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Northwest Regionals
« on: May 12, 2013, 02:10:58 PM »
Well, the Northwest Regionals are coming up. It's looking less and less like I'm going to make it. In fact, most won't see me till later in the summer. I will be out of town for the Stunt-A-Thon. I will be gone also for the Vancouver contest. More's the pity. But I should be back in the saddle for contests in August, September and October. Such is life sometimes.

In the mean time, I hope there is a great turnout for the Regionals. It may be the last year at the Eugene site (thanks Eugene Airport). Be nice is a lot of guys turned out.
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Re: Northwest Regionals
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2013, 03:39:40 PM »
Randy,,,,

no you have to be there,, its not an option dude,,
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Re: Northwest Regionals
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2013, 05:51:24 PM »
Randy,,,,

no you have to be there,, its not an option dude,,


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Re: Northwest Regionals
« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2013, 06:13:06 PM »
Well that's a bummer.I have been impatiently waiting to see you operate with your first electric . I guess horse shows come first for a married man , eh? Keith

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Re: Northwest Regionals
« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2013, 08:34:07 PM »
Not horse shows. Work. Not fun sometimes.
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Re: Northwest Regionals
« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2013, 09:53:02 AM »
Well since you can't make the NW Regional, but will be available in October why not drop on down to Central CA for the GSSC? 35th anniversary this year, that's special.

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Re: Northwest Regionals
« Reply #6 on: May 13, 2013, 09:57:07 AM »
Brian,

That may be in the cards. Hopefully by then things will have settled down. I'm working on it.
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Re: Northwest Regionals
« Reply #7 on: May 13, 2013, 10:04:17 AM »
Brian,

That may be in the cards. Hopefully by then things will have settled down. I'm working on it.
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Re: Northwest Regionals
« Reply #8 on: May 16, 2013, 08:50:44 AM »
Good new! I'm healing very well after my back surgery two weeks ago and the doctor gave me a green light to fly at Regionals.  CLP** Not that any of you need to worry, I'll be taking that last place trophy. ;D  I don't think I'll have new P-51 Sport .40 carrier ready, but I fixed the Corsair from last year.  It's ready for a little patching then paint.

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Re: Northwest Regionals
« Reply #9 on: May 16, 2013, 05:26:53 PM »
Very good news Scott! That "plumbers putty" you use must have done the trick. Maybe I'll take pitty on you and let you win NWS40. NOT n~               Mike
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« Reply #10 on: May 16, 2013, 07:47:40 PM »
Duke and Mike, have fun!  Once again I will not be attending the Regionals or Brodak's this year.  Maybe something elsewhere yet to happen this year.Joe

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Re: Northwest Regionals
« Reply #11 on: May 16, 2013, 08:32:06 PM »
Joe, there are three NWS40 contests this year. One at the airport in Puyallup and two at the Auburn airport. Check  http://flyinglines.org/  for dates and places.                              Mike
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Re: Northwest Regionals
« Reply #12 on: May 17, 2013, 12:05:49 AM »
Clear the deck! I'll be giving NW Sport Carrier a try next week. Ought to be interesting...and fun! 8)
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Re: Northwest Regionals
« Reply #13 on: May 17, 2013, 09:15:13 AM »
Very good news Scott! That "plumbers putty" you use must have done the trick. Maybe I'll take pitty on you and let you win NWS40. NOT n~               Mike
Maybe I can pull a rabbit out of the hat and take something other that 3rd place for a change.

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« Reply #14 on: May 17, 2013, 09:16:32 AM »
Clear the deck! I'll be giving NW Sport Carrier a try next week. Ought to be interesting...and fun! 8)

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Re: Northwest Regionals
« Reply #15 on: May 23, 2013, 10:36:03 AM »
So, guys should start arriving today. Sigh....

