Pearl e202 e36 in Flight |
Frosty at the Start |
Ripped some Holes When Rubber Retracted |
P30 Flying |
On my final P30 flight I put in a few more turns, the viscous DT was set for hopefully 2 minutes. I started running towards it right after launch but it was drifting downwind too fast for me to keep up with it. The last I saw of it the plane was still going up. I got to the irrigation ditch which was full of tall grass, someone warned me about trying to jump over it but I got wet anyway. No sign of my plane but I walked the soybeans for a time and gave up figuring the plane was lost. Someone returned it later but before that someone on a motorcycle had picked it up and broke the wing in the wind, I was just happy to get it back.
P30 Returned |
My DLG Drifting Fast |
My last flights were CLG and HLG gliders, I was almost happy when I had a short flight after so much walking. My last flight of my Dynomite DLG with a flight that was on the edge of visibility the time was only 45 seconds. That is probably where I set the DT but any longer and it would have been in the soybeans.
Young Lady at Contest |
Large Rubber Model |
Between the Nats week long contest and two times to the North Branch contest I am really getting excited to fly free flight models and have started building for next year. It can be harder than it looks to get some types of models flying well and to be competitive at contests really takes the effort. Super group of people at the contests that will help you anyway they can.
Bill Kuhl
http://www.ideas-inspire.com
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Sorry I missed you at the MMAC contest. I had planned on going, had all my stuff ready and then got a bad cold. As a Cubs fan all I can say is " wait till next year". [ maybe won't have to say it this year, go Cubs]
ReplyDeleteHaven't decided what to build yet, a Miss worlds Fair, Dyna Moe, or Gollywock.