Fun Stuff: ...
PPG for Morons(Click the title above)A FUN collection of YouTube video's
Please don't try any of the techniques that you see in these films when you get home
Trust me ... just DON'T !!!
You Have Been Warned
The Cloud Hoppers Bash - 2009 A nice turn out for our first Cloud Hoppers 'Bash' of the season ...
... here's a couple of lovely photo's of the motley gathering ...
.... Absolutely Fabulous ... (More to come, later in 2009)
Take-off / Landing of the YEAR !!! : ...
Take-off / Landing of the Month: ... BrianTurboT
shows how it should be done (one of his better days)
The 'Cloud Hoppers' Carnage Count: ...
| Name | Props | Tanks | Frame (or parts of)
| Bones Broken (& other stuff)
| | Brian 'Turbo' Tunnard | 7 (all wood)
| 3 | 3 cage quarters (repaired) + bits of net
| 4 wing panels, throttle cable (end snapped off)
| Bob 'Mad Bob' Roach
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 broken shoulder (but that was on a motorbike - dangerous things!) + 1 swollen knee (put foot in rut!)
| | Grahame 'Fingers' Laye | 1 wood
| 0
| 1 cage net (+ cropped some grass)
| 3 fractured fingers | Dean 'Wirly' Bird
| 1 wood
| 0 | 0 | 0
| Rob 'UFO' Swift
| ? | ? | ? | ? | Chris 'Ringo' Davies
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
| Matt 'Flymo' Howard
| grass stains + 1 wood
| 0 | small dent in tube
| 0 | Andy 'Sheeny' Oldroyd
| 2 | ? | mangled (but repaired)
| 0 | Phil 'PK' Passmore
| 4+ ?
| 0 | 1 (+ 1 repaired) + 2 cage quarters
| 6 lines, 2 wing panels, 2 harness arms, 1 shoulder
| Terry '***' Price
| 1 carbon, 1 wood
| 1 | | 2 wing panels
| Rob 'EGG' Shaw
| 0 | 0 | bent frame & cage (on Sams PPG)
| 0 | Sam 'Birdman' Rose
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Ian 'Smokin' Skyblade' Green
| 1 carbon, 2 wood
| 0 | cage bent 3x (repaired), 1 axle bent (on trike) + bits of net
| parablended Pegus Avis (repaired), Dudek Synth panel (repaired), goggles 'modified' by prop, left & right knee grazed (separate occasions)
| Adam 'Flying Fish' Fish
| ? | ? | ? | ? | | Jon 'String-Flight' Stringer | 1 wood (?)
| 0 | 5 lines (prop chewed), top cage quarter (dent)
| grazed arm (elbow)
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NB: Chris 'Ringo' Davies has now purchased his motor, so I expect his piss poor performance in the 'Carnage Count' to IMPROVE soon? - - - watch this space!!!
Also ... Sam 'Birdman' Rose ... Zero Carnage? ... what R U playing at ... let's hope we break something soon?
An excellent start after only one flight ; -) by new man Jon 'String-Man' Stringer ... keep it up mate.
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