Cajun Boys know how to have fun!!

[James Holford]

Ill let Allan Perret explain this!!!



Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G891A using Tapatalk

[Steve Helmick]

Is that a rubber chicken in the foreground? It sure looks like a rubber chicken...  Steve

[Allan Perret]

Most wondered if a plane would pull the chair.  This was a Ringmaster S1 / Veco 19 with maybe 5 pounds of pull.  It turns the chair easy.  For right handers, the chairs rotation in level flight is easy to control with a slight horizontal arm/handle movement, 1"~2" is all it takes to sync chair with plane speed.  Inverted flight you have to turn the chair with your tip toes because the planes pull on your right arm is still torqueing chair counterclockwise.  I didn't realize that before inverting the first time (on 2nd flight) and there was some excitement, but managed to land in one piece.   On the 5th flight I had a slow engine run combined with turbulence (the norm for the NOLA field) and the "CHAIR" claimed it first victim. (picture later) I knew I was pushing it, but hey No Guts No Glory. There is no recovering from even the slightest line slack when you're sitting on your a$$.  This video was shot at our new site in Denham Springs just outside Baton Rouge. After these 2 flights I put John Blanchard in the "CHAIR" for his 1st time.  He took off sitting down and did great with level flight and MY Ringmaster survives another day (I knew he could handle it).  Jamie if you have John's flight post that.  I made this from an $80 office chair for some of our not so mobile and/or dizzy challenged club members who might not fly otherwise.  But anyone can have fun with it, its just another challenge.

[Jim Kraft]

Thanks for the video. I have been suffering from back problems big time for the last two years. Polymyalgia rheumatic and a bad back to start with. Might have to give the chair thing a try. I have some ignition planes that never have a problem with slack lines, but may pull so hard as to pull chair and all out of the circle. LOL

The ideal thing would be to bury a steel pipe in the ground where you could just add the chair post of a modified chair. Great idea. Finally got off the Prednisone 3 weeks ago and doing much better, but not able to stand in the circle for more than about 3 minutes. Hopefully I will be better by next year.

[wwwarbird]

 Wow, that's pretty amazing. I'd never have guessed that a C/L bird this size would have enough pull to do this.

 The idea might be an avenue to attract some of the video gamers to our hobby, they can sit on their a$$es and fly C/L. Oh wait, probably not, it would require getting up and going OUTSIDE!   

[Dan McEntee]

   We have a club member that has been flying that way for the last several years, and he came up with the idea on his own. Melvin Noelke is an elderly gentleman with an affliction that makes it hard for him to stand and must walk with a cane.  he watched a couple of us fly with stooges, rigged one for himself so he could fly alone, and has done so quite often. He has two chairs. One at his stooge and flight box for starting and the chair in the center. He does an occasional loop now and then, but generally just does climbs, dives and wing overs. He wrecks quite a bit, but my hat is off to him for refusing to give in to his illness and finding a way to fly, and I try to help him out all I can with second hand models and such.  You can bet I have this all indelibly etched in my mind!
    Type at you later,
    Dan McEntee

[john e. holliday]

That chair would help a lot when you don't have a center pad and have to stumble around on the grass clumps, what few there is.  I use a chair along with a stooge when I fly by my self.   May be the reason I can only get 3 or 4 flights an hour.  But, I remember the late Carl Shoupe flying from a wheel chair at VSC.

[Allan Perret]

I have used this chair at 2 sites, one with center pad and one without.  Works good either way.  There's a long story about the building of this chair, I'll  just say that the base on mine is much more complicated than it needs to be: but it does make it easy for one man to roll it out to the circle.  Plan B had to be executed because I procrastined till one week before the date I had commited too and had to get it done now with what materials I had on hand or could grab fast at the local hdwe store.  After it was all done I realized you can get any cheap office chair (available under $100 at Office Depot when on sale), pop off the 5 casters and put it in the circle and go..  This was not my original idea.  I copied this which is $525 + shipping last time I checked.

[Dan McEntee]

  If you can do all the bending, lifting and toting of all that iron, you probably don't need the chair! If you have a paved flying surface, a wheeled chair will also let you push back for tension a bit, if needed, I'm guessing.
  Type at you later,
  Dan McEntee