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Author Topic: July 28 - West Michigan Smoke Rings CL Scale - Kalamazoo, MI  (Read 1070 times)

Offline Fred Cronenwett

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The West Michigan Smoke Rings are hosting a CL Scale contest on July 28, 2018 in Kalamazoo, MI

The flying site is right next to the Kalamazoo Air Zoo Air Museum that has a lot of great looking warbirds - go for the contest and spend some time looking at the warbirds in the museum
Sport, Profile, Fun, 1/2a and Carrier Scale are being included

Fred
« Last Edit: June 14, 2018, 04:22:07 AM by Fred Cronenwett »
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Re: July 28 - West Michigan Smoke Rings CL Scale - Kalamazoo, MI
« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2018, 06:26:26 PM »
It went very well.  Five events in one day at a nice venue.
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July 28 - West Michigan Smoke Rings CL Scale - Kalamazoo, MI
« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2018, 09:23:53 AM »
They pioneered a new event: Navy Carrier Scale.  This is sort of feature for Navy Annex to the Kalamazoo Air Museum, The Air Zoo.

The concept is basically Profile Scale flown off a carrier deck, so you can't do the touch & go or the taxi lap.
The flight starts will a FULL power takeoff and ends with an arrested landing.  There are no high & low speed scores, just Scale scoring. 
Of course the model needs to be a Navy carrier type.

I was able to add a hook to my existing Bearcat and get it to land the first time.

I was too busy flying to get many model pitchers, but this is their newly restored MiG-15.
Paul Smith

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Re: July 28 - West Michigan Smoke Rings CL Scale - Kalamazoo, MI
« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2018, 12:17:26 PM »
Interesting!

There ya go Fred, the deck & arresting gear are all in place...
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Re: July 28 - West Michigan Smoke Rings CL Scale - Kalamazoo, MI
« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2018, 06:56:40 PM »
Righto.  They have the full flush deck setup, ropes, bag & all.  We could have flown actual carrier if we had time.
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