Sunday, August 4, 2013

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.

Saturday, August 3, 2013

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?

Sunday, July 21, 2013


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

Sunday, July 14, 2013


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




Sunday, July 7, 2013


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.




Saturday, June 29, 2013

Sunday, June 23, 2013


Denis' Colditz Cock had its second outing today.




Sunday, June 16, 2013


Lars getting ready to fly.


Sunday, June 9, 2013


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


Sunday, June 2, 2013

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


Sunday, May 26, 2013

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.


Sunday, May 12, 2013

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

Sunday, May 5, 2013

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


Sunday, April 28, 2013


Saturday, fine weather...



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



Sunday, April 21, 2013



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



Sunday, April 14, 2013


The Master instructs young Nicolas.

Saturday, April 6, 2013


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


Sunday, March 31, 2013


Frequency board stolen!




Grant's pattern biplane.

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

 


Sunday, March 24, 2013

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.


Sunday, March 17, 2013


Norman's Cub.




Sunday, March 10, 2013

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




Sunday, March 3, 2013

AGM 2013



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


Sunday, February 24, 2013


Duncan's Ultimate Biplane




Sunday, February 17, 2013


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.

Saturday, February 9, 2013


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.







Sunday, February 3, 2013


Howard's own design five metre "505"



(double click for full screen picture)


Saturday, January 26, 2013


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


Lars's electric Stick Boss.


Sunday, January 20, 2013




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

Sunday, January 13, 2013

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.

Sunday, January 6, 2013


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


Gary's electric Zero.