sfaust
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Joined: 9/6/2002
From: Boston,
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I had an excellent time driving down. I had two close friends with me for the trip sharing driving time, and conversation time. That made the trip down very entertaining and fun. During the trip, my 40% Extra 330s was damaged when it jumped out of the wheel chocks. This made the tail end of the fuselage ride on the tail mount sideways, which then ripped a hole in the underside. This was my primary airplane to fly during this event. My other two airplanes, a large Decathlon and my turbine Bobcat were secondary, and we were going to try to fly the maiden flights during after hours. The first two days they were grounded due to the winds, and by then the event was under full swing with 8 airplanes in the air during open flying. Not ideal choices for a maiden flight. So, neither got up in the air during this trip. Luckily, I can fly any weekday if the weather is good, and my home field is deserted during those times. I never lack for flight time when I want it.
The event was excellent.
I ran into a few people from RCU, but also forgot about the 6pm gathering. While I was at the gazebo Thursday at 6pm, I was actually on the flight line line itself. By the time I noticed, it was almost 7pm, and couldn't find anyone. Then again, it was hard trying to fit names on name tags to RCU nicknames (bad planning on our part). I did manage to run into people during the course of the event, so I did manage to meet a lot of people, and that was great.
RORO, sorry I missed you. I thought that maybe you didn't make it for some reason. Luckily, there were others that snapped up your dogs and beer, but I saved you some for next year  We couldn't camp by the pond since we got there early, and it was closed because it was wet and soft. They opened it up later, but we decided it was too much work to move. Glad to meet those RCU'ers that I did, sorry to miss the others.
I'll post later on the event as I saw it, and have lots of photos to choose a few to post. Also a few good stories and memories.
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Stephen
http://www.StephenFaust.com/giantscalerc - my hangar, http://www.StephenFaust.com - commercial photography
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