Re: Results from Kibbie Dome and Lakehurst?

From: ykleetx <ykleetx_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:26:38 -0000

Thanks, John! Great to hear about you and Brett and the HUGE turnout. In any case, it's great to hear a first hand account of flying.

Good luck to you guys in Serbia. It would be great if we had round by round *live* results on the internet. I guess a really easy way would be for the team managers to send out tweets, if internet access were available.

Take care.


--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "john_kagan" <john_kagan@...> wrote:
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> --- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "ykleetx" <ykleetx@> wrote:
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> > Could someone post results and/or write-ups on Kibbie Dome over July 4th and on Lakehurst this past weekend?
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> Lakehurst last weekend was HUGE. There was me, Sanborn, Kagan, Brett, and a full two thirds of the F1D team. (ok, it was just me and Brett – but the flying was great).
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> Temps were in the upper 80's and low 90's. Great practice for Serbia, if the weather conditions from last trip are any indication.
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> We didn't do any full motor flights. It was windy outside, and in a bad direction for the hanger – big turbulence at certain altitudes. But partial motors were decent most of the time.
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> I got my model line-up and prop selection sorted out for the WC, and everything is snug back in the refurbished travel box. Brett did a long series of very promising partial motor flight. He has a little repair work to do, but at least the weak points were highlighted before the trip.
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> Jeff Hood and Jeff Daulton came out to keep us company and take pictures on Sunday, but didn't fly anything. Well, Daulton had a catapult glider – but what it did was only vaguely related to flying. It's on a roof now.
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> Zaluska threatened to show up late on Saturday, but would only have had a few hours and had work to do on Sunday. Iaco was MIA...probably working on his chopper.
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> Apparently the big doors were open earlier in the morning. They run a bunch of diesel motors in the hanger and open the doors to vent the place. The doors were closed when we arrived, and we wouldn't have even known if an R/C pilot hadn't informed us. Maybe this door routine happens all the time.
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Received on Fri Jul 23 2010 - 01:32:33 CEST