I downloaded the digital video off of my Sony handycam onto my Mac and
played around with iMovieHD for a few hours and here is what I mixed
together from the JR Aerotow flightline. I still may make a few more
videos with other shots I caught... 8-)
http://www.jimbacus.net/soaring/JR_Aerotow_2005/JR_Aerotow_2005.mov
(25mb quicktime movie, 4'53 in duration)
Enjoy!
At 03:32 PM 6/5/2005, James V. Bacus wrote:
Picture Gallery is now online
at: http://www.jimbacus.net/soaring/JR_Aerotow_2005/index.html
At 11:46 PM 6/4/2005, you wrote:
WOW.
Dudes, this was too cool. Just got back from two solid days of
flying. I have a lot of photos and video, but I wanted to make a post
this evening while I am fresh back from the event.
TK and I arrived Fri. afternoon driving in from Chicago and there were A
LOT of people there. I registered as pilot 50 at that time, and there
were more after me. Busy flight line was the first thing that struck me,
two tugs working hard and a nice line of sailplanes queued up for a
tow. After registering and checking out the cool looking event T shirt
and hat that was in the registration bag, I went on to socializing a bit
in the pits. But the constant series of tows was just enticing me to
fly. I built my DG 800s and walked it out to the flight line, Capn' Jack
was all too eager to help me with another set of eyes. I got an
excellent tow, Peter Goldsmith towed me up with his cub and let him take
me up to clouds. I told him I was off, he replies... "great Jim, I think
my wings are freezing over" 8-) Needless to say I flew that flight for
awhile! 8-)
I landed and Cliff Bryan was pulling his new ASH-26 out, so I followed
him out to the flight line. I ended up being his second set of eyes, and
Cliff got that bad boy hooked up and skied out. After flying around for
a long period of time, he asked me if I wanted to try. 8-) What a
wonderful model, Cliff wasn't in a rush for it back, but he did check the
battery levels twice while I was flying, so it must have been a pretty
long flight. Such a sweet model.
Skip Miller was just pounding the cross country course all day long, I
think he went over 26 miles.
Then I wander back to the pits, see Capn' Jack over at the tents and he
asks if I want to fly the Ventus 2AX. