Once a year a heap of us RC nerds go flying in Victoria, fly by day, drink and talk crap by night, repeat 
This Blanik spans 4 meters, is hollow moulded and was completely scratch built from 3 views. Weight is around the 12KG mark. There were 3 of them built for the week, two in Redbull scheme, one unpainted. The unpainted one smeared itself across a hill when it succumbed to aileron flutter due to a loose linkage
Plenty of large scale planes over the week. This is another 4 meter ship, ASW 28...I think.
When the wind dies down DLG is the go. You launch them discus style and the idea is to work thermals. Very light planes, 200 grams is getting heavy, very expensive for the euro planes, but are strong enough to be flung to almost 200ft from a good launch. Pity I chopped the tip in this launch
Token sunset silhouette shot. The sunsets were pretty special for a couple of evenings
This is only a small glider, prob 30" span, and using the 11-16 tokina the pilot had to pretty much fly a few inches above me. It's a tad blurry, but I like it, even with the funky Tokina flare.
I had only just gotten my 135L for the trip and used it after the sun went down. What an amazing lens, being able to shoot at 500th (F2 @ISO 320) after the sun goes down over the horizon was a new experience for this old F5.6 guy!
Then after it gets black and a few ales have been consumed, it's back down to the point for some night flying. This particular plane is an electric flying wing full of LEDS. Being made of foam they bounce very well, but with a well designed light setup, it's actually reasonably easy to keep orientation in total darkness. Combat was had with a few of them later on, but those photos are just a mess of lights.
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