Good luck you guys and I hope the weather holds up for you.
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« Reply #16 on: May 23, 2013, 06:33:26 PM »
Yep, people are arriving and the field is all set up (great work by Mike Denlis and Crew!).  Alan Resinger was the first to get some flying in with some morning practice flights.  Tomorrow begins the 43rd Regionals.   #^

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« Reply #17 on: May 23, 2013, 10:42:23 PM »
We are all but loaded for an early get up.  Just need to load clothes and pick up Doug in the morning. Can't wait to be at our first Regionals. The old Dodge will have eleven planes, me, my two boys, and Doug. Can't wait!
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Re: Northwest Regionals
« Reply #18 on: May 24, 2013, 09:34:00 AM »
Instead of cardboard, I always used old blankets, towels or even pillows to protect planes from the movement they get from traveling on the long distance road trips.   
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Re: Northwest Regionals
« Reply #19 on: May 24, 2013, 09:52:37 AM »
Hope lots of pictures get posted here. I can attend vicariously.
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Re: Northwest Regionals
« Reply #20 on: May 24, 2013, 10:38:53 AM »
Almost all packed.  I'm going to try to get some billable work done before I pack up the perishables and go.
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« Reply #21 on: May 24, 2013, 11:49:25 AM »
I would like to suggest that anybody driving in from Vancouver, B.C. area, which means going south on I-5, be awarded extra points no matter the event. Yes, even Alan. He was smart enough to get to Eugene early and is bound to have a brutal trip home.

With love from Washington state where (evidently) loads trailered on trucks are substantially stronger than freeway bridges.

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Re: Northwest Regionals
« Reply #22 on: May 24, 2013, 12:25:08 PM »
With love from Washington state where (evidently) loads trailered on trucks are substantially stronger than freeway bridges.

For the curious:

http://www.katu.com/news/local/I-5-Skagit-River-bridge-collapse-caused-by-oversize-load-208813861.html

Wow.  I'm selfishly glad that this isn't between me and any Washington contests.  They say "a couple of weeks" before things go to normal, but somehow I think it'll take longer than that to get a bridge up.
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« Reply #23 on: May 24, 2013, 01:00:09 PM »
All we really know is that the bridge is well and truly broken. But as I frequently tell folk, as a group journalists are hardly the sharpest knives in the drawer.

Last night I heard one of them mention that the sun was going down and thus it would soon be dark the river would be getting colder. For those not familiar with this area of the NW the Skagit river flows from the Cascades. The water is melted snow. From noon to midnight there can't possibly be a temperature variation worth discussing.

Another: A couple months ago we had some pretty serious slide activity. As in homes being lost. In describing the size of the problem a journo referred to the slide in square feet. I kinda thought cubic feet might give a more accurate description.

I figure in two weeks they'll have better "Detour" signs but that's about it.

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« Reply #24 on: May 24, 2013, 01:58:02 PM »
Highway 9 seems the best option around the mess. I agree with Dan; maybe 3 months, not 2 weeks. Maybe.
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« Reply #25 on: May 24, 2013, 02:19:37 PM »
Your results may vary:

"In 1994, the Northridge earthquake in Southern California damaged four bridges on the Santa Monica Freeway in Los Angeles. C.C. Myers, Inc. won the contract to replace them. The contract specified that the work had to be completed in 140 days, and the State of California, understanding the loss to the LA economy that was caused by the freeway being down, offered a $200,000 per day bonus for each day prior to the 140 days that the bridge opened. With the cooperation and extra effort from Caltrans, the City of Los Angeles, the workers, and even the citizens of LA, the company completed the job in 66 days, a full 74 days ahead of schedule. The $14.8M bonus is the largest early completion bonus paid by Caltrans. The closure of the freeway was estimated to cost the economy of the area as much as $1M per day.[5]"


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« Reply #26 on: May 24, 2013, 06:30:48 PM »
Yea, but we are talking about Washington, here. They make each penny squeal.
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Re: Northwest Regionals
« Reply #27 on: May 24, 2013, 07:31:07 PM »
Hope lots of pictures get posted here. I can attend vicariously.

 Yep, what Randy said. y1 y1 y1
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« Reply #28 on: May 25, 2013, 07:57:08 AM »
Instead of cardboard, I always used old blankets, towels or even pillows to protect planes from the movement they get from traveling on the long distance road trips.   
I didn't want to get fuel on anything.  Thought about going to goodwill or yard sales for old blankets.  Thanks

More pictures tonight.

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« Reply #29 on: May 25, 2013, 05:14:49 PM »
Put the core of engineers on the problem.  They will have the traffic moving across the river in no time. 

