Follow Rusty's Memorial Traveling Engines!

The engines are on their way to Ron. USPS tracking 9405828206334136669036

Jason_WI wrote:The engines are on their way to Ron. USPS tracking 9405828206334136669036

Woot! GO RON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gentlemen,

If the requested info has already been published, them I apologize for my laziness...

Any chance there is a scheduled path of travel?
I'm not looking for hard dates, but rather, a strip map/order by city/state.
I want to ensure my UKIE is ready BEFORE the package gets to Mississippi.

TIA!

https://www.coxengineforum.com/h44-rusty-s-memorial-traveling-engines

This is the planed path to date.

Estimate 2-3 weeks per participant.

Bookmarked...Thanks!
FredVon4 will be glad to see the Red UKIE in action.

So as a last minute addition I did add a participant log you can add your name, date, and location.

Feel free to take a page front and back to add text and pictures. The pages in the journal can be removed and printed on a inkjet printer. The back cover shows how to pull out and remove the pages. I have word templates for the front and back page on the flash drive where you can type up your entry and insert pictures and size them to fit. Under the participants folder on the flash drive you can creat a new folder with your name and add pictures, movies, and the word docs if you choose to print your page.

If you do print your page you will need to slightly bend down the perforated leafs where the page connects with the spiral binding.  You will need to do this for the front and then for the back. If these leafs stick up then they can catch the print head in the printer. It’s just one thing that needs to be done when you print the page. Its 90# paper and I selected matte photo paper in high resolution. This was with my cannon inkjet using the rear tray. Paper is 6.25” x 8.5” as it’s recommended to test print with regular paper prior to printing the actual journal page.

You can always hand write it and glue in photos if you choose. The spiral binding allows added thickness to the page.





How to pull the pages out.

How this coming along?

Weather is getting nice, perhaps we could get this moving along just a little bit faster.

I have the planes ready. I just need to find the time to fly. Weather is nicer yes, but extremely windy here in Oklahoma.

I have been making updates along the way. If anyone is super ticked I totally understand.

Hopefully in the next week or two I can get these things in the air. Sorry guys.

Cribbs74 wrote: If anyone is super ticked I totally understand.

Hopefully in the next week or two I can get these things in the air. Sorry guys.

No worries Ron, Just wanted to make sure the engines haven't stalled out.

Too bad I am in Europe and therefore cannot  participate..this is evolving into a great memorial that Rusty truly deserves!

Once the engines have made their circle around the US and the notebook filled up, please post here some of its contents for all of us who wanted but could not contribute to the memorial.

I don't think Nobody is going to get the Tick ? My plan is to fly the two coxes and run the fox but things could change ?! Andre's by the time this gets around maybe most of the world will bee back to some kind of normality I think there were a few from across the big pond tha wanted to participate .

Ron,
I'm curious...how far are you (drivetime) from Downtown Memphis?

Memphis TN? 7hrs

Yup.

I edited the above post. 6hrs 57 mins

I was hoping closer. It looks like we are ten hours apart. I was thinking of some way we could to put two Fliers from the list in one place.

How far are you from Columbus MS?

I don't want to intrude, but really liked the idea of sharing flights with Rusty's Traveling Engines. I know the manager of the airport at New Madrid's airport (KEIW), and might get his OK for us to fly there. It's on I-55 maybe about 2 hours from Memphis, not sure though.

I intend to fly Rusty's Fox on my Flite Streak "Big Bunny", but haven't quite decided on the other two.

Anyway...just a thought.

Ron, zero miles.
Kim, I like that idea.

I'm about three hours southeast from Memphis...and an hour west of Tuscaloosa.

Tuttle, OK is a bit of a drive...but I could go a couple above, or outside (even west) of Memphis and still call it a day trip. It would be wonderful to remember Rusty with others while flying "his" engine(s).

OK...I wasn't paying attention and thought you were in Memphis. I'm about 2 1/2 hours north of there, so if there was a club or some place in the Memphis area that would tolerate some interlopers, we could find a place there and make it a fairer drive.

We've also got the S.M.A.L.L. Fly-In in Mayflower, AR in June 3rd-6th, and Fall S.M.A.L.L. in October...though I got to bail early on the June Fun-Fly (Friday the 4th) for a family event on the 5th.

This will be an all-control line event for me, but sure we could do R/C at New Madrid if we wanted.

However it works...it'll be fun!

I've been invited to SMALL before. The only problem is I am not a card-carrying member of the AMA, so I couldn't fly there. That is a long way just to watch...not nearly so long if I got to fly too.

So who lives on a few acres of CL-flying privacy between Memphis and Tuttle, OK, and would like to sponsor a day of CL flying?

Looks like Little Rock is five hours away from me. What is around Little Rock? Any big park we could sling 'em around in?

Let me see if anything is going on at Columbus AFB.

I could drive there for work and fly after hours. No promises. It’s a bit of a long shot.

They do have a CL club in Little Rock, flown there before. My schedule is pretty volatile at any given time. Scheduling a get together is pretty tough on my end.