Author Topic: Carrier in Wichita, KS (Read 3456 times)

clscale7 · « **on:** April 20, 2011, 08:51:23 PM »

Carrier will be held in Wichita, KS on Aug 13-14, see attached flyer

Land softly
Fred Cronenwett
Wichita, KS

Fred Cronenwett · « **Reply #1 on:** July 07, 2011, 08:48:47 PM »

The Wichita CL club is getting geared up for our annual CL contest. We will have our normal Saturday night dinner. Hope to see everyone there.

Fred Cronenwett

Douglas Ames · « **Reply #2 on:** July 08, 2011, 03:34:45 PM »

.15 Carrier?

Fred Cronenwett · « **Reply #3 on:** July 08, 2011, 05:34:00 PM »

Currently we don't have .15 Carrier on the sanction. We haven't had the call for that event.

Fred

john e. holliday · « **Reply #4 on:** July 09, 2011, 08:27:27 AM »

Won't make plans as every time I do something messes them all up. Have the flyer hanging above my work area in the shop.

Fred Cronenwett · « **Reply #5 on:** July 27, 2011, 06:06:32 PM »

We are getting closer to the contest, the carrier deck will be setup and ready to fly, hope folks can come out, hopefully the extreme heat does not continue.

Fred Cronenwett

Fred Cronenwett · « **Reply #6 on:** August 10, 2011, 04:39:06 AM »

The weather forcast for Wichita on Saturday is 89 degrees, Party Sunny and light winds (www.weatherforyou.com). Looks like we are going to have a great day for the carrier deck to be set up. Come on out and get some flying in.

Hook down and ready to land,
Fred Cronenwett

john e. holliday · « **Reply #7 on:** August 10, 2011, 10:49:07 AM »

Thought carrier was Sunday?

Fred Cronenwett · « **Reply #8 on:** August 10, 2011, 02:58:36 PM »

John - you are right, carrier is on Sunday, It use to be on Saturday. so let's fly carrier on Sunday!

Fred

Fred Cronenwett · « **Reply #9 on:** August 12, 2011, 11:05:45 AM »

We cleaned up the flying site and it's looks nice. Both Concrete circles were mowed and the carrier circle was mowed All of the line grabbing grass has been cut down. We are ready for the contest this weekend

Fred

john e. holliday · « **Reply #10 on:** August 14, 2011, 08:06:10 PM »

Well I didn't commit to going Saturday, I loaded the old G-S Bearcat and gear in the Ford. Alarm went off Sunday morn and Sandy the poodle plus me headed south. Thought I would be too late, but Kevin Seaton said I had plenty of time if flying carrier. So I entered both Profile and CLassic with the Bearcat. Hadn't flown it in over a year. Needless to say rusty old man I am did not make any official deck landings. But I had fun and took a couple of photos. One is the pit area. Then one of Roy Fellows who I thought had quit flying. Then the event director and helper, Fred Cronenwett and what his face. The last is ole Dad alias Dale Gleason flying.

PS:Went back and looked at pic after posting and the quiet Texan is the man Mike Greb standing next to Fred.jeh

wwwarbird · « **Reply #11 on:** August 14, 2011, 08:51:08 PM »

Thanks for the pics Doc!

Does anyone have any good pics of the Dauntless shown in Doc's photo???

Dennis Holler · « **Reply #12 on:** August 14, 2011, 10:12:46 PM »

Thanks Doc!!! preciate any carrier action!!!!

Bob Reeves · « **Reply #13 on:** August 15, 2011, 11:28:08 AM »

I really wanted to go but work got in the way.. Going to try to make Dallas in Oct.

Fred Cronenwett · « **Reply #14 on:** August 15, 2011, 04:14:48 PM »

The contest went great we had fantastic weather, light winds and it wasn't a cooker like we usually get in August. We had a great time and would like to thank everyone who pitched in to get it all done. We did not expect such a big turnout.

Here are the overall results:

Profile
Mike Greb 1st place MO-1 247.9 points
Roy Fellows 2nd place Skyradier 183.5 points
Fred Cronenwett 3rd place MO-1 182.7 points
Jeff Johnson 4th place Zero 102.2 points (zero points on landing)
John Holliday 5th place Bearcat 86.2 points
Melvin Schuette DNF MO-1

Class I and II combined
Roy Fellows 1st place Dauntless 298.6 points
Dale Gleason 2nd place MO-1

Classic
Roy Fellows 1st place Hellcat
John Holliday 2nd place Bearcat

Fred Cronenwett · « **Reply #15 on:** August 15, 2011, 04:21:11 PM »

Here is the next picture I had in mind

wwwarbird · « **Reply #16 on:** August 15, 2011, 10:28:31 PM »

Nice looking models all around.

I really like that Dauntless, is it from an old kit, or plans, or...?

john e. holliday · « **Reply #17 on:** August 16, 2011, 09:36:18 AM »

I think Roy says both planes are scratch built. Maybe Fred can get him on here to answer the questions.

Fred Cronenwett · « **Reply #18 on:** August 16, 2011, 02:54:39 PM »

I never did hear if the Dauntless was scratch built or if it was a kit.

Fred

Dennis Holler · « **Reply #19 on:** August 16, 2011, 04:07:39 PM »

Thanks for the photos guys they are great!

wwwarbird · « **Reply #20 on:** August 16, 2011, 06:24:01 PM »

Are any of you in this group planning to attend the St. Louis contest in September?

Fred Cronenwett · « **Reply #21 on:** August 16, 2011, 08:23:24 PM »

I have plans to attend the St Louis contest in Sept with a civilian sport scale and a military profile scale. I wish you also had fun scale then I would have another entry for my ARF scale job (F4U Corsair).

This Corsair was built from the Great Planes Combat ARF, I recovered the model and put on different markings. Powered with an OS-35FP makes a great carrier conversion, however this model is flown for CL fun scale. Pete Mazur has one of these set up for Electric carrier. I have been flying this mdoel for 5 years now, one the best sport models I have, I think I have over 100 flights on this model now.

Fred Cronenwett

Jim Oliver · « **Reply #22 on:** October 07, 2011, 07:20:59 PM »

Fred,

How did you install landing gear on the ARF Corsair?

Thanks,
Jim

Fred Cronenwett · « **Reply #23 on:** October 08, 2011, 08:09:36 PM »

I put std landing gear blocks into the wing, note they are flush with the bottom of the wing. I put them against the spar and a solid rib and recovered the wing. Look at the photo and see if that makes sense. The gear is 5/32 wire. The tailwheel was std landing gear block put into the fuselage against a former. The great planes Corsiar is a awesome ARF. I decided to recover the plane and put my own markings on it. I powered it with an OS-35FP and have electronic controls with a 2-line bellcrank.

Fred C.