Control Line Fields around Australia

[Warren Leadbeatter]

I was playing around with Google Maps today and came up with this so I thought I might share it with you all.

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Perhaps something like this already exists for the USA?

Cheers

[Elwyn Aud]

Neat idea. What are the circles with the retangular center sections used for?

[Kerry Ewart]

You can add "Thunderbirds Aeromodellers" at  DEAGON on the north side of brisbane that is where i fly.

[Warren Leadbeatter]

Elwyn,

The circles with the rectangular centre's are Cricket Fields. The rectangle is the pitch. There are plenty of those all around Australia.

Kerry,

Send me the address and a link to a picture (and a webiste if you have one) and I'll add your field.

Cheers

[Mike Scholtes]

What's "cricket?"

[Warren Leadbeatter]

It's a ball game...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket

Cheers

[Mike Scholtes]

Oh THAT "Cricket!" The national sport of Pakistan, India and the Bahamas! You mean you play it in Australia as well?

[Brian Browning]

Warren, I remember you being a George Aldrich "Peacemaker" fan.  Would you happen to remember the approximate weight of some of yours?  I'm finishing one up (Fox 15), and it FEELS a little heavy.

Thanks,
Brian

[Warren Leadbeatter]

Ty, Mike,

The game cricket originates from England and it is one of the oldest games played here. As you can see by the number of cricket fields on the map, it is very popular and we have the best team of cricketers in the world. The other countries that we play against are India, Pakistan, South Africa, England, New Zealand, West Indies, Sri Lanka and  Zimbabwe. I think the USA had a team in the world cup.  A game of cricket is always popular one the beach, in the backyard or even in the street.  I could go on but I won't.

The cricket pitch (the rectangle in the centre) is very hard and has very short grass and a lot of them are concrete with astro turf, so they make great runways for control line flying.

Brian, My tissue covered Peacemaker with a Fox 15 weighs about 13 oz and the other one with solarfilm covering and an OS FP15 weighs about 16oz.  The 13oz one goes much better than the 16 oz one.

Cheers

[Warren Leadbeatter]

Ty

There are a number of variations of Cricket to make it faster.  You must have been watching a full match which basically has 2 innings and can last up to 6 days.  There are shorter versions now, One day game which is 50 "overs" a side and 20/20 which is 20 "overs" per side.  When the bowler throws the ball 6 times that is an "over". After the bowler finishes his "over", someone else has a turn to bowl. The bolwer aims to hit the stumps to bowl ther batter out.  The batter can also get out by being "caught out", "stumped" or trapped "leg before wicket" (LBW). 

The batting side has to hit the ball in an attempt to score "runs".  There are 11 players per side and when someone gets out, then another player comes in until they run out of batsmen.  When batting, the batter can hit the ball or let it go past to the "keeper" but he should avoid this as it may hit the stumps.  The aim is to hit the ball to score runs.  If the ball makes it to the boundary then that is 4 runs and they dont have to run. When the ball goes over the boundary on the full without bouncing then that is a 6.  All other runs are scored when the batter hits the ball and they run between the wickets while the fielding side is chasing and retuning the ball.

Each team has a turn at batting and bowling and the team with the most runs at the end wins.

Does thay make sense?

[Paul Taylor]

Well in order to get this thread back on track....

Here is a map of all the fields I have flow at.....





Paul 

[Mike Scholtes]

Thanks for the explanation of this intriguing and baffling game. I have to fess up that I actually do know what cricket is and have even seen it played in the U.K. Believe it or not it is also played in the USA but remains about as obscure as model airplane flying. Actually, I would have thought that a more manly sport would appeal to the Aussies, like the Aztec game similar to basketball where the losing team was sacrificed to the sun god by having their hearts cut out alive. Now THERE'S a mans game!

If all the flying fields in Oz are as beautiful as the one in which you are featured on some video I saw recently I am moving to Australia. Just do something about the salt water crocodiles. I don't run as fast as I used to.

See, we got a model plane reference into this thread!

[Geoff Goodworth]

Mike

There aren't any salt water crocodiles where there are flying fields but there are drop bears.

Cheers

Geoff

[Warren Leadbeatter]

Paul, Great job with your map. I would like to see a few more CL fields on it though.

Mike, The crocs are in the far north of the country, you dont have to worry about them in populated areas. Cricket is a summer sport, not too much running around, but lots of sitting around, watching and drinking. Our other major mens sports are Rugby League, Rugby Union and Aussie Rules which are all winter sports due to the physical activity. Soccer is popular here also amoung the people of european origin, but not a popular as the the other codes are amoung English/Irish/convict origin Aussies.

Ty, the wicket is the stumps, or the three sticks sticking out of the ground that the bowler trys to bowl over.  A Sticky wicket is when the pitch is in the process of drying after being affected by overnight rain.  On a sticky wicket, batting is awkward and sometimes hazardous, as the ball will spin and bounce sharply and unpredictably.
Here's a good website that might help with the terminology http://www.nakedwhiz.com/crickgl.htm

Cheers

[Mike Scholtes]

Okay, no crocs...but what about the snakes and funnel web spiders?

And, I hesitate to ask, but what is a drop bear?

We do play Aussie Rules football (and Irish rules) here in the San Francisco area. We are very cosmopolitan, you know. Beats the heck out of boring games like baseball and sissy games like American football. Same body contact but no helmets or pads. Like they say, you need  leather balls to play rugby!

[Warren Leadbeatter]

You hardly ever see those either, unless you go trekking through the scrub. (woods)

A drop bear is a bear that falls out of trees.    I was amazed to find them on wikipedia too

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_Bear 

[Mike Scholtes]

Crikey! Thanks for the warning, mates! Lord knows I will stay out from under the gum trees next time I go into the scrub! What with bears falling out of trees everywhere I think I better just stay indoors and breathe dope fumes!

No drop bears in California but we do have Bigfoot, the ape man of the northern forest wilderness, and lots of other spooks lurking under the 400-foot redwood trees in the deep mountain canyons. I haven't checked but I am sure Bigfoot has his own Wikipedia page.

On models for a moment, my ARC Vector with a Magnum 36 weighs in at 50 oz and a friend's is 48. How does that compare with yours, or does gravity work in reverse Down Under?

[Warren Leadbeatter]

My Vector 40 (built from the kit) has a OS LA40 and weighs 45oz.  It goes pretty good most of the time, but on hot days it seems a bit lacking in power.  Perhaps I need to use a bit more nitro in hot weather.

Cheers