Bryan McLarty

Hello, everyone!

The members of the Wings Miniature Aircraft Society of Lubbock, TX are proud to announce the 3rd annual West Texas Warbirds event. This exciting event will be held the weekend of August 6th, 7th and 8th, 2010 at our home club field at the Abernathy Municipal Airport, just east of Abernathy, TX.

West Texas Warbirds is an AMA sanctioned (no. 10-0889), Class C event. A $20.00 landing fee will cover all event dates. Participating aircraft must be at least AMA Fun Scale eligible and documentation is NOT required (No Ugly Sticks, etc.). Aircraft must be in campaign colors and markings. (No Miss America P-51s, etc.) A pilots meeting will begin at 0900 hours promptly each day and will include open flying each day until dusk.

West Texas Warbirds is intended to reach out to all area clubs and their members with scale and sport/scale interests for a non-competitive, fun fly type event. From electric park flyers, electric ducted fans, glow and gas fueled aircraft, to turbine (with waivers) and multi-engine aircraft, all military fixed-wing R/C model aircraft are invited! Last year, we had attendees that came from all over Texas, as well as New Mexico and Oklahoma. Trophies for People's Choice, Pilot's Choice and Best Scale Flight will be awarded!

The Abernathy field site showcases a spacious 75' X 1400+' runway. Shaded covers have not yet been installed, so please feel free to bring your portable pop-up canopy tents. Overnight primitive camping on site is permitted for motor homes and campers trailers (no hook-ups). Food, drinks and portable restroom facilities are available onsite. For anyone coming in out of town without camping amenities, the city of Lubbock is just twenty minutes south of the flying area with plenty of lodging, restaurants and evening entertainment. This event promises to be a lot of fun so make plans now to attend! Check out our website at www.wingsmas.org.

For additional information or questions, please contact Bryan McLarty, Contest Director, at [email protected] or by telephone at (806) 789-4922.

Thanks for your consideration and help us spread the word! More information will be forthcoming.

Bryan S. McLarty, DDS
President, Wings Miniature Aircraft Society
Contest Director, West Texas Warbirds
Lubbock, TX

G-Pete

Looking forward to that event - as I in the rcu event section already stated : count me in.

Bryan McLarty

OK, guys! Its CRUNCH time! West Texas Warbirds is right around the corner and I wanted to let all of you planning to come from out of town that I have secured a block of hotel rooms for a very reasonable price. Those of you who can double up and split expenses will really have a bargain! The West Texas Warbirds flagship hotel is the Quality Inn on I-27 near the South Loop 289 intersection. Their website is here:

http://www.qualityinn.com/hotel-lubb...nchild=0&map=n

The best plan of action would be to call them and ask for the West Texas Warbirds special reservation. They have agreed to hold the rooms until the 31st of July, so hurry. The room rates are $64.99 + Tax! Call them at 806-749-1090. Rooms are available for Thusday, Friday and Saturday night if you plan on traveling early and arriving Thursday. Friday and Saturday reservations are also accepted.

Remember, these are being held until the 31st of July only. Call early!

If I can help you in any way, please call!

Bryan McLarty
CD, West Texas Warbirds


All further announcements will be posted over at the EVENTS forum on this thread:

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_97...#ixzz0syBIDWGj

jetjockey

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Bryan,

I'm really looking forward to the event this year. I'm planning on introducing my newly completed Henshel P-75 jet super bomber killer - an obscure German intercepter with canards designed toward the end of WWII. It was intended as a cross over between the Me 262 and the Me 163 with a single turbojet and very heavily armed designed specifically for a fast climb and superior firepower. Very interesting airplane I stumbled across when doing research into German archives.

Should be lots of fun and flying - long range weather forecasts predict good weather. Let's keep our fingers crossed!!!! I'm also looking forward to the Banquet on Saturday night. Great food and entertainment!!

See you guys there.

Les

jetjockey

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Hey Guys,

Can we get a headcount (roll call) for the West Texas Warbirds Rally to be held at Lubbock, TX (Abernathy) August 6, 7, 8 2010?

We have a super caterer for the Saturday night Pilot's banquet and would like to start planning.

Hope to see you there!!!

Les

shanksow

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Not flying, but plan to be there for Saturday night Pilot's banquet.

aghost

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I plan to come down on the 6th. I am going to do some flying and attend the banquet.

Brian

Bryan McLarty

Great to hear from you Brian!

