And then Sunday dawned, bright and clear and NO wind, none........notta...... The most perfect day for soaring was given to us that persevered through the previous day's windy conditions and we flew and flew and flew. The day was made for my Fun Scale event, three rounds of thirty minute precision duration with a 30 minute flight task for each round. Aero Tows for this event was limited to 1000 feet. Tom Broeski's 1/3 scale Minimoa was an awesome site high in the blue sky. That was Sunday's treat, Saturday gave us Challenger weather and the Challengers put on a spectacular show of near out of site, super high, down wind flights that were dancing with the clouds.
We had a great time flying our woodys of all size and descriptions from past kits to new designs and I look forward to flying this event next year......Nothing but fun at Wood Crafters 06. Ray Hayes http://www.skybench.com Home of Wood Crafters ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Deck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RCSE" <soaring@airage.com> Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 9:07 PM Subject: [RCSE] 3 days at Woodcrafters > Just home from 3 of the 4 days of 2005 Woodcrafters. Here are some > observations: > - Incredible scale jobs in abundance. As these were handcrafted, wood-based > models, it wasn't a parade of "glass slippers". ALL were aerotowed - not a > single scale job was winch launched. Notable were the performances of Ken > Bate's GKB-1 flying wing in the stiff winds present and Gordon Pearson's > WACO CG-4 that actually soared. Steve Moskal's models of a TG-3 and the Air > Force Academy TG-2 were beautiful both on the ground and in the air. There > should be pictures of these and other neat scale jobs including a Franklin > that just dripped charisma. BTW, the real plane on which each these models > was based has a great back story just like the survivors in the TV series, > "Lost". For a model "back story", ask Tom Broeski about the roundel on his > Minimoa. BTW, the Minimoa was so good looking in the sky, only absence of > snow-capped mountains at Muncie made one viewing it realize he wasn't at > "Die Wasserkuppe". > - Winds were strong - not the best conditions for bent-winged beauties but > fliers bravely flew from the winches provided. Today's conditions included > gusts exceeding 25 mph. I watched an Oly II get an incredibly high launch > only to scoot most of the way to Ohio (winds were from the west) when the > pilot made a turn. I don't know if these were special winches but NOBODY > folded a wing during the 3 days I was there. I suspect that one > aggressively launched Windfree had more dihedral than it started with after > the day was through. > - A couple of modifications to Ray's "Bird" series were notable: Tom > Scully's beautiful flat wing, full house "Extreme Bird" performed well even > in the heavy wind. Tom Tock removed the "Wolf" influence from his "Bird > kits and, with a small adjustment in rudder outline, could have convinced > people he was flying a new "Icon RES" prototype. With ballast galore, Tom's > planes (and Tom) handled the adverse conditions pretty well. > Fun was in abundance - looking forward to 2006, > Jim Deck > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 266.11.17 - Release Date: 5/25/2005 > > 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 > 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
