I left before the scores were posted today. The first round was 4 minutes and then there were 4 rounds of add-em up with a total of 33 minutes. However things were running behind so they shortened it to 3 rounds of 23 minutes (my numbers may be a little off).
Weather was nice with a little breeze pushing the thermals away from the field pretty quick and causing a few to land off-field. The real excitement was a plane hitting the power lines south of the field on friday. And then an Icon getting fried on the same power lines today. The icon hung there for a while burning until it finally burned right through the power line, bringing it down. (both times cutting power to the whole farm community and getting the local utility company scrambling some trucks out - neither were happy with us) I don't know if you have ever seen a plane fry on the wires but it makes an awesome flash/noise/mushroom cloud of black smoke! BZZZZRRRRAPPPPP!!!! Today after the Icon cut the power, I was out by the end of the field looking for a dropped pocketknife when I heard a plane hit the power lines again right behind me! Luckily the power was off, or this Cherry-red Supra woulda been BBQ ship #3. It was unscathed. So far as the Supras go - they fly well, but without the anticipated miraculousness. I found the pocketknife BTW. On 2/11/06, Marta Zavala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Looking forward to hearing first day results. Are they flying addem up > this year? If so 1st day results for many are pretty much meaningless. > Walter RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
