Here's how I roll...

[wwwarbird]

 Here's just a couple pics of my "Mobile Hangar" showing at least one way to transport your models. The Honda Element is a nearly ideal vehicle for this when you remove the rear seats like I do for the Midwestern flying season. Most other SUV's could easliy be set up the same way. I just leave it like this for the entire flying season so theres never a lot of loading or unloading except for swapping out airplanes on occasion. The grey box you see sitting across the back is the "Stunt Trunk" and it's full of handles, lines, engines, tanks, props and loads of other little spares. The actual airplane rack is just a custom built wooden structure that sits on the floor and is painted up with Rustoleum along with some pipe insulation for the wings to sit on and elastic strapping to keep 'em still. With this setup you can drive like your in the Indy 500 and everything stays put, not that I'd know...

[Bootlegger]

  Neat !!!   Gotta question, what are the strap's across tha wings?  Look's like velcro strap's.
     Thanks, Gil

[wwwarbird]

 Gil,

 They are 2" wide elastic straps stretched over the wings to hold the models in place.

[Garf]

In Miami, if you left the planes in the vehicle in the sun, they'd melt. I once left a thermometer in a car and it pegged at 140. That is as high as it would measure.

[Bill Heher]

Looks good- and I'm sure it cuts down on dings dents associated with banging into each other while driving.

I took a drive from Phoenix to the LA / Long Beach area last weekend. I wanted to add the Whittier flying site to my collection of company sponsored trip to C/L flying sites.

I didn't have a van or Element so I had to make do with borrowing a car from my buddy here in Phoenix. Kind of small but I still got a Twister, a Ringmaster, support gear and 3 days worth of clothes in the back.

The ride was good too! I just wish they would raise the speed limit out there in the middle of the desert to about 90-100 mph.

[wwwarbird]

 You do have too pay some attention to the heat, but it's not a big problem in this part of the country. If it gets too hot out I just crack the sunroof and/or windows and it's no worse than them baking in the sun at the field.

[Will Hinton]

The ride was good too! I just wish they would raise the speed limit out there in the middle of the desert to about 90-100 mph.

You mean it isn't!!!

[David M Johnson]

Hey Bill,l When will I see those airplanes at the Phx fields?  

[Bill Heher]

I've had them to Estaban park a couple times, and will be back in the Phoenix area in another week.
I hope to get out the Saturday / Sunday before the 4th. Where do you fly- the park out on the west end of town? - or somewhere I haven't found yet.  I stay down in Chandler near the 101/202  interchange.

[David M Johnson]

That is right in my neighborhood. Those are the group sites but one of the places I fly is at the south end of Rural, south of Chandler Blvd. There is a water retention basin that is large enough to fly 60 ft lines in.  I have flown there on more than one occasion with no complaints.  It is next to a church so Sunday flying would not be good.
David Johnson