Neat trick, courtesy of PW...

I snuck out to Arlington, WA, this morning and used the circle where Paul was flying last weekend. The grass and the annoying weed-with-a-knot-on-top invasion resulted in him mowing a pretty nice chunk of this one circle quite low to the ground.

(Lawn Mower Dude and his industrial-strength mower were out in the afternoon, by the way, so the field ought to be in good shape this weekend.)

Anyway, last Saturday I noticed Paul had cut a kind "notch" in the circle and that was where he had located his stooge. Clear and cut low directly in front of the model, long grass to the rear and for about the span of a wing toward center of circle.

I never thought about this being a purposeful arrangement.

Until I flew. Kewl! If the model lands in thick grass, you might be heading for your stooge, tool box and a gallon of fuel. If the roll-out is taking place on low-cut grass, you can't possibly run into something.

Thanks, Paul!

The Dan,

I'm tryin' to follow you, but don't quite get it. If you land in the long stuff just before the stooge, wouldn't that slow you down fast and prevent the gas can encounter...? Or are you worried that the gas can, etc. are hiding in the deep grass and you'll hit 'em 'cause ya can't see 'em?

Anyway, the idea seems like a good one. The first time I watched someone fly off grass was last month. Now I realize how important short and smooth is! Each landing was either a "plant job" or else the plane flipped over. So much for stunt being a graceful, artistic activity....

I may have to try the SuperClown in the rough one of these days....

Remember, PW is using this site as a practice field in preparation for upcoming NW Regionals. Okay, and the World Champs, and the AMA Nationals, but those are secondary contests.

While all of us much prefer to fly from asphalt, the field we have now is quite flat. Actually very flat, considering it is a grass field.

And pretty soon this field which is not irrigated in any way won't even require the use of flier-supplied lawn mowers.

Dogs irrigate it some. I saw one give John Leidle's fuel can a toot.

Good idea, maybe we'll try this at our field so John Cocking wont hit Jerry Arana's flight box again.( Sorry John, the world needs to know) Larry, NorCal Circle Jerks

This is a base canard. My right arm got stretched by my bad kitty ST51. And I was so proud of whipping that d**n thing 1.5 laps.

P.S. We're all bozos on this bus....

I just recently found out that John Leidle (OS32) refers to this as Paul's Le Mans start to the pattern. Cute.

Now if we could Paul to mow all the other circles

> Now if we could Paul to mow all the other circles

I'll get right to it.....Starting in August!

>> Now if we could Paul to mow all the other circles
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>I'll get right to it.....Starting in August!

Paul,

Don't you be playing games with us. I'm thinking there are enough of us here in the north to fully occupy every single mowed-kewl circle you, John, and to a much less extent myself (using John's mower) have whacked out of grass which is already kept in reasonable condition by Industrial-strength Lawn Mower Dude.

Faced with that long trip home or cutting a new circle, which option might you take? I'm betting creation of another mowed-close circle, complete with Le Mans-type starting area.

The next day we will of course have this new circle in active use about when the sun comes up.

And we repeat...