Re: Lakehurst July meeting info ?

From: vinskarol <vins_at_post.sk>
Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:43:54 -0000

Hi , John ,

THX for nice report, even when luck was not at Your side that
weekend .
See You guys in Belgrade.

Karol Vins


--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "John Kagan"
<john_kagan_at_...> wrote:
>
> --- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "vinskarol" <vins@>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hallo ,
> >
> > Any info from Lakehurst ????
> >
> > THX.
>
> Hi Karol,
>
> Our weekend in Lakehurst was the kind that strikes fear in the
hearts
> of Team Selection Committee Chairmen.
>
> Saturday started with fairly decent air, but undesirable winds
> outside blowing lengthwise down the hanger generated an annoying
> drift inside. 4 minutes took you a quarter of the way down the
> floor.
>
> Jim Richmond tried a flight with his HLS, but it was near the wall
> within 6 minutes, well before the prop folded. During the steer
the
> prop flipped and grabbed on to the steering line. He tried to free
> it, but the wing collapsed.
>
> Tom Iacobellis had a motor break in-flight on his HLS, neatly
> separating it into two pieces.
>
> My F1D quickly drifted off the carrier deck on a ¼ motor flight,
and
> while working on steering it I bumped into Tony D'Alessandro's
model
> stand and broke his HLS wing spar. Sorry Tony!
>
> Tony fixed the spar, but then planted his model in the rafters at
the
> roof. It collapsed during retrieval.
>
> Things got a little better Saturday evening and I did some good WC
> testing. Then we headed over to the Italian place for dinner and a
> little Frank Sinatra music.
>
> Sunday started much better. The air was great. Sanborn put up an
> F1L flight that was within a minute of the national record.
Richmond
> started an HLS stick flight that looked great – but then suffered
an
> in-flight broken motor, too! One second it was fine, then next it
> was an instant ball.
>
> Then it started getting dark. I figured I'd continue with my
> testing, but when my ¼ motor flight shot up to the 4th catwalk at 9
> minutes, I knew something was very wrong. Lighting, rain, and a
> stiff wind…inside the building! Everyone scrambled to get their
> models back in the boxes. More than a few were broken in the
> process. Keeping them out was even more dangerous. You had to
> quickly find a wind shelter or face having your model wrecked in
your
> hands.
>
> Once the storm front blew through the air calmed down a little, but
> it was still dismal. Cold, rainy. Not the best conditions for
> Lakehurst.
>
> So, overall, there were only several hours of good air. But fans
of
> Lakehurst take this kind of thing in stride. We still had fun and
> look forward to the next chance to hit the magical good days.
>
Received on Sat Aug 09 2008 - 08:43:58 CEST