Tom
Those are some spiders, we had the same phenom at Muncie today....
Cheers
On 10/8/06, Tom Nagel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
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