Author Topic: Ringmaster Fly-a -Thon results (Read 9304 times)

Bill Heher · « **on:** October 04, 2008, 03:13:34 PM »

Well - I tried my best but between 2 guys we only got 4 flights in total on 2 different S-1s. Kinda gusty here in Orlando- the 1/2A's were grounded, and the Fox .15 on my Jr decided to be cranky and not run right.

I put up 2 off the stooge with my beater S-1 with a flitestreak rudder on it. ( needed a rudder and it was handy)

Tom Beaudry showed up at about 3 PM and I launched for him and he got in a flight, too rich and fighting the wind made for some interesting dance moves on his part!

He launched for me with my S-1 and near the end of the tank I dorked it at the bottom of a loop- right after my wife showed up to watch!

2 planes up, 2 pilot, 4 total flights in South orlando on 10-4-08!

Elwyn Aud · « **Reply #1 on:** October 04, 2008, 04:38:05 PM »

I put up one flight in Tulsa but I think several are supposed to make it out on Sunday with more Ringmasters. Edit: The wind was really blowing on Sunday but I took my old overweight beater out again and put up several flights and De Hill put up two flights on it. No other Ringmasters braved the wind.

Willis Swindell · « **Reply #2 on:** October 04, 2008, 05:36:09 PM »

The Norfolk Aeromodelers Had five people show up Saturday to fly four different Ringmasters for about 10 flights. We hope for a few more Sunday

Willis

Richard Grogan · « **Reply #3 on:** October 04, 2008, 09:44:07 PM »

Great Stuff Fellers! Why don't ya'll post these here for the Brothers too:

http://www.brotherhoodofthering.info/flightline/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=1701

Lots of great news coming in, its been a great success so far, and its only day 1! We got 12 flights in at Bryan Tx today with retreads making their way back home to CL! Above everything else, great fun was had by all!

Bill Smith · « **Reply #4 on:** October 05, 2008, 08:28:05 AM »

I put one up
I am still trimming mine but got in two flights.

Dave Adamisin · « **Reply #5 on:** October 05, 2008, 12:41:24 PM »

Haven't got the pics yet but my son Mike and I got out with Big today and got in two flights. I flew one and dad flew the second. He even did some tricks.. Great day. Dad has the video and will post the pics. The Ringmaster is about 45 years old and has a Fox 35 from the early diecast era.

Steve Fitton · « **Reply #6 on:** October 05, 2008, 07:11:41 PM »

I don't know exactly how many flights we got in Virginia on Sunday, but we did fly the wheels off Willis's Super Ringmaster!

Larry Wong · « **Reply #7 on:** October 05, 2008, 09:30:06 PM »

We had three Ringmaster's At Napa Vintage Stunt today First Place went to Uncle Jimby ( Jim Aron ) with the white Ringmaster all three were powered with O S 20 fp's

Jim Treace · « **Reply #8 on:** October 05, 2008, 10:42:55 PM »

It was an absolutely beautiful flying weekend. With my new Ringmaster 576, I got in 12 flights and my wife soloed =2 flights (according to RM FlyAThon rules solo counts as two flights), so total of 14. I also posted this on the "Brother" site.
Jim
Paris, TN

Michael Boucher · « **Reply #9 on:** October 06, 2008, 08:56:27 AM »

Very pretty finishes, great!

don Burke · « **Reply #10 on:** October 06, 2008, 10:49:26 AM »

A single Ringmaster was flown by 23 individual pilots on Sunday at the Sepulveda Basin, Van Nuys, CA. We were lucky to have a PA & Carrier contest going on in the main circles, and recruited a LOT of pilots!!

The airplane was from a Brodak kit powered with Brodak 25, APC 10-4, and flown with an E-Z Just Hot-Rock handle!!!! Too ugly to take a pic and I forgot my camera!

Howard Rush · « **Reply #11 on:** October 06, 2008, 04:36:55 PM »

David Fitzgerald, the Champion of the World, several Brazilians, and I logged Ringmaster flights in Sao Paulo yesterday.

