Just about a perfect show this year. The weather today was fantastic, the turn out was spectacular, and there were very few accidents. About the only bad thing was the wait time to fly due to the extreme number of pilots registered. A good problem to have! Here is a selection of static pictures from today's show.






















This shot of my brother's H9 Denight Special courtesy of Joe Balabon. Thanks Joe!

Excellent event, as usual, even though one of the 'accidents' cost me a P-51 (due to a failed elevator clevis)...

BTW, I think the delays were more due to the major bottleneck created by the new staging system. They simply weren't very efficient at getting planes started and in the air after one landed. Hopefully they'll get it sorted for the Spring event.

Nonetheless, great weather, great models, and great flying. [8D]

Here's a couple of pics, I'll try to post more later...

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Excellent pictures guys....and Chad, I think you won 3 rd place in civilian catagory!

Very nice pictures. Looks like they had a good turnout. I didn't make it down . Did Ken get to fly his Claude? He was having some problems with his motor. Rich

It flew but he had someone else do the flying. Fantastic model and it won the Commanders Award.

Hi Rich, sorry you couldn't make it. Bob Frey took the Claude for a spin and it looked great. Bob commented to me later that he thought it flew quite well. I think "UncleJoe" has some in-flight shots of the airplane on his thread in the warbirds forum.

Chad,

It was good seeing you this year!! We had a really good time too.

John

Hey Chad I missed you! What did you bring?

Good seeing you Jerry. This is the third event in a row that I have won third place in the civilian category. I think I'm in a rut!

Always good to see you John and the Eindecker was spectacular as are all your projects.

I spotted you a couple of times Corey and meant to say hello but seemed to get sidetracked every time. Sorry to see you won the "smacked ass" award. Must have been on Sunday as I was there all day on Saturday and it looked like the P-38 was doing fine. Did you fly the Bear on Sunday? Looked great and I was hoping to see it go.

I had my Midwest Texan (Harvard actually) seen below. I may see you in Chino in November if you're planning to attend.

So, that was yours! Very Nice. The Royal thread has my P-38 story[&o]. It happend Sunday. It died in a blaze of glory. It's soul will live forever in Arizona! [sm=cry_smile.gif]

Rare Bear is not good on the ground, and I never got the wind it needs. Chino has good afternoon wind. Maybe I will fly it there again.

Great models! The Claude, the Midget & the Siemens all time favourites of mine. COngrats on awesome Event

A few more of my pics from the event. Same airplanes, different angles.

I took video of the noontime line up. Loaded it Sunday night. It took forever to load and clear!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwUtLjbQ2u0