The first run of 50 copies of the 14 page "How to get started in Navy Carrier" has been depleted. I have made another run of this article and it is available for $4.

Will this article make you a Regional or national Carrier champion?  NO, NO, and again NO! What it will do is to show a simple an inexpensive way of getting your feet wet in a very interesting method of flying control line planes.

Parts of the article show how to make your own three line bellcranks, set up the arresting hook, and even shows an example of a home made three line handle.

Hope this tweaks some interest in trying a great event, or simply shows another way of having FUN!

Send your mailinmg address to the following e-mail and your copy will go out at once. Payment can be made after recieving the article.

Joe Just

<ukeyman@justice.com>

>What it will do is to show a simple an inexpensive way of getting your feet wet in a very interesting method of flying control line planes.

Joe,

Thanks for your efforts, but isn't getting your feet wet a 'Deep Six'?

Carrier is great fun! I wish there were an alternative to the ultimate possibilities in the event! A 60° hang, protracted for several minutes, doesn't appeal to me as much... Apologies to those who have mastered that... Perhaps the accidental effects of crosswind take too much out of the flier-to-flier thing?

Now, a 30° max hang angle?? Anyone interested in cranking up an Unofficial, informal event with that as a limit?? See if it attracts more new tail-hookers?

The Brits require a stripe on the side of their planes at 30 degrees to the horiz to provide a judging reference.  Sounds like a good idea to me.

I'm a sometimes carrier flier.

To all: I was trying to be sarcastic! I think carrier has enough different styles of events to keep everyone happy. If you don't like 60 degrees don't enter that event, enter Skyray or nostalgia where most everyone doesn't try to hang. As for the event shrinking, yes all control line is and it will only get worse. Think about all your flying buddies. What do you think their average age is? I'll bet it is way over 50. Control line models are becoming dinosaurs and their is no saving them. Young people have not seen control line flown for all kinds of reasons so how could any of them possibly get interested? If even they did and went to a hobby shop some where the shop wouldn't have the supplies or knowledge to help. Am I being a bit negative? I suppose I am but I think it's the way it is. So kick back and enjoy it while it lasts and don't worry about changing the rules so newbies will have it easier. The newbies will no doubt learn to fly by the presant rules and just be fine with a little help which I think most of would be very willing to give.
                                                   So Fly On!   Mike

To all: I was trying to be sarcastic! I think carrier has enough different styles of events to keep everyone happy. If you don't like 60 degrees don't enter that event, enter Skyray or nostalgia where most everyone doesn't try to hang.

Mike, the smiley at the end of that line was a wink - kidding from this side, too. Agree with your points on exposure to kids who aren't related to current fliers... Used to be we flew in schoolyards and ball fields, in neighborhoods where people were right close by. Can't do that anymore, just about anywhere.

In this age of enforced "tolerance" we are not allowed to tolerate things like "noisy" engines. Those must be silenced, or better, outlawed. You want to make noise? Do it the right way, pump out the mega-decibels in gangsta-rap with your car windows down, best when some church meeting is emptying out.

Otherwise, go buy some land out in the woods, where if an RC ARF falls, does anyone hear it?

It's NOT RC? Whut kinda freak are you?

I feel very fortunate that - for the present - my part of Arizona is not under the rule of the PC Gestapo, except perhaps about smoking tobacco, not so sure about the attitude on other smokables... SOME noise, out here, is tolerable!

There are only 14 copies of the article left. Because the article will be published in a national magazine there will not be any of these copies available after the last bunch is sold. If you want your copy please send for one today, because I can not send any out after the remaining 14 are gone.There seems to be some hidden interest in beginning carier flying. Right now over 80 people have requested info. 

Joe

 mw~all you doom sayers just have fun with what you got, your most likely in your 60s and 70s any way and nurseing homes are just on the horizon any way so dont worry about all that stuff...