Christmas Best Sellers at IPJ Aeroshirts

Hot sellers in this cold season are:

• F1 Racing car designs,
• Cessna aeroplane designs,
• Extra aeroplane designs,
• Tornado aeroplane on finals design,
• Hooded sweatshirts and
• Cooking aprons.

Happy shopping and happy Christmas from IPJ Aeroshirts.

A few examples for you: 

IPJ Aeroshirts Order Deadlines

Snow brings country to standstill

Not for me it doesn't!

It's an opportunity to get out and enjoy a different kind of flying, there's snow stopping me. (Groan ;D )

IPJ Aeroshirts Free Delivery

From 1st-14th December use the voucher code GIFTS2010UK when the order value is over £30 and shipping will be free.

New Aero Products at IPJ Aeroshirts

New products have been added to the Aviation, Radio Control and South Cheshire Radio Control Society categories at IPJ Aeroshirts. 

They are on the themes of "I'd rather be [RC] flying" or having the option of adding custom text which could be some other statement, name or even a club name.

For those that prefer something simpler there are also products with a variety of aeroplane logos.

There's more than T Shirts, there's longsleeve shirts, polo shirts and winter warmer hats that have also been added to favourites such sweatshirts, hooded sweatshirts, baseball caps and a range of other gifts such as lanyards & mugs.

Ladies needn't miss out as a number of products have been suitably redesigned to suit.

71" Seagull Models Pilatus PC9

Since last Christmas I have been preparing this model for flight. One of the biggest holdups was that the fuel was syphoning out of the tank and flooding the inverted SC FS180 four stroke engine. That has now been resolved.

That means that today I have been able to tune the engine and commit to the air for a maiden flight. The flight was intentionally short, serving just totrim the controls, test the stall and of course land. 

Spa Sounds

Not so long a go I was fortunate enough to visit Wrenbury Church where my brother and his wife were setting up to record a live performance later that evening. It was a good opportunity for me to take some publicity photographs of Michael & Julia's 'Spa Sounds' at work which I hope they will find useful. 

The state of the art recording equipment was very interesting and I was able to observe the numerous adjustments he was making to the sound quality whilst the choir was practicing. Unfortunately I couldn't stay for the live recording session but I have heard the resulting CD and whilst I'm no expert  I would still say it was very good quaility indeed.

IPJnet Web Design - keeping busy

More work for Middlewich Town Council on their web site, Middlewich Heritage & moving Middlewich Vision to the MTC site has kept me quite busy. On top of that  Middlewich Clean Team have been busy and as result there has been plenty to do on their web site too.

The SCRCS web site is fine but I've a lot of ideas for improving that so I'll fit that it when I can.

Looks a new project is on the way, no names at the moment but discussions with the owner of narrow gauge railway have lead to a request to develop a web site, just waiting for a signature on the contract... Details in due course!

Delyn Traplet Unlimited Scale Flying Competition

Well in my last post I hoped for calm weather for my SE5a and what did we have? 14 mph base wind and 28 mph gusts that's what! My friend Mike Amphlett, who took a very nice large spitfire & myself had to consider whether to take part or not.

The winds have not been kind to us this year and consequently my windy weather flying skills are not bad, all the same I had to make a practical decision between the wish to take part and the ability of the aircraft & myself to safely take to the air. The Delyn field is more open than I'm used to and so is not subject to as much turbulence as my home field so that was cause for being optimistic. I kept an eye on the wind sock during the setting up period, in particular how savagely it moved about and really it wasn't that severe.

SE5a to fly in the next scale competition

There will be another scale flying competition at Delyn, North Wales on 12/09/2010 which I am intending to compete in. This time I will be flying my old and trusted Ripmax SE5a which I have been flying for about 6 years now.

I recently gave the model a refurb and fitted a few extra scale like features absent from the original. It is fitted with an SC52 4 stroke engine which is perfect match power wise and sounds great. It has (touching wood) been extremely reliable; I have only adjusted the fuel mixture very occasionally in all the years I've had it though I think that the valves are now in need of adjustment so I'll look at that very soon.

Compared to the Stampe RV-4B this is a much smaller model and doesn't cope with the wind so well, so I'm hoping for some calmer weather this time.