[RCSE] Getting Bombed at MOSS Field

[Tom Nagel]

It was a beautiful early October day at MOSS field, the little berry patch out northeast of Columbus that our new member Gil Perez calls "The Tree Farm"       We had clear blue skies, light winds, lgreat thermal lift,  a handful of club members, a few visitors to the field and spiders.  Lots and lots of SPIDERS!       I think these things are called parachute spiders.   They sit in the bushes and tree tops and spin out long lengths of spider silk, and when a thermal comes through they go sailing off across the sky.   Our planes were coming back with hundreds of strands of spider silk (and presumably some pretty pissed of spiders) draped across the wings.       One of the families that strolled by on their way to hike down by the lake had two sons; so we broke out the Air Hogs and did some recruiting.  Dad and the older boy both flew air hogs successfully and I have a feeling we may see them again.       And we got bombed.   I have been wanting to experiment with "bomb drop" as an event for our electric flying.  I had made up some fiber board disks about 2 1/2" in diameter, painted white with a big red X and a hole drilled in the midde.   We strapped light dowel rods  to the fuselage of some planes just aft of the wings (vertically, like little antennae) and dropped a bomb disk onto the dowel.       The idea was to fly over the target, loop or roll or whatever, and let the disk fall off the dowel onto the target.     The best Bill Hoelcher or I could do was about 25 yards from the target.  I am sure Gordy will have plenty advice for us about getting bombed.  Practice practice practice.        I hope you all had a good afternoon, too.   Tom H. Nagel Judicatum Procurator Recuperatio