Overhead eights

[John Castle]

I successfully completed my first overhead eights today. I can now do all of the maneuvers in the beginners pattern in more or less the correct order. My wife acted duly impressed even though she had no idea what I was talking about. Now on to making everything a little more presentable.

Thanks,
John

[Randy Ryan]

I successfully completed my first overhead eights today. I can now do all of the maneuvers in the beginners pattern in more or less the correct order. My wife acted duly impressed even though she had no idea what I was talking about. Now on to making everything a little more presentable.

Thanks,
John

Good on you John, Congradulations!!

That's a good feeling to to finally complete the pattern for the first time no matter how ragged it seems. I sure remember my first full pattern, but that was before there was a beginner pattern. I'm sure most everyone here remembers theirs as well.

[afml]

SUPER CONGRATS John!

Ain't it great!
Never forgot that joyous feeling after doing my first loop or sucessfully flying inverted the first time.

Now on the the CLOVER! 

"Tight Lines!"

Wes

[Brian Massey]

That's great John!!  The overhead 8 is one off my favorite manuvers . . . keeps me further from the ground than most of the others 

Enjoy the accomplishment!

Brian

[Dalton Hammett]

Feels good when things come togather dosen't it !!!!  Keep up the good work.........

  Dalton H.

[Jerry Leuty]

          The winds finally laid down for a bit this evening so I took a full bodied fuselage plane to my favorite flying area for it's maiden flight. I started this plane some 8 or so years ago and finally finished it over 5 years ago. It has a new K&B .35 in it. It is basically a Super Chipmunk. The wing is foam from Jim Pearson in Atlanta. The rest is scratch built with the Chipmunk numbers. It is finished in Dallas Cowbow colors. Well anyway today was the maiden flights on it. I was very surprised and pleased with it's performance. A little more trimming and run time on the engine and I think that it will be some what of a contender in the Intermediate class. I built it with the engine up right as I fly a lot by myself. Maybe it is just my imagination but it does seem to be smoother and easier to handle than some of my profile models. I have a profile Cardinal with a LA .46 on it and it is also a good flying plane. I guess what I like is the smoothness and abrupt turns some of these planes make as compared to a few of my profiles that fly more like school yard sport planes. I do prefer the appearance of the inverted engine. At last years Albuquerque contest there was a fella there with a Smoothie with an inverted engine. Very clean appearning. Upright engines just look like OTS planes. Well all in all the profiles will go away and good design full fuselage planes will be here to stay. Once you get a basic building style for full fuselages then it is just a matter of the profile image. They can all be built the same.

        Lets go fly some...........................Jerry

[john e. holliday]

Way to go John.  I remember my first full pattern.  I was always doing loops, old time 8's and inverted.  A young lad that was here in the KC area at the time wanted to know why I didn't do the pattern.  He took my plane with my insistance and flew the pattern.  The best pattern the poor plane ever flew.  Him and his wife moved back to Connecticut and the last time I seen him was at a Chickopee NATS.

Jerry it was great meeting you at VSC.  I thought you did very well.  Now take it from an old man that doesn't listen to him self, "Pick a plane and fly the covering off it doing the pattern.  Each and every plane flies different.  Get used to one plane and you will move up very fast.  You also have a great group of guys/gals(Linda Bob) to fly with and help you.

[John Hammonds]

Congratulations John, As someone who is myself still working my way through the pattern I can really appreciate how good it feels to "tick" another one off the list. Even if it's still a bit ragged to be able to at least duplicate it next flight gives me a warm buzz each time I do it.

TTFN
John.

[Garf]

Each and every plane flies different.  Get used to one plane and you will move up very fast. 

I have been flying a long time. I used to wonder why I never got very good at it. I used to fly one plane a couple of flights, then put it away and fly another for a couple of flights. When I got an ARF Nobler, I liked the way it flew, so I decided to fly it until it came apart. I went out one day with my wife as launcher and put up 10 flights on the NoblARF. I didn't believe how much I improved in a single day. Now, whenever the wind is below 15mph, I will fly the NoblARF until something goes wrong. When it meets its end, I will pick another model and fly it exclusively  until I can get another NoblARF set up.