Howard Rush

Marvin Denny · « **Reply #12 on:** October 06, 2008, 05:59:57 PM »

Four flights up Set with two s-1 rings three with one one flight with the other. got curtailed on the Ring flying teaching six (6) new juniors to fly with my trainer I think teaching new juniors to flyb is a whole lot more important than satisfying a whim. Maybe some day soon they will get the experience of flying a Ringmaster.

sundat winds were horrible
Bigiron

John Paris · « **Reply #13 on:** October 06, 2008, 07:04:13 PM »

We made a total of 6 flights with our Ringmasters at the RC Club of Detroit's CL circle on Sunday during a gathering and picnic. Excellent weather, great food and good friends. 2 flights were made on the Ringmaster, 1 on the Super Ringmaster and 3 on the Jr. Ringmaster with Michael trying it out on one of those 3 flights.
John

Richard Grogan · « **Reply #14 on:** October 06, 2008, 07:05:36 PM »

Quote from: Howard Rush on October 06, 2008, 04:36:55 PM

David Fitzgerald, the Champion of the World, several Brazilians, and I logged Ringmaster flights in Sao Paulo yesterday.

Howard Rush

Hey Howard,
I received an email from Marcos Oliveira earlier reporting his and Davids flights. How many flights did you make so I can record it?

Dennis Moritz · « **Reply #15 on:** October 06, 2008, 08:50:31 PM »

11 Philly Flyers went to Reading yesterday, visiting the Flying Dutchman. Great field. Very nice folks. We flew some Ringmaster. Wish I took more photos, but I was having too much fun flying and hanging out. Shawn Cook the 13 year old, skunked most of us in Intermediate at the Philly Flyers contest, end of July. First time he flew a complete pattern. The Three fellows with PF were Reading guys, quite self-sufficient. Showed up and flew. Jack Weston holds the winingest Ringmaster ever. A flea-market special that has won or placed 20 times over the years. Along the way, it has been crashed often and hard, getting no respect. Many club members have made repairs. Typically fixed with left over scraps of monokote and five minute epoxy. These days it's a porky 42ounces and retired.

Howard Rush · « **Reply #16 on:** October 06, 2008, 09:56:29 PM »

Just one flight for me. I regret that I don´t have pictures.

Martin Quartim · « **Reply #17 on:** October 06, 2008, 11:03:37 PM »

Hi Howard,

O got this picutre and I'll see if I can get more. You flew with my RingMaster

I got 3 flights on Saturday and 7 on Sunday, one was a dual flight with my friend Alleoni

It was great having you and David Fitzgerald to fly our RingMasters.

Martin

Richard Grogan · « **Reply #18 on:** October 06, 2008, 11:05:45 PM »

Got it Howard, Thanks! Martin just posted the pix I got in the email.
Dennis, Justa rough guestimate, how many RM flights do ya think? I think we're up to over 200 flights worldwide at this point..Great photos BTW!
Where are the Adamisins residing/flying?
Thanks folks! I will post the spreadsheet results tomorrow..

Dennis Moritz · « **Reply #19 on:** October 06, 2008, 11:17:23 PM »

Richard, there were actually quite a few Ringmasters flying at Reading, PA yesterday. At least 8 flights, since there were two rounds of mass fly. Only four fliers. But the asphalt hard landing surface kept a few out of the mass fly. No doubt individuals put up flights. I'll ask around. There was so much to see flying around, I never thought to keep track. One entertaining sequence was Dan Banjok taking the handle of Bob Flick's Dyna Jet type birds. It's estimated they turned over 155. Bob Flick calls that sport jet. The 1.8 second laps kept Dan hoppin. Shall we say 15 plus Ringmasters a flyin'. Plus. The mass fly was rather tame by the way. Unfulfilling in fact. No line tangles and big time splats. Everyone made it through both rounds. Best we got was Ted Heinritz' beast catching the breeze wrong after his engine quit. Hard to believe the oil soaked log glided up about 10 feet turning towards the center of the circle. Everyone except Ted scattered. The plane came in at 90 degrees near Ted's feet. Alas, the only damage was sheered mounting bolts.

Richard Grogan · « **Reply #20 on:** October 06, 2008, 11:40:09 PM »

Dennis,
That'll work! I know what you mean by all the action. We had a hard time trying to keep up with our flites and we were consciously trying to be serious about it! I'm really glad everyone was having so much fun!So far we have reports from the US modeling community, as well as Canada,France and Brazil. It truly is a universally known airplane!And in some pretty well known company too, apparently! Great stuff!
Thanks everyone for all the help!

