the CoG,…..and for me the proverbial Phase 6! (What else?)
Armed with these planes we spent the remaining time available flying and chatting together on the top of the slope. (Well, it wasn’t so much ‘chatting’, as shouting at each other above the sound of the wind.)
Don’t have any pictures I’m afraid, neither of us thought to take any. But that’s the story…..
So what have YOU been up to?
Little Keith
