MMRCA - August 24, 2002

Photos and commentary by Andy Steere.

These are pictures from August 24, 2002. A nice day at the field. Temps were only in the mid-80's, but the humidity made it seem much hotter. West-north-west wind today, a cross-wind, but real light (0-5mph). I came out mainly to put some more time on my Gee Bee Y. Not many pilots at the field this afternoon, just Dan Adams, Carl Johnson, and myself. Dan Stellges was out for a while, but didn't fly. He recently had back surgery and is taking it easy.

STATIC IMAGES

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Dan Adams brought out his Dave Patrick Ultimate. A nice flying bird, powered by a Saito 150.
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Another in-flight shot of Dan's Ultimate.
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My Pacific Aeromodels Gee Bee Y, coming in for a low pass. These are the same images and movies that are on my GBY page, under the Flights section.
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Another in-flight shot of my GBY.
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This pic is from Tuesday the 27th. Carl's Pizza Box Flyer ready for its first flight. Stray wires are temporary switch. Battery plugged straight in for the flight.
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MOVIE CLIPS

(Choose a format to view by clicking on one of the two links provided. The native format for the video camera (Olympus C-700UZ) is Apple Quicktime MOV. This version will produce the best picture and sound possible, but the file sizes are large. The Microsoft AVI files were converted using Lead Multimedia Converter and while much smaller... their image quality suffers (a lot on some movies, very little on others). If you have trouble viewing these by directly clicking on the link, try right-clicking on the link, choose save to disk, and play the video ouside the browser. The MOV files require Apple Quicktime player or plugin, and the AVI files require Microsoft Windows Media Player or similar. The AVI files are converted using an Indeo video codec, if you have trouble viewing the video.)

Clip #1 of Dan's Ultimate.
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Clip #2 of Dan's Ultimate.
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Clip #3 of Dan's Ultimate. Good power out of the Saito 150. Not unlimited vertical, but good vertical.
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Take-off run for flight #4 on my GBY. Carl's flying, I'm taking video clips.
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GBY clip #2. A show pass.
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A knife-edge pass. Doesn't do bad for a non-aerobatic plane.
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A "high-speed" pass. Not very high-speed, but nice.
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A high-speed pass the other direction.
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Take-off for GBY flight #6. Flight #5 was flown completely by me (my first complete flight on my own model [grin]), so no pics of it.
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A stall turn. Carl's first on this model. I had done two decent stall turns during flight#5 and he decided to try a couple too. Not very tall... no more than 100 feet before it runs out of steam. A bigger engine is in this models future for sure! It's enough for regular flight, as you can see in these clips, but I want a bit more.
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Another stall turn... this one is much cleaner. The model has a great rudder... basically no coupling at all.
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A four-point-roll. Carl's first on this model. Getting more confident with it now. We even tried a snap roll.
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Another 4-point roll. Better looking than the first one... though I should have kept my eye on the model instead of talking to Carl.
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Just playing with it now. Very fun airplane to fly!
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These next four clips are from Tuesday the 27th. Carl's first flight on the Pizza Box.
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Clip#2 of the pizza box.
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Clip#3 of the pizza box.
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Clip#4 of the pizza box.
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Last modified on 08/27/2002

since July 15, 2002.