Fly'n with the Circus. RDRC's traveling Circus

[scaleforlife]

	Quote: Originally Posted by Larry Lewis
	Motor is sit'n in the test stand,,,,,,,,,, Just need a little castor and and we'll be making some noise with that Thunder Tiger! I ordered several props today including 7x4s, 8x4s, and 9x7s. If anyone needs to borrow a break in prop, just let me know.

Larry, I have the Caster sitting in the garage. Gecko dropped it off yesterday thanks to the relay trip it made from K/C Hobby. I can drop it off to your hanger. Let me know.

[toprudder]

	Quote: Originally Posted by Do-rag
	Yep keep Larry from tearing up airplanes.....

Ouch. It would not be funny if it wasn't true!

[toprudder]

	Quote: Originally Posted by Larry Lewis
	Yeah,, I can think of a few 1. Build a Raider Mach 2 racer 2. Build another EF Yak 54 3. Beat me at Ping Pong ( shut up Josh!!) 4. Beat Alex in IMAC!!!!

That is just like Larry. Everyone else is aiming for pin-point accuracy, and ole Larry whips out his old blunderbus shotgun.

[toprudder]

	Quote: Originally Posted by Larry Lewis
	Trapped at home??? I WISH!!!!!!! The roads are covered with snow and ice. 700 of my trucks are out on the road pushing white stuff 24 hours around the clock. NO,,,,,,,,,Im right here at work giving ALL of you every penny's worth for your tax dollars!!!

Doing what, surfin' on FG???

[Larry Lewis]

Uhhhh,,, Bite Me!!!

[toprudder]

	Quote: Originally Posted by Larry Lewis
	Uhhhh,,, Bite Me!!!

Can't you feel the love??

I was up in Illinois at Efest when the snow was falling here. I worried about it the whole time I was up there. When I got back home on Monday, the only iced up road I had to drive on in this area was in my neighborhood. I was impressed. Hats off to the NCDOT.

BTW, first long trip on my Chevy Duramax (Gurley, you are going to love yours). Pulling the 6x12 Wells Cargo, hardly knew it was back there, and averaged around 16mpg even driving through the mountains. I was worried about starting the engine in the cold weather (down to 4* at night in Champaign) but it never missed a beat.

[scaleforlife]

	Quote: Originally Posted by toprudder
	Can't you feel the love?? I was up in Illinois at Efest when the snow was falling here. I worried about it the whole time I was up there. When I got back home on Monday, the only iced up road I had to drive on in this area was in my neighborhood. I was impressed. Hats off to the NCDOT. BTW, first long trip on my Chevy Duramax (Gurley, you are going to love yours). Pulling the 6x12 Wells Cargo, hardly knew it was back there, and averaged around 16mpg even driving through the mountains. I was worried about starting the engine in the cold weather (down to 4* at night in Champaign) but it never missed a beat.

It's a CHEVY

[RobertV]

So where's your E-Fest event report and pics, Bob?

[toprudder]

	Quote: Originally Posted by RobertV
	So where's your E-Fest event report and pics, Bob?

No pics. But there are tons of them on FG and RCG.

What an awesome event. The only negative is the parking, which sucks. Only one small loading/unloading area (can park maybe three or four vehicles) and the very small parking lot next to the armory is way too small, and does not open up until after 5:00pm on Friday. Getting a group and pulling a trailer makes it much less expensive, but makes it a bigger pain when it comes to parking. I ended up with a $50 parking ticket when I parked in the area designated on the website, but found out that this was not available to us except on Saturday and Sunday. I did call and explain the situation, the ticket was taken care of, but it was still a pain.

The event is held in the Armory, which reminds me a lot of a blimp hangar. It has a full size track indoors, which is probably the only way some of the athletes could practice during the winter. Imagine an area the size of a football field indoors, and probably only the best football punters could hit the ceiling. Although no one did, it would be easy to fly the Parkzone T28 in there if the whole area was used. They had three different flightlines, though, so the whole area was not available from any of the flightlines. There was an area for 3D and helis, another for general (traffic pattern) flying, and one corner for micros (Vapors, etc).

