Wangaratta RC Jets 2024

[@jamesneirinck413]

Very interesting Scott. Thanks for sharing this! Cheers. Jim

[@scottmatthews5280]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@67hr74]

Cheers for that Scott, come a long way from the control line of my youth back in NZ.

[@scottmatthews5280]

Serious models now.

[@mhilderbrand7693]

That was cool, thanks for sharing!

[@scottmatthews5280]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@philmiller681]

A French PC-21 and a Dorito one. 75 Sqn Sabre. A lot of really nice models there. Excellent.

[@scottmatthews5280]

Very impressive.

[@rodneymcqueen1706]

nice one Scott

[@scottmatthews5280]

Thanks 👍

[@WarblesOnALot]

G'day, Yikes ! What an enormous flock of well-heeled Kerosene-burning Aeromuddlers...! I particularly enjoyed the Character leading his handcrafted Passion down the Taxiway On a Leash, Like an obedient little mechanical Chiahuahua- but with Wings ! Half those Model Jets probably cost about the same as yourHome-built Camel - as long as you don't count the Hangar Rent (!). I always thought a pre-loved Ultralight was a vastly better bargain than a brand-new top-of-the-line R/C Model..; but it turns out that the R/C Flyers might not get to sit up in the Sky looking down on all of Earth (though FPV Technology does produce a remarkable impersonation !) - however they also get to never ever be inside the Bit-which-Crashes..., Any time, & every time one gets their Biggles Fantasy a tad too far Skew-whiff. Boomerangs are very satisfying..., I've found...; after getting over the humiliation of having to read a Canadian Book about Boomerang-making..., to understand why what my father bandsawed in 1970 was a Stick, whereas what he bought beside the road outside Yamba in 1926 - was a One-piece Autorotating Rotary-Winged Hardwood Sailplane, Gyroscopically-stabilised & Guided..., With a Free-Flight Glide-Ratio better than 60:1, & a low-weight/low-drag Swept-Wing Asymmetric Hubless Rotor-Blade Planform.... But, in my 30s, after growing up in Glen Innes, in a place built by people who thought that Wooden Ships with Canvas Sails were High-Technology - so most white people when my father was young considered Boomerangs to be too far beneath their "Dignity"..., to ever be bothered to ponder and consider how they function and what they achieve.... Happy enough, my Old Man was enough of an Oddball that I have a 98 year-old Boomerang hanging on my Wall (!). Back in the 1970s I pinched it & took it to Boarding-School, where I used it to herd the younger kids when as a Prefect I was supposed to be supervising them staying on the Field and playing Feetbrawl after school hours. One may become surprisingly good with a Boomerang - it turns out...; but it's rather surprising that the Boomerang is still intact (!). Anyway, thanks for sharing... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !

[@scottmatthews5280]

Aero modelling has taught me so much about aviation.

[@WarblesOnALot]

