The NW Regional Contest!

P.S. ....You DO understand that photos are mandatory when any event is mentioned here ????!!!!!

Duke:

And further I DO hope you understand that your BACK and it's recovery come first above all.

The biggest problem with aging is that we don't recover from surgeries as readilly as when when we young.

"Time wounds all heels." from SD's "Timeless Wisdoms".

SD

Kim-I plan on having my oldest son bringing his camera and a laptop. Then I can keep up with emails and this forum, of course.

Dave-I asked the Doc and she say no worries with the back, I just can't lift the field box or bend to start planes. I can start standing up and the boys will carry things.

Kim wrote:P.S. ....You DO understand that photos are mandatory when any event is mentioned here ????!!!!!

Kim-Here you go. Pictures of day one at the Regionals. What a great day!

Rusty- I have some pictures of some carrier planes for you. PM me your email and I'll send them to you.
Loading 11 airplanes.

Airplanes crash rack. Please Lord don't let a plane get smashed!!

Truck all loaded. Let's GO!

The rest of the Crew!

Have fun and good luck! I like your Cosmic Wind.

Ron

cribbs74 wrote:Have fun and good luck! I like your Cosmic Wind.

Ron

Thanks, I like the cosmic wind. I'm having trouble getting more pictures to upload. it wants me to down load a program now.

That's strange that it would require you to download anything.

I am having some trouble deciding wether or not to do the Shoestring or Cosmic Wind next. I heard that the Cosmic Wind flies tricky due to the low wing design. Is that the case?

I am sure envious of your trip. Love to be there myself.

Edit: Hope you are feeling better.

Ron

And more of Day #1!
$5000-$6000 plane!

And just Cool!

Just HANGING carrier style.

This one is for you Rusty!

What a day! Bed time. More to come Saturday.

Ron
Someone with my lack of skills would never know. This trip is great. It's our first trip to Regionals.

You and your guys make a great looking crew, Duke. I hope you're having a great time.
PM sent.

Duke,

Very nice pictures and what an action shot!! very beautiful BF109. To my knowledge, such events are inexisting over here. We have 1 club south of Paris and 1 in the east, I believe. Otherwise we're just singles spread over the country. Enjoy your weekend and I'm looking forward to more pics.

Lieven

We are just about ready to head to the field.

Lieven- I understand they have great carrier contests in England.

More pictures to come tonight.

Today was a wonderful day. Sunny and light wind. We finally had a chance to meet a guy I been waiting to meet for some time now. He walked up to us this morning and asked if my boys could race with him today. He said he would supply all the equipment and a lesson. We seem to meet the nicest people from around the world flying control line. And now some pictures to help the story along. You know a picture is worth a thousand words.

The boys get ready a fly Cox Mouse Racers for the first time.


They are racing now, Daniel/Pilot and Nathan/Pitman


The 1st and 2nd place teams. Yes that's our own Paul Gileault! My boys were asked by Paul to race his planes and he would teach them how and supply everything. What a guy!



You see what I see? They beat Paul, even after he was so kind to them. These kids have no respect these days.

All joking aside Paul you are a Great man, thanks again. We will be back next year with our own planes. You have the boys hooked in a bad way.

Oh, by the way, Paul got back at them and beating them bad in clown racing after he found out that Nathan had brought a Flying Clown. Nate/Pilot and Dan/Pitman this time. Way to go Paul, whipper snapper beat down!

Great stuff Duke, racing with Paul must have been a ton of fun. Yeah I'm green

Pretty cool? Sounds like you guys had a blast! Great carrier photo!

Are you and the young men going to be at the Bladder Grabber this August?

I need to get off my butt and make arrangments

Fred
I think we are. I need to check the schedule again. We would love to meet you.