Air Show at Cosford

[PR19_Kit]

Went to an air show at Cosford today while MRS_PR19 and a friend were buying lots of gardening stuff to fill up the back of the car on the return trip.

The Reds put on a superb display, the usual low fast passes with lots of smoke etc.



XH558 made a few fly-pasts, one with a Hunter F6 escort too!





To cap it all we had an HP42 display at a STUPIDLY slow speed, in the piccie it was actually going backwards in the high winds.



Of course the last piccie will have given the game away, it was a Large R/C MODEL display, and very good they were too. The two Reds were about 7-8 ft span and turbo-jet powered, the Vulcan had FOUR turbo-jets and was about 20 FEET span!  

The HP 42 amazed me, its top wing was shoulder high to me, and the fabric/metal finish on it would have won prizes at an IPMS meeting.

Sadly one of the teams stuffed their USCG C-130 into the runway while approaching  for a low pass. He got on the wrong side of the drag curve and didn't attempt to level out and straighten up. Result, KEEEERRUMP! It was pretty huge too, maybe 15 ft span with four big turbo-props and it was  meant to drop some 'paratroops' but I guess they all perished.

[Hobbes]

My first thought: Hang on, did they repaint XH558 in antiflash white?

[Gondor]

My first thought: Hang on, did they repaint XH558 in antiflash white?

I was thinking the same..... I think we have been whiff'd

Gondor

[Steel Penguin]

  me and all,  iwas was going to cry shenanigans!  till the model penny dropped, 
drat and double drat ive been at a bit of a loose end today as well.
thanks for the photos Kit

[PR19_Kit]

It's been years since I flew R/C so the whole event was an eye-opener for me.

As for scale jet models that really ARE jets and sound like jets, well WOW! 

I was about to head to Cosford after dropping off Mrs_PR19 when a VC10 flew past, an all over grey K2, and it sounded like a VC10 too, ie LOUD! It suddenly dawned on me that it was doing about 500 kts and that's just not possible with a Ten at that altitude, and THEN I realised it was a big model as the field was just over the fence. Even I got whiffed there too. 

[perttime]

The air show that I went to a couple of weeks ago (thread) had some R/C jets too. Unfortunately, I didn't get decent pics, except of the jet powered glider. There was a pretty big Hawk in a RAF 1917-2007 90th Anniversary colour scheme, and a BIG scale contest detailed Hawk in Finnish Air Force grey.

The smaller Hawk flew fast and steady. The bigger one was built to a contest requirement of 20kg max weight, and seemed a little twitchy in the wind, flying at scale-like speeds.

There was some carnage too. A R/C helicopter crashed during its aerobatic display. Apparently, the glow engine leaves some of the methanol/oil/nitromethane mix unburned, and the pilot got some of that mist in his eyes. The caller telling him what to do wasn't enough to save the chopper, but it was enough to ensure it was flying away from the crowd.