ORIGINAL: Gray Beard
Scooter, you flying today?????
I quit flying when I can't taxi my plane back into the pits. That seems to be about 15 to 20 mph.
NOPE!
Got home and the winds were 32 with gusts to 45. Time to sit at the work bench and glue sticks together.
Last weekend at the dry lake, it was blowing 25 with 35 mph gusts. I flew my ParkZone P-47 3 times! With a bigger Scorpion motor and a 12X6 prop, it flew REALLY GOOD.
The wind got stronger, so I broke out the Ultra Stick Lite with a zenoah G-26 on it. Even more fun! I would have to hold on to it when I taxied it out. The last time I flew the Stick, the tail wheel lifted up when I let go of it! Every 3 or 4 min a big sand storm would blow across the dry lake, so I would climb the stick up high enough to miss the blowing sand.
I taped a video camera on the bottom of the P-47. The video came out wavy, but its cool to see the ground stop for 8-10 sec and then get closer to the plane till it landed.
I came home sunburned, hat-less, lid to ice chest-less and sand in my eyes. What a great day!
