Re: First Rantoul flying session

From: William Gowen <wdgowen_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 04:01:55 -0400

I'd like to add that I had a great time both days. Hangar 3 is a really
nice flying site. You can fly the site in pretty much any way you want. I
had a lot of stuff go wrong in my brain and with my models but none of it
was the fault of the site. At the end of the day I was flying LPP with
motor winds that would have been appropriate for Lakehurst.

Out of about 10 flights on Sunday I got hung twice and Mike recovered my
model safely both times with his steering pole. I think a small retrieval
balloon would make short work of getting most models loose from the pipes
at the ceiling.

On Saturday Kurt Krempetz and I flew gliders all day in a far corner of the
hangar. As far as I know there was never any interference with people
flying rubber models. (Kurt cleaned my clock BTW)

Mike, Jeff and the rest of the Bong Eagles are to be commended for all the
work that has gone into providing this flying opportunity!

On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 11:28 PM, mkirda_at_sbcglobal.net
[Indoor_Construction] <Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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> So the first weekend of flying is over.
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> We had 13 flyers total.
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> At one point we had four F1Ds in the air, including Al Stone, Rey, Jeff
> and myself.
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> If there is any doubt that this is a records-capable site, they were
> dispelled with Bill Gowen came within two seconds of the record for LPP on
> a test flight. His several attempts to better this came close, but he
> wasn't quite able to pull it off.
> Larry Coslick put up the first ever flight on a sub-300 milligram EZB and
> did 20 minutes.
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> The air was beautiful both days, with no turbulence noted, even on
> Saturday with 15-20 MPH winds. There is drift- interestingly we noted it
> would be one direction right at the ceiling, but another direction 5'
> below.
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> What is certain is that the work everyone put in last weekend (and part of
> Saturday) sealing the hangar made a LOT of difference. The drift wasn't bad
> in October but it is now significantly reduced.
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> On Sunday morning when the ceiling temps were still several degrees cooler
> than the floor - normally this seems to equal pretty turbulent conditions -
> the first flights up a bit after 8am were very smooth.
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> Regards.
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> Mike Kirda
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