3 Cheers for Windy, Brett Buck, Dave Fitz etc.....

Hi All,
On behalf of the South African team, let me add our grateful thanks to Windy, Brett Buck, Dave Fitzgerald, Pete Klepsic, and a young man called Darryl (I don't remember his last name). One of our team members, Loren Nell, was unfortunate enough to pancake his Trivial Pursuit at the bottom of the vertical eight in the windy conditions. He was getting in a quick practise round before his 1st official flight. Dave Fitzgerald was first on the scene, and he and Brett told Loren to get the broken plane over to the tent next to the offial circles. Brett immediately started the repairs while I started cutting parts with help from Pete, and Darryl. Dave took Loren away and bought him a Coke, so that he wouldn't get in the way (Good idea!). Windy joined in soon afterwards, and the happy group got the badly damaged wing back into shape just before Loren's offial flight.

What a wonderful gesture on the part of these guy's. The spirit of cameraderie shown by you guy's will never be forgotten. A big THANK YOU to all of you!! A big THANK YOU also to Richard Barlow from Canada for looking after us and bringing a complete set of tools and spares for us to use. The Stunt family is wonderful!

Keith Renecle

>Hi All,
>On behalf of the South African team, let me add our grateful
>thanks to Windy, Brett Buck, Dave Fitzgerald, Pete Klepsic,
>and a young man called Darryl (I don't remember his last
>name).

Darrell Harvin

>One of our team members, Loren Nell, was unfortunate
>enough to pancake his Trivial Pursuit at the bottom of the
>vertical eight in the windy conditions. He was getting in a
>quick practise round before his 1st official flight. Dave
>Fitzgerald was first on the scene, and he and Brett told
>Loren to get the broken plane over to the tent next to the
>offial circles. Brett immediately started the repairs while
>I started cutting parts with help from Pete, and Darryl.
>Dave took Loren away and bought him a Coke, so that he
>wouldn't get in the way (Good idea!). Windy joined in soon
>afterwards, and the happy group got the badly damaged wing
>back into shape just before Loren's offial flight.
>
>What a wonderful gesture on the part of these guy's. The
>spirit of cameraderie shown by you guy's will never be
>forgotten. A big THANK YOU to all of you!! A big THANK YOU
>also to Richard Barlow from Canada for looking after us and
>bringing a complete set of tools and spares for us to use.
>The Stunt family is wonderful!

You are welcome.

Keith,

What was the name of the junior that flew a Spitfire with MVVS 49? I beleive he was on your team.

Thanks Brett for Darrell's correct spelling and last name. This world champs was rather intense for me after my no.1 stunter broke up in practise, so I tend to forget some of the details. My back-up ship, Windy 2, certainly has the wrong name. It flies like a dog in rough weather. The wide chord, low aspect ratio wing did not work as expected, and it's also overweight at around 68 ounces.

Our junior's name is Callum Orbell, and the Spitfire is from Windy's plans that are scaled down 5%. We were not sure if the MVVS .49 would be powerful enough to haul the big Spitfire around, and when Callum started building the model, he was much smaller as well. As it turns out, the engine has plenty of power. He built the model himself, and did most of the finish as well. The final paint job was done by our local club good finishing guy's called Roy Harvey.

Thanks once again, and congrats to Brett for doing so well at your nats.