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Title: Pics from Huntersville
Post by: david smith on October 28, 2014, 11:35:25 AM
First batch

1 Will Davis with his daughter Sarah coaching
2 Sarah Smith flying low speed
3 Shug getting some of his video
4 Sarah Flying high speed(hint hint, look at the shirt for those that don't know yet)
Title: Re: Pics from Huntersville
Post by: david smith on October 28, 2014, 11:36:29 AM
second

1 Me flying low speed with what is technically Sarah's class 1
2 Jo Shoemakers Dragonfly on low speed
3 Another of Jo's Dragonfly
4 Everett Shoemaker keeping a watchful eye on Jo
Title: Re: Pics from Huntersville
Post by: david smith on October 28, 2014, 11:37:28 AM
third

1 Everett's Class 1(he converted his old electric class 2 to a glow class 1)
2 A visitor over our field  ;D
3 ""
4 Jennifer's first contest flying carrier and she did great. Got a high, low, and a perfect landing.
Title: Re: Pics from Huntersville
Post by: david smith on October 28, 2014, 11:40:33 AM
lost count

1 Jo after landing
2 John Saunders on low speed
3 Jo on low speed
4 Me landing Class 1
Title: Re: Pics from Huntersville
Post by: david smith on October 28, 2014, 11:41:51 AM
back on track, 5th

1 Me landing #2
2 Me on low speed(I think this is an awesome picture)
3 Me Judging Sarah
4 Michael Judging me and I think giving me a warning
Title: Re: Pics from Huntersville
Post by: david smith on October 28, 2014, 11:42:52 AM
6th

1 Michael's mechanic failed to keep his planes working properly so he flew Sarah's Skyray and this one is him on low speed
2 Michael launching for Richard
3 Sarah "coaching" ;D
Title: Re: Pics from Huntersville
Post by: Mike Anderson on October 28, 2014, 02:45:26 PM
lost count

From here it goes "Next", "More", "still More"(if needed), "Last"

Great bunch of pictures, by the way -- Thanks.
Title: Re: Pics from Huntersville
Post by: eric david conley on October 28, 2014, 06:08:47 PM
     A great bunch of carrier pictures David. They must have been taken by someone that knows what a carrier flier likes to look at. I tried to take some pictures at the Carrier Plus contest at Phoenix this last weekend and did my usual job with no aerial shots at all. We out here on the coast just don't seem to have the man power (or it might be stamina) to get the job done. Any way nice pictures, looks like a nice flying field, and I could never get my Skyray 35 to hang that way.  Eric
Title: Re: Pics from Huntersville
Post by: Wayne J. Buran on October 28, 2014, 07:23:40 PM
David, thanks for the pictures. They were great.
Wayne
Title: Re: Pics from Huntersville
Post by: david smith on October 28, 2014, 08:02:27 PM
Thanks guys. We had a fun day. A big thanks goes to my mom Patty for being our dedicated timer all day. The picture credit goes to Sarah Smith. She has that stuff figured out! I do have to emphasize to her before the contest to take pics of airplanes though. She likes to take pics of tool boxes and people and other random things but somehow she makes them all look great. 
Title: Re: Pics from Huntersville
Post by: RknRusty on October 28, 2014, 08:45:58 PM
Thanks David, and congratulations on the Li'l Punkin.
Rusty
Title: Re: Pics from Huntersville
Post by: wwwarbird on October 28, 2014, 08:57:29 PM

 Thanks for the great pics! y1
Title: Re: Pics from Huntersville
Post by: john e. holliday on October 29, 2014, 10:05:35 AM
Thanks for the great pictures and also the report on the other post.   Maybe one of these years I might surprise you all.
Title: Re: Pics from Huntersville
Post by: Mike Anderson on October 29, 2014, 10:32:11 AM
     ..... I could never get my Skyray 35 to hang that way.  Eric

Yeah, me neither.  It seems as if they all get real squirrely on high speed before you can get the CG far enough back for a decent hang.  Unless you're Pete Mazur.

I'm re-working an electric one for a friend and I was able to get it hanging reasonably well just this weekend, though.  And that's with the leadouts nowhere near as far back as we COULD set them up, so maybe there's hope for me and the Skyray after all.

Title: Re: Pics from Huntersville
Post by: Bob Heywood on October 30, 2014, 07:46:13 AM
Good stuff. Thanks for sharing.