pics from today's flying session

[frank carlisle]

As per Rootbeard's suggestion that we take our cameras when we go flying here are a couple pics from todays' flying session.

#1 Dave and Jan Setting up twin Mustang.         
#2 the flight line

[frank carlisle]

And just one more. This is an engine a few of the R/C guys were running in on our test stand.

[Paul Taylor]

Atta-boy Frank!!!!!

Nice pictures!

Glad to see that the snow is gone!

Paul

[frank carlisle]

Paul,
The snow isn't gone. It just melted. I came home with wet feet.

[Ironbomb]

Frank, thats a pretty stout looking test stand. What size engine is that? Looks to be about a 20FP.

You had a good day for flying, I passed up flying with Tim. Got the yard and truck clean tho.

Greg

[frank carlisle]

I think it was a Quadra 70, Greg. It was kinda funny watching them. A bunch of R/C guys holding on to this test stand for dear life. I think they had a 22 inch prop on it.

By the way I may be the clubs' next vice president. Can you imagine that? A control line flyer on the board of an r/c club?

[Paul Taylor]

By the way I may be the clubs' next vice president. Can you imagine that? A control line flyer on the board of an r/c club?

Frank,
Maybe you can pull them over from the dark side

[frank carlisle]

Frank,
Maybe you can pull them over from the dark side

No Paul,
I don't think those guys are going to change brands. BUT..........every year at our annual control line fly-in, there are one or two more of the r/c guys who show up with c/l planes they built long ago.
I think we have the biggest model club in Michigan (possibly the U.S.) with a yearly membership of around 250 souls. Our c/l circle is on one side of the road (private-single lane) and the r/c field is on the other. I bounce back and forth from one side to the other. I've never flown r/c myself but I get a kick out of watching the guys fly, and of course I have a lot of friends over there.
We put on a couple dozen events during the flying season and we all pitch in to make the contests a ton of fun. Everything is getting intermixed. We fly c/l demos (mostly Bi-Slob) at the r/c events and we have r/c demos (mostly combat) at the c/l events.
We get as many as a hundred or two hundred people not connected to modeling that come in just to watch the show. So it was only natyral to combine the two disciplines.
It's a lot of fun.

[Ironbomb]

I am looking forward to the RCCD FLY-IN day you guys will be putting on this summer. I plan on helping the youngsters, I will also need supervision for myself of course. And I have 2 familys that plan on coming down too, mostly for the R/C, but if I can get the kids to try a handle before then......

The Dark Side, thats funny

Greg

[frank carlisle]

....Greg,
We're counting on you dude I forget the date but it's coming........aw shoot ...hold on a second and I'll go look.

O.K. I'm back ..the date is June 13....if you google search Radio Control Club of Detroit.org it will come right up.

Kids night is a special day at the club. We bring kids in from two shelters for abused and abandoned kids we show them a good time, stuff them with hot dogs and pop and let them fly R/C and Control Line. This year I'm going to talk to the people from the two institutions and see if they would like to have an inhouse club. I'd be willing to give up some 1/2a kits and engines and go once or twice a week to help them build and fly. gee I'm such a nice guy.