The rest of the story.......Nice Day Saturday Pictures.

LAST EDITED ON Dec-06-04 AT 07:47 AM (CST)
 
Well I only had a few minutes last night and I wanted to get the pictures off my home computer so I could post the story today at work. Here is the rest of the story.

Kreth called me Saturday as I was hanging up Christmas lights to see if we wanted to fly. Funny I was thinking the same thing.
We got a break in the rain. Our field was very soggy and mushie, but turns out we needed it that way. Old Prop Buster was working on making big loops with the Spitfire. Kreth was working on a birds nest of lines and I was moving planes on the flight line when the Spitfire did a one point landing in the mush. Broke the fuse in half. After a few laughs and thanks to Kreth who had some CA and kicker in his box the Spit was fixed in short order. On his second flight he got some expert advice from Kreth on how to do figure eights. In no time at all he was doing figure eights!!! But that will be his post.

Kreth had brought a Jr. Flight Streak. He got one good flight on the Streak. We launched it again and after only about 2 or 3 laps it had a bracket break off on the tank and the plane landed and was done for the day. He said it had be sitting up for awhile. He had his Tutor and the plane with the funny name in the truck. Kreth put up a few flight with his Tutor. That plane looks nice in flight. Ryan has a way with taking picutres sometimes. He snapped the one below with the sun shining thru the wing putting red hi-lites in the shadow of the wing. I thougt it looked kewl.

I got a few laps in on my Skyray. I did my first 8's with it. Say what you will about the McCoy RH's but that engine will run for every on 4oz's of fuel. My arm got a little cramp in it at the end of the flight. I also got to fly the Spitfire after the repair. But I did the samething as Ryan, stuck it in the mush and broke it in the same spot. A few more laughs.(Monkey see, Monkey do?)
Good thing I bought some balsa wood while I was out of town last week.

Merry Christmas
Paul

Rootbeard,

After many, many attempts, I have finally posted a photo. The Orange plane is Mike Brooks Twister with a DS40 and the Purple and White plane is my Tempest 40 withan OS LA46.

Is that Tempest 40 built from a kit or scratch from plans?
Reason for asking is that i have the Tempest 2 (60 inch.) kit from Randy Smith. If the 4o version is kitted and the quality is nearly as good as the one i have, i will get that one as well.

Prop Buster is now busting fuselages along with Dad?
“Team Buster” me thinks. Ha Ha.
Next ship will be a Brodak Buster, right?
Wish I could be there. Merry Christmas guys!

Z,
Nice looking planes. I hope my Twister turns out a nice as that one.

Chris,
We were in your neck of the woods over Thanksgiving. I shot you an email. Figured you were busy with the Holiday. My boys got to see and play in the snow. Don't get much of the white sfuff here in the south.
We did find the a old Hobby Shop in K-town. Not much C/L stuff but his prices were low. He wants to get rid of his modle plane stock. Picked up some balsa and some props that I thought were priced right.

Merry Christmas
Paul

Rootbeards,

Glad you got some late season flying in! That always feels like something extra for free....

Out here in La La land it's been pretty nasty on the weekends. Three weekends ago it rained, followed by the usual high winds. I got me a couple of flights on the S-Clown. Only one other guy even tried flying. Two weeks ago, after it snowed in places that don't get no snow, it was blowin' to 30 mph and more. I drove for an hour to fly so I was GONNA fly. All the RC guys across the way were grounded. There was a line of spectators gathered behind a truck to watch the inevitable crash. I flew once and was shakin' from the cold. Cranked in the needle on the old FSR for high power. A couple of loops and a few eights. Talk about line tension! I knew if the engine quit while going upwind, I'd never manage to land without major destruction. One of the club old timers was among the spectators and couldn't allow a newbie to challenge the elements alone. He did a lot of stunts, (all downwind maneuvers) and wow was it exciting! His plane must be STRONG!

Last weekend, another storm, more rain and wind. But....I drove out to the last racing contest of the year with my BRAND NEW BUSTER! They were warming up and practicing AMA Goodyear in the drizzle when I got there. After solving some fuel feed problems, we got the engine running. (Only had three tanks on the stand before a midnight installation job.) One practice flight--no trim problems, but when the engine quits, the plane really stops flyin'! So I got to race in the circle for the first time. Then, since we actually finished instead of the engine blowing up like usual (dang half-A's), we got to race in the final. One guy with a really fast and nice plane withdrew because it was rainin' pretty good by now. So it was my Buster against another (much faster) Buster. On the second pit stop the other guy landed in a big puddle and couldn't restart his engine. We kept going, but on the last laps the engine was surging because it was sucking up so much rain. I guess in the war of attrition we won. I can't believe I flew it, much less raced it, before I even got a picture....

Hope you can sneak in some holiday flying. Best wishes!

Dave
"California Slow Build"
LA_Flyer

One of the basic principles in racing is: "Finishing the race greatly increases your chances of winning."

On crashing in mud. I was flying a demonstration for school kids with my Humongous. I wasn't flying the pattern and didn't think to consult a watch, so on the last flight of the day, I ran out of fuel in an embarassing position. The airplane went straight in up to the leading edge of the wing. All the kids cheered. No damage beyond a broken prop; didn't even bend the needlevalve.

Wish the mud here was just a wee bit softer. But, lesson learned.....always use retainers on the clevises.
Lee TGD

>Wish the mud here was just a wee bit softer. But, lesson
>learned.....always use retainers on the clevises.
>Lee TGD
OUCH!

That was a cool looking Dolphin. What a shame.

It's been said before but is worth repeating, kwik links were just never intended for the kinds of loads we c/l stunters put on them. Don't ask me how I know!

Ted,

Are you building a new plane?? If so any new design criteria that would be cool to hear about?

>One of the basic principles in racing is: "Finishing the
>race greatly increases your chances of winning."
>
>On crashing in mud. I was flying a demonstration for school
>kids with my Humongous. I wasn't flying the pattern and
>didn't think to consult a watch, so on the last flight of
>the day, I ran out of fuel in an embarassing position. The
>airplane went straight in up to the leading edge of the
>wing. All the kids cheered.

KOOOL!!! Do it again, mister!

>>One of the basic principles in racing is: "Finishing the
>>race greatly increases your chances of winning."
>>
>>On crashing in mud. I was flying a demonstration for school
>>kids with my Humongous. I wasn't flying the pattern and
>>didn't think to consult a watch, so on the last flight of
>>the day, I ran out of fuel in an embarassing position. The
>>airplane went straight in up to the leading edge of the
>>wing. All the kids cheered.
>
>
> KOOOL!!! Do it again, mister!
>
> Brett

Yep, Steve hit a bird once and it broke the profile and it crashed real hard. He said all the kids wanted him to do it again. He laughed and said he would but had no more planes for the day.

CALL ME, Dec 21 hopefully the twister will be covered. Wife has
a problem with me painting in the house?????? Boris