Dallas New Year 2016

[Tom Niebuhr]

Many of Dallas Model Airplane Assoc. members did the New Year's Day 2016 thing again. Temp was about 28 degrees to start the day, and slow raised to the mid 30's before we all went for breakfast and/or lunch at Chubby's. Winds were about 10 mph early and decreased later .

Unfortunately, Dave Ek did not have a new version of his famous Ceiling Fan.. He said it was too cold to tamper with....he brought a BiSlob instead.

Sleep Gomwz came with several very original airplanes. He has fun doing things different!

1) Ken Boone says it is TOO cold!
2) Sleepy Gomez and his bipe
3)The flight line was busy!

[Tom Niebuhr]

4) Bill Wilson starts Sleep's "Throwback" bipe
5) "Throwback"
6) Jim Don Hutchinson, Dave Ek, Bill Wilson

[Tom Niebuhr]

7) Sleepy's "Butterfly"
  "Butterfly"  unusual tank installation  for a short nose. It worked well.
9) Bill Wilson and Jim Svitko looking at Bill's new design, a ElDiablo with stunt flaps!

[Tom Niebuhr]

10) Hutch holding Bill Bischoff's " BooRay"
11) "BooRay" up close
12) Bill Wilson shows his newest "Tucker Special" molded fuselage.. 1"16 balsa with Z-poxy and fiberglass. It is very light and very strong.
13) Tom's "Hobo"

[Crist Rigotti]

Looks like a good time.  I had (still have) the flu.  Maybe next year.

[wwwarbird]

 Looks like a good time.

 Bill's Boo-Ray looks great, always really nice stuff out of that shop. Did he build it with scale competition in mind or as a C/L racer, or...?

[bill bischoff]

The BooRay is built as a Sportsman Goodyear racer. Per Goodyear rules, the outlines must be within 5% of scale, but with the markings my priority was to make it look good without tons of effort rather than try to make it scale. It gets the point across, but compare it to a photo of the real thing and you'll notice the differences!

BTW, the next day it went to Kansas with its new owner, Melvin Schuette.

[wwwarbird]

 I thought it looked like it was "purpose" built, great looking model Bill. If you ever feel like sending a Crusader home with someone...