Edited down version of Dave Bright's first flight of his Bae Hawk on the 26 November 2016. It was extremely cold and overcast skies. Not the best of days for first flights or maidens. Earlier Jon Tappin took the sticks for it's maiden flight whilst the few members who braved out the chill watched, some with camera ready.
After a disaster some years ago Pete decided to build another Hawker Hurricane, the initial backbone of the RAF at the start of WWII. Lighter than the original and powered by a DLE55 petrol engine. On a rather dull, overcast, grey chilly day at end of April 2018 it was time for it's maiden flight. With the engine never been started before it was fuelled up and ran for several minutes and some tweaking of the carb needles. Leaving the cowl off for the first flight the Hurricane was piloted by Jon Tappin and put throught a number of manouevres. The engine never faltered. Before the second flight the cowl was refitted. Some of the action is captured here in this video watched by members of Wimborne MAC.
The annual Jet Day earlier was postponed due to poor weather conditions and was given the new date of September 23rd. Generally a bright blue sky but with a "breezy" crosswind howling in from the SSW. However, this time we were not to be beaten and all pilots got at least two flights in. Due to crosswind though some members decided to stay away so numbers were down a little. We had a few edf foamies of which only five flew, the classic F86 of Dave R burned out it's speed controller again, but we had the sight of two Me 163 Komets flying in formation - sort of!
Jets actually flown were two turbine sport jet models plus a Bae Hawk, De Havilland Venom, F9F Panther and Jiri's new L39 Albatros.
Wimborne MAC member Dave Bright flies his Durafly Spitfire after sun down at our Cashmoor field. With no wind and good throttle control he got at least 8 mins flight time. The "position lights" come as standard fit. 1100 mm wing span. 3 blade prop. Split flaps. Servo-less retracts.
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