Update

Fellow clubbers!

Just a short blurb to keep the fire burning inside all of us. Not literally la, but you get the idea.

This Wednesday shall be very interesting because it involves electricity. Electrical connections more like it. T1553 shall come alive with the sound of engines roaring (screaming, actually) as you guys fix up your planes because your parts have arrived. Yes, all your electronics have arrived so you may proceed to electrocute yourselves to high heaven and back. Please don't however, blame SPAVC for any burns you may suffer. Don't forget, you guys signed up for a dangerous game.

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ExCo members please do note that we are meeting at 1900h in the clubroom after CCA on Wednesday for His Edwinness to address us humble servants of Ye Olde Kingdom.

We Fly Again

Hello and welcome to another episode of "Planes On Rooftops" again.

Now as you know at SPAVC, we all derive certain pleasure from seeing planes fly around in circles and watch as hapless trainee pilots attempt to effect a proper landing of their dinky Depron planes that will never happen in this century or the next. We all laugh in the face of these frankly useless pilots and dream of one day shredding their planes with our mighty ducted-fan, eleventy-million horsepower RC fighter jets.

But one thing we desire the most is to watch the guy on the ground, holding his controller uselessly and watching in dismay as his plane flies overheard, behind a building and lands spectacularly on the rooftop where no man has ever gone before.

See, it's easy to fly a plane but quite another thing to handle it precisely. And that is what Alex precisely forgot how to do when he landed his "flying wing" (we have no idea what to call it) atop the sports stadium complex's roof and had to climb all over the place to get at it. Nothing would get between him and his beloved aircraft so he effected a daring rescue in broad daylight which earned him cheers and praise all round. He climbed over the parapet wall, walked gingerly on the roof (lest it broke and he fell through and died. It's okay, we have hot glue.) and saved the plane from death.

Nevertheless the freshies had their fun taking turns at the controls of the orange (and plastic) B-2 Spirit. Of course, Alex and Yiming were on hand to save the day should any of those intrepid pilots take a nosedive and spectacularly obliterate that multimillion-cent plane.

And here be pictures...

Names, Schmanes

As you can see from the just-closed poll that many readers and viewers have favored the name "SPAVC Red Warriors" over "SPAVC Black Knights". 

Owing to the way things are done in club there will still be much discussion over the names, which will then become an argument and then finally degenerate into an all-out fistfight over who should name the team what. 

Nevertheless an overwhelming number of you chose 'Red Warriors and we thank you for taking time out to do our little survey.

New Post!

Great News!
What?
The blog's back!

Would have been back earlier, if not for our imbecilic blog administrator dragging his leaden feet and making all of us wait. Remind us to shoot him on sight.

Anyway, a quick recap of the week. Bear in mind that we're on the verge of a major event (we're not going supersonic yet, by the way) and all this stuff is leading up to it. First off was our first flight simulator session for the greenhorns. As much as they crashed so much that it made the Battle of Britain look like a passing shower, overall they did brilliantly. After much practice though they managed to fly smoothly, some going a bit further and threw their plane around the screen, which unsurprisingly crashed. But great job guys, you all did superbly for first timers.

Next up, which is tomorrow, we'll probably be having some more simulations to make you greenhorns be less green and horny and probably Alex - our resident genius and pilot extraordinaire - will be teaching you some basic electronics relating to the servos and motors and rubber bands and whatever other gizmos that make a plane fly.

And no post will be complete without some Youtube. And here it is! 3 planes flying over SP over the first time. Not exactly in formation or any particular order because we're still cadets but it's still cool. Watch it!

New Activity!

Stop slacking around, dear members.

Because we're gonna have the first activity after the exams! And speaking of your exams, how have they been? Good? Rubbish? Remember to tell you parents your marks, we don't want to be inundated with calls asking us how come their son/daughter have been spending on CCA but not on studies. You have been warned.


Anyway to cut to the chase, there will be a CCA session tomorrow, 2nd of July at 1530-1800. There will be flight simulator training and some more interesting stuff to look forward to. Do meet at FC5218 which is where our clubroom is located.

Bring along yourselves, an adventurous mindset and a healthy dose of fun pills. We shall not hesitate to feed you into our propellers should any of these rules be broken.