Alright, time to catch up a bit on what is going on!!
2 or 3 weeks ago I attended the famous Macon meeting in the south east of France, in the Bourgogne wine region
This year marked 50 years or the meeting running, so had to be there!!
Long story short, lots of fun, fantastic weather, and always good to catch up with friends
Anyway, this year, I participated in glider scale and of course, PSS.
For scale, I prepped up my Sdz50 Puchasz. Always last minute of course, I put stickers on it the morning I was leaving!! Anyway, did well as I finished 5th overall.
For PSS, 2 weeks before leaving, I pretty much had nothing in mind to show of!! So I brought my Shrike Commander, where I must say, flew brilliantly! I was also asked to test the slope with it by the judges and got tons of queries about it!
Unfortunately, it got destroyed in static judging
and I finished 12th with it.
For my second model, I went full PSS Macon spirit, and designed a couple of weeks before going, a mini B 29 from my 4.5m plan. But flat! So I called it Flat B 29
I post something else about it, as this ( sorry “these” as I gave a kit to Pascal Cepeda from Silence Model shop fame in France) gave a big show at the slope as a few days before leaving, we made a small change to release a scale FF Bell X1!!
Both competitions flights were welcomed with huge applauses from the crowed and judges!
Unfortunately again, because of the flat fuselage, got hammered in static judging, and I finished 10th overall. But a great laugh, and those machines flew superbly!! More on that soon n the forum.
Anyway, a great year! Can’t wait for the 51st!! More PSS are in the pipeline, so that is going to be interesting for sure
Now, a few photos from myself, and where you see me, they are either from François Richard or Jean Louis Coussot (talking about Jean Louis, I was honored to be given a signed model from him! Emotional moment guaranteed!! Something I will treasure for sure. And if you read this, many, many thanks Jean Louis for the surprise!!
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