Also I have yet seen where the college educated media could get anything right.
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Re: Northwest Regionals
« Reply #30 on: May 25, 2013, 08:43:39 PM »
No pictures?   %^@
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Re: Northwest Regionals
« Reply #31 on: May 25, 2013, 10:06:08 PM »
Here's one of Paul Gibeault and my boys.  He taught them about mouse racing today.

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« Reply #32 on: May 25, 2013, 11:34:50 PM »
The newspaper reports officials are looking for any existing bridge span that might be available as a temporary fix. 
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« Reply #33 on: May 26, 2013, 02:58:53 PM »
Current weather report says you guys are getting typical Regionals weather.
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« Reply #34 on: May 26, 2013, 05:55:42 PM »
Since no one has reported NW Regionals weather.  Here goes:

Friday started cold and overcast, although winds were slight.  The sun came out around noon and it warmed up quite a bit.  Winds were still calm.

Saturday was textbook flying weather:  sunny and shirtsleeve weather.  Winds almost none.

Sunday started overcast and cold.  Throughout the day, low clouds passed through giving short rain squalls.  The wind became fierce shortly after noon.  Many flyers cancelled 2nd flights.

Since I entered in 3 events, I had no time for photos.  There were a lot of cameras in use.  I'm sure pictures will follow.

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« Reply #35 on: May 26, 2013, 06:33:56 PM »
Bruce reported expert results: Dave, Paul, Brett, Howard and Bruce. In that order.
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« Reply #36 on: May 26, 2013, 07:41:27 PM »
I watched all of those guys flying.  I would be hard pressed to pick a winner.  I don't envy the judges.

Granderson was absent this year.  To me, his flying beats anyone!
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« Reply #37 on: May 26, 2013, 10:18:00 PM »
The Johnson Boys had a blast, we drive home after a good nights rest.  If they can sleep.  The guys there were great.

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« Reply #38 on: May 27, 2013, 01:23:41 AM »
Put the core of engineers on the problem.  They will have the traffic moving across the river in no time. 

Also I have yet seen where the college educated media could get anything right.

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« Reply #39 on: May 27, 2013, 07:24:40 AM »
Howard, don't forget I was partly educated in southern Missouri.   Now how far is a far piece?
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« Reply #40 on: May 27, 2013, 10:11:01 AM »
We sure lucked out as far as rain goes, though -- rainy all week until Friday, then very little rain Friday and Saturday, some rain Sunday (I got soaked flying my first flight), then today it's coming down in that steady Oregon all-day moderate rain that makes you believe that God really could have flooded the world if he just kept the shower turned on for 40 days.

There was some wind Friday afternoon after the official flying.  I rolled in around 4:00 PM and flew at around 5:00, and crashed.
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« Reply #41 on: May 27, 2013, 01:01:35 PM »
But there were NO crashes during the contest, except for the combat guys, who expect a crash.
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« Reply #42 on: May 27, 2013, 01:27:17 PM »
But there were NO crashes during the contest, except for the combat guys, who expect a crash.

There were two in Beginner Stunt.  Both involved the engine cutting out at a bad spot in a maneuver, one during the pattern (4th place, 1st flight, Jerry Olson), and one after while trying to do a cutoff loop (I can't remember the guy's name, alas, but he was the 3rd place finisher, and it happened in his second flight).  The damage was mild in both cases, but each left the plane unflyable until it went home for some repairs.
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« Reply #43 on: May 27, 2013, 03:26:58 PM »
    I took a couple of pictures, not as many as I should have, but this one kind of sums up the conditions.  Paul is always intent and is in full charge of his game plan but this is what trying to win in extremely tough conditions looks like.  This was about half way through the first round of expert, around 11:30 AM and and after David F. had already put up what turn out to be the winning score.  The wind although not so strong as to be unflyable it was tormented by the trees that border one side of the field.  Above 45 degrees all bets were of as far as absolute control goes but he still finished a very close second.  The rain started awhile later then I got to fly, or at least survive the required time to get a pattern in.  Most flew the first round with only a couple of scratches, the second round was a different story.  A few of the "tough guys" flew, including Paul who has a way of pulling things out even in tough conditions, but not today.  David won with his normal solid execution.  Brett Buck also flew earlier and put up a solid flight, as he usually does.  The last guy up  in the first round was, I think, Jim Rhoades with his beautiful and Classic winning "Apterix".  He handled it quite well with more than a few high resolution sphincter moments and some very low bottoms.  The last scheduled flier for the round, I think, was Pat Johnston who passed.
    Some time later, I noticed that the grass circle was still in action with the Intermediate fliers.  I don't know how many passes they had but they kept going long after we all bailed out.  Kudos to them and I didn't see any crashes either.         
     