We drove through the night and arrived about 10:00am. Took us 14 hours, with a little over 1 hour of that being for stops. Mike Farlow, Vann Jeter and Blake Wilson rode with me. Jeff Phillips and Keith Kenner flew in later, while I hauled their stuff up there. I also hauled most of Fred Midget's stuff (he was a vendor selling his HPP wares). We managed to catch about 1/2 of the precision aerobatics competition which was awesome. To some people, precision aerobatics is boring, but to me it really shows the skill levels of the fliers. Some that are well known for 3D did not do well in precision. However, Andrew Jesky and Jason Noll finished 1st and 2nd respectively, and showed why they are really among the top pilots in the world. I don't know how the others placed, except for RJ Gritter, who was 6th I think.

Since we were not able to bring our stuff inside until 3:00pm, we helped with the setup, including tables, the protective netting, etc. We were then able to grab some front row tables. I got a couple of flights in on my Hoverdisk before we left Friday night.

Saturday was busy, both with flying, strolling the vendor row, and seminars that were going on all day. I attended two of the seminars, one was on molding depron, the other was on radio setup (Futaba) hosted by (among others) Andrew Jesky. Good information on both.

I did not do any flying on Saturday, the lines were long and there was a lot to watch. The demo flights were spectacular. RJ Gritter does a really awesome job, especially with the reversible pitch prop. I'm sure Fred has some good video on his flightpass website.

The pylon and combat events were amazing. I said last year that I wanted to return with something to compete with, but dragged my feet and showed up with nothing. Next year, though...... I seriously think that a 2EZ on 2 cells would rock! Has to be under 10oz, though.

I did get in several flights on my Hoverdisk on Sunday. Suffered a midair with Mike Farlow (we were horsing around togther). As I went out to pick up my fully deflated Hoverdisk, some guy met me and handed me another Hoverdisk envelope, NIB. Don't know who it was, but I thought that was pretty cool. I ended up patching mine and flying it again, though.

All the fun I had more than made up for the parking situation. One thing that helped was to leave the trailer at the hotel on Saturday, then move it to the parking lot on Saturday night after most people had left. It was then a very simple matter to walk across the street to load it up, at a leisurely pace, on Sunday. Then all I had to do was to hitch up and leave when ready. Will plan to do that again next year.

[Geckoman]

	Quote: Originally Posted by toprudder
	No pics. But there are tons of them on FG and RCG. What an awesome event. The only negative is the parking, which sucks.

Bob,

ok for me to take the write up for the newsletter??

Let me know

Dave L

[Larry Lewis]

Wow,,its been a lonnnnnng time since I used a teast stand, but I do wanna break this motor in right. So i took a piece of scrap 1X6 and whipped up a very basic stand for the TT40. Soon as I get home from work Friday Im gonna fire that sucker up!

Also mixed up a gallon of break in fuel tonight. Thanks for getting the castor for me Ken!
I poured out about half of the fuel, added one pint of oil, then replaced enough fuel to fill the jug. After a good shaking it was ready.
The what???? What kinda fuel is it?? Ummm,,,,,,,,, Methanol! Yeah,,,,thats it! Nuttin else. Just plain ole glow fuel. Just added a little oil to it.

[Larry Lewis]

Yep,,,,,,,,,,,,, Just added a little oil!

You guys know I had to have a little fun!

[toprudder]

	Quote: Originally Posted by Geckoman
	Bob, ok for me to take the write up for the newsletter?? Let me know Dave L

Sure!

[toprudder]

	Quote: Originally Posted by Larry Lewis
	Yep,,,,,,,,,,,,, Just added a little oil! You guys know I had to have a little fun!

My can is bigger than your can.

[Oldpa]

	Quote: Originally Posted by toprudder
	My can is bigger than your can.

Lots of comebacks for that one, I will resist, can't speak for others. LOL