On Australia Day I went to Parramatta Park in Sydney's western suburbs because there was to be demonstration flying of remote control helicopters. And what particularly caught my eye was a huge gas turbine jet helicopter was to make its maiden flight. I own several helicopters myself, however they are all lightweight and very manouverable but this one I was going to see was large and weighing in at 160 kg an incredible weight to get off the ground in the first place and very difficult to then put it through the tricky manouvres that everybody likes to see r/c helicopter pilots perform.
The day was overcast with lots of cloud and the balloon pilots had a meeting to discuss the possibility of postponing the scheduled take off. However, after a 30 minute delay they decided that they would take to the air immediately. What a sight that was to see..
The day was getting worse with rain
sprinkling down but the balloons took to the air to everyones surprise. I particularly was impressed with the one that looked like a house and it was sponsored by a housing finance company. What a great way to promote your company and get people seeing your brand name.
Thousands of people had turned out for this amazing event and most of them had no shelter from the rain that just kept sprinkling down. Everybody was secretely pleased that it was raining because Sydney, in fact Australia has had very little rain for the past 5 years and we had all sorts of restrictions on using water. So here was water falling from the sky at long last and maybe it would be the end of the water restrictions. Bands Played, and Circus folk performed and rain fell but still no sign of this massive turbine helicopter that I had come to see. There was an area designated as the flying area with many people buzzing to and fro but at the end of the day the only remote control aircraft that appeared was this angry little fixed wing that gave a demonstration flight.
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