18/19th July - Royal Int Air Tattoo - Roaming Robots

1 week to go and the car is ready full of beer and clean knickers what else do you need :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Jessica

:rofl:
knickers??? who needs them? :proud:

who is bringing the paracetamol and bog roll :?: :?:

you guys are gona need a huge bog roll :rofl:

Im really bummed i cant come to this , sounds like its gona be good fun .

Are the entry passes already send and when should they arrive? Or can i pick mine up on friday on the campsite?

TAN pick tickets up at the show

EAR PLUGS (TICK) for every one :)

size 9 dogs (gloves) for Pete (TICK)

When does the email go out?

Car - engine in bits, no oil, no coolant but has a full tank of petrol
Robot - also in bits although should be easy enough to put back together.
Tent - recovering from T in the park.
Wellies - don't own a pair.

Basically got my work cut out this week.

i need a big favor from someone

i have broken my XXL and Rick Mass the person who built it and upgraded it is going to this event and says he can take a look to see what needs mending.

so just wondering if anyone is willing to take this controller and pass it over to him?

obviously its getting quite close to the event so i would have to send it tomorrow on fast delivery

anyone????

thanks alex

alex i can take it 4 u ok

thanks john

I usually carry a lot of paracetamol anyway... We must have our wellies still lying somewhere from last year (will have to brave the basement for this I fear)... tent will be repaired on the spot... food and drink have been purchased today (loads of pasta really, oceans of cafe¯ne)... next are the clothes (spare jeans, clean shirts and undies)... and the rest of the camping gear (cookers, pots, various stuff that makes life in a tent pleasant)...

Methinks we will be ready by Thursday.
But my ankle is playing up and I'm in agony right now. Hope it will get better before Friday !

Seems my work place is over the flight patch of RIAT haha - so been hearing/watching them all starting to come in.

Errrrr the weather has been lovely for the past few weeks... but this week (sunday/monday and today) has been dreadful with a few roads closed due to floods - which WILL mean the campsite an fields will be boggy already, even if we have mjaor sun for the next few days (which we wont) so prepare for a boggy one again, but least it's not too bad to close the show down again. See you all Friday night.

Hi peeps.

Email has been sent to teams.

Any probs, email, ring or text.

RGDS

JOhn

I Emailed Rang And Texted you :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

I rang and texted you but you obviously don't like me. :sad: :sad:

I get that alot too clive :shock: :shock: :shock:

Pete i remember you wanted something for riat. Text me what it was mate i have forgotten.

sunshine :cry: :cry:

Please see my wanted advert. I urgently need an ESC.

remember ur wellies

Just found mine, with the mud of last year still clinging to them. Right now Mario is down in the basement looking for his pair. :proud:


Edit: Aaaand... he's found them ! WOOT

Thanks for a great weekend (despite the weather today).

Got a few good fights in on saturday though and had a great time.

Well done to Sarah for winning the ladies fight with Aftershock (they should let you drive Alice sometimes :proud: )

Also well done to Stagefright for not exploding :rofl:

If anyone has any videos of any of our fights can you let us know.

Thanks Again!

well thanx to Roaming robots for another great weekend,

TeamBuds Bar for getting us all Drunk :)

like to see some videos if poss please

Thanks Roaming Robots for a great weekend. And also to Team Bud for the bar!

Thanks to everyone concerned but a special shout out to RR and the crew and Team Bud for their efforts. Lock in!

Ahh, I've just seen the red arrows fly over my house, must be going home!

We had the greatest fun, thanks to RR crew and Team Bud (otherwise all them loud drunk louts would have congegrated in Chateau Maniaque during the rains).
Pictures will be up one of these days, can't say when. But I have a few days off due to Belgian National Holiday tomorrow, so we'll see how fast I recover from the trip (we arrived at 5.15 am this morning, that's 4.15 your time).

