Tango Juliet

John, I thought of doing the same thing to that image. It sure helps the scale effect.

tfarmer96

http://www.wyliewarbirds.com/photoga...011/index.html

cloudancer03

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as a spectator I thoroughly enjoyed my time at top gun last sat.I appreciated the chairs available to watch the event .moreover I appreciated the acess to see some of hobbies best rc planes and pilots in the country.the food was good.and parking was very close and easy.If I have one recommendation it would be to give more distance from the exhibitors and the viewing area.some of the bigger planes had very narrow passage..beyond that the only annoying thing were those darn lovebugs.lol.as for the wind I always joke that if you live here you learn to fly with wind.remarkably the skill of top gun pilots demonstrated their ablities to adjust with the wind.I like the site and plan to be back next year.hopefully the temps will be more spring like.

great job!!

airzona

I went on Wed and didnt see half of those planes. Was my first time there and figured all planes had to be there for the compition on the first day, figures I was wrong again. When do most planes show up for compition, or a better day to go?

RCKen

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Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday the two Pro-Am classes fly. Saturday and Sunday the Expert, Master, Team, and Unlimited classes fly. Also, on Sunday, the top Pro-Am that made the cut will fly one more flight for final judging.

Ken

tenacious101010

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If I had only one day to attend, I would be there Saturday for sure, Sunday would be my second choice.
Denny

RCKen

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Denny,
No, the best judged from Pro-Am fly on Sunday, not Saturday.

Ken

tenacious101010

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I realized that after I posted it, thanks for the correction.

airzona

Thanks guys. Flew down from Mich to drive back with grandparents on Sun, guess have to leave on Mon. next year.

cocobear

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Tenacious, were you the nice young man who visited my Albi with his girl friend?

DJ

tenacious101010

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Sure glad my wife didnt read this post! LOL, actually that was probably my son and HIS girlfriend.

g6rcteam

my bad toI was thinking you were your son when we talked on here last week.. carlos corrected me last night so i guess i should say you built a great model your son did a good job getting her down see you both at the local meets Jimmy

tenacious101010

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No problem. his girlfriend loved all the planes. I just finished converting an Eaglet to electric power so she can continue to learn to fly. She has amazed me how much she has learned so far.

g6rcteam

Ialso learned on a eaglet mine had the worlds highest time os 25 cheers to thegood ol days no pressure no 25mph crosswinds no points just fun

RickBoyer

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A special thanks this year goes to Dave Johnson and his staff from Futaba Support and Tower Hobbies, who very kindly reached out to me after round one, giving me a set of DLE 111 mufflers so that I could continue to compete with my Pitts Special S-1S in Expert for the duration of the event. I lost power on my final approach in round one after loosing the right side muffler on my Brison 4.8 twin. The DLE 111 muffler had a perfect bolt pattern match for the Brison! I flew all four rounds finishing twelfth, and couldn't have done it without Dave's support. Thanks so much to Dave and his crew from Futaba and Tower Hobbies!!

Also I would like to congradulate Frank Tiano, his wife Carol, all of the TG judges, flight line crew, hard-working staff and vendors for continuing to make this event the best in the country. Ken from RCU and the Model Airplane News staff did a great job, as always, covering the event with photography, interviews and video. The venue this year was incredible to say the least!!

Rick Boyer
TG 2004-2011
Pitts Special S-1S (#1)
Ryan STA
Pitts Special S-1S (#2)

ram3500-RCU

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Classy Post Rick. I had a similar experience at Monster Planes 2010 from Frank Tiano and his opening wonderful facility to me to repair my plane. what a great bunch we have in the hobby.

g6rcteam

It seems we all had great luck repairing our aircraft Frank let me use one of his own brand new brissons what a guy!I was able to get the old zenoahmotor back in running order but hadI not that would have saved myT,G, week thanks again Frank Tiano

RCKen

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OK, Isaid that was all the pictures until the final article is done.But Ifound one more picture to share with everybody. After Top Gun Istayed a couple of nights with Steve Thomas (owner of Bob's Hobby Center in Orlando). He was flying one of the planes involved in the mid-air collison that Ihad in the Saturday video clip. While Iwas at his house he had the wing from the LA-7 he was flying when the mid-air happened. He as able to safely land the plane after the mid-air. As you can see, the prop on the P-47 did a number on his flap and wing area. Steve said that the plane will be repaired with no big problems.

Ok, time for me to get back to work on the article. Hope you all enjoyed this last picture

Ken

Tango Juliet

I was glad to hear that the mid-air wasn't too serious.

Meesh

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Rick,

Great Job!

I was there in '06 when you lost #1. It almost brought me to tears.

Glad to see you got back on that horse.

See you in October!

Bob Michaud

Dwhart24

I would like to add these photos of the mid-air. The middlephoto was taken by Barry Atkinson, the editor of RC Jet International. Him and I were standing next to each other snapping away when the mid-air occurred. The first and last shot are mine and the second shot is his. His shutter fired at the right time.

wayne d

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WOW, What a shot!!!!

77chickenhawk

did they both land? didnt look to catastrophic? there both in one piece after the hit. looks like the L.A took the brunt.

ram3500-RCU

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Fantastic shots. I understand both planes were able to land. Amazing.

wayne d

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I saw the event and both landed ok.