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Amidst all this negativity I believe the wonderfullness of this sport has been lost. I designed this thread so we can all just list something we look forward to this next year about freeflight.
I look forward to traveling once more to Arizona and flying when the temperature is possibly below freezing. I look forward to the smiles on the faces of all these competitors and supporters that I have missed so much this past year. I tell you that I might look forward the most to that sound of my tow line coming unlatched from my Buntbone as I look up and see it screaming for the heavens(aka, 40 feet if I am lucky..I am no Kimmo). And finally I look forwad to saturday and sunday trips to these little pieces of heaven on earth that for those 24-48 hours, I call home.
Please join me in marveling at what an incredible sport we are lucky enough to participate in!
Benjamin Coussens
Ben,
Good positive thoughts; excellent !
Without sounding ironic I’m currently planning my trip to Lost Hills in February to engage in dawn to dusk flying in conditions and on a site I could only dream about in Scotland. This trip which I’ve made often over the last 10+ years really helps set me up for the forthcoming UK season. Oh joy !
There is also the flapper to consider ……………
CHE
My wife and I are going again this next year. If the weather is even half as good as this past Feb., it will be a blast!
By the way.. anybody know the dates?
Thanks,
BillBill, it is always around the Valentines Day holiday so I believe this year will be Feb 13, 14, and 15. Glad to hear your both going.
true love! you give her a trip to the desert and she gets you stooge stakes. Why can’t the rest of the world be this way?
This is what its about! Che, I am so glad that you look forward to, and enjoy your trips to lost hills every year. This past year I only made it there twice and I live 2 hours away from it. I am sure every flyer on the east coast would trade living locations with me in a second. But I am so excited to get back out there. Rene Limberger generously donated to me 2 ready to go fusalages and stabs with servos and hooks. So I am going to the patterson a day early to trim, and I must say I am looking forward to it quite enthusiastically. I am so glad to hear that others recieve so much joy from this sport.
Benjamin
I also look forward to my February trip to Lost Hills. In my case it is to the Issacson contest. I used to make the Max Men but I hardly fly F1B anymore. Not because I don’t want too but because my planes are old and beat up and replacing them is out of the question for me right now.
So I fly P-30 and Nos. Wakefield. I hope to have several new planes ready (TLG?)for the trip. Who knows if they will be ready in time. A plane centered in a thermal at Lost Hills in the middle of winter is pretty sweet! I can’t wait.
Derek
Ridgefield, WA
Way too much love here…Wifes, lovey dovey, best of luck, etc- Power fliers would never talk like that. Blood, killer instinct, swearing, beer, ah the thrill of 30000 rpm and earth shaking crashes…..And what am I looking at? A new towline glider! If all the planets align, maybe John and I will make it out west… Depends on his school….
BTW, way ta go Charlie! You deserve it. Bill, you are next…
thanks John. You really must come out west in February. The chance of seeing green grass and starting you super hot Wen Mac engines without lighter fluid must be enough incentive. Hope to see you there!!
Hey John
I’ve got a couple of wen’macs setting around the shop. How about hopping a couple up for me. I’d settle for say 25K – that would be fast enuf ….
Rudy Kluiber
Rudy, why only 25K? Oh, did ya want a prop on that engine? 60% and a shaft run would probably not even do that!
Guys, if all the planets align it may happen….Would have to bring my new F1A’a with me….
I can confirm that I along with a team of three other Brit lofters will make it to the MaxMen, and are currently chomping at the bit at the thought ! I assume that all preparations have been made for our arrival, namely strong winds, horizontal rain and occasional sleet with no chance to other than walk miles to the pup. Anything other than those conditions and we simply wont take it seriously.
EoB aka CHE
I can report that we have had the 8th day in a row with down down town LA temps 80+ F.
But it is forcast to rain later in the week – so this will get the field ready for you, cause the haggis to grow and maybe even some grass.
Your buddies Woodhouse and Oldfield braved the AZ heatwave. In a cunning plane to foil the visitors the normal near freezing first round temps were raised by ingauration excitement to almost 50 F.
So if a F1A flaps itself is that still un sporting ?
BTW– that’s auto flapping not moto flapping.
I did hear a rumor or for you a rumour that that one well know club was going to solve this for once and for all and bring a Santa Maria Bar-B-Q on the the site. Should cook up some great leift along with those steaks.
Roger
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