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First flight for 2011

Old 01-01-2011, 09:21 AM
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We had three airplanes and their pilots out at 12:10 pm after the ball dropped in NYC.
The weather here in Arlington TX was 38F and dead calm.
There were too many cars in the cul de sac so we adjourned to the library parking lot a block away.
I went thru two 750 mah lipo packs which was two 5 or 6 minute plus a bunch of take off and landings with the lights blazinf all the way before declaring victory and retreating back to the house for the traditional good luck black eyed pea eating ceremony.

Happy New Year and good flying to all.
Old 01-01-2011, 09:50 AM
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You are hard core! Happy new year.

Only in Texas

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Old 01-01-2011, 11:52 AM
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We had three airplanes and their pilots out at 12:10 pm after the ball dropped in NYC.
The weather here in Arlington TX was 38F and dead calm.
There were too many cars in the cul de sac so we adjourned to the library parking lot a block away.
I went thru two 750 mah lipo packs which was two 5 or 6 minute plus a bunch of take off and landings with the lights blazinf all the way before declaring victory and retreating back to the house for the traditional good luck black eyed pea eating ceremony.

Happy New Year and good flying to all.
I think you meant 12:10AM, but I got it. I was suppose to fly today, charched up overnight, but the rain came earlier than was forecasted. No New Years Day flying for us.
Old 01-01-2011, 06:27 PM
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We had three airplanes and their pilots out at 12:10 pm after the ball dropped in NYC.
The weather here in Arlington TX was 38F and dead calm.
There were too many cars in the cul de sac so we adjourned to the library parking lot a block away.
I went thru two 750 mah lipo packs which was two 5 or 6 minute plus a bunch of take off and landings with the lights blazinf all the way before declaring victory and retreating back to the house for the traditional good luck black eyed pea eating ceremony.

Happy New Year and good flying to all.
I think you meant 12:10AM, but I got it. I was suppose to fly today, charched up overnight, but the rain came earlier than was forecasted. No New Years Day flying for us.
No I meant 12:10 pm at night or 24:10 hrs. By 12 AM half the day is gone.
We always try to fly a few minutes after midnight on the first just to set the tone for the year. Not every year has cooperated but we have got in several just after midnight flights over the last dozen years.
This was Big Bird's night flyer.
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Old 01-01-2011, 07:35 PM
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I got my first flight of 2011 at 9 this mourning in 20 degree weather. Good times, Dave
Old 01-02-2011, 05:35 AM
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You guys in Texas read the time different too, 12:10 PM is in the afternoon. 00:10 AM is ten min past midnight. There is no such time as 24:10.

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You guys in Texas read the time different too, 12:10 PM is in the afternoon. 00:10 AM is ten min past midnight. There is no such time as 24:10.

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Old 01-02-2011, 09:22 AM
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ORIGINAL: sarg96

You guys in Texas read the time different too, 12:10 PM is in the afternoon. 00:10 AM is ten min past midnight. There is no such time as 24:10.

sarg96
The people in Texas do just fine, it was my brain that scrambled. Maybe it was the cold and the champagne, or just a plain old age brain fart. Anyway, we got the job done at 0010 hrs.
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We flew at a friend's farm at lunch. For the last 5 years we have had a fly in on New Years Day whatever the weather.
Old 01-03-2011, 04:42 AM
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If you flew 10 minutes after the ball fell in New York, you were still flying in 2010. New York is in the Eastern time zone, an hour ahead of you.
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I flew indoors with a group including rubber, electric and "whip power u-control" at a school gym in Anson, Maine New Years eve until 9:00 p.m. The "whip control" was a build from an old 40's model airplane magazine article and had it's first test flight that night.


A couple of videos are available here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GljrU8TKXuI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o36mzKH4WVs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNCakgCcAQo

New Years Day I arrived at the KVMA club field in Sidney , Maine at 9:00 a.m for some outdoor snow flying. A few more flyers showed up soon after and by 10 a.m. there was a good crowd. It was an amazing day with calm winds and temperatures in the low 50's by afternoon. The snow was real sticky so spray "PAM" was used on skis and floats. The tarred runway was cleared of snow and some flew off of that as well. There were several maiden flights of new aircraft.


A video is available here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4OJUm2h4vE

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If you flew 10 minutes after the ball fell in New York, you were still flying in 2010. New York is in the Eastern time zone, an hour ahead of you.
They delay the program time to make it fit the time zones across the USA but you are right, at 10 minutes after midnight we could have jumped the gun depending on where we are geographically in the our zone. We just put our trust in the atomic clock on the mantle and headed out the door.
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JAYBIRD, it looks like your group knows how to have fun with out freezing.
The whip flyer reminds me of my beginning days in 1951 before I got my first Jim Walker Firebaby.
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JAYBIRD, it looks like your group knows how to have fun with out freezing.
The whip flyer reminds me of my beginning days in 1951 before I got my first Jim Walker Firebaby.



The unusually warm weather and lack of wind made a BIG difference! The weekend before it barely got into the low 20's and the winds were horrendous. The next day there was a scheduled fun-fly but it rained all day so we took advantage and got in as much as we could.

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We got lucky this year..

No snow thanks to a few warm days last week but it was 25° at the field Saturday morning.

Everyone brought electrics this year for our annual polar fun fly..

A warm Lipo makes a nice hard warmer after standing in a pilot station for 10 minutes with no gloves.

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I got in my first flight right around 12:04 am with my night flyer. There was great weather for it. No wind, temps in the mid to upper 30's. Was a pretty cool way to bring in the new year.
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