June 2006 Club Activities

Electrics for Flying Fun

Foamies Galore, how did that glass fuse get in there? The Strikers are Ballistic with Wolf's hand wound motors and go vertical at high speed until they are literally OOS and it does not take long to get there.
Steve asking Vince if the F-16 has enough power at 500 watts plus.
A couple of "Electric Fellows" in deep concentration.

Typical Fun Day AT The Field

The ORF's in action. Note Wolf is actually flying, some guys never learn. His plane is so high it is just a spec as the thermals were good today.
Dennis is all set for Halloween.
Our resident exchange engineer from Germany. Alex Straub is the maker and seller of some fantastic scale ships. He is flying his home brew "Jonathan" which is a very nice large TD ship. Alex has been a great addition to our club during his stay in the US.
Ken Rogus, our Prez, doing winch master duties. I think we have a couple of the sweetest winch setups out there. Mike Wade hand made motors and Dick Stratton's great retriever, both mechanical master pieces.
Hutch with a once good looking Hera, anyone have any more stickers he can use?
Ray Milio and I prepping the landing tapes for our mock F5J contest. It went very well and we as a club learned a lot for the real contest coming up in August (19-20). We will have one more dress rehearsal before the real thing.
Five F5J planes launching at the sound of the buzzer. Jim Fetterly made some CD's of the window that are going to work just fine. We did find out that we need an amp and speakers spread around the flight line as you could not hear our boom box at the far end of the flight line.
Steve Martinez getting nerve up to light the fire on the jet. John Ferguson doing the hand launch duties.