View down the pit alley at PRBCA field.
An actual turbine powered jet. Way cool... very cool sound, smell (just like Jet-A) and this baby hustled.
The ubiquitous Cubby's.
Foamie warplanes.
Greg Whittier's (Brookhaven RC Club) ginormous scratch built PC-6 Pilatus Porter.
A Katana. Beautiful plane, skilled driver (they guy in blue).
Everyone loves a Stearman!
Greg Whittier (flying a Telemaster rigged as a jump plane) with Frank Moak, pilot of the Skydiver slung underneath the Telemaster, the coolest RC gadget I have ever seen! They are from the Brookhaven RC Club.
The Telemaster with the Skydiver underneath on takeoff.
Skydiver after the free-fall with open chute. Once the Telemaster got to altitude a flick of the switch released him from the a/c and he free falls until Frank releases the chute.
His arms move, controlling the chute! This dude is totally scale! You can see the drag chute on top. A guy in Belgium makes the parachutes. This is a fully controlled parachute. Frank can land him with amazing precision. You can see him here about to make a right turn; see how his right arm has dropped and the chute is folding the right leading edge. His arms drop and he flares the chute just before a soft touchdown. You darn near expect him to run out the landing and gather up his own chute!
Frank Moak with his Skydiver. Frank builds these from scratch. Greg and he developed this unique flight system. I hope they will come out to our Fly-in!
Close up of the Skydiver. Frank had 3 of these and it took him a couple of minutes to fold the chute and pack it properly in the very real pack. Like the model aircraft, this model Skydiver is a precise copy of the real thing in miniature.
Some very large planes flying 3D, here in a hover. Goes to show even plankers want to fly helis!
For scale, these planes are the same size as the one below.
The MCRCC contingent. Paul Verger's Extra 300.
Paul getting his Extra 300 ready to start. Unfortunately an electrical problem grounded him. I was looking forward to watching him fly; he has competed in Pattern and aerobatics and I imagine it would have been something else to see him fly!
It was a long drive up, a couple of hours. I paid my flying fee, but opted not to fly as I would have wanted a buddy box with an instructor and this wasn't really the place to do that. Had a nice lunch, won a kids sized T-shirt and a bunch of free Buffalo Wild Wings! Jerry Gollott won a RTF Micro flyer. No helis flying though, not by design. Someone had the new Quadcopter there. Tomorrow I am heading out to MCRCC and will spend as much time flying as I possibly can! I enjoyed meeting all the MCRCC guys and sitting with them. A good bunch of people who clearly love the hobby!
Thanks for the nice pics Ken and the nice comments If you had let us know that you needed some buddy box time we could have hooked you up.
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Thanks, jeff! I have no doubt you folks would have set me up, but it was my first fly-in and I wasn't sure how it all worked. Next year I will fly solo! Great time, Jeff, you all did great! Hope to see you at the MCRCC fly-in on June 18th. You will be a tough act to follow, especially the food!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing Nice pictures.Flying RC Planes is becoming a hobby for people. The hobby of rc flying has exploded in popularity in recent years. you can fly these planes by using some kind of a hand-held controller or transmitter.
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