2003 Show-Me Extravaganza - Scale Aircraft

Mid-Missouri Radio Control Association

Flying Tigers

AMA Charter # 812

Columbia, Missouri, USA

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Photos and commentary by Andy Steere.

These are images and movies of Scale Aircraft at the 2003 Show-Me Extravaganza.

STATIC IMAGES

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Larry Well's B17, coming in for an "engine-out" landing. Flies ok on three engines, but if the other one on that wing fails it's bad news...so no reason to risk it. Steve Forest, also from Sturgeon, Missouri, is the pilot.
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Owner Larry Wells (left) and pilot Steve Forrest.
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Nearly a whole squadron of B17's were present at the show. Three of these belong to Larry, the one in front is "Doc's".
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Contest Director Brian Nutt speaks with Larry about the B17's.
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Last year's Contest Director Carl Johnson joins in. Larry loves B-17's... I can't say I blame him!
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Dave Ragsdale, from Columbia, Missouri, brought his new B-17 too. This is the only in-flight shot I took.
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Dave won "Best Scale" at the show with this airplane.
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Steve Forrest's P-40 preparing for take off.
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Steve's Ziroli P-40, powered by a Quadra 75 and finished with PPG automotive paint. This plane has won awards at this show in past years. A great flying model!
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Lance Campbell, from Columbia, Missouri, with his turbine-powered F-15 Eagle. Over 200 flights on this aircraft. Ron Colbert brought his turbine Bandit, but I failed to get any pictures of it.
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A large DC-3 that I missed flying.
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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.)

Take-off run of Steve Forrest's P-40 during the warbird special flight on Saturday.
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Fly-by of Steve's P-40.
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Frank Curtis, also from Sturgeon (they like warbirds in Sturgeon!), takes off with his scratch-built P-40.
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A fly-by of Frank's P-40.
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Lance's F-15 during the Saturday special flights.
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Another clip of Lance's F-15.
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A nice landing by Steve Forrest, flying Larry Well's B-17.
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A take-off run of Larry's B-17. I was out of position and not zoomed in enough.
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A fly-by of the B-17.
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Dave Ragsdale flying his B-17.
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A low pass by Larry's B-17.
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A show pass by Dave's B-17.
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Another low pass by Larry's B-17.
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The begining of this clip has both B'17's in the field of view. Cool!
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Last Updated: 05/22/2003