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Sadly, my hubby has come to the decision to sell our planes. He no longer wants to be apart of the flying club we attend and basically doesn't want to this right now. So, he has decided to sell his much beloved plane. One of the mistakes we made was to sell all our Glow Fuel planes, to upgrade to 1/4 scale Petrol planes. Our house isn't big enough to store them, we won't store them in the shed due to thieves and they are so expensive when a part needs replacing. If you was to damaged the engine in a crash etc, then you have a £300 engine that needs replacing. Even a wing, costs a bomb. I am not 100% agreeable to this, which he knows. But I do understand why he is doing it. I am really sad to see the plane go. But we don't get to go flying much anymore and hubby doesn't feel in the mood anymore to enjoy the club, mainly because the club we use, the pitch although has beautiful surroundings, the actual landing area is poor. Anyone in this hobby would understand what I...

Click the picture to see its full size. While we were at the Imperial War Museum at Duxford, we were thrilled to find out they had tutor flights on offer. Our 12 year old son Joe, wants a career in the RAF as a pilot, and is also going to join the Air Cadets this summer. We want to do all we can to encourage him with his ambition and so we made sure he would get his chance to be in the sky. He often practices with Flight Sims, if you think that's easy, think again. It's not and basically it's a simulation of a real aircraft. The best thing of all was it was in one of Joe's (and one of all of our favourite planes) favourite planes, the Tiger Moth. We booked him a flight and at 12:45pm, he went for a 15 minute flight where he was able to take the controls in that time and fly it himself. He was so nervous, but also so excited. Here he was living out his dream. It was his first time in an Airplane and much more special that it was in a Tiger Moth. His dad and I were on t...

Yesterday, hubby woke up and decided to take us on a surprise trip. On the way he announced we were going to Duxford War Museum. We were thrilled as we have wanted to visit this place for a while now. We had a fantastic day and we can't wait to go back! Here are some pictures of our day at the Musem. You can click the pictures to see their full size.

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Hi all, Well, we recently maidened our new plane. Thankfully it was a success! :) Before we maiden a plane it is a bit stressful, as you never know just how well the plane will fly. We have had a one which didn't make it after the maiden, mainly because the tail was warped a bit. Anyway enough of that. I'm talking about our new plane. :) She was a success and here's the video of her maiden. :) Oh yes and hubby got carried away with the text as he put this movie together. :) Also, just want to wish everyone a Very Merry Xmas!!!!!

Recently we sold four of our model airplanes on Ebay. Basically we sold two and gave one away free with each model. We did this, as we have moved over to Petrol planes, and are giving up the glow fuel planes. We've loved the experience with glow fuel but it's time to move onto new things, bigger and better yay! Anyway, I thought I'd show you some pics of our new plane. It's huge and takes up most of our lounge as you can see. She hasn't flown yet, but she will do very soon and the video will end up on youtube very soon. Hope you like the pics. When we take her outside to the club, we'll take better pics then.

Guss, a member of the club, loves to build his planes from scratch. Which takes a lot of patience, dedication, motivation and love. Love, because he loves the hobby and his planes. There are a few members there who build their planes from scratch, it takes months and may be a year or two. I would love Al to start a plane from scratch, but at the moment he doesn't have the patience for that. Hmmm....... Anyway, I thought I'd show you the latest plane Guss has been building from scratch. It's a Tiger Moth and she's a quarter scale plane. It's not finished yet and as you can see she's BEAUTIFUL! Click on the photo's to blow them up to their original size.