Barbecue, Fireworks and Night-Fly 2000
In Association With Derbyshire Radio Control Flyers
This year's event was bigger than ever. The
day started rainy, windy and cold, and really just got colder !!! However the usual bunch of nutters turned up to brave the
conditions. It all kicked off about lunchtime, when we made the
decision to 'go for it.' We got the food out while Brian an Ken
decided to have a go with their pattern ships. After that loads
of members started to turn up, all bringing with them the regulation FIREWORKS.
Those who were not brave enough to fly
congregated around the recently lit barbecue. Dave Toft (yes, he
of McToft restaurants ltd) started to cook the food. Suddenly no
one was 
interested in flying,
& everyone became hungry all of a
sudden. 2 bags of charcoal later, the rain and cloud had moved
away and more members had set up their models and were flying.
The light started to dim, but 2 club members were not bothered
about packing up. Everyone thought this was strange but no-one 
questioned them.
Dave Probert disappeared and turned up 10 minutes later with a
bottle of glow fuel, and it really was GLOW FUEL (see picture).
The light then totally went and Martin did the biz with the
lighting on the hut. For some strange reason Dave Probert and Ant
Mullins started to fuel up their models ! Now we knew that they
were crackers before, but we thought they had totally lost the
plot!
From the hut, the sound of starting engines could be heard, then Ant and Dave's models lit up as if by magic and set off across the runway - they were actually flying in the pitch dark with lights on their models !!!!! After about 10 minutes of aerobatics and manic giggling from the pits area both models waved goodnight in knife edge and landed to a mass of applause to which they responded with pirouettes on the ground!
They both packed up and we all knew it was time for the things we were all waiting for - THE FIREWORKS. What followed was a seamless display of fireworks lasting just over 30 minutes- Spectacular stuff.
Thanks must go to everyone who attended and to Dave Toft for doing his stuff on the barbecue.