Yuma Az. Control Line ?

[Jimmy R. Jacobs]

  Is there anyone that flies C/L in Yuma Az. If so where and when ?


                                                 Jimmy


                                                           

[L0U CRANE]

Jimmy,

I'm about at the other end of the bottom of Arizona - Sierra Vista - and I don't know of anyone around Yuma, just now. There may well be a few...

When? Do you have a lighted space to fly in for the midnight to 3:00 AM time slot? This time of year, that may be the only time of day cool enough out your way. (Just jazzing ya...) I'm up at about 5,000 ', and it gets too hot up here by 10:00AM most days in Summer, and the wind usually is up by then, too. So, early in the day until weather cools down...

Luck, and if you find any Gyrenes interested, talk up your success. It'll be interesting!

[john e. holliday]

Lou, I see on the temp at the time of your post it was 83 degrees F.  Today in Muncie the bank showed 91.  They have mowed the circles again and we are trying to get them painted.  Still no flying as the Giant Scale Aerobatic Planes are even over flying the McCool Racing site.  They are not very high either.  Have fun, DOC Holliday

[Leo Mehl]

I had a boss from Yuma and he said he could fry eggs on a hot rock ion the summer. I told him he should move back. True story.

[Jimmy R. Jacobs]

I don't live in Yuma, AZ but have an old friend in Yuma.  He's been trying to find someone to fly with.  I live in Farmington, NM and our temps have been 101; today was a cool 95!  We fly early in the morning here.  My friend said that they have had 120 in Yuma this year, and yes you sure could fry eggs on a rock there.
 -Jimmy

[Rudy Taube]

Lou, I see on the temp at the time of your post it was 83 degrees F.  Today in Muncie the bank showed 91.  They have mowed the circles again and we are trying to get them painted.  Still no flying as the Giant Scale Aerobatic Planes are even over flying the McCool Racing site.  They are not very high either.  Have fun, DOC Holliday

Hi John,

Take a look at the time of Lou's post. Hot in the moonlight! 

I put up a "heat test" flight on my electric P-40 last week in Las Vegas. It was only 108F (it got up to 112F later in the day). My electric flew fine but my battery and motor were at the edge of their safe limits during the flight. BTW: The human link was a little past it's safe limits! 

I only flew it once! 

[Leroy Heikes]

Jimmy;
    It has almost been twenty years since I lived in Yuma. While I was there I flew RC with a group of guys who refused to be called a club. Any way they used to fly RC on that big bend about halfway to the Yuma Proving grounds. If the Hobby shop is still there put up a flier, some one will eventually find it. When I moved here to Kalamazoo, MI, I was told by the local hobby shops that nobody flew CL anymore.  I went to Muncie to watch the scale NATs and ran into two other guys who flew CL in Kalamazoo.  We started flying together and posting fliers in the hobby shop and local air museum and we now have over 16 members of our three year old club.   

Leroy

[Mike Danford]

Hijack alert...

When I moved to Atlanta (well, the area) was told by a model shop in town that NOBODY flew control line...  Uh, does that include (from what I'm told) the oldest continuously chartered c/l club?  Of course Tom Dixon, Randy Smith, Rich Schneider...?  Within a couple hours are John Simpson, Tom Morris.  They had NO CLUE.  Geesh.

Asking here is probably a better bet than the local hobby shop! 

There's a few guys in San Diego out in east county, probably two hours, two and a half, away.

Tools

[Bill Adair]

Old friends of ours own a home in Yuma, but only go there in summer! 

No they aren't completely crazy. She is employed by the school system, so they can't get away during the cooler winter months.

The only up side to that arrangement, is that they don't get overrun with visitors! 

He is not a flyer, but might enjoy watching if you just want some company at the field. Heck of a nice guy.

Only experience he's had, was helping his grandkids with some plastic contraption that they couldn't get flying. They didn't think to ask me for help, and destroyed that RTF on it's first flight. 

Bill

[Bob Disharoon]

There are some Arizona guys on SSW..I think the heat definately has affected one of them......