Bryan McLarty

Hello everyone!

The members of the Wings Miniature Aircraft Society of Lubbock, Texas wish to announce the sixth annual, WESTTEXASWARBIRDSevent on Labor Day Weekend 2013. Come join us for a great weekend flying your military aircraft in campaign colors and markings. Scale military helicopters are also now welcome. This year's event will begin on Friday, August 30th and go until Sunday, September 1st. The event will be held at the club field in Abernathy, Texas, just a few miles north of Lubbock, on I-27. Landing fee is $25.00 and will include a meal ticketforthe onsite food vendor (combo meal),good forSaturday or Sunday. Onsite concessions, cool souvenir T-shirts, pilot give aways and raffle itemswill all be available. Participants will be eligible for five beautiful awards that include Best WWI, Best WWII, Best Modern, People's Choice and Best Scale Flight.

TheWings club field is BIG and features a1300+" X 75" paved runway and a adjacent grassy area,suitable for larger aircraft use. The field has ZERO obstructions, so youwill not hit a tree or run off the end of the runway at this field! The wide open flying area is perfect for larger aircraft, multi-engined craft,turbine jets or whatever your warbird heart desires. The field has provisions for 6 pilot stations, a startup area and taxiway. Motor homes are welcomefor overnight camping, but no hook-ups are available. Several moderately priced hotels and restaurants are a short drive away in Lubbock.

If you haven't been to participate, you're simply missing out ona great flying event. Come join us!
Please see our event website at www.westtexaswarbirds.comor contact me for any questions.

Bryan McLarty

For those of you needing to book a room for this year's event, you might want to check this out:

Reserve a nice room right off of north Loop 289 with easy access to I-27 and back on your wayup toAbernathy and the flying field.
About $80.00 per night as ofJuly1st.Hot breakfast buffet, good local restaurants!

Hawthorn Suites, Click HERE

shanksow

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Guys (and Gals too) - wait until you see this years T-Shirts for the event... AWESOME!

mopar_man

Looking forward to my first WTW!

Bandit Leader

Hello,
Working hard on getting my Top Flight P51B ready for this event and the flying field too. Looking forward to seeing those who have attended in the past and meet new pilots who come for the first time. The field is looking good and the rain we have gotten will help green it up some. The wide and long runway with the wide open spaces here make for a great place to fly so if you get a chance to come I think you'll have a great time flying here.


Doug Harmon
VP Wingmas

Red Raider

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Bandit Leader came up on the short end of our reenactment last year. Red Raider and his P-40 got on his tail and wouldn't let up. :-)))
Really looking forward to this year's event. I've already taken off work, charged up the old Warhawk, and tightened up the duct tape. Even working at the event we have a lot of fun. If you get a chance, come join us. Great flying site, great bunch of guys to fly with, and one of the best sponsor clubs around.

Go Tech

Bryan McLarty

Be sure to check out the 2012 WTW e-Magazine article by Ken Isaac:

http://www.rcuniverse.com/magazine/a...rticle_id=1467

BMc

m998hmmv

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Got my CMP Hellcat finished with clearcoat today! I'm excited to get it back in the air.

Bryan McLarty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqwlN4FpjqI

aghost

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Nice video. Just a couple more weeks!

Brian

shanksow

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Ditto

77chickenhawk

First class video

Bryan McLarty

Gentlemen:

Please welcome Joe Nelson of Southwest Aerovista Hobbies to West Texas Warbirds! He will be on site with his mobile store. Joe is as nice a guy as they come and is very knowledgable in the gasoline engine department. I know from personal experience!

Be sure to visit him while you are here!

Bryan McLarty

Two weeks out!

What are you guys bringing???

butlern

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Bryan,

I was gearing up to attend, but the RC gods are conspiring against me! My 108" Kellogg TBM Avenger, 100" C-ARF Mustang and my 116" GST F7F Tigercat are all currently out of commission, each in need of repairs/modifications/tuning and testing (and recertification in the case of my 69lb Tigercat). Unfortunately for me, there's just not enough free time in my schedule to get any of them airworthy prior to your event.

Next year for sure! Good luck with the event, and I look forward to seeing pictures!

Noah (in OKC)

Bryan McLarty

Ohhhh, Noah!!!
Darn! I really enjoyed your stuff at Warbirds Over Texas this year. So sorry to hear you won't be joining us. Thanks for the update and get back to work on those beauties!

patfairlane

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I can't wait...last year was great....enjoyed meeting folks from all around...this year i will be flying my 1/5 scale jn-4 jenny-esm p-51 mustang- and hopefully my bert baker zero....i will also have a new esm 50cc corsair and a second jn-4 jenny that will either be sold at the event or flown by the end of the day....so any of you pilots out there that did not plan to come just because your plane is not ready,i can help you out...we sure would enjoy anyone that has a special warbird out there even if its not going to be flown....

aghost

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1/5 scale mustang (BBD) and several .60 size warbirds - FW-190A8, Hellcat, Corsair. Nothing new (fortunately or unfortunately depending on how you look at it).

Brian

patfairlane

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HEY YALL...THE WEATHER IS LOOKING GREAT....LOWS IN THE 60s AND HIGHS AROUND 90....WE PLAN ON CAMPING ...THE PLACE IS GREAT EVEN AT NIGHT...ANYONE ELSE CAMPING ???....IMAGINE TABITHA PLAYING HER GUITAR-TOM SINGING- AND YOU CAN BET THE COYOTES WILL BE HOWLING.....GOOD TIME FOR TESTING AND REPAIRS TOO.....LOOKS LIKE IT MIGHT BE THE BEST YEAR YET....YALL SOUND OUT NOW....ITS JUST 9 DAYS AWAY!!!

Bryan McLarty

Several Wings club members and I spent the better part of the morning and afternoon on getting the field groomed to perfection. It always gets me excited to see the field this time of year. We've had enough moisture this summer that its pretty green, and August temps have been unusually mild. Today was around 88 degrees with a 10 mph breeze right out of the south and right down the runway. A flier's dream! Long range weather looks similar without any predicted fronts on the way.

Those of you on the fence about coming should definitely make plans to come on out!! You'll be glad you did.

SIX GUNS

just wish I could be there. everybody please post pic's and any kind of video I would like to to be there but its not going to happen


Jim

Bryan McLarty

Hey, Everybody! Well, its the eve of the big weekend and the field looks awesome. I have 23 WTW logo flags up for decoration and it would make even Frank Tiano envious! WOW, already starting to fill in! Have guys here from Tucson, Phoenix, DFW area and Arkansas. Expecting our Sooner Squadron buddies from Oklahoma tomorrow. Will be a good time seeing all of them again! Have some really nice planes here already with more military turbine aircraft. We really wanted to host more turbine fliers since the huge runway and open area is just perfect for it. Looks like I'll get my wish. Come on out and join in the fun!!!

shanksow

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Well, here are some pictures that I took with my cell phone camera. Non of the flying shots came out as well as I had hoped. One or two are ok. Mostly the pictures of being up close to the models are the ones that came out best for me this year. My original camera bit the dust this year and I have not yet been able to get a new camera to replace it. Wind changed directions and speed from this morning to the afternoon.

Enjoy...

shanksow

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Here are some more pictures from today.

aghost

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Here are pictures I took at the event, mostly from Saturday's flying.

Brian