bob forest
2007-03-05, 07:20 AM
Hi, got these pictures from Dick Murray who I fly with in the summer. Dick spends his winters in New Zealand, and just went to an RC event over there. He took these pictures, which I thought would be of great interest to our members. Look at their location, paved runways, rolling hills, what a set up.
Here is his email to me, which tells more of the story.Greetings Bob,
I'm sending these from my daughters computer because mine not working too well. I got to go to a local scale meet last weekend and got these pics. Most of the models were pretty ordinary except this Ziroli Beech 18. It flew very realistically with a pair of Zenoah engines, and was a joy to watch, as it was a nice sunny day and a beautiful site. He had some sort of on board airspeed indicator and he put on a very nice show. It alone was worth the one hour drive. There was also a midair collision, with lots of parts fluttering down but both models landed OK.
I had a Beech 18 of my own on my last Air Force station and I did a lot of solo flying with it. There are a handful, not easy to fly. It wasn't actually mine, it belonged to the RCAF but I was the only pilot on the station who would admit to being able to fly it. You got a lot of donkey work if you could so nobody else wanted it.
See you soon.
Dick
Here is his email to me, which tells more of the story.Greetings Bob,
I'm sending these from my daughters computer because mine not working too well. I got to go to a local scale meet last weekend and got these pics. Most of the models were pretty ordinary except this Ziroli Beech 18. It flew very realistically with a pair of Zenoah engines, and was a joy to watch, as it was a nice sunny day and a beautiful site. He had some sort of on board airspeed indicator and he put on a very nice show. It alone was worth the one hour drive. There was also a midair collision, with lots of parts fluttering down but both models landed OK.
I had a Beech 18 of my own on my last Air Force station and I did a lot of solo flying with it. There are a handful, not easy to fly. It wasn't actually mine, it belonged to the RCAF but I was the only pilot on the station who would admit to being able to fly it. You got a lot of donkey work if you could so nobody else wanted it.
See you soon.
Dick