Eric Viglione · « **Reply #21 on:** October 07, 2008, 05:58:25 AM »

I guess you can add 5 flights from Florida to your XL sheet on a modded Hellcat Ringmaster (actually a parting gift from EddyR when he moved) w/OS FS26. As it turned out, it was our host R/C clubs "Salute to the Military" day, and everyone had warbirds out, so the little modded Ring fit right in.
Still have pics sitting in the camera, will try to post one later.

EricV

Paul Smith · « **Reply #22 on:** October 07, 2008, 07:13:35 AM »

In addition to raising $175 for The Friends of Rouge Park, we put in 28 flights, with 6 pilots and 6 Ringmasters, a total of 15 Ringmaster/pilot combinations (but short of the potential 36).

The highlight of the day was the successful test flight of Dan Miles' twin Fox .19 Ringmaster. The gas tanks were a bit on the large side, like maybe nine minutes. I was allowed to run out the last few. 73 MPH on both engines, 57 on just the outboard.

Any other twins in the air?

taildragger-j3 · « **Reply #23 on:** October 07, 2008, 08:02:54 AM »

Rich Grogan came up to Bryan/College Station from North Houston to fly with us. Here are some pics of our flight line. I had a Jr., an S-1, and an almost finished 526. Rich had his S-1 & 526, Geral Rasco from our local club had a scratch built S-1 from plans he had enlarged to 110%, and Lindley Baugh had a new RSM S-1 that had a Fox Combat Special. The plane's first flight and his first in about 30 years! It was a blast!

Howard Rush · « **Reply #24 on:** October 07, 2008, 08:07:02 AM »

Thank you, Martin. I wish my 1958 Ringmaster had flown as well as yours does.

Robert Mathison · « **Reply #25 on:** October 07, 2008, 08:50:39 AM »

This is a photo of some of the Ringmaster's out at the flying field, the Norfolk Aeromodelers fly at Fentress Field in Chesapeake Virginia.
Bob

Richard Grogan · « **Reply #26 on:** October 07, 2008, 12:35:20 PM »

Here is where you can download the spreadsheet:
http://www.brotherhoodofthering.info/flightline/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=1701&start=26&posts=39

(sorry, Stunt Hangar doesn't allow Excel file(.xls) attachments)

We had a total of 255 flights worldwide for this first event! Thats pretty cool! We're back on for next year- same time, same station! First weekend in October. Thanks for everyones participation; it was alot of fun and we now have a new record to beat!
See ya,
RG

Richard Grogan · « **Reply #27 on:** October 09, 2008, 02:29:56 AM »

World Champ David Fitzgerald even flew a RM Sunday!Well, I guess if this event was good enough for the current WC, it should be good enough for even the best of the aspiring experts out here!! It was alot of good clean fun!Thanks to everyone who participated this year, and I hope the rest of you will give it a try next year- in the name of the CL community!
Thank you, on behalf of the Brotherhood of the Ring!
Richard

Bill Gruby · « **Reply #28 on:** October 09, 2008, 06:01:27 AM »

Your list of flights on the "Brotherhood" is impressive Rich. 253 flights is a good showing. Should be much better next year. Kudos go out to Joey Mathison for a great idea. I have an idea to make it bigger next year. I will talk to you about it later.

"Billy G"

jackweston · « **Reply #29 on:** October 10, 2008, 03:14:15 PM »

To all the Ringmasters buffs;

I don't know if this was mentioned about the Ringmasters history.

I am reading a book called "Do you speak Model Airplane-the story of aeromodeling in America" by Dave Thornburg.

I quote from the book " Aldrich won Senior Stunt again; Ringmasters dominated combat."

A little trivia for us.

Jack

jackweston · « **Reply #30 on:** October 10, 2008, 03:27:44 PM »

I forgot to mention that was the '53 Nats in Willow Grove.

don Burke · « **Reply #31 on:** October 11, 2008, 10:16:41 AM »

Next year we'll get everybody's names and find a way to get more flights. T'was fun the way we did it however!

Author Topic: Ringmaster Fly-a -Thon results (Read 9304 times)

Willis Swindell

Dave Adamisin

Eric Viglione