| DECEMBER TARMAC
NEWS 2006 |
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MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR. |
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Dick Bielby |
As
a social occasion, Tarmac’s 30th Anniversary get-together at Lumen
Christi was a great success. There were
many people attending who still have a soft spot for the old club, and as many
who still have an old U.C. ship somewhere up in the rafters.
Unfortunately,
the wind was vicious and strong all afternoon, which prompted most flyers to
conclude that discretion was definitely the better part of valour. A few bods braved the elements, and
survived.
Compensation
for the rotten weather came in the form of a BBQ lunch which was produced by
Jim and Lorraine Stivey, and demolished in short order by those present.
I
can’t give a blow by blow description of proceedings, but there was enough of
interest to keep everyone happy.
Like,
for instance, a dozen or so engines which Kevin Cook had just come by. We had great fun trying to identify some of
them. There were a couple of real
rarities amongst them and Kevin tells me that they are headed for a display
cabinet.
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| Lumen Christi pits | Are you sure the Red one is yours? Norm and Charlie. |
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A friend, who is a crank for cryptic crossword puzzles, offers the following to get your little grey cells working.
Clue: “The first man to fly an aeroplane”.
The
answer is somewhere in here and is two words, the first having 4 letters, the
second having 5 letters.
We
won’t give the answer here but you will find it elsewhere in this newsletter.
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Dave Brown, well-known modeller from Lithgow has a laser machine and he is set up to produce short kits of 13 C/L models, and a heap of R/C models.
Fred
Adler has a kit for the “Wombat”, Gordon Burford’s famous old biplane. I went slightly mad and bought kits for the
“Wombat”, the “Peacemaker” and the “Tomboy”, an equally famous little F/F
sports job.
With
these kits you get all the ribs, formers etc, in fact you get all the bits
which are not straight. The laser
cutting cannot be faulted, and with most of the kits you get a plan and
instructions.
Dave
has the “Wombat” and the “Tomboy” kits on special until after the NATS.
The
costs of my kits “Wombat” $30, “Tomboy” $20 and “Peacemaker” $52:
Total
= $102 including super strong packing and postage.
Delivery
to your door in a couple of days.
If
you have any queries you can contact Dave, after working hours, as follows :
DAVE
BROWN
19
TWEED RD
LITHGOW. 2790
NSW
Phone
: (02) 6353 1529
Highly
recommended.
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Answer to Cryptic Crossword puzzle. - Very logical when you know It!
Test Pilot.
I
am sure you all worked it out without any effort - didn’t you?
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Will
A.W.A. stand the cost of a C/L stooge for CLAW?
They
do so with bungees etc for the glider guiders and a simple stooge, such as that
shown on SIG’s online catalogue, won’t break the bank.
It
could be stored at the Whiteman site and used by anyone who finds themselves
alone up there with an armful of yoyos.
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| The Damage | The Culprit |
No, this is not your festive season’s issue of soft porn! Rather, it illustrates what can happen when a 10x6 nylon prop sheds a blade. At moderate revs, I might add! I can detail what happened but not how.
The
first I knew was a fairly solid whack on the left chest/underarm area, and the
realisation that the engine was still running with half the prop missing!
Slightly
more vibration than usual. The engine
was stopped by the time honoured method of ramming it into the dirt.
I
then found that the prop had chewed into the priming bottle with a
vengeance. About the same result as
taking to it with a very sharp carving knife.
It’s
possible that this action may have caused the prop to shear, but I would only
be guessing.
I
do know that the bruised area of my arm shows 15 distinct weals where the prop
has tried to relieve me of the only left arm I’ve got.
Curiously,
the clothes I was wearing, a cotton singlet and a tee shirt, were in no way
damaged.
I leave the moralising to others.
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