Alvin's Mini ACMA Field Report.

Saturday, March 10, 2007, Irvington Field, Ideal day for flying and we had a better than usual turnout for a Saturday. Tony could not join us because he said that he had thrown out his back on a hayride with Rene Friday night or some such tale. He promises to be out Sunday and cook for us.
We did have some hot dogs, ice cream, and fried dill pickle slices. The fried pickles were a first for me, but were not bad.
A couple of crashes were featured today, Greg Thompson crashed an Extra or somesuch scale aerobatic model and a trainer plane went in hard piloted by instructor Frits and student Tim I think. Some kind of technical glitch or malfunction was believed to have caused both mishaps.
J.C. Day ran the engines on all his aircraft while tied down several times each, one thing for sure, they can run, though I don't think that any of the airplanes flew.

Have not seen Billy Frost at field in some time, but he was present today and flew a couple of his electric powered models several times.



Kenny from over in Wade, MS made it to field and actually got some flight instruction from Frits. Kenny was threatening to solo today, but decided on few more lessons.



In preperation for next weekends combat event, Henry Waltman was getting some flight time on his "FourStar Forty" combat plane and was assisted by Wayne Boudreaux. Henry must have got his weekends mixed up because he was mixing it up in the air with my Sonic plane and even did a bombing run on me after I had landed.



L.T. Hughes is always threatening to come out to field and fly and he actually made it this day and the farther son team of Lee and L.T. were busy flying several of their models.



Rob Baker had his real turbine engine jet flying today and made a couple of very good flights. He also had a bungie cord launched electric powered jet, but it did not work so well this time and never made it past the launch stage. I have seen it do successful launches before so this problem today should be solved in short order.



Steve Drake brought just about his whole fleet and flew everything and did not crash. Talking it over with Steve is Mike McLaughlin who had his gasoline engine powered Decathlon airplane parked in the North Pit area and made some scale flights.



Sweet Margo curled up with a good book and kept watch on my Sonic wing.



Stay tuned right here tomorrow night for the Sunday report and as always the full enhanced report with many more pictures will be featured in Frits' "From The Pits" report.

Nicely done Alvin,I did solo one time though but,had to go to the bathroom after
that.I will say one thing though,I believe you were reading some of that book with Margo also,wasnt you?hmmmm. :hysterical:

:crying: :crying: :crying: I did, hmmmmmm. :angry:

Actually Kenny Alvin gave me that book! I tried to read it but it was very distracting with Alvin constantly leaning over me trying to point out the things he and Tony have tried. :banghead: :spin: :yickes:

What really happened, Steve bought the book and gave it to me to give to Margo.
He was scared to give it to her himself.
I am just innocent third party. :biggrin:

pulleeessee, you've never been an INNOCENT bystander to anything in your Life!! :P Besides.......What kind of stupid book is that?? most men are just grateful if I decide to grace them with my presence! why would you need a book for that? :fullmoon: :hysterical: :roflmao:

With a name like MsIncredible, she kind of has a point! :D