Palmer Memorial Knights' Joust Sept 14 and 15, 2024

[gary akers]

Just a reminder for the Joust at Whittier Narrows California. Coming up very soon.
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Gary Akers

[Dave Hull]

Thanks for the reminder, Gary!  Looks like we will finally get some cooler weather--just in time....

Dave

[Brett Buck]

Just a reminder for the Joust at Whittier Narrows California. Coming up very soon.
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Gary Akers

   I certainly plan on being there, I encourage everyone else to come on down! 

   Flying at Whittier Narrows is character-building!

     Brett

[James H. Dean]

See you all down there! I'm planning on bringing my new thunderbird along with my father's thunderbird that he built in 1958. The new one is painted to "match" the old one.

[Larry Renger]

The contest was, in my opinion, the best we have had in years. Beautiful models, great flying. Prefect weather. And the taco buffet was a great touch.

Thanks to Tim Just, Dennis Nunez an Warren Walker for setting it up. And all the volunteers who made it work.

I especially was excited to see the top expert flights.  Brett Buck topped the field with a 609 score! I don’t recall ever seeing a score that high before. Almost all the flights were over 500. I don’t think the judges were giving points away, the flying was just that good.

I didn’t get over to see the combat and carrier flying. Hopefully someone will fill that in.

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[Dan McEntee]

   I certainly plan on being there, I encourage everyone else to come on down! 

   Flying at Whittier Narrows is character-building!

     Brett

   You mean Buder Park West?? Or Garden State Circle Burners West? Gage Park in Topeka West?  I have seen pictures of Whittier Narrows in magazines and videos, and looks like no shortage of trees!! On the show "Storage Wars", one episode had the one older guy taking a tether car there to show some "experts" to get it appraised and that part of the park looked like it was all shade!!???  I think they still have a speed cage also? I think that one and the one here at Buder are the last ones still standing, aren't they??  I'll just have to get out west some day to see Whittier after reading and hearing about it all these years. It's too late to go to Mile Square. I loved reading about the free flight contests there also.  I'm glad the Knights has a great Joust. I bought a Knights shirt from someone at VSC one year, I'll have to dig that out.!!
  Type at you later,
   Dan McEntee

[Dave Harmon]

 
   Flying at Whittier Narrows is character-building!

     Brett

Indeed!
I flew many, many Pattern contests there in the 80's and 90's.....love that place!!

[Larry Renger]

Us unwashed call it the speed cage but the velocity participation gentlemen refer to it as the “protective enclosure” .

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[Larry Renger]

BTW, the combat guys recently added two cement pilot circles to their area. So we have a permanent carrier deck, speed cage, two full paved uc circles, an additional grass uc circle and the tether car track. Convenient parking and permanent lavatories.

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[Brett Buck]

BTW, the combat guys recently added two cement pilot circles to their area. So we have a permanent carrier deck, speed cage, two full paved uc circles, an additional grass uc circle and the tether car track. Convenient parking and permanent lavatories.

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   Also, conveniently located about 10 feet from the Pomona Freeway! Rifle Range adjacent.

     Brett

[Dave Hull]

We occasionally have to duck the shotgun shell wads...but only on the south circle.

[John Gluth]

   Also, conveniently located about 10 feet from the Pomona Freeway! Rifle Range adjacent.

     Brett

The rifle range is 200 feet north of the stunt circle, adjacent to the RC field.
John Gluth for John Wright

[John Gluth]

We occasionally have to duck the shotgun shell wads...but only on the south circle.

   The Pomona Freeway and the shotgun range is a benefit to the fly field because they are both noisier the the flying field. Several years ago we almost lost the southwest circle(the combat circle) because of an endangered but invasive bird, the Least Bell's Vireos species. It was not until the USACE (Army Corp of Engineers) agreed with our noise measurements that the freeway was much louder than model airplanes and restrictions were lifted. The freeway is almost 200 feet south of the stunt circle and the shotgun range another 300 feet south of the freeway.
John Wright

[Dave Hull]

Thanks, John for the clarification for guys that haven't spent a lot of time there. My tongue-in-cheek comment was reference to the period before they put the last load of gravel into the parking lot. Back then we used to see shotgun wads all over the place. I think the county stole gravel--complete with wads--from across the way.

By the way, all you guys are talking about the little stuff. The Nike launch site (LA-14) is just across the street from the flying field....  (And just for completeness, the flying circles at Sepulveda Basin have their own Nike launch site, too--LA-96C.) All in all, flying stunt was a very protected activity up until around 1961ish.

[John Gluth]

L. A. Clays Shooting Sports Park is located South side of, six-lanes PLUS access ramps width, CA-60 freeway.

Google Maps - https://www.google.com/maps/place/CA-60,+California/@34.0410996,-118.0679803,625m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x80dccb055952360f:0x4ceabcc84f2ed193!8m2!3d34.0304606!4d-117.6027548!16zL20vMDNjem02?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MDkyMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

[Dave Hull]

John--Yup. The nearest firing position is 1,482 feet from the center of the south flying circle. You can fit some good-sized freeway in there, for sure....  In this case, Caltrans squeezed 9 lanes into 150' of pavement for highway 60. And it still suffers from stop-n-go on the weekends....