A big thanks to Jonno for putting it on again, where would we be without you?
Stagefright nearly made it all the way across the arena without stopping this time. :shock: :shock: :shock: It didn't blow up. :shock: :shock: and the flipper fired about 8 times :shock: :shock: :shock: . It only stopped moving because i fitted slicks at the pit stop instead of monsoon tyres. :sad: :sad: and the ram froze ( its never had that much use before )
I did think that the rule changes mid tournament did help one team in particular in the robot football ( who said subs were allowed ) :lol: :lol:

Thanks to all the crew from Roaming Robots for a great weekend and well done on Sunday for being quicker with the covers than the ground staff at Lord's. :D Thanks to Team Bud and Jonno for the bar and somewhere for the teams to have a chat. :D Thanks to John Bell for the personal touch. :blush: Finally thanks to whoever pulled Aftershock out of the hat for Sarah to drive and to Team Shock for letting it be used. :D

Many thanks to RR for a great relaxing weekend - it was great to keep the FRA hat packed away and not worry about tech checks etc (rolling into the pits at 5 to 11 on Saturday helped too :rofl:) David always enjoys this event and he will be holding John up for his word to drive Dantomkia at the earliest opportunity :D
More thanks to Trevor for trusting me with MMM and I hope I did him proud with my 2nd place in the 'Ladies Cup' - it was fun to drive.

Big boos to the weather for making my hip to my ankle turn arthritic in the damp and cold - meant that I couldn't enjoy too much time in the bar as I was in so much agony, especially on the Saturday evening but Swanny and Jason did a great job.

Thanks to all for a brilliany weekend, very entertaining especially the evenings in the Bud Bar, thanks Swanny and Jason. Sorry I missed most of the ladies fight, had to get Apoc ready for the following fight, but good to see DB5 not in the pit unlike when I drive it. Well done Christine. Alex and I are even after he pushed me in the pit after I rescued him from the wall twice, later I stacked AHA on it back. Some kind of spike on the back could be an improvement there Clive.

Another great event, still the best on the calander. Shame about the weather sunday but big nipper and little hitter seem to do OK in the rain. Not sure what happened with the football rules but still good fun, Envy and Thor just had better wet tyres than us :), but 3 against one doesn't help either John :)

Big thanks to RR and of course to Team Bud for their efforts with the bar, much appricated, just a shame you didn't stock more girlie drinks :)

Forgot to say a big thanks to Swanny and Jason for the Team Bud Bar,pure quality guys.Also to Sarah for winning the girly trophy.

That I think was the best event for us so far, with a lot of Dalek Stickers on robots :D , but P.S.M.B wasn't working best (probably because of batteries :uhoh: ). But it was great! (We also saw real Daleks :lol: )

Loved the event, shame about the weather, but we had a fun weekend anyway. Hopefully we will have a better tested heavyweight robot with us next year.

Big thank you to Jonno and the rest of the RR crew, you came through for us roboteers again. Also to Team Bud for their magnificent pub on the campsite.

I had a really good weekend, although some problems with the robot and the weather. The robot is starting to wear out after 7 years.
And arrived well at home at 5.05 am. Dutch time.
It was very nice to see everyone again.

Had a great event with thor and envy doing well. Thanks for your kind comments about the bar, we thought it was worth the effort and it brought the community together. well i think it did. Must better it next year and planning already tho i think less beer next year cos suffering the next day was bad and really hungover like that in the pits isnt really gravy baby. Thankyou for your generous donations too nearly paid for the beer so more than happy.

Thanks again Lear. Top bloke. oh and they fit pukka.

A HUGE thank you to everyone. Especially to the Bud team. They let me drive ENVY and I must say, its a very nice machine. Jason has a case of snif and shoot to cure but other than that it was fine. Also, another huge thanks to the Bud boys for the bar. Cheers lads.

Mike.

The piccies are here. (Just click on the here...)
Unfortunately, due to memory space constraints I had to cull a bit. 115 out of 919 pictures remained.