hello,
my name is Ashta. I am in this hobby from last 2.5 years. I only fly electric planes. I always scratch build them. I belong to a village near Palakkat, but staying in Bangalore from last 30 years.
ashta

Finally met up with our "master scratch-builder" member Ashta 

Although he was on a short stop over, we got to spend about 2 hours, including a bit of heli 3D demo outside the house, and a visit to the club.  The trainer (technical resource) at the club who has also been doing scratch builds for over 20 years made a good match for Ashta, and the conversations got really interesting 

Hopefully he will post the pictures after he gets back to Bangalore.

thanks a lot Anwar. Let me admit that i was completely overwhelmed by your courtsey and warmth. So nice of you to call me to your house, introduce  me to your family and the delicious snacks  
Also thanks  for taking me and showing the 3D-Heli flying. i never expected that you would be able to make it within such short time.  
The club also was wonderful and i never knew that such a wonderful thing exists in doha.

once again thanks for all the nice things, looking forward to seeing you in bangalore. My best wishes to your family
pl see some photos

ashta

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Oh My Oh My!! So Namma Benguluru Ashta Sir is on Middle East Sojourn!

Anwar Bhai!! Your club seems to just Asweeesome!! just look at those Jets, Flywings, Flying Witch, and that Huge radial engine!! Jetcat P80!! If some one robs your club, don't catch me :

Just wanted to put in a word about one of the photos Ashta posted.

This is a robot camel jockey developed by the Qatar Scientific Club (QSC).  Earlier, camel races were held with young kids riding them, and it raised some human rights issues.  So QSC, which has a bunch of activities including RC flying/cars, robotics, electronics, computers, general science etc, took it upon itself to build a robot that would replace the human jockeys.

It is interesting to note that the new robot has the ability to heart-rate monitoring, and involves "linux and C" (you can read some of the aspects in the attached photo itself).

 

 

Does the RC-Jockey ride a real camel?? Never heard of this, remember little kids doing this years back on TV.

This kind of club would be great in at least every city where there is a quorum of modellers.

Quote from: tg on January 11, 2010, 12:59:39 PM
Does the RC-Jockey ride a real camel?? Never heard of this, remember little kids doing this years back on TV.

Of course ! There were pictures of the same in the information display right behind, and you can see the legs of the camels in the photo itself.

Finally had the pleasure/privilege of visiting the famed "top-floor" of Ashta bhai's house in Bangalore (as a part of a one day trip to Bangalore on business).  We did not have time to go do any flying, but just seeing the variety of the models built by him (including non-RC stuff) was an eye opening experience !

Thanks again Ashta bhai for all the hospitality

thanks Anwar for honouring us by staying with us. sorry that we could not go for flying. looking forward to that one day.

Ashta Sir, which one is you - with the Lab coat or without?

Anwar Sahib, please let me have the exact address of this club in Doha and could you also let me know when it is least guarded? I plan to 'borrow' a few things from the club for a looooooooooong period of time! Watta collection - WOW!

with out, VC
thanks

In that case Sir, you are a much younger man than what I had assumed!

Astha, u keep me inspiring for new scratch built!!!

Anwar, did u miss the 3 attics filled with 100s of planes?

@VC,

You have to meet him to know what an enthusiastic person he is, we can never be like him at his age! A never tiring person indeed. 

I have never met him, but I, perhaps, know him a lot better than many on this forum. I consider myself very lucky in this respect. His humility is amazing.

I was wondering where Ashta sir has disappeared..It's been quite some time since his last post..

Maybe he is upto some awesome build again.

sir,
i am sarwesh doing mechanical engineering and i ve a project in my final semester and i ve to build up my own rc glider
on this regards i need your help sir . if you are free just let me know sir i ll come down and meet u sir .
plz do rply me on my mail