It was a grueling and nerve wracking day but it's always one of my favorite events with the Cromwell. I gave I don't know how many wagon rides and went through three sets of batteries. My thumbs were getting numb from all the stick time.
Steve On Sunday, August 19, 2012 5:46:49 PM UTC-4, jvragu47 wrote: > > Yesterday we participated in the annual open house at the > Americans in Wartime Museum. It was a beautiful day, mid 70's, blue sky. > Frank, Will, Steve, Paul and myself were kept busy all day. You can see > just one of the many Navarone operators we had from 10AM until 4PM. We > went though at least 1500 rounds of paint. And at 10 rounds per gunner, > that is a lot of gunners. > Steve again provided rides in the Cromwell Express. I believe a > few adults were thinking quite hard about taking a spin in the wagon. I ran > my PzII for over 90 minutes until the smallest screw backed out just enough > to allow a gearbox malfunction. To be remedied. Oh well, been wanting to > have a reason to tear something apart. It was going too smoothly. Batteries > were tested prior to my running in between all of the targets . Voltage on > the main batteries dropped 1.1 volts from 13.2 to 12.1. Separate 12 volt > that runs the boards dropped only .4 volts. From 13.4 to 13.0. Not bad for > 90 minutes of run time. And it was similar to battle conditions. Moving to > and from from cover, change of direction when anticipating fire coming in > . Yes, my tank was a moving target worth 2 points. Was only hit 4 times. > The museum had plenty of events. The only time we were not packed > was during the live fire of weapons. Especially the FLAME THROWER. Lots of > black smoke and we could feel the heat, and we were about 50 yards away > with tanks in between. Oh yeah, the arrival and departure of the Huey was > quite impressive as it flew directly over us, less than 100 feet overhead. > A partial list of tanks on display,, 2 Shermans, Grant/Lee, > Hetzer, T34/85, Scorpion, Bren, Hellcat, M24 Chaffee, Priest,Chieftain, > Valentine, Stuart, . A contingent of British scout cars, not sure if they > were Humbers . And many assorted APC's. > > > -- You are currently subscribed to the "R/C Tank Combat" group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] Visit the group at http://groups.google.com/group/rctankcombat
