Man what a great day for wringing it out today. In addition to flying my own stuff. I got to maiden an SR-71, and fly a buddies $15 garage sale steal!!!, Then JRozman and Citaiton X showed up for some 3D flying...the FUN FACTOR was HIGH and the A Factor was low...Here some pics from today

Heres the garage sale steal of the year...Not sure what it is, think its a Falcon 56. Steves dad found this plane , motor (O.S.40 FSR) servos and an am rec at a garage sale in Chicago, bought it for 15 bucks. Its got JR gear in it now. The old FSR runs great turns a 10x6 @13,000. and flies like a dream

Dont you just love those days...

We had one of those days on Monday in Springfield Illinois.
Me, TheKat, ILRCFLYBOY, RCAVI8TER, SPUCK5644 and a few others.

Lots of 3D and lots of BS!

Then got to fly this SR-71 scratch build, ASP46 pusher, we had the prop on backwards so the 1st T/O attempts failed, but young Jack01 told us we were idiots and showed us our error. After we turned the prop around thrust was alot better, but it was a tad bit nose heavy. The controls elevons looked like they had WAY too much throw even on low rates, but on T/O the nose started boucneing and I fliped it on high rate and off she went, pucker factor was high , the thought of a dead stik was on my mind, but it weren't no MDS so at least we had that going for us...heres a pic

Johntheroadie showed with his camera and took these pics, heres Jrozman harrier'n

Looks scary!!!

Jess's vid for the DOTDVF looked awesome!
Best so far in that class IMO.

it was scarey. the last time a maidened a plane for this guy(F4U), the Corsair snaped on me too times and disappeared into the corn field, to 45 min to field and the results weren't good
so needless to say, that was in the back of my mind, but other than beig a little nose heavy it didnt fly that bad, need an FX46 or 50 onit with a tower muff or UT muff, and God, dont let the fire go out......

Heres Jrozman flying my Sledge and Ricky(citatonX) flying Jess's OMP EDGE

Tell him to get a profile and join the "new age"

Heres Jess hover'n my Sledge in the "3D bad boy area"

Heres the MO-KNIFE, I like this plane...hope I dont dork either opne of my 2 favorite birds before INDY

Whos all coming from your area and when are you guys showing up?

I will be there early afternoon Friday.
I am bringing the 33% Cap and the Sledge.

Looks like it was an awesome day Gator..... I was stuck at home with the honey do list...... Oh well... at least I got all that painting done...

I'm comming to Indy with Gator... I think Jess is comming with us, but I havn't confirmed..... I'm bringing my Taco, Menace, SuDoKhoi and whatever else I can hoble together before then.... We're driving up early Friday morning. How long does it take to get to Indy from Memphis?

Paul,

Looks like 7.5 hours averaging 60 MPH.
Where are you guys staying? Did you get rooms at the Holiday Inn?

I think we're staying with Scott (Tailspnr).....

Does he know this yet? <LOL>
Kevin

He made the offer.... or was that Wayne?? Oh well... if all else fails... we'll just camp at the field....

Doesnt matter to me...