Heaven in Polk City...

A bunch of us Piston Poppers attended the Polk City, IA contest this past weekend competing, and myself as a lowly spectator, and it would be very hard to imagine a more enjoyable weekend. The weather was practically ideal with clear sunny skies, very light winds and 65-70 degree temps. There was great attendance, with some from great distances that included Mr. Brickhaus and Mr.Woolard among many others. I for one had an absolute blast (Not to mention scoring an LA-.25S and a gallon of fuel in the raffle!).
Hopefully some people can/will post some photos from the event as I am not able to, not having any of that techy camera equipment.
Thank you to ALL of the Polk City guys/gals for putting on an excellent event, and also to all who attended!!!

LAST EDITED ON May-09-06 AT 04:26 PM (CST)
 
Sounds like pretty much the entire membership made the trip. That explains why there was no one at our new field Friday evening. Took the son to go inspect the site but took no airplanes.

I had a prior family committment in Wisconsin (I swear the wife purposely looks at the contest calendar when planning visits to her relatives).

Anyone show up with the Primary Force ARF? I'm anxious to wring ours out.

LAST EDITED ON May-09-06 AT 05:40 PM (CST)
 
No ARF P-Forces there but a few built up ones that all appeared to do the job rather well.
As an observation, I commented over the weekend that a great potential intermediate contest combo would be an ARF P-Force with a small four-stroke for power. It would go together very quickly and you would have a light, good flying airplane with gobs of solid, consistent power. Hmmm...

> No ARF P-Forces there but a few built up ones that all
>appeared to do the job rather well.
> As an observation, I commented over the weekend that a
>great potential intermediate contest combo would be an ARF
>P-Force with a small four-stroke for power. It would go
>together very quickly and you would have a light, good
>flying airplane with gobs of solid, consistent power.
>Hmmm...

I'm not totally sold on 4-strokes. I've had a couple to play around with but wound up selling both. They just seem too heavy for a smallish profile ship - and they aren't inexpensive to procure.

With the availability (and preliminary excellent reports) of the new Brodak 25 engine I'd say the small bore faction will continue to be well represented. That said, note that I'm re-engining my orange Twister from an FP-25 to an LA-40.

LAST EDITED ON May-10-06 AT 04:24 PM (CST)
 
Progress is our most important problem

I got my vacation pictures back from the drug store, so I'll post a few.

I was almost out of film by the time I got to the contest, so I'll pad the posting with a couple from the Pueblo Air Museum.

I should get the award for driving the farthest. 3,100 miles, although I did not go the shortest way. This was a drive-by contest for me. I had barely enough room to squeeze in planes for the lounge acts, but not the main event.

Wow, thanks for the pics Paul! The Viking, Hellcat and "Old Fokker" are my airplanes.
Just FYI, the "Fokker" is a 44" span original design that started as a set of Jetco Dolphin ribs with everthing else built from scratch. I appreciate you posting the photos for some others to see.