IPJ Aeroshirts Early 2012 Offers

Some news on the T shirt front (or back if you wish) regarding some upcoming special offers. These apply to all products including hoodies, sweatshirts, jackets etc not just Tee shirts.

February 14th is Valentine's Day!

From January 24th until February 7th there's 10% on everything red, no reserve or minimum order value! Just use the coupon code is RED2012 during the checkout process.

Mid February is still cold so...

From February 15th - 27th, 2012 customers will get a free winter hat! This offer applies to orders over £30, and you can design your personalised winter hat free of charge (without print). Just use the coupon code EXTRACAP during the checkout process.

Go to IPJ Aeroshirts.co.uk to take advantage of these great offers.

Vampire Gets A Tidy Up

I need to have something to chuck around our field since ROGs are pretty much impossible at the moment. Good bet is the Vampire but I almost ripped the bottom out that on the frozen field last winter so whilst I was doing that up I did something about visibility too:

 

 

A few little jobs on the white Fizza and the blue Jack Rabbit  in the bottom right of this picture are needed too. After that I'll be able to get back to fitting out the EF2000 as a slope soarer.

Harmon Rocket III Will Take Off Soon

A successful engine run of my new Harmon Rocket III cheered up an otherwise dull day.

I had attempted to run it on a previous occasion but I hadn't set-up the throttle idle position on the transmitter properly which meant I was trying to start it with a closed throttle - not surprisingly that didn't work!

On this occasion though a good priming had the ASP 80 four stroke engine running in no time. A few more running in cycles on the ground should have it ready to have the engine cowl fitted ready for it's maiden flight and about time too. Although I said it was new I suppose it would be more correct to have said newly built as I've actually had the model for about 5 years but hadn't found time to complete it.

When it is totally finished it will not look too dissimilar to the real Harmon Rocket III

November Visit to the New Forest

During mid November my wife & I spent a week in the New Forest and a very good week it was too. The weather was pretty good for the time year especially as I recall this time last year we had already had our first fall of snow.

 

Some friends from the Isle of Wight came to stay for a few days and we all got out and about quite a lot which gave me plenty of opportunities to snap the photographs in the New Forest and also at Hurst Castle shown here.  I took a lot more at other locations too but they are being kept for something else!

My new found joy of slope soaring meant I could take my SAS Fusion on holiday with me and so I met up with some chaps from the Christchurch and District Model Flying Club to join in one of their sessions at Barton on Sea and I thank them for their warm hospitality.

4 + 1 Campaign for November

Christmas is coming and time to do lots of shopping but it all gets pretty expensive doesn't it. Well here's something that could help.

Visit IPJ Aeroshirts and put 5 products in your shopping basket but only have to pay for 4!

Use the voucher code XMAS5FOR4 at the check out and get a free product.

This offer runs from 15th–28th November 2011. 

A few examples from the range of products:

 

Happy Smileday

I have launched a new product range at IPJ Aeroshirts based around a smiling graphic with the theme "Happy Smileday".

As well as T shirts, there's children's wear, caps, bags, badges, scarves and more. With so much gloomy news about I wanted to create something with a more optimistic outlook so I've used the graphic in several ways: on it's own, with text "Happy Smileday" and or "Tomorrow is a smileday too".

I feel better already. These should be great cheery presents for Christmas too!

It's not all play and no work!

Recent posts have mostly been about my RC Model flying and that has tended over shadow many of my other activities so perhaps I should summarise some of them.

Photography is still a keen interest and I have plans to offer some of my photographs for sale via my web site. The plan is to have a range of images ranging from un-retouched photos to images so highly enhanced that they would more accurately be described as artist’s impressions than natural photographs.

With photography still some time off what is actually happening? Well much of my web work this year has been for Middlewich Town Council/Middlewich Heritage/MiddlewichVision and Middlewich Clean Team though there has been some other confidential work too. As previously reported there was the completion of the Woodseaves Miniature Railway Site earlier this year too. There are several potential contracts underway but of course I can’t mention those any further at this stage but suffice to say there’s plenty of work to keep me more than busy.

Autumn and rainy days are here!

IPJAeroshirts will be the focus of more work during the next few weeks as I gear up for Christmas but in the mean time here are the first announcements of a couple of specials deals:

1. From 11-18 October 2011 there’s 15% off of umbrellas using the voucher code RAINBOW.
2. 29—30 October 2011 save the costs of shipping on all orders. Use voucher code WITCHINGHOUR when checking out.

There's more! I also recently attended the Expert Patients Tutor Supervision Day which is necessary to maintain my Passport to Practice as I am a tutor for the Central and Eastern Cheshire PCT Expert Patients Programme (EPP). The EPP is a six week course for anyone living with a long term health condition. The Expert Patients Programme aims to help people with long term health conditions take more control of their health by learning new skills to manage their conditions better on a daily basis.

Flying On The Cloud At Last

On the 7th October I finally made it to The Cloud to fly the SAS Fusion.

There I met up with Dave Gilder with his SAS Wildthing. Both of these aircraft are made of EPP foam, consequently there are very tough but fly very well. They are also suitable for combat flying which boils down to trying to hit each other - not for destruction or anything horrible like that - just to score combat points. It sharpens the flying skills & is great fun.

The rocks were nothing like the problem I had expected and indeed the Fusion suffered fewer knocks at The Cloud than it had done at the Gt. Orme - or am I just getting better! 

It was was a great day's flying. There was plenty of wind which was occasionally a bit bumpy but mostly nice and smooth away from the edge. Here's some video that was shot by Dave and myself at various times during the day.

There were some threats of rain and in fact we saw a lot of it coming towards us but it kindly turned and fell on Middlewich instead and we had of it was a few stray drops as the rain passed by.

If you would like to see more photos from the day they are here.

The Cloud, Bosley, Cheshire

I need to find a local slope in Cheshire to practice my slope soaring on so that I can visit the likes of the The Great Orme at Llandudno with a little more experience behind me. 

I’ve been looking at “The Cloud” aka “Bosley Cloud”. Well it’s near enough to home but it looks a bit of an aeroplane breaker. It looks to me like landing out will very likely involve a tree somewhere hundreds of feet below and though the landing zones may be heather it seems that at times they may very well be a range large lumpy rocks. I’m not chucking anything off there until I’ve watched how a few others do it first! 

If you click on the image below you should be able to see what I mean. Perhaps someone with some experience of sloping off The Cloud can give me some advice?