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So, Any news form Top Gun yet? how did Sung do on Static?


Turbulence

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There's a thread over on the SCALE forum.
No results yet.

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It's Friday afternoon here in Lakeland, Fl. and the static judging just ended. The contestants will not know their results until they fly their first round of competition flying tomorrow morning. Sung had a couple of practise flights on the Panther yesterday, and the plane is dialed in. Weather is absolutely spectacular with clear skies, 85 degrees and a light breeze.

Pro Am started yesterday and after 3 rounds, the Top 10 pilots will continue to the final round Sunday afternoon. Pro Am is two classes... Pro and Am, flying in front of the same judges. There are no "builder of the model" rule in Pro Am, so it is strictly a competition on flying skills.

Tomorrow the flying will be in the Expert, Masters and Team scale classes with two rounds each Saturday and Sunday. Out of those 4 rounds, the avarage score of the 3 best are added to the static score.

I have been busy flying the L-39 in Pro, but will have time to shoot some pictures over the weekend.

More to follow tomorrow.......

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And why will you have time to shoot pictures over the weekend now?:D[sm=surprised.gif][sm=eek.gif]

We are having a great time. The West Coast boys are doing good.

Justin blew up the main runway with his *****in' looking new snake-eyes ( he had Dave shulman telling him when to drop and Dave can't tell a runway from the grass area).:D By the way, his Hun is one awesome, and I mean awesome looking bird!![sm=thumbup.gif]

Mark taylor and Bags are flying the Hun and seem to be hitting the mark either on the runway or with the beer bottles in the trash can.

I am trying to get up and down without hurting anyone.

We do the big stuff tomorrow and time will tell. There are 16 entrants in Team Scale, so now I know I won't be 17th! All I need is for 6 more guys to drop out and I can make the top ten.

Good luck to all. Results will be forth coming, I am sure.

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Way to go, John and John.

Very exciting to see so many west coast friends (from San Diego to Washington) participating.

Good luck guys,

Matt


PS tell Justin he is a still a poopy pants

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Sweet, looking forward to the results and pics!

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Good going John C. & John R. Looks like your representing Cali well. Good luck the rest of the way!

PS. John R., you are way to modest. From what I saw at BITW, you will do great!

Thanks for the update.

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John, you must be sucking up for anew jetcat.:D[sm=lol.gif]

We will do our best. Should be a great weekend as we fly and screw everything up.

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Hope Justin does well !!!!! ....at least he should get the top gun award for the lowest passes.....

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Glad to hear that everything is going well! I hope the best for you all over the next few days!

John R. just stop it...:D

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John you are the man, if I could fly half as good as you then I wouldnt have to kiss so much Asian butt! I know you will do well, the plane you are flying is incredible and you are one of the best there is....and you know Im not kissing butt to get a JetCat!!! Speaking of kissing butt, what engine you got in that F-100?

All the best of luck to everyone that is participating. Sung and John make us proud, we are all rooting for you.

Dave

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anybody know how mike barbee is doing with his scratch built A-26???

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I am not 100% sure, but I heard second hand that he lost the plane today. (Saturday)

I hope it's just out for the event and repairable, but that's the latest.

More news when I know more.

Darrell

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Saturday breefing... Condenced version since we are leaving for the avards banquet at the Eaglebrook country club in 20 minutes.

The West coast guys are doing well. No damage, everyone finished their two rounds. Still to early to predict anything about the results, but Redman is flying really well. Especially when he borrowed Sung's Ipod and did his last flight to the Top Gun theme song :D Quite a sight seing him nodding his head to the beat of the music while doing 180 Mph passes...

Sung had two good flights also. The panther gets a ton of attention, and he flies it beautifully.

Taylor/Bags are on of the highest scoring in static with their F-100. Combined with some good flying, they will kick butt also.

Justin Sands is one hell of a pilot. He is also doing extremely well in his class.

Static scores:

Justin 93.917
Sung/Nguyen 93.167
Redman/Rohrbach 96.250
Taylor/Bageman 97.000

First flight scores:

Justin 93.500
Sung 87.833
Redman 91.263
Bags 86.363

Weather: 92 degrees... Nasty direct cross wind, Lots of scraped wing tips and worse... (mostly east coast guys [&:]) Sunny

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Awesome, go get em' guys!! Keep us updated.

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Sweet! WTG sung!

Hey johnny, can you pick me up a T-shirt?

Thanks!

Oh BTW JLM!

lol

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Since my flights where Thursday and Friday, I let Sung and Henry take over my pit crew. They are Albatros trained, so they still have some trouble with the Panther (Or the big puzzy as we call her). But they are quite talented, so I am sure they will learn.

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The flight line are calling Redman's F-100 the "Rainbow Hun"

I'm sure there will be a couple of jokes about that at the table tonight.

More later... Grey Goose time

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They both look very.....talented.

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hey John, how is Pat doing with the 335?

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BigRetracts,

if you get any new info, it is greatly appriciated.....i lodt his cell #, and cannot find any other results than on RCU...


once again..thanks..

-Phil

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Burl,

Pat had trouble with his nose strut so after two attempts, he pulled out of the contest. Too bad, I was looking forward to see the DO fly.

Mike's A-26 is dead and gone. I think an engine quit, and it ended up hitting a tree.

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wow......1st at toledo.....1800+ hrs of building...that sucks big time.....sorry for so many ?'s , but how bad was it??


thanks again..


-Phil

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Just returned from the awards dinner

Joe Grice won Critics Choice Runner Up for the BVM F-86

Kalvin Lim von Best Jet for the F9F-8 Cougar (airworld kit)

Gustavo Campana won Mechanical Engineering Excellence with his SU-37

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thanks for the update John. sucks about the DO335. I know he didnt get as much
air time prior to TG, maybe could have worked out some more bugs?

I'll give him a shout next week.

have fun the rest of the time there