Hey Brent If you are talking about Los Banos fun fly which is really a slope site but we had aero towing going on both days Sat the 27th and Sun the 28th. I can tell you from personal experience Sunday was out of this world in thermal activity!!!! Tony Elliot was the only one there that had a longer flight time then me I think. I managed 2 flights on Sunday that were at least 40-50 min. long each with lots of aerobatics thrown in because my ASH 26 is so hard to see at high altitudes I would do rolls and loops to bring it back down to about 800 feet to start all over again. Was it fun? HELL YES!!!!!! And to see Tony Elliot's 10 meter? Eta do a high speed pass and a few loops was awesome to say the least. There were 48-50 registered pilots and about 40 spectators all watching on Sunday. Sat. was a little to windy to aerotow even though some of us did (me) and after thermaling for a bit after release I came down and tried slope soaring for awhile! This was my first time sloping and I have to say flying your 4 meter $1,000 sailplane back and forth sometimes not more than 8 feet off the deck gets a little nerve racking. I need a smaller scale ship now to try sloping again before I make up my mind if I like it or not or at least a set of depends because I about peed my pants when a thermal came through and killed the slope lift. :^) The whole LA gang was there and I think we had about 5-6 tow planes there for all to use. My finance and I were working the registration tables and radio impound so we didn't get to walk around as much as we would like to checkout all the sailplanes and stuff for sale. Dieter and Marcella were there from Shredair. I know she got some great shots. The only place she didn't have the camera with her was the rest room. There are going to be some great pics coming out soon! I saw at least 10 people taking pics for web pages and so forth. Paul Naton was there doing a video for his next release. He captured all of Tony's flight and a great shot of it towing right over him about maybe 10 feet max. above his head. Glad to see there was no problems on tow or Paul would have been in trouble because he couldn't see and we couldn't yell at him in time to get out of the way. Paul is kinda like a war journalist taking a little risk for the rest of us to enjoy or see what really is going on in our hobby. Thumbs up Paul!!! He was allso there with a nice scale sailplane for you people that don't think he really fly's :^) Glad none of the officials of the event saw you before the take off. Me for one, did not notice Paul there or we would have had to ask him to step aside. We were all to busy and excited to see Tony take off to notice anything else! Alberto came up as one of the vendors for the event. Karlton didn't make it but he said he it might be 50/50 before hand. Of course Shredair was selling shirts, hats, and video's and a few other things I didn't get to go by there table ( and we were parked in front of them) it was always crowded. Alberto brought a slough of kits and parts for park fliers to scale ships. Of course Brian Chan and Bruce Devissor dished out the on site BBQ hot dogs and hamburgers! I tried them both days and I have to say they were good and I am still alive :^) I heard there were 3 minor crashes on Sat. i did not see any of them. And there was only a sailplane versus tow plane on Sunday before we left around 1:30 pm. Both Sat. and Sun. you had to land down wind more on Sun then Sat but still the guys without flaps were coming in real hot and made for great laughs and chuckles from everyone as the sailplane came to a semi? scale stop hehehe. I for one only made 1 good landing out of the 5 flights I had. And I made sure everyone knew I finally made a smooth nice clean landing hehehe. The first landing was a tail over at the stop of the landing not to scale like. The next was a 270 degree spin at the end of the landing. Brian Laird brought the usually 20 scale PSS sailplanes with him but I didn't get to see him fly. I have to say there WAY NICER BUILT AND LOOKING in person then in any of the mags you might have saw his planes in!!! Nice meeting all these famous people you see in mags and on the internet web pages but hell would have like to see some more flying maybe learned a thing or two :^) There was even a 1/4 Spitfire PSS there for sale. I was afraid to ask the price but it was nicely built and ready to go. I am still smiling my A$$ off from this weekend. It was incomparable to anything that I have flown yet! And I have won my fair share of large thermal events in the past but nothing beats scale aero towing. I would like to send out a big THANKS to Denny C. for the great scale like tows and for letting me release into a thermal on all 5 flights. IT JUST DOESN'T GET BETTER THAN THAT!!!!!! if your asking how the event went or was it was just OK??? hehehe. Jerry
Douglas, Brent wrote: > after all my work, I didn't make it..... anyone go? did the weather > cooperate either day? stories to share? > > thanks, I'm very curious to hear what happened.... > Brent > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and >"unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
