Whew, I never knew hosting our own Pattern Event would be so draining but what a blast
It was an overcast day with the wind blowing down the runway about 14 mph but there were not crashes. A couple of engines broken loose including mine when I loaned it to another contestant who almost lost one when his receiver got wet from a fuel leak and was going to have to quit. But I forgot to tell him that it's set up to where you really have to yank on the sticks to get it to move on low rates so the landing flare didn't happen. The engine mount broke clean and that was the only damage.

A new member to our field Lou ran the computer scoring program and with the support of the Thunderbird guys our event, although starting out a bit rough, ran smooth after lunch. There were too many supporters to mention here but I want to say Thank YOU to all.

We had a contestant from Arkansas and one from Mississippi (the Oklahoma guys couldn't make it) and we had 19 contestants (2 of which were 'proxy' pilots). The contestant count was as follows (6) B-Novice, (7) Novice, (3) Sportsman, (1) Expert (who one first by a small margin ). Texas Wings had 2 pilots, Thunderbirds had I think 14. The B-Noice winner was only 9 years old!

We had a couple gifts from Hobbico (thank you guys very much) and we gave away two Dirty Birdy kits (congratulations to Mark Ehlers and Dave Dingman). I'll get some photos up as soon as they send them. We had one DB drawing just for registered pilots and one as a raffle. All donated gifts from Hobbico were in the pilot's drawing and the raffle items consisted of club and member donated gifts.

I can't wait till next year. Happy building season everyone (in the Northern hemisphere).

Tim Reed