Brodaks 2016

[RC Storick]

Stay tuned for a great series

[RC Storick]

I will still need some camera men/woman. I want to get as much footage as I can for a great series.

[JoeJust]

Where will you have the cameras on Monday and what time.  Ginny an d I usually get there around 8:30 and we are glad to be part of your production effort.
Joe

[RC Storick]

I will be there Sunday just look my up for a tripod-camera and extra battery. Each cam should be able to shoot 6 hrs footage. Shoot anything you want. Do interviews,flights,the pits or the crowd having fun. Anyone helping me will be their own reporter. I also have a audio recorder if you would just like to do some Voice interviews. 5 days 4 cameras should yield many hours of footage. I would like to have every aspect of the contest recorded. Scale-stunt-combat-racing-carrier . Several cams running during junkyard wars.

I would like to get enough footage for 5 2 hour disks If more great. I have new editing software and I hope to bring professional results

[Dan McEntee]

   Have you been out practice flying the Shoestring yet? Are you flying it in Scale at Brodaks? It would be good experience for the NATS. Your flight routine needs to be worked out and committed to memory, just like the stunt pattern. Remember, for realism in flight, you probably shouldn't do a landing to a stop, taxi a lop to a stop, etc. Keep in mind that thing was a racer, and had very little to no brakes and wasn't flown for sport much if at all. Landings, from what I have seen and read  ended with the engines being shut off when the roll out was slow enough, then a tow vehicle sent to bring it back. That is why you see guys holding down the tail for the race horse start. I ALWAYS wanted to be that guy just once! I'm thinking, high speed flight, low speed flight, high flight at 45 degrees, a touch and go and maybe some fast wing overs to simulate a pylon turn? Inform the judges of chopping the throttle at the end of the roll out. Just some thoughts that have been running around in my head since I saw it at Buder that one time. Good luck with it!
   Type at you later,
   Dan McEntee

[RC Storick]

  Have you been out practice flying the Shoestring yet? Are you flying it in Scale at Brodaks? It would be good experience for the NATS. Your flight routine needs to be worked out and committed to memory, just like the stunt pattern. Remember, for realism in flight, you probably shouldn't do a landing to a stop, taxi a lop to a stop, etc. Keep in mind that thing was a racer, and had very little to no brakes and wasn't flown for sport much if at all. Landings, from what I have seen and read  ended with the engines being shut off when the roll out was slow enough, then a tow vehicle sent to bring it back. That is why you see guys holding down the tail for the race horse start. I ALWAYS wanted to be that guy just once! I'm thinking, high speed flight, low speed flight, high flight at 45 degrees, a touch and go and maybe some fast wing overs to simulate a pylon turn? Inform the judges of chopping the throttle at the end of the roll out. Just some thoughts that have been running around in my head since I saw it at Buder that one time. Good luck with it!
   Type at you later,
   Dan McEntee

I did some practice and I am going to use a caller at Brodaks until I get use to the routine. Yes I am only taking my scale plane and I will fly a borrowed plane in stunt. I won't be doing anything crazy, No loops or inverted flight. I am not sure I will even do a wing over until I get use to it. It flies very heavy on the lines so it's not like flying a stunt plane.

[Dan McEntee]

I did some practice and I am going to use a caller at Brodaks until I get use to the routine. Yes I am only taking my scale plane and I will fly a borrowed plane in stunt. I won't be doing anything crazy, No loops or inverted flight. I am not sure I will even do a wing over until I get use to it. It flies very heavy on the lines so it's not like flying a stunt plane.

      I built Dusty to fly stunt and scale with, and when flying each event, it's like two different airplanes sometimes! Having the radio hanging from your hip and working the throttle has proven quite challenging to me. It takes quite a bit of focus to fly the official, and a different kind of focus from flying the pattern. That's the best way I can explain it. I guess it;s because I've been flying the pattern for so long. As far as a wing over is concerned, I don't think it need be a stunt style wing over right over your head. Anywhere above 45 or 50 degrees ought to fill the bill. If it feels solid and in a groove up at 45 degrees in level flight, I would think a modest wing over is possible. Hit full power for a lap or two and whip that sucker up and over and pull out smooth. The model should be light enough, doesn't seem like there is a ton of structure in it. Make sure someone gets video of your official flights! I do a loop and a stunt wing over with Dusty because the real airplane would be capable of that, no inverted though. The engine seems to run completely different with the R/C carb on than it does with the stunt venturi and needle in place, so I haven't pushed the envelope very far with a throttled pattern, and probably won't.
   Good luck and have fun,
    Dan McEntee

[Fred Cronenwett]

I am hoping that someone will take some still pictures and send them my way for the CL scale column (take high resolution pictures). Good luck at the contest and have fun.

Fred