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	Q.- Anyone know this guy? A. - A great flyer from the past, Jeff Mrlik. Jeff stopped by to say hello to the guys after seeing our web page and contest schedule. It was great to see him again.
	Greg Nilsen coming in for the spot after nailing a 12 minute max. Nice day for flying but landings were a little tricky coming in over the trees with the big rotors.
	Hutch doing the wing walk. See what I mean about tricky rotors. Get a little slow and over she goes.
	Dennis flew his Lil Bird in the wind today and did very well.
	All around nice guy, Jim Fetterly getting ready to fly his Art Hobby Thermic. It handled the wind quite well until it hit the rotors on the north tree line. It got ugly at that point.

	Hutch is just ruining the club, can you imagine flying a Helicopter at the sailplane field. If you look real close at the arrow you may just be able to see the chopper.
	Not real clear but it is flying.
	Hutch with his chopper
	Hutch has a favorite method of decorating his planes, he uses decals and stickers (YUCK!!!). It is obvious from this photo that Hutch has opened a business helping others.

The theme of the presentation to the primarily power club was how we launch sailplanes and to show examples of the planes that use each kind of launching system. We went through winch-launch, hand-launch, aero tow and self-launch (electrics).
	Dave Corven detailing the ways we do winch launching for TD and F3B. The projector and slides did a good job of helping the members understand our world. One picture is worth..............
	Barney did the DHL honors using the Blaster as the example sailplane. The members were surprised at the height that these designs can obtain on launch especially at their low weights.
	I went through the details of electric launching a sailplane. The power guys were kind of up on the motors as a lot of them do electrics. .
	Alex Straub did a fantastic job of explaining the aero tow and scale stuff. His plane is of world class standards and the most impressive ship there. Alex talked a little on how he scratch built this all hollow molded plane and the four years and many dollars invested. He and a partner now sell these ships in Europe where they are quite successful. The size and quality of all of our ships was impressive to the members as most of them had memories of the old balsa and film ships. The major use of carbon fiber and Kevlar in sailplanes was somewhat of a surprise to the members
	Hutch did a little talk on the types of sailplane competitions we go to (did not get a photo on stage) and used a little balsa hand chuck plane as a visual aid. We had several of the club members come and lend support, thanks guy's it means a lot.
	Their club does a lot of show and tell and there must have been five or six new planes and boats gone over. We would like to thank Joe Hass and the rest of the club for inviting us to share our little corner of the modeling world with them. It was fun.

	Corven flew his plane right into the rear of my Buick. Now we know why he has three Supra's.
	Steve Siebenaler was the CD and did a great job of calling six rounds in the cold and wet weather. Saturday got rained out but Sunday was OK. Heavy overcast and windy in the morning and calm after noon but lift was there all day and Steve called 10-12-13 minute rounds and someone make it in each heat. Goofy air but a good contest.
	Bruce Davison, Rudy Siegel and Mark Gellart listening to the CD's orders for the "seeded MOM" contest. Mark ended up wining the whole show in the last round by edging out Gordy by 30 some points.
	Gordy Stahl, for those of you that only read his ramblings on RCSE- here he is in person. He launched Dave all day and called for him in the last round. Gordy is good guy to have around.
	Not that Dave is a turkey, but why else would he be given one by the contest management? Actually the winner of each heat in the final round wins a frozen turkey. Nice going Dave.
One thing that was fun on the trip was flying the little Toy's-R-US helicopter in the motel room, nice 15 foot ceilings and lots of room. I also did a demo for the hotel squad in the atrium as we checked out, it was a blast 30 foot ceiling at least and lots of attention. Landing it on the counter was a bonus, little did they know it was only luck.

Can you believe 60 degrees and no wind and partly sunny? Well it happened today and about 10 of us were out enjoying the heck out of it just fun flying around and taking it easy for a change. There has to be three big winners for today and several that came in a close second. We were all competing for the happiest flyer of the day award. Big winners- Barney Bauer, Rodger Van Eslander and Dan Jackman Barney had his wife Sue out to watch him do his thing and maybe even take the sticks for awhile. Not bad, but it gets better. It seems Barney promised Sue breakfast after a little flying so had to leave to fulfill the commitment. So why is he the winner? === He came back after breakfast and flew for several more hours! That wins in my book. Also he flew a 18 or so year old Quaker Flash (Old timer FF) that has been converted to electric. It was Nostalgia at its best, that thing loved the no wind and putted around the field at a walking speed and just looked fantastic in the air, especially when the sun started to wane and colored the clouds red - the plane flying through that sky was just a fantastic shot (should be a magazine cover). Dan Jackman claim to the championship is that he was the happiest guy on the field as he had no repairs tonight after mastering the winch launch. No more high starts for Dan. Dan put in many flights today and was just beside himself with his success as he should be. Roger also a big winner because he flew off of a high start today (Kozak launched) without assistance on the TX. He managed to get it back under control after a pop-off left him in a bad attitude and then he flew around nicely and landed without incident. Probably close to winning today was Dennis Kozak who spent all day teaching. He helped Dan, Mike Jones and Joe Schnur learn to winch launch and really did a good job of it. He made sure that the planes were re-trimmed for the winch and helped move tow hooks, explain techniques, did show and tell and just did a good job of instruction. Hutch the teacher has been sidelined. Only negative was that Mike Jones blew up one of his ships on a winch launch. A post-mortem showed the plane had been repaired at least once before on the spar right where it failed. Mike purchased this ship from someone else so did not know of the repair. All day there was a slight air of "need to fly more today" as we all flew as much as possible realizing that there will be snow and cold very, very soon. Nicely warm in my thoughts of today.