Perfect day flying & Fearless Bob Z's maiden flight - pics and vids

It's been over 100F for a week and today was only supposed to be 98, so we decided to start late and fly till dusk. And it was a good decision, we may try that MO for the rest of daylight savings time. The wind gets much tamer late and flying into the sun isn't quite as bright. Our newest club member Bob Zambelli came with his newest build called Jezebel, designed by Lt. Col. Henry "BOO" Bourgeois that flew in Black Sheep Squadron on the 2nd Tour with Pappy Boyington. It was a beautiful twin engine model. It had new but old-stock Fox 19s on it. Or maybe .15s, I'll double check. They were not yet broken-in, but that didn't slow him down. Nor did the fact that he just finished it today before bringing it out to fly. This guy brings planes that haven't cranked or flown in 20 years and flies the snot out of them! Last year he dusted off his old Colibri 4 engine stunter and put on quite a show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZG35VGjBY0 This time was just as exciting with his new untested twin. See for yourself. Balls of steel, I say!
[Video tomorrow, sorry, but here's a video capture of the Jezebel]


Videos of more flights flying will follow Tomorrow. For now, here is the Oriental flying with its new 5 ounce tank which holds enough fuel to run where it truly shines, launching at 10.8k RPM. This plane is a graceful thing of beauty. It continues to please me.
https://youtu.be/TT0AeNM5KzY


Then again, I might have to call her Dirty Bird II if she keeps getting this dirty. I put up more flights in one day with it than I ever have before. Looks like I found a little tall grass there. That happened when I landed. She's a real greaser tonight. I'll de-fuel and clean her up tomorrow. I'm too tired to even unload the car now.
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It's much more relaxing flying with three people tham with two. Plus we took turns with the RC guys at the field too. There was a nice breeze with enough clouds developing later on that it was pure stunt heaven. Thermals would switch up on us, but I swear when the Orio is on song, she doesn't care where the breeze is, just plows through it like nothing. I can fly high scoring flat laps in both directions and am finally mastering pullouts. Landing is my only nemesis. I am terrible at it. I put on bigger wheels for the grass, and it looks better but no difference in my bouncy landings. I'm either too hot or stalling.

I brought the Ukey for my warmup plane, but after one flight I felt good, so parked it. Wayne finished trimming his Intermediate Death Star, or IDS, and it's a really good stunter. He based it on the ukey after he redesigned and built the Uley G2, which didn't come out to play today. But here is a picture of the IDS and Ukey side by side.


I'll put together a movie of Bob's wild maiden flight and some of Wayne and me flying too. That'll be tomorrow. As for now, that's a wrap. We got the good out of this day.
Rusty signing off, good night.
Rusty