We set-off at 7:30am to go practice. We found some remote field (RC Club)
about 45 minutes away and were the only ones there for an hour. Brian Hanna,
his father and Dan Baker showed up, but they're locals there so it turned
out to not to be a big surprise they were there. We got some flights in
finally, most everything working flawlessly. I managed to strip a few servo
gears over the course of the day, which I wasn't worried about. What did
worry me was that by 4pm, I had 3 dead Futaba receivers. 2 were in the
plane, and 1 was just setting up my aileron servos with a MSA-10 (Futaba
servo matcher). (they are on the way back to service to see what I did to
kill them) That cut our practice time down, but thankfully the only thing we
didn't get to check was the smoke, everything else worked fine, including my
freestyle. So we packed up and headed out to the site and socialized while
we waited for the Pilots Meeting. At 7pm we had our pilots meeting, drew
flight order and received our first Unknowns for the contest. Since we were
all wiped out, I decided that any airplane work would be done in the morning
(I drew flight # 19) before my flight. Off to write out the Unknowns and get
some sleep.