Monday, January 24, 2011

My Favorite Hobby

My favorite hobby is.....building and flying model aircraft...
I am one of only a few female flyers in the country.
I started to go flying with my dad when I was 8 years old I went with him every weekend and Wednesday nights until i was 27, then made a huge mistake with the wrong person and didn't fly for almost 13 years...My x-partner didn't like me going out doing my own thing....He was nasty and very selfish...I left him after 12 years....Now i have a very loving and cariing man in my life. John has been building model aircraft since he was 8 yrs. old....He's now learning to fly and my dad is teaching him.

I flew with some of the best model pilots in the country my favorite being Paul Heckles, he flew a Halifax bomber, and scale concorde and did amazing aerobatics, with planes and helicopters, he now has his own flying school in Swindon....I do miss him....John has never met him but i'm sure they will meet one day.
And yes i was very much in love with him too (Paul)...
But now John is the best thing to happen to me....And i love him very deeply....

Late this year we are going to get together with lots of other model plane flyers we are joining a mass charity build and fly-in to help raise money for arthrtis resesearch trust. One of my oldest and very good friends Steve Webb has a plane he designed that we are all building called a Webbit...We can't wait to get started on ours...Everyone is going to start building on 1st April and we all meet up on 25th June to fly together for the week end.

Myself and John also design new planes we built one for me last year and have just finished a small jet plane for flying later on this year...it's covered with lights for night flying....
Anyway off for a brew now....I'll be back later....
Lady Sarah.

3 comments:

  1. Sunday 13th Feb 2011.
    Another day I can not go out flying, it's far to windy here in cheshire uk.

    So I'm going out up to the nursery instead, just to check everything is doing ok..

    It's been like this the last 6 weeks every time we want to go out to fly it starts getting windier and windier then it starts to rain....We both miss going out flying, but, hopefully we may get an afternoon next week....

    John has a new plane to test fly and I have my plane that I built to fly again with a bigger sized battery and wheels....As it struggled abit last time we flew it, the plane was a little under powered.

    At the moment we're planning on building a very big model but it's something very different to what we normally build....

    Anyway have to wait and see what this weather does for the rest of the week, I might just be able to get a bit of flying in later on...
    Lady Sarah.

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  2. Tuesday 15th Feb 2011.

    This weather is really annoying...me and John are desperate to get out flying, we've not been for weeks...and now it's just too windy...

    Were getting the planes ready to be moved up to the unit....As we need the space at home...

    We'll be building a new plane soon called a "Webbit", one of my friends had it designed and he now sells them...they fly really well, I was lucky enough to see the very first webbit fly around 18 years ago...

    Me and John are getting involved with a charity event for the athritis trust this is happening at the end of June.
    We'll be taking two or even three webbit's with us to fly over the weekend.

    We're also making a large model later on this year...but for now I can't say what it's going to be...

    Lady Sarah.

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  3. Wednesday 16th Feb.2011.

    Well today would of be good for going out flying but, unfortunately we had other things planned for today.
    We're going to try and go sometime tomorrow afternoon if we're not to busy..I think I just might let John go on his own, 'cause I'll be back out on the nursery.
    As I can see that tomorrow there are going to be alot more seedlings that want potting on.

    I know Joh wants to get out with his new plane which I bought him for chritmas...I'd like to see it fly too, but it's to cold to take Edward up to the flying field just yet....

    We're also getting on with finishing off my lancaster bomber which we started to build before Edward born...

    It's almost built just needs 2 more engines fitting and the painting finishing off all the wiring is completed and we've made a pilot,all the control systems are in too... I'll have to try and find some photo's of it....
    It will be powered by 4 electric engines and me and John designed the under carriage....
    Hopefully it will be ready to fly for the summer...

    Next week we're hopefully going to pick up one of our "Webbits" that were building for the end of June....

    Anyway enough for now about planes...
    Lady Sarah.

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