Malcolm writes:
Hi John

Here are some pics from today at Jomac.
The weather was awesome, the sun was warm! It was a great day with a good turnout.

If you'd rather have larger pics let me know as these have been resized to make them easier to send via email.

Regards
Malcolm

The pics are here.

This will be my last post on the JOMAC BLOG.
For some time now I've noticed that my eyesight was not what it used to be.
The other weekend I was flying an Old Timer, a Junior 60. I lost sight of it more than once while it was in the air. Luckily its free flight ancestry allowed it to stooge around the sky on its own in safety. But I realised that it was time I gave up flying.
I hope some one else will step in to keep a BLOG going. You can do this in one of two ways.
I can invite you as an administrator of the existing BLOG, or you can start a new BLOG.
Any volunteers?

Valter's Spacewalker with Dave's Astro Hog in the background.

Donovan's spotted electric pusher, made mostly of paper covered foam. The airframe cost R30 to make.

Malcolm Stiles sent me these photos of my Junior 60.

Thanks Malcolm, let's have more.

He also took this photo of an Sbach 342, and the one below of Alex.

Alex' electric Sandown. Originally a free flight  PAAload design.

Norman's electric DC3

Denis' Colditz Cock had its second outing today.

Lars getting ready to fly.

More helicopters than fixed wing aircraft at the field this morning.

For the Military History enthusiasts in our midst, here's comment on the effectiveness or otherwise of the famous  1943 Dambusters raid.

I haven't been out to the flying field for the past couple of weeks so I'm a bit behind with news.
I hope to be there this coming weekend.

I found this on Vimeo. Amazing, look at some of the control deflections.

Here's a link to the RAeS BLOG of Flying the Super Hornet at Farnborough.

Saturday, fine weather...

...a good turnout of pilots and aircraft including Daryl's quadcopter.

Denis' 1/4 scale Colditz Cock had its first flight today, suffered minor damage on landing.

The Master instructs young Nicolas.

Steve brought his heli out but suffered intermittent radio failure, possibly a dry joint somewhere.

Frequency board stolen!

Grant's pattern biplane.

And here are Howard and Adrian doing what they do best.

 

Denis and Jon came to the field for some aerotow practice.

Denis' glider has its first tow behind Adrian's tug and its second behind Jon's.

Norman's Cub.

Here's a link to some photos of the 2013 SAMAA Airshow.

AGM 2013

It was good to see Ken back at the flying field looking fit and well.

Duncan's Ultimate Biplane

Darren's Beaver had its first flight today.

(Darren is a visitor to the club)

Malcolm uses a special tool to hold up the wings of his jet while he rigs the servos.

The Rogers' Tiger Moth lived up to its reputation of needing continual maintenance...

...an elevator control cable broke on take off, you can just about see the consequence in this clip

Luckily they had a back up machine.

Howard's own design five metre "505"

(double click for full screen picture)

I love the technology of aeromodelling, it's simple and elegant.

Lars's electric Stick Boss.

Grant and Tim were at the field this morning practicing with their electric aerobatic biplanes.

New member Sascha gets some help tuning his engine.



Here's Andy's video of the visit to the Vaal for some float flying. You can see many of the usual suspects and  some fine flying.
I had to remove the soundtrack due to a copyright violation.

It was good to see Charlie and his helicopter at the field.

Gary's electric Zero.