SCRC Fun Fly and Picnic

Announcement

All Flyers with an AMA license, their family, and friends are welcome.

Activities start at 10:00 with setting up the Tent, Table, and Grill.

Flying starts following the setup and lasts until dark.

Picnic style food and drink must be furnished by the participants.

The grill can be used to heat and/or cook your food.

Ice will be available for holding your cold drinks.

No fees, just come and enjoy the day, the SCRC Flying Site, and the food.

A check of several forecasts prior to this Fun Fly Sunday did not look good. In keeping with the usual forecasts for this region, the results were as follows:

The bad news: There is a lot of rain and thunder storms forecast for all day.

The good news: These early forecasts are always wrong! Keep your eye on weather.

Unfortunately, many people believed the bad news and stayed away from the Fun Fly. For those that did have the courage to come to the FunFly, they found out that the good news prevailed and we had a beautiful day for flying. The temperature was mild and the winds were low! A great day for the Fun Fly.

The following photos were taken around noon and show the relaxed day we had.

The forecast called for clouds and heavy thunderstorms, but June 22 dawned bright and clear! I went to the field in the early afternoon and found a small crowd of folks enjoying a good day of flying. A moderate breeze blew straight down the runway, and the thermals were there for the gliders. I flew my Circuit Rider electric glider for a twenty minute flight and landed only because my neck was tired from looking up! I still had power left in the Li-Po battery.

Al Niessner used his buddy cord to help some youngsters fly his beautiful 4-stroke powered Sig Kadet Senior, and his electric Miss 2. Both planes are good trainers, and the Miss 2 was thermalling along with my glider.

Karl Stashak flew his overpowered trainer through some crazy aerobatics including his now famous inverted tail touch on the runway grass! (This is a trainer?!!) Karl also showed me the “World’s Highest Dead Stick” where he climbed to speck-in-the-sky altitude, then killed the engine, and looped, rolled, and spun during the descent, then landed nearly at his feet! It’s a fun plane to watch!

Woody Struble flew an autogiro with a wing, which took off fine but had trouble turning and ended up in the wheat field. The belly scoop of his P-51 fell off earlier in the wheat, so Woody got a lot of exercise retrieving things!

Daryl Allen’s Quickie 500 flew great, but a radio glitch put him down with a broken off nose. Ouch!

Nathaniel Rice and John Ream made many nice helicopter flights, including some wild aerobatics! Today’s choppers still amaze me with their capabilities! So do their pilots!

Everyone there had a good time, but attendance was low. Perhaps the dismal weather forecast and high gas prices kept some folks away. Who wants to burn $30 worth of gas only to get rained out? Still, it was a nice event, and we all enjoyed it!

There were a lot of cameras here today but the above photos are all that were received. If you took photos and would like to see them on the web site, please send them to the SCRC Webmaster for inclusion on this page.


Nathaniel Rice, standing, getting the latest updates from Chuck Paulson, Todd Cook, and Karl Stashak		George Gurney and Gib Sanders keeping an eye on the flying activity

This fleet of three aircraft belongs to Woody Struble. He brought his P-51, a Sopwith Pup, and an original design by Wil Coder. All flew well.

Here is a view East and West of the runway from Woody's mobile hanger		Daryl Allen preparing one of his aircraft for flight