Events and Outings
What we've been up to.....
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June 21, 2003 - Hobby
Hawks R/C Club Fly-In - Vernon, IN
The Vernon Indiana Model Airport was the location for the fly-in. It was well
attended, and we connected up with Billy Thompson and his great looking Fokker Dr1. We had
hope Larry Wilson would be there with his Bristol Scout. Larry was there, but
Scout was at home. It was pretty windy early on, with a pretty good crosswind at
times. Greg and Art worked on formation take-offs and flying with their
Eindeckers and put on a good show. We still need some Allied guys to mix it up
with! Billy Thompson had his Triplane up a couple of times, and the gusty
winds made it exciting for him!). Mike tried a flight with his Triplane after
the wind died down. He's still struggling with the handful a Triplane can be on
the ground (for him anyway <g>), and tried to pull it off a little
prematurely resulting in some minor damage to the upper wing. All in all,
it was a good day.
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June
6-8th, 2003 - Muncie Indiana - AMA Home Coming
With the 2003 being the Centennial of flight, Home Coming looked like it was
going to be ripe with Vintage R/C aircraft and it would be the perfect venue for
us to continue getting the word out about R/C Dawn Patrol. Unfortunately,
things did not work out for us as planned. Art Shelton lost his father to Emphysema
May 29th and, understandably, Art wasn't up to going. Mike couldn't make
it, his son Ted's high school graduation open house was June 7th, so he was out
for Saturday. Mike and Greg did go up Sunday the 8th just to see what was
going on. It turned out not much. The big flying day was Saturday,
and there were but a few there when we arrived about Noon. We each got a
flight in, Greg with his Eindecker, and Mike with his Cloud Dancer (the Triplane
wasn't ready, or more accurately, Mike wasn't ready), before the weather turned lousy,
and the rains came in. It was fun trip never the less. We'd heard that
there had been a number of WW1 planes there on Saturday (three Eindeckers up
together at one point apparently!). We'll try to do better next year. We did
get a chance to take a tour of the impressive AMA museum. Click
here to see some of the great looking WW1 R/C aircraft on display. Very
nice!
 Mike and Greg at AMA Home Coming |
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April 13, 14, 2003- Tracee Field in Edinburgh.
A great weekend for flying! Although Saturday was a bit windy, Sunday was
fantastic! Art Shelton and Greg Emerick had their 1/5 scale Balsa USA Eindeckers
(see the pilots and planes page) out for
a number of flights both days, and Sunday, practiced formation flying and had a
blast. Saturday was Greg firat flight on his newly recovered Eindecker and
Sunday was to be the maiden flight of Mike's AZM 1/5 scale Fokker Dr1. Unfortunately
for Mike, he had a badly, and I mean impossibly, stuck (half on) spinner (see
more), that prevented him from flying the Dr1. He flew his "PFAKKER"
around instead (a GP .40 Stik).
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March 15, 2003 JCRCF Swap Meet
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Mike Bealmear and Greg Emerick Promoting MOF at the JCRCF swap meet in Columbus, IN 3-15-03 |
.........and what's coming up
Here's where else we're planning on attending so far:
June
28th, 2003 - Evansville Indiana -
Warbird Fly-in (at this time, it's not looking like well be able to make this).
July 19th, 2003 - Edinburgh
Indiana -
Warbird Fly-in Johnson
Co. R/C Flyers
August 9th, 2003
- Edinburgh Indiana -
Annual Airshow Johnson
Co. R/C Flyers
August 10th, 2003
- Bloomington Indiana -
R/C Airshow Monroe
County R/C Club
September 6th, 2003 -
Edinburgh Indiana -
Quarter Scale Show Johnson
Co. R/C Flyers
September
12-14th, 2003 -
Dayton Ohio -
Dawn Patrol Rendezvous. Site: US Air Force Museum. Dean Lukover CD, 1810 Flintbed Rd San Antonio TX 78232 PH:210-495-4619. WWI extravaganza includes RC & full size aircraft, re-enactors
and vendors.
At the moment, we're looking for anyone with WW1 or Vintage r/c aircraft to get together to do Mission Oriented Flying (MOF). At area club fly-ins this summer, we hope to be able to attend and coordinate with the CD a MOF mission or two to generate some interest.
So, send us info and pictures of you and your fellow "MOFers" and your planes. Whether it's simply getting together for a day of flying, or if you do MOF at your fly-in.
Images and info for the web page should be sent to mbealmear@insightbb.com . If you don't have a digital images, prints (4x6 is fine) can be mailed to:
Mike Bealmear
2990 S 130 W
Columbus, IN 47201
812-379-4770
If you send pictures that need to be scanned, and you'd like them returned, please include a SSAE.
I'll add the pictures and info here as soon as possible.
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