Title: 3-17-07 Mini Field Report
Description: from ACMA's Irvington Field.
Description: from ACMA's Irvington Field.
alvinonline - March 18, 2007 02:45 AM (GMT)
Alvin's Mini ACMA Field Report.
Saturday, March 17, 2007, Irvington Field, Nice day for mid March. Temps in mid 60s, light winds, and plenty sunshine. Still, a light turn out, more club members into that Green Beer on St. Patrick's Day than I had figured. I called Tony to see where he was and he was not making much sense on the phone, something about Rene had dosed him down with too much green antifreeze so that his pipes would be thawed out for tonight or something like that.
Justin, Andy, and Jeff were into some construction project as I arrived, lots of drilling and hammering. James S. kept me entertained with some tales about running into some "Hot Tamalies" in his younger days. No froze pipes here, Tony needs to talk with James.
No one willing to cook today and nothing much to cook anyway, so here we have Mr. Anderson, Andy, and Jeff chowing down on some fast food carry outs.
Nothing to eat, so Alvin got in a couple of flights on his Sonic 25 and was carefull to follow most all proper flight procedures. Uneventfull flights of Alvin's standard high percentage (90% or better chance of not crashing) maneuvers.
Robert Sanderson and one of his nieces pose with his Corsair WW II fighter plane, one of Robert's more conventional aircraft. I heard that one of his experimentals was polished off earlier in week by he and Frits.
After flight debriefing of Robert by James, Frits, and Charlie.
Johnny Turner made the trip from the Eastern Shore with his Raptor 60 and Stinger/Raptor 30 I think. He flew without indident and mentioned that he would be back Sunday to fly in Combat Event.
Here we have senior flight instructor Frits going over some of the finer points of trainer plane construction/setup with a couple of student pilots.
Better late than never, Steve showed up with his Combating Armadildo airplane for some practice in preparation for tomorrow's/Sunday's monthly ACMA RC Combat Event.
As always the full enhanced report with many more pictures will be featured in Frits' "From The Pits" report, possibly.
Saturday, March 17, 2007, Irvington Field, Nice day for mid March. Temps in mid 60s, light winds, and plenty sunshine. Still, a light turn out, more club members into that Green Beer on St. Patrick's Day than I had figured. I called Tony to see where he was and he was not making much sense on the phone, something about Rene had dosed him down with too much green antifreeze so that his pipes would be thawed out for tonight or something like that.
Justin, Andy, and Jeff were into some construction project as I arrived, lots of drilling and hammering. James S. kept me entertained with some tales about running into some "Hot Tamalies" in his younger days. No froze pipes here, Tony needs to talk with James.
No one willing to cook today and nothing much to cook anyway, so here we have Mr. Anderson, Andy, and Jeff chowing down on some fast food carry outs.
Nothing to eat, so Alvin got in a couple of flights on his Sonic 25 and was carefull to follow most all proper flight procedures. Uneventfull flights of Alvin's standard high percentage (90% or better chance of not crashing) maneuvers.
Robert Sanderson and one of his nieces pose with his Corsair WW II fighter plane, one of Robert's more conventional aircraft. I heard that one of his experimentals was polished off earlier in week by he and Frits.
After flight debriefing of Robert by James, Frits, and Charlie.
Johnny Turner made the trip from the Eastern Shore with his Raptor 60 and Stinger/Raptor 30 I think. He flew without indident and mentioned that he would be back Sunday to fly in Combat Event.
Here we have senior flight instructor Frits going over some of the finer points of trainer plane construction/setup with a couple of student pilots.
Better late than never, Steve showed up with his Combating Armadildo airplane for some practice in preparation for tomorrow's/Sunday's monthly ACMA RC Combat Event.
As always the full enhanced report with many more pictures will be featured in Frits' "From The Pits" report, possibly.