Today Steve Kretschmer gave his control line talk. He discussed the basic equipment and techniques for flying a UC model using a nice Power Point presentation.. Had a good crowd with some great questions. Thanks Steve!

Mark from Retro RC stopped by and showed us some of his new free flight models including the science Olympiad rubber models. Nice day at Flightline Hobby.

Today we had our Electric Seminar talk with Brian.

Good crowd with a lot of good questions  Next week we talk control

line with Steve.  I hope you can make it!

John

Barney stopped by and decided to buy a new DX-9.  Nice radio I have one and I like it.  Curt helped him dust off the wallet.  While he was here he showed me a park flyer Bell X-1 EPP model he designed and has been having fun with.  The white areas are modifications

9mm EPP Bell X-1

.  Good stuff

The first “Wing-It” flying event went really well.  We had 5 flyers.  3 more are close to finishing their planes and should be at the next flying event.  Many, many spectators showed up.  The weather was great.  No attrition other than one flyer removed his landing gear in an unplanned fashion. The Skymasters field looked great.  Ivan fired up up the grill and fed the crowd.   The first round consisted of 3 carrier landings (3 50′ boxes) and a 15 second climb duration glide with a spot landing.  Results:

Name  Carrier 1    2    3    Score Duration Points Spot Points Round Total

Hoover   15  15  20= 50 Total=    5      1:35     4        22.8     5        14

Bauer     5  10   5 =  20               4          0       0          0        0         4

Taylor     0   5   5  =  10               2       1:06     3        42.3     4         9

Satawa 10  5   5  =  20               4       1:57     5        77.1     2        11

Stanley 5   5   0  =   10               2       1:05     2        60.5     3         7

The second round consisted of a bomb drop combined with a speed run. 

Bombs can be creative too!

Jim and Steve “Gitter done”

Dave did a great job for his first contest.  3rd place!

Scott does a bit of nose maintenance

John’s “Victor” V tail

Don keeps us honest!

The best of 2 score was used for points.  Results:

Name  Bomb 1     2         Point              Speed    1        2        Point  Round Total

Hoover       19         9           5                      5.4     5.8          5                10

Bauer          0          0           0                      0          0           0                0

Taylor         95.2     94          2                    14.3       9.3        3                 5

Satawa      76.2     100.8     3                     9.3     10.5         3                 6

Stanley       17.9    0.0         4                    12.5     8.7          4                 8

Total standing in order of finish:

Name                Points            Finish

John Hoover         24               1st

Jim Satawa         17                 2nd

Dave Stanley       15                3rd

Scott Taylor          14                4th

Barney Bauer        4                 5th

We have another flying event September 2nd at the PMAC field 3 PM.  Hope you can join the fun and root for your favorite flyer!