Adrian and Mike have new electric aircraft

Happy Christmas everyone

Ted with his Radio Queen

Photos from Hermanus

gliding

David's progress -- Juan

Here's a link to info on the SAMAA BLOG.

0930 Sunday morning. Where is everyone?

Aerotow

Howard's tug and Adrian's glider

The tug, an Ultra Stik with a four-stroke engine, 10cc I think.

The release mechanism.

The glider with the release servo.

You can just see the slot in the nose for the tow ring.

Here's a fifteen second video clip of the take-off.

Three cheers for Mick

Guy Fawkes 2007

A good turn-out, a festive atmosphere and perfect weather. Couldn't have been better. The fireworks display was excellent as well!

SAMAA AGM 2007

Info here.

Old Timers and Vintage Aircraft Fly In number 201

Old Timers...

...and Vintage Aircraft.

There are more photos here.

Here's a video clip of Denis Dalgleish's Guff

Basil bowing-down to his electric Bird of Time. It flew very well after that.

My cell phone has a video camera. I mounted this on a glider using a Heath Robinson contraption of EPP foam and elastic bands. Here's an airborne video. Not Oscar material but it does show JOMAC from the air.

David Ndawonde

More info on the SAMAA BLOG here.

Timothy Hamman

Timothy Hamman won the Advanced Section of the Masters Aerobatic Tournament held recently in Bloem.

Slope soaring at JOMAC

There was a brisk northerly wind today. I thought I might attempt to slope soar on the face of the dam with my Bug HLG.
Here's a rather dodgy video clip (58 secs)



One of the local citizens watched.

Some unusual birds at the gliding field today.

And here's a short clip, (43 secs), of Eric's Hs 129

Charl's pattern aircraft, (a Show Time I think).

Francois' quarter scale Extra had it's first flight. It is powered by a 160cc petrol engine.

Colin connects the servos on his extra large Stik. He is chanting the mantra "white on the outside, white on the outside".

Charlie's Harvard had its first flight today.

You can download a higher resolution clip here.

There's nothing like a quiet kip at the flying field

Charlie's Harvard

A really beautiful aircraft.

Something quite different

A man-carrying, full-size, Ornithopter. More info, photos and video clips here.

Ken's DH Beaver had its first flight today. It is powered by a 40cc petrol engine that sounds very good in the air -- even after the silencer fell off.
Note that it's officially Summer, Charlie is wearing his Shorts.

Roger Lambson and his son. Some members of the gliding fraternity in the background.

Not a good day to fly.

Overcast cold and windy.

There were some optimists there -- Charlie, Colin and Alex.

Howard even took-off into the murk.

On-Site Engineering

Test fitting an exhaust extension. Colin is the brains behind this project
More JOMAC photos here.

The Dark Side of the Force

Even Ken has turned to the dark side. His gliders now have ELECTRIC MOTORS. They fly just as well as ever though. Perhaps even better.

2007 World Jet Masters in Ireland

Hard to distinguish from the real thing. Look at the woolies in the background.

Weather, fine earlier, a little gusty later.

Adrian's new Alpina.

Basil fettling.

A reminder of how cold it was

Here's a photo I borrowed from the BERG BLOG. I'm sure they won't mind.

Vintage Aircraft Fly In number 201

A few more photos here.

It's Showtime!

Barry with his Showtime. Had its first flights on Sunday. Uses an OS 120 two stroke. Plenty of power there.

Adrian about to start his Skywalker. It's now seven years old.

Franco's Funtana.

I thought those helicopter thingies were supposed to fly the other way up.

Mike George's r/c combat aircraft. Mostly foam and packing tape. The ultimate low cost aerobatic machine.



...and the Peanut Gallery is usually on hand to offer helpful suggestions.

Not my day

When I arrived at the field today it was slightly overcast with a fresh North Westerly wind. Didn't look good for thermals.
Then I found I had left my bungee at home. I walked down into the valley a short way to see if there was any slope lift. There wasn't. There were about ten zillion blackjacks though. My jacket collected most of them.

Nara Tantemsapya

On Saturday we had a visitor -- Nara from Launceston in Tasmania. That's him in the middle, a long way from home and surrounded by the less savory members of JOMAC. What a pity he didn't meet more respectable people. (But come to think of it, are there any respectable people at JOMAC?).
He's clearly a keen aeromodeller, He was at the field with Juan at 0530 in the morning.



Here he is at his home club with his wife.

Ted

Sandwich taste good Ted?