Competitor and Writer at Free Flight Nats 2016

Last week I spent a wonderful week in Muncie Indiana at the national headquarters of the Academy of Model Aeronautics. I flew in a few events and also was recruited at the last second to take pictures and write short articles for a daily publication published during the Nats known as “Nats News”.  I toured the museum and had the chance to meet Bill Pritchett education director in person. The weather really was great for the end of July and I never had to stop flying because of weather conditions. I had the chance to meet several people that I had only known through the Internet previously including; Hank Sperzel, Hank Nystrom, Dohrman Crawford, Jack Murphy, Norman Furtutani, Joe Mekina, and George Bredehoft. Several people mentioned they had read of my foam airplanes or my science activities.

I will be writing in more detail about the week and flying in different events. Below are links to picture albums and a few short video clips I took.

Sample of Nats News : http://www.modelaircraft.org/files/072716.pdf
  
This is pretty much all the pictures and a good share of the video from Nats 2016

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10154415963042888.1073741856.681342887&type=1&l=40e310ca64    Old Gas Models

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10154415967862888.1073741857.681342887&type=1&l=f09f28b594    FAI

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10154412963922888.1073741852.681342887&type=1&l=13eddac20a    Large Glow Models

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10154413061542888.1073741853.681342887&type=1&l=a751f6e01a    HL & Catapult

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10154411098047888.1073741850.681342887&type=1&l=f99da849fa    Rise Off Water

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10154416710622888.1073741858.681342887&type=1&l=de279573f7   AMA Museum

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10154411088282888.1073741849.681342887&type=1&l=55c6628c83    Jetex

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10154416746107888.1073741860.681342887&type=1&l=0a7b5de17a   Electric Free Flight

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10154416765892888.1073741862.681342887&type=1&l=87b4651134  Towline Glider

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10154416731092888.1073741859.681342887&type=1&l=67a310da8d   AMA Administration Building

Video Clips


https://youtu.be/DUb9xuPmUHc   Rise Off Water Rubber Model
https://youtu.be/3UgPpKFCjyU    Denny Dock’s payload model
https://youtu.be/-epc4NMcW84   Dawn Unlimited
https://youtu.be/2pzkKVbw7p4 36 Pearl
https://youtu.be/PRd3RRxuXMI    Large Glow Model entire flight
https://youtu.be/RE7q2ljA_nc   F1C Folder Flapper
https://youtu.be/ly2OBeJyDjQ   Rise Off Water Gas Model Crash
https://youtu.be/LFCQFKum2QU  Ruth Bane Launching
 https://youtu.be/awxcWljMKYY Jim O Rielly Test Flight

Added 8-16-2016

https://youtu.be/BlZB5W0R5x8  Large Glow Free Flight Breaks Wing 
https://youtu.be/CFVdCVMOeeQ Dan Berry Payload Flight
https://youtu.be/GvuzxShSUV8   Bob's Flight
https://youtu.be/566ESbkPcDg  Flasher on Dawn Unlimited
https://youtu.be/KUPA8KLEl6w  Jack Murphy Test Flight


Bill Kuhl

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