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Author Topic: Who will be first?....midnight.....December 31st...make it a Ringmaster!  (Read 1990 times)

Offline Terrence Durrill

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O.K., Christmas is in the past and New Years Day is coming...............who in the midwest (or any where else, for that matter) is planning to get out and make the first flight of the New Year........midnight, December 31.........just curious?  Inquiring minds always want to know these things.   ???    D>K    H^^
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Offline Don Curry AMA 267060

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Re: Who will be first?....midnight.....December 31st...make it a Ringmaster!
« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2012, 01:11:04 PM »
Northwest Fireballs.
There are four of us planning to both make the last flight fo 2012 and the first of 2013. If you are near Delta Park about 11:30 we will be there.
Don

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Re: Who will be first?....midnight.....December 31st...make it a Ringmaster!
« Reply #2 on: December 27, 2012, 03:31:38 PM »
Odds are someone at the NZ Nats .

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Re: Who will be first?....midnight.....December 31st...make it a Ringmaster!
« Reply #3 on: December 27, 2012, 10:18:14 PM »
Northwest Fireballs.
There are four of us planning to both make the last flight fo 2012 and the first of 2013. If you are near Delta Park about 11:30 we will be there.
Don
Don
what's going on down there monday and tuesday?  Are you flying tuesday during the day? D>K

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Re: Who will be first?....midnight.....December 31st...make it a Ringmaster!
« Reply #4 on: December 28, 2012, 08:04:03 AM »
The TOPClass group wil be at the  field on New Years eve and seeing how many planes will get in the air before the midnight hour and be flying ito the New Year.   Don't look for me there as I will be indoors where it is nice an warm.   I think Melvin and Jim will be taking pictures.   
John E. "DOC" Holliday
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Offline Don Curry AMA 267060

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Re: Who will be first?....midnight.....December 31st...make it a Ringmaster!
« Reply #5 on: December 28, 2012, 10:11:27 AM »
Duke: So far four of us will be out at midnight for the first flights (everyone is invited).
New years day we are having an open funfly with no entry fee. The club will supply hambergers and hot dogs with the side dishes potluck. You will get a ticket for each flight you put up and there will be a drawing for prizes at the end of the day.
Don

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Re: Who will be first?....midnight.....December 31st...make it a Ringmaster!
« Reply #6 on: December 28, 2012, 10:42:55 AM »
Here in the southeast (which is north of Vermont ;D), it's -5 degrees and we have 2 feet of fresh snow. I'll be thinking of you guys. ;)
-Daniel

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Re: Who will be first?....midnight.....December 31st...make it a Ringmaster!
« Reply #7 on: December 28, 2012, 05:47:06 PM »
Duke: So far four of us will be out at midnight for the first flights (everyone is invited).
New years day we are having an open funfly with no entry fee. The club will supply hambergers and hot dogs with the side dishes potluck. You will get a ticket for each flight you put up and there will be a drawing for prizes at the end of the day.
Don

We were planning to come down new years eve, but that a lot of driving monday then tuesday also.  We might just come down tuesday.  Thanks

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Re: Who will be first?....midnight.....December 31st...make it a Ringmaster!
« Reply #8 on: December 28, 2012, 11:23:11 PM »
The multi-time resurrected yellow and white Ringmaster and I will be at Delta, all be warned!
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Re: Who will be first?....midnight.....December 31st...make it a Ringmaster!
« Reply #9 on: December 29, 2012, 11:26:46 AM »
Does the Delta Park flying start at 10am on the 1st? D>K

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Re: Who will be first?....midnight.....December 31st...make it a Ringmaster!
« Reply #10 on: December 30, 2012, 09:58:55 AM »
I don't think we posted a flying time but 10:00 AM works for me.
Don

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Re: Who will be first?....midnight.....December 31st...make it a Ringmaster!
« Reply #11 on: December 31, 2012, 09:09:00 AM »
Right now as I am typing this, it is snowing.   Don't know how much we will get, but it is good to see solid white yard instead of the mud patches.   Of course the chihuahua doesn't like it.  This is second snow accumulation for this season. 
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Re: Who will be first?....midnight.....December 31st...make it a Ringmaster!
« Reply #12 on: December 31, 2012, 11:06:05 PM »
Anyone in Portland?  How's the weather?  It snowed here today, but if the roads are still good we wil come.

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Re: Who will be first?....midnight.....December 31st...make it a Ringmaster!
« Reply #13 on: January 01, 2013, 10:14:22 AM »
Clear and dry with a little wind.

Offline Terrence Durrill

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Re: Who will be first?....midnight.....December 31st...make it a Ringmaster!
« Reply #14 on: January 01, 2013, 03:30:38 PM »
Kansas City, Missouri and surrounding area:


      January 1st, 2013......Clear, sunny skies, light winds.......24 degrees out there.......snow and ice covered ground.........no one in his/her right mind would be out flying control line aircraft on a day like this.  Even "Doc" stayed home by the fire.  Here's hoping for better weather somewhere down the line.     ~^    D>K    H^^

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Re: Who will be first?....midnight.....December 31st...make it a Ringmaster!
« Reply #15 on: January 02, 2013, 10:35:31 AM »
Well, not that many years ago I would hve been at the Topeka field flying.  Have been there when we had to dig snow off the circle big enough for takeoffs.  That same year we are counting and measuring the prop strikes in the snow made by our own Jim Lee flying inverted.  Another year the boy and I broke in a fairly new Fox .35 Stunt flying in over a foot of snow with temps in the 20's.  He even made a low outside loop that disappeared for an instant.  John Bender and I down at the Argosy flying on patches of snow and ice with tep in the 20's.  I was just not in the mood this year and I didn't want to miss out on the Black Eyed Peas and corn bread dinner at Church.  The ladies feed us well.
John E. "DOC" Holliday
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Re: Who will be first?....midnight.....December 31st...make it a Ringmaster!
« Reply #16 on: January 02, 2013, 11:26:46 AM »
Is there someone with one of those cameras that were there able to post pictures on the forum.  And if you could email them to me to share with a friend?
Thanks
Duke


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