vernon <
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>
>> When I were a lad, I'd heard of this drug "dope" that rock stars took,
>> and having a tin of dope I thought I'd give it a bit of a try. It was
>> OK at first, but I end up feeling a bit sick after a while. Thankfully
>> I didn't know that dope was meant to be rolled in a spliff and smoked,
>> coz it might have been a bit of a disaster. Having said that, trying
>> to straighten a warped doped tissue glider wing over my Mum's cooker
>> hob turned out not to be such a good idea either when it burst into
> flames.
>>
>> You used to live in Leeds, didn't you? Where did you fly free flight
>> round there? I was lucky enough to do all my aeromodelling in Oz where
>> there was a lot of space. Not sure where to do it here (near Leeds) and
>> I don't really want to join a club, I'd rather do it on me todd.
>>
> I still live in Leeds
Oh, sorry, I'm obviously confusing you with another regular here who moved
from Leeds to Cambridge recently, I think, ar amy I just losing my reason?
> and do my free flight flying at Church Fenton and
> Barkston Heath. The flying season is more or less over now apart from the
> Xmas and new year sessions.I belong to the Morley and Wharfedale clubs the
> first for freeflight the second for control line flying. To gain access to
> Church Fenton and Barkston or anty other MOD sites used for model flying it
> is essential to be a member of the British Model Flying Association @£25 or
> so. It gets you £5,000,000 insurance cover. The Morely Club is cheap @£5,
> no weekly subs and club nights are held in the Valley Inn at Drighlington.
> I'm lucky enought to have some playing fields near my home where I can fly
> control line when I don't have access to Ilkley School's playing fields or
> an airfiled half way up the A1 towards Scotch Corner, the name evades me at
> the mo. You can operate as a solo flyer at Church Fenton, the airfield is
> big enough to accommodate those who want to be alone but the crowd that
> assemble their are a sociable lot and the craic's outstanding.
You do get about a bit! Nice to hear someone who does both free flight and
control line, frow what I can tell from the odd mag I've flicked through
over the years they're a dying art with all this R/C taking over. One of
the things that's put me off a little, especially from the club scene
(perhaps unfairly) is the apparent overwhelming preponderance of these
ARTF models - I lurked on the uk.rec.rc.air group for a while and saw
quite a bit of "oh you don't want to do it like that" attitude to tissue
paper and dope. Designing and building your own models seemed to be
a dying art, too - most people seemed to build from kits if they weren't
using ARTF. When I was aeromodelling as a teenager and university student
I couldn't afford kits, so I ended up building mix of stuff I'd designed
myself and plans from mags and the like. In my view, the building is
as important and enjoyable as the flying. Flying something you've
designed and built yourself is the bee's knees
Well, I might have it wrong, and we all know that Usenet can deliver
a biassed view of any group ;-)
--
Nobby
