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Robert, Larry, and Mike and all the others that were involved. Thanks for a great event in our own back yard. It felt good to blow the dust off my old F-15! You guys pulled off another great show that promises to be yet another premier jet event on the east coast! I wish I had had more time to spend with you guys and hopefully when the little guy gets a year or two older I'll have an excuse to fly every weekend or "he'll have an excuse" to take daddy with him!!!!!! Great job guys!

Mike

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Agreed, Garry and his daughter did a great job capturing the Jet Event.

On another note, I am "walking the woods" tomorrow 6/2 @ 9 AM to hopefully recover my Sabre.

Between my flyover with the heli yesterday and google earth today, I have a good plan of attack on where it might be. If interested email me ([email protected]).

Thanks,

Michael

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Having problems posting pics for some reason. Lets try this again!!!

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I know that kit....thats a 10cc 2-stroke, 20 inch wingspan and it has organic retracts.
The exhaust is quite smelly at times and it is known to drop stuff ...

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Having some of the best in the business look over the wreckage, it appears the tail pipe failed in flight, filling the fuse with hot exhaust to the point the stab became flexible. My original thoughts were that the turbine blew up and was ejected from aircraft prior to impacting ground and the reason we could not locate it close to crash site. Justin entered the program of my ECU and could see where I pulled the power back to idle and then where I pulled the trim back, killing the turbine on its way down. Fortunately this happened during a split S, away from the crowd and I had enough time to shut down the turbine prior to impact.

Many commented on the cool sound the Dragon made on fly bys. I believe this had allot to do with the pipe failure. The air rushing through the fuselage due to front retract cover being removed (I believe) caught up with me. The aircraft had over 60 flights in this configuration. The turbine will be in my hands tomorrow and I'll build another. Leaving the front door off is in the air. If I do, the pipe attachment points will be beefed up.

Thanks again Micheal, Larry and all the others who helped find my missing 160SX!!

John Thomas
North Augusta, SC

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For whatever reason, I cant post more than one pic at a time on here. So,, I loaded all of my pics on a disc and gave to Robert last night. He'll post them later for me.


HEY!!! I saw a LOT of cameras pointing at people and planes all weekend. Lets start getting those cool shots posted in here soon! ;)

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The problem is that each of your images is 2mb! RCU takes a maximum of 10mb per upload. So I'll resize the images and will upload later.

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OK, here's the photos from the Lewis camera:

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So there's the photo artistry of Larry and Jacqui Lewis. Nice work!

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Since North Carolina is the "First in Flight" state where manned flight began and the namesake for our jet rally, we wanted to do something special that celebrated the spirit of the Wright Brothers' unbelievable accomplishment. We decide that we would only officially present one award at this event and that the award was to be something very special that everyone in attendance would love to earn and be very proud to display.

What we came up with was the beautiful "Wright Stuff" award (see picture 1 below), that was presented to "a registered pilot who demostrates the spirit of the Wright Brothers through innovation, ability, enthusiasm, flying skill, or anything that advances the hobby or aviation in general". This was voted on by secret ballots from registered pilots.

The winner of this coveted award for this year was none other than Dustin Buescher. And it was very fitting since Dustin not only demostrated considerable flying skill, but gladly helped many others with programming, setup, and flying their machines in addition to his duties in support of BVM. It's a real honor to be chosen by your peers and this really indicates the respect that Dustin has earned on the event circuit. Congratulations!

Picture 2 shows the award presentation photo. Pictured are (l to r) Gronna Jones (WO3 airport manager), Michael Hollowell (event organizer/air boss), Dustin Buescher (with daughter Emma), Larry Lewis (event organizer/ CD), and Robert Vess (event organizer/announcer).

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Looks like a good time.
How many pilots attended?

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There were 70 registered pilots and many more RC-types who just came to watch. And we had a great public attendance, especially on Saturday.

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I believe we had 70 registered pilots.

Marty

You beat me to it[:@]

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I'll tell ya how much I enjoyed it with a question. Is that airport available this fall??? Hee Hee. God-hope I didn't start something!!! Great show Robert and the entire gang.

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Sure was a great show. For those of you that couldn't make it this year, be sure to put it on your calendar for next year.
Steve

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Do you know where all the videos of the event are located. I was there in person and am dying to SEE the vids. The ones I took SUCK!