You planning on being down just Saturday or multiple days?

What about any more of your Amarillo ARKS boys?

Bryan McLarty

I wanted to post a letter on behalf of Mark McCall, a local photo-artist here in Lubbock:

Hello RC enthusiasts.
Welcome to West Texas Warbirds!

My name is Mark McCall and I'm a warbird photographic artist.
We take high quality photos of real, toy and RC model aircraft and turn them into works of art.
We will be at the Warbird event looking for subjects for upcoming projects.
If you have an interesting aircraft, we want to visit with you.
We are interested in any WWI, WWII, Korea or Vietnam era aircraft as well as any current jet aircraft.
We are also interested in any civilian scale aircraft.

A photographic session of your aircraft takes only about 15 minutes and, if selected for use in one of our art pieces, you'll receive a 16x20 print of your plane stunningly recreated into a dogfight scene, takeoff, or landing sequence, at no charge.

Here's a look at some of our past pieces:
http://www.markmccallphotography.com...web/index.html

Write to use at [email protected].
Let us know what you have and if you'd like for us to pay you a visit at the fly-in.

Thanks again, and good flying!

Mark McCall

Bryan McLarty
President, Wingsmas
CD, West Texas Warbirds

P.S. Just as an example, I wanted to post a picture that Mark did after photographing B-17 'Milk Wagon' by Bret Bowling (B-17 freak) from Rowlett, TX. Bret attended West Texas Warbirds last year and was an award winner.

The photo on the left was Bret's aircraft in a regular fly-by picture.
The photo on the right is the final artwork done by Mark McCall after 15 min. photo shoot.

aghost

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Hi Bryan. I plan to be there at least Friday and Saturday (including the banquet). By the way, a second ARKS member asked me to add him to your banquet headcount. There are a couple of others who have talked about WTW event, but I don't know if they have decided to attend or not.

Brian

Bryan McLarty

Some more on the Pilot's Dinner.

This year's dinner will be held at the Scottish Rite Bldg. It is just a few blocks away from the WTW flagship hotel, the Quality Inn, near I-27 and South Loop 289.

Lynn Stevens from Cast Iron Grill Catering will be serving your choice of Rib Eye Steak or Pork Chop dinner with all the trimmings and homemade desserts! Lynn did our catering at the field last year and will be expanding his services this year to include our dinner Saturday night. The cost of the Pilot's Dinner is $18.00 per head and will include dinner and some special live entertainment that WTW Event Coordinator, Tom Wagner, has planned. He has informed me of some of the evening's highlights and it sounds like a GREAT time. We hope any of you bringing family members or pit crew for the event will include them in the evening's festivities. They are most certainly welcome!

Any of you attending out of town, please firm up your hotel reservations at the Quality Inn and let me know your head counts for the Pilots Dinner, PLEASE!

Bryan

jetjockey

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Bryan,

Two (2) for me.

Thanks, Les

Bryan McLarty

Fun with captions...

Bryan McLarty

I just wanted to let all of you planning to come to Lubbock that rubber boots will NOT be needed this year!

flyboy12

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Hey Brian, Frank here from Amarillo. I had planned to be there in fact I had already told Robert several times I was coming. But in my excitement I forgot that I had planned my vacation to Colorado during that time. Wish you guys all the luck and hope you all have a ton of fun.

Bryan McLarty

Man, that's WEAK!

No, seriously, have a great time!

shanksow

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Here is today's action report from the front for August 6, 2010......

shanksow

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more.

shanksow

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more pics. I shoot a lot more video this time out than I have at previous events.

shanksow

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I am a bit too tired and sunburned right now to worry about uploading some more pictures tonight. Will catch up tomorrow evening.

tfarmer96

What was the temp today?

shanksow

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I can't tell you for sure. But mid to high 90s at least.

shanksow

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Ok, Back from the third and final day of this event. Tired, dirty, exhusted. But I was glad to be out there with my buds even though I could not join in the flying this time around. All right, I now start uploading the Pictures from yesterday (Aug 7).

Here we have Jimmy's B-24 and Nick with his electric Twin Otter. The TF B-25(also electric) was there on display only.

shanksow

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more Aug 7th pics. Decided to dig my 1/6th scale M-5 tank out for additional pictures. Bill H with his beautiful F-4u Corsair. Didn't get to see wing folding action-maybe next year!

shanksow

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more Aug 7th action.