Flying a pattern at the Triple Tree contest.

Way to Rusty , Thank You for the Video , More flying would bee better but still nice to see all the people and fields and O yes the Planes !!! Good once again to hear your getting some fly time in you old die hard you Brother !!

Here are pictures Holley took.
Lyin' and Flyin" Lol:





That IDS is THE sweetest plane I have ever flown. I may well have moved up earlier if I'd ever tried it out.

I have video in the cruncher now, so stand by tor that later.
Rusty

I wrote more but couldn't post it when the forum went dark yesterday. I saved it in Notepad, so I'll fill out the story when I get home later. There'll be plenty to talk about on the show tonight too.
Rusty

Good show Rusty

Saw this on RC Groups.... been bummed for a while with all my CL planes and no longer able to fly

These sophisticated foamy models may let me play airplane in my front yard.....lots of space but NO CL as I am surrounded on three sides by High Tension power lines.... CL circle will always be way too close for my comfort

I totally suck at helicopter flight
I not all that keen on typical 4 to 6 prop drones ( I do have a few kewl indore versions I terrorize my dogs with

So take a peak at these and offer your snarky opinions please

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Here's the post I couldn't submit yesterday. It crashed while I was posting a reply at about 3:25 pm. Luckily my text stayed intact in the Chrome history.

So, I was replying to Rod as follows...

Oldenginerod wrote:Wow.   Watching that guy doing the pattern from the 6.37 mark is just poetry in motion.  Great stuff!!

No kidding, Rod. That's David Fitzgerald from California. He has won both National and world championships on the US team with that Thundergazer. He donated it to Triple Tree's museum and education center in a ceremony Friday. Derek Barry flew the last flight on it Saturday after it won its final contest in P.A.M.P.A. Expert Precision Aerobatics. Now it hangs with real historical significance at TT. It's unusual in that most of the planes on display were purchased for that purpose.

Everyone has a different flying posture, but the significance is consistency. Make the exact same motions each and every maneuver on each and every flight. You can tell the wind was almost zero by the backtracking he does to keep it out of its own wake.  no bobbles and exactly the same amount of lift on every pass. Like flying on rails.
Rusty

Yiii, it's down again!

Here's that flight by itself
https://youtu.be/gDQk0TIpseM

More sights and sounds from TT.
I know watching a Stunt pattern can be boring to most spectators, but I can't help that these world class pilots fascinate me so much. So for those who'll indulge me, here's Derek Barry bustin' out a nice one... from the wrong side, because the breeze flipped the circle again.
Rusty

https://youtu.be/_WMgavRPH3w

Something’s not right. He had to step back on the outsides. What was going on Rusty?

Ron, it looks like he walks backwards during most of the stunts that are made up of consecutive passes. It wasn't dead calm air, which poses the danger of losing lift when flying through a hole in the air made by a previous pass. That can cause loops to grow larger, or fail to pull out at all.

In this case, Derek is probably is avoiding the wake from previous passes, which could cause points-robbing buffeting. So a step back on each loop keeps the plane in clean air. Then watch him return to center on the two laps prior to the next upcoming stunt. I'm pretty sure that's what we're seeing.

In David Fitzgerald's video, he makes it even more obvious on the outsides, but not the insides. That was also a practice flight on Thursday, I think. The wind conditions were basically the same on all three days of pattern flying. But if a steady breeze blew through during one set of loops, maybe he didn't feel the need to seek clean air.
Rusty