Mark Tattis SU30

Hey there, how are you's doing? Mark Tate is my name from Melbourne and I've come up here for my third Festival of Aero Modelling and Day 5, loving it as usual. And there's my pride and joy, the Skymaster SC30. It comes shipped today and it weighs around 30kg. It has two Jetmont 210's, so 42kg of thrust. And of course, the SC30 is a Russian aircraft. They sold 18 to Malaysia and I dressed this up for the Royal Malaysian Air Force. And it's of course number 8 of 18. I tried to get as scale as I could. A good friend of mine down from Melbourne quite a talented professional builder, Damien Mould done the internal building for me. And another great friend, Ian Mills done the weathering etc. There's a few other people that worked on it with us but I love how it's come up. And as I said, it's a 1.6 scale from Skymaster. As soon as I seen it come online, I think it was around 20 or 19, I knew I had to have it straight away. The fly is absolutely amazing. I get a good 8-10 minute flight time, well 6-8 minutes. As you can see in the cockpit, my beautiful partner Lisa back down in Melbourne, she supports me and she helps me set these up and she's actually flying jets herself so she deserves a spot in the jump seat. You know, she pulls on my jacket there if I'm doing some silly stuff up in the air but yeah, it works well. And honestly, what better place to fly it than out here there's just so much room. As you can see, I've got some of the ordnance I've only put two on each side to keep the drag down a little bit but it works. This one, they do come out with vector thrust I chose not to have the vector thrust and I get it around nicely without it so there you have it. It's a pretty imposing model, what's it like to fly it? Honestly, I've studied a lot of the videos online a lot of the YouTube videos of the Royal Malaysian Air Force flight airshows so I just went over and studied how they fly them and try and copy it as best I can. Do you have a set routine? I have a 50% set routine and I let the others have a 50% set at the same time depending on where the wind's blowing and how I'm feeling of course I will fly very safe and docile and yeah, definitely the pride and joy of the seat that's for sure. Now the obvious question for everybody including your partner is how much? No, you don't need to go there. No, no, no, it's fine. I can tell you two prices, one I tell her and the actual. She's aware. It's a lovely aircraft to fly and I'm surprised there's not a lot more flying out there. So, David Law has one and he flies it absolutely fantastic down in Victoria. We have flown together once and I look forward to flying with him again in formation soon. And thank you very much mate. No worries, thank you.