Well, it's been about three weeks since I have had the UCD #2 built up and ready to fly. Havent even had the chance to do a maiden due to the strong southern winds. It's terrible! We are having the most beautiful mornings and afternoons you ever saw but the dang winds are blowing at about 15 to 20 mph with gust up to 30. I have never seen winds like this in my life! You coulden't even fly a trainer in these winds.

This weekend we had a huge helicopter fly-in at out feild. It was the biggest one to date. Team JR was there with all the BIG name 3D pilots. Out of about 8 or 10 3D helicopters, one poor guy lost two in a row and another guy lost one, all due to misfortunate crashes. Total loss for all three. I'm not sure if it was due to winds but it definatly slowed em down a little. They had consessions, Starbucks coffee, Pappa John's Pizza, and a whole lot of other buisnesses supporting the fly-in. They even had night flying!! That was the coolest thing ever!!!!!!!!!!! Red LED's in the rotor blades and LED's in the tail rotor blades, blue luminecent string lights around the canopy. MY GOD THAT WAS COOL!!!!!!! I never seen anything like it! Wow....what an expirience!

HAS ANYONE TRIED NIGHT FLYING WITH THE UCD??? Seeing this night flying really makes me want to try it. I think I'll try it on my trainer first, but I have to wait for the winds to calm down.

Joe