Smoke Stack

...and nearly a Walrus stack as well

I did some flying this morning at the field down the road - a heavily overcast morning with a breeze coming in from the South.

The Walrus's prop pulling off is happily already a distant memory, with several launches and a fair bit of powered flight without so much as a hiccup. Here's holding thumbs it stays that way. As always the Walrus launched with ease and really is so stable to fly that it always makes for a very relaxing outings.  

Having done a few circuits of the field I headed off to the north and overflew the old brick factory, with its landmark smokestack rising a hundred feet or so. I ambled the Walrus around and then headed back to the field for a bit more aerobatics and general flying around.

It wasn't until later when I was having a look at the video that I realised how close the Walrus had come to the stack - its left wing had literally shaved past the huge brick stack.

A few inches closer and I'd had spent the morning scaling fences trying to retrieve the remains of Wally...