Photos and commentary by Andy Steere and Dave Larsen.

These are pictures from April 19th, 2003 when the Mid-Missouri Radio Control Association held their annual Louis Hemphill Memorial Fun-Fly. Again this year the weather did NOT cooperate. There were scattered thunderstorms and rain all day with 15 to 25 mph winds from the south and tempertures in the upper 60's. Three brave soles flew, Jeff Buchner, Dan Adams and Carl Johnson flew Andy Steere's Gee Bee.

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STATIC IMAGES

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Dan Adams preparing his biplane. (Photo by D. Larsen)
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Jeff Buchner flying his Kaos, The day was really this dark and gray. (Photo by D. Larsen)
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Andy Steere and Carl Johnson getting ready for a flight of Andy's Gee Bee. (Photo by D. Larsen)
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The Gee Bee landing very nicely dispite the gusty conditions. (Photo by D. Larsen)
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View of the flight line. Not much flying going on... just Jeff Buchner (who flys at every funfly regardless of the weather!)
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Dan gets his biplane ready for a flight.
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Everybody else watched from the pavilion. Note the wet concrete... rained pretty good early that morning.
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The wind picked up after noon, so we concentrated on food. Here John Fanghor eats the last braut. The lack of eating utinsils didn't diswade us. Jeff found a huge set of foreceps, which John is using to hold the braut.
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We had nine people total. We can't pick good weather days for anything!
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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.)

Jeff Buchner flying his Kaos, powered by a Saito 91.
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Another clip of Jeff's Kaos.
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Dan's biplane. Good flyer with plenty of power.
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A low inverted pass of Jeff's Kaos. The peanut gallery always has some comment to make.
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A high speed touch and go... well... almost. A bit windy today.
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A high flyby of my Gee Bee Y. Wind has picked up even more, as you can tell from the noise.
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A show pass by the Gee Bee. 20-25mph winds and it still flies great! You might as well mute the sound of this clip... nothing but wind!
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Landing the Gee Bee Y. No problem.
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