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April First Hot Shot:

It is April first and new member Lindsay Hamilton is ready with a Nebula 2000E for his first ever hand launch for Web Editor Bill Graham. Bill is demonstrating to Lindsay the completely and utterly wrong method of doing preflight checks. i.e. ignoring them. As usual, Bill thinks he is ahead of the game imagining that he has one of these 2.4Ghz transmitters with the dinky short aerials. However, after a few minutes wondering why the electric motor was cutting in and out and trying to control a model with a mind of its own, realisation dawned and secure contact was regained.
After finding some seagulls doing an eightsome reel the model went on to climb in a thermal to a can't-quite-see-it, great height and required heavy use of down elevator to return to perfect landing some 25 minutes after take-off.
The lesson made quite an impression on Lindsay......