S.M.A.L.L. 2019...Fitz's S.M.A.L.L. comments on R/C Roundtable

Glad you got the Haul All fixed and made it there safe !! You guys are having some Fun i can tell by the pics. Tony had a good save on the Electric bypass plane LOL How is the weather holding out ? Looks nice from here

Nice pics kim, and wow, what a save that was. Enjoy your time at S.M.A.L.L. !!  

Thanks for letting us tag along Kim.

I enjoyed every photo and every word.

Bob

I ask a lot of the little plane, but it managed to carry the horn and two key fob cameras aloft in my attempt to WOW the S.M.A.L.L. Flyers. Not sure how "wowed" they were, but we gave it a honking good effort... wrote:

I would say you are asking Alot with all that equipment strapped on / i remember from last year the geese fun , is that a farm of some kind in the back ground ?

getback wrote:  I would say you are asking Alot with all that equipment strapped on / i remember from last year the geese fun , is that a farm of some kind in the back ground ?

I thought the same thing Eric. A lot for that little OS .10 to haul around. but she did.

Great photos Kim. Did the Testors P-38 get air time?

Bob

Great Photos, Are those p 51s made of foam board ? What powers them ? Inquiring minds need to Know .

Fantastic !! That they let the fly field bee used and fly too !! Hey Kim did Tee Bee not make it ? I see a Bird in the sky and some Rubber beeing wound Looks like more people are starting to show up Great Stuff !! Thank You for your time and trouble so wee can enjoy some of the Action

I made it there, Eric, and oh what a time we've had! We have flown .010s, .020s, and .049s aplenty! There have been graceful flights mixed with a bit of carnage here and there. All par for the course. Tony A. helped me finally get my Big Block(TD .020) Tee Stik all trimmed out. It took some patience and several exciting tanks of fuel but paid off with some narly fast flights of the little 15" span beast. No one with much sense would want to fly it but I enjoyed it. I flew the Sharkface all weekend with a Venom II .049 and had a ball but today, I swapped it out for the RR1 that I recently restored. It ran great like that and I offered a chance to fly it to any bystanders who desired to try it. Only Tony took me up on it. I loved watching him put my little hotrod plane through the paces and couldn't help but smile at the thought of us having so much fun flying a little vintage "collector" engine on a vintage design airframe. Some of the greatest highlights for me were simply flying the Minnie Mambos around the pattern with Kim. Today, we were joined by a couple of Q-Tees and before we knew it, a couple more .049 planes had joined the mix. For a brief time, the pattern was filled with 6 .049s flying in close proximity! It was beautiful to see and hear! We attempted it again later in the day. Just as it got really fun, things went sour. Kim and I turned downwind together and a few seconds later I heard someone's plane go THUNK onto the field. I glanced down just briefly to see who had crashed only to see it was MY plane! For several seconds, I had been "flying" Kim's bird while mine departed controlled flight. A few seconds later, another modeler got disoriented by the bright sun and also went in hard. At that point, Kim was in a real hurry to get his bird down before the bad luck infected him as well. So many great moments of flying and laughing! We're gonna do a bit more tomorrow before heading our separate ways. Comsidering that the event had to be canceled at the last moment due to flooding, the Plan B option turned out to be a big time.

Nice write up Troy , glad you got there to have some FUN with the boys . That's pretty wild about the channel cross up before the crash was Kim fling your plane when it went in Seen it in the EOM pic least it don't look to bad just some that Arkansas dirt /mud. Good deal $4 for plane and radio !! Safe trip home guys

A handful of the hardest of the die-hards showed up again for some farewell flying this morning before the final packup. Kim put up a couple of beautiful flights on his Medallion .15-equipped Quaker. Tony entertained with several models featuring various Cox engines. Another Cox flyer, Guy from Cali, flew his scaled down .010 B-Tween and 70% .020 Sharkface all morning. I made my final flights of the trip with the Sharkface, Tee Stik .010, Tee Stik .020, and my UMX Pitts. During my last Tee Stik flight, I had a mild mid-air with the Flite Test P-51 that Kim featured above. My .010 prop sloced off the bottom of his rudder and shed a blade. We both landed without incident. By noon, we were done flying, packed up, had the host field cleaned up, and were saying goodbyes.

Here's Kim cruising by with his Quaker .15.

Glad you arrived safely. Nick and I only made it as far as Shreveport, LA since we made an impromptu side trip to Gibsland to the site where Bonnie and Clyde were gunned down. We'll shoot for home tomorrow. I am stoked to see your videos! Dang, it sure was fun!

I hate to see this thread wrap-up.

Thanks for letting me share your experiences.

Bob

Bob, Kim stayed pretty busy with his camera when he wasn't wrenching or flying. I'm pretty sure he will be along with some epic pics and vids. It was honestly one of the best weekends of model flying I've ever had!