@@scottmatthews5280 Oh, absolutely ; me too... I brought my first Balsa & Tissue Rubber-powered FF model in 1968, at age 7, and made a hell of a mess of it. Bungee-Launched Canard Chuck-Gliders in 1969 were my first successful Designs (!), and in 1970 the struggles to start my first Aero-Engine, a Taipan 1.5cc "Diesel", began...; it was for an 18"-Span Control-Line Aeroflyte "Taipan" Kit. In 1976 my Yr-10 Tech Drawing Project was to design & build & fly a 48"-Span Free-Flight Model with a Pylon-mounted Polyhedral Wing & inverted Gull-Wing Horizontal Stabiliser, powered by a Cox 0.049 Cu.-In. Glowplug, and in 1990 for the fun of it I built an Estes Ballistic Rocket-launched 110- Format Camera to take 1 Frame per launch. But I'd flown behind 2 different Propellers that I'd designed and made...; BEFORE having to read a Canadian Book about Boomerangs in order to learn how they work - so as to know what to try to do to finish up with a Boomerang which flies well... "Evidence of the extreme Depth of the Cultural Cringe" attached to growing up as a Whitefulla in an inland Regional NSW Country Town. My Grandfather flew in WW-1, Dad's Uncle flew Camels in France, one of them, on one flight on one day - in actual Combat, shooting down one LVG 2-Seater..., so Aeroplanes were absolutely FASCINATING to little me, as a kid. Aborigines were supposed to be a "Doomed Race" of "Ignorant Savages" - who we were (mis) informed "didn't ever live in this part of the Country - because it got too cold in Winter..." spread across the surrounding Landscape of memorialized Massacre-Sites... (Bluff Rock, Waterloo, Skeleton Creek, Myall Creek, Ginnygomad, Garibaldi's Leap, Red Rock, Murdering Creek..., etc...) scattered all over the map ; So, therefore I grew up as a red-hot throbbing little Aeroplane Freak, Aeromodelling since I was in Infants' School - who had nevertheless spent 6 months "hunting" the "Snots & Weeds" (1st & 2nd-Year Students, what they call "Year 7 & 8" these dayze...) with an actual genuine Aborigine-made One-piece Hardwood Boomerang...; but, I was in my 30s and the actual workings of a Boomerang were totally beyond my understanding. I only knew how to throw one... What they call, a "Whitefulla's Blackfulla-Story..." Because, I was raised to unquestioningly assume Boomerangs to be Not actually Worth Thinking About... Because Aeroplanology is So Very very CLEVER, That the World Record for the furthest distance travelled by any Thrown Object is held by a type of a Boomerang called a "Kylie" - designed to fly away while going in a straight line (to attempt to break the neck or leg of a young Emu, while hunting...). I have a Boomerang which I made from a Yellow-Box Branch that I Chainsaw-milled, and then carved ; which Glides over 70 metres worth of Ground-Track (curved, paced out afterwards, for one metre worth of lost altitude...; Launched at Shoulder-height, tracking out and around and back - climbing to 3 metres and being still 1/2 a metre off the ground at the end of it's Landing Flare, briefly hovering to wash off the surplus stored Kinetic Energy...., at knee-height, before settling down onto the Ground. $10,000 worth of Radio Controlled Model Sailplane can't fly out 70 metres and come back with that much Altitude still in the "Bank", off a hand-Launch ;...and, I have custody of a specialised Boomerang-Carving Stone, which appears to be about 10,000 years old (look in my "Aboriginal Technology..." Playlist to see it !) - which allows one more or less easily to make a Flying Machine of superior Efficiency from one Bent Stick of Hardwood (though I personally use modern Tools) ; and compare that result (Boomerangs being more Energy Efficient than all other heavier-than-air Flying Machines...), with the size of the Global Industrial-Scale Fossil-Fuelled Resources, Processing, Manufacturing, & Distribution Industries which were required to have enabled me, at age 6, to have that Rubber-powered Balsa Model in the Shop..., available to be bought (!). The inherited Cultural-Cringe of having grown up as a "New England Tablelander" in Post-Colonial Oz, at the time, Fairly Blinded me to the Elegance of Design embodied in Boomerangs. Despite having made my living by selling Helicopter-Joyride Tickets for 4 months, at age 18, and therefore thinking that I knew quite a fair bit about Rotary-Winged Flight (!). It isn't what one doesn't know which hurts ; What hurts is that which one does know, but Which is NOT True...! And, in a sense, Boomerangs actually represent the Alpha & Omega of all things Aeromodelling...(!). A One Piece Design..., With no moving parts, achieving the World's best L/D & Glide Ratio, with Zero Atmospheric Fossil-Carbon Emission-Footprint ; while being 100% Biodegradable - in that if lost, it reverts to being a "Stick of Wood" lying on the ground....! I was raised to have automatically overlooked stuff like that - despite it actually sticking out like the Balls on a Dog ; clearly visible from across the street (!). Such is life, Have a good one... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !