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Well, the weather was just great this last Sunday, so the field was as full as
I've seen it all season. The more, the merrier. Many of the RCers present were
not Dawn Patrollers (yet!), but we put on a good display of WW1 flying for them.
We also fed them (Fairbury dogs, Brats, Hot Links (2 kinds!), etc. Nobody left
hungry!)
I got in a couple of good flights with my
H9 Camel. She went over on her back hard on the last landing, with the usual
results to the top of the rudder. (All fixed now!)
Terry was there with his newest toy: a
1/4-scale Fokker D8, complete with Glenn Torrence lozenge fabric. He was a bit
nervous about the maiden (actually it had been flown previously, but not by
him), but after a few flights on his Great Planes Fokker Triplane, he fired up
the Zenoah on the D8 and proceeded to commit aviation with it. And again. And
again! (I think he likes it! *grin*) Now he can hardly wait to get his big
1/3-scale Triplane going.
Terry's friend Mike showed up near the end
of the evening, and got some stick time on Terry's 1/4-scale Fokker D8. Mike is
the proud new owner of a 1/4-scale Balsa USA Fokker D7 sporting the
red-and-white Jasta 18 ("Jasta Raben") colors, and we all hope to see him with
it at the next "Dusk Patrol" on August 2nd.
Roger had his H9 Sopwith Camel "Cheerio"
with him, and proceeded to fly it remarkably well.
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He made several exciting flights, and put his Camel through a nice set of
aerobatics. Sadly, this Camel was the only loss of the day, when unknown
factors caused it to spiral into the bean field on the southern side of Cobras
Field. Roger has another H9 Camel NIB, so perhaps "Cheerio" will rise again?
Roger also has a VK Nieuport 17 and a Dynaflite S.E.5a nearly ready, so we will
undoubtedly see them airborne soon as well.
John Gilbert brought his Dynaflite S.E.5a
for a re-maiden after getting new covering on the wings. I had been the previous
owner of both plane and radio, so I did the honors. I flew it twice for him, and
it flew just like it always did: Great! I had forgotten how low that old OS
.91FS would idle. Sure lands easily, too.
Larry Puls brought his little Great Planes
Fokker D.7 electric. Attempts to fly it with a 2-cell battery pack weren't
successful, and the motor tore out of the mounts with a 3-cell. He intends to
replace the stock wooden motor mount with a fiberglass one and try again.
We had a newcomer to our gathering, in the
form of Fred Becker. Fred is a recent arrival from California. He brought a very
nice scaled-out GWS Tiger Moth 400 and a Great Planes Fokker D.7 (also tricked
out) for their maiden flights. Both flew well and looked great in the air. We
look forward to seeing him at Cobras Field often.
We had lots of flying, lots of food, and
(most importantly) lots of fun!
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