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Re: Northwest Regionals
« Reply #44 on: May 27, 2013, 03:48:50 PM »
Mike,
who won the pilots choice? I elected to head out as I did not place in any of my events and the near 500 mile drive was calling my name,,
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Re: Northwest Regionals
« Reply #45 on: May 27, 2013, 03:49:42 PM »
    Some time later, I noticed that the grass circle was still in action with the Intermediate fliers.  I don't know how many passes they had but they kept going long after we all bailed out.  Kudos to them and I didn't see any crashes either.

The winning flight of the day for Intermediate was the last one, put in by Doug Knoyle for 400 points; he was rewarded for sticking it out with a bit of slightly better air, which he did a great job of leveraging to a winning flight.  The second-place flight was Paul Gelinas (I'll edit this later with the right spelling) from windy Edmundton at 399, put in just before Doug.  Jim Harper was in the lead coming into the first round and I was second.  I chickened out after the inside loops (so that's what they mean when they say wind up) but did six inverted laps just to put a lid on my resolution not to try my luck or lack of skill or whatever before doing a half-loop to level and flying out the rest of the tank level.  Jim, if I recall correctly, bagged it after two laps inverted.  I'm not going to say who else flew or not -- the scores will show.

There were no crashes in Intermediate.
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Re: Northwest Regionals
« Reply #46 on: May 27, 2013, 03:53:27 PM »
Guess I'll have to wait for the Flying Lines article to come out to see more pictures.

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Re: Northwest Regionals
« Reply #47 on: May 27, 2013, 04:06:27 PM »
well the advanced was won by a Canadian,, LOL
as I recall when I stormed off,, I mean headed for home,, the storm was in the skies,

Dave McHeyne won Advanced with a 509,, second was a 502, third was a 496 and fourth with no dust collectors was Me with 493.5, as of the last time I looked at the scores,, The second round was over very quickly,, the first and second took flights,, third passed, fourth flew, and I think at that point those who were not blown into the adjacent fields, elected to pass ,, perhaps it was something to do with the judges sinking anchor bolts into the asphalt to keep from blowing into the circle,,

Saturday classic, all I know is my woes,, To short runs in classic,, the second flight was almost as good as I have ever flown the Avenger,, Profile, Pat and I shared the MakoJet,, Him in expert profile, me in sportsman,, My flight ran out of fuel just before the hourglass,, ( notice a theme here?) Pat overan on his flight,,Then his second, I cannot recall what he did,, but then my second I took off and started,, the engine went very rich just as I entered the reverse wingover,, I pulled out upright ( do you know how hard it is to do that,, man,, it sucks) ,, then as I flew out the tank the motor sort of came around and actually went a bit lean,, as I flew around level in the best air of the round,, dangit,,,, my final attempt we fueled, and set out to beat the world,, as Pat was priming it, he noted that it really did not want to turn over, my last flight did not happen, the motor was lockign up at top DC,,,, later diagnostics indicated some rather disturbing metal transfer on the piston,, One dead LA 46,,
 Sunday flew the Avenger with another 300 rpm and made it through all the tricks, One of my stronger flights,, no second was attempted,,
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Re: Northwest Regionals
« Reply #48 on: May 27, 2013, 04:31:39 PM »
Mike,
who won the pilots choice? I elected to head out as I did not place in any of my events and the near 500 mile drive was calling my name,,


    Alan Resinger won the concours (pilot's choice) with his gorgeous Crossfire.
    Note that Dave McChene indeed won Advanced with no appearance points.  He was flying an electric converted Saturn built by Chris Cox.
    Electric also won expert Profile ;D
    Yes Randy, John will have many pictures posted in Flying Lines shortly.  He took many pictures but it take him a few days just to recover from all of his hard work putting on the contest.
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Re: Northwest Regionals
« Reply #49 on: May 27, 2013, 04:58:13 PM »
I was wishing I could have been there. But maybe not with the weather. Everyone knows I'm a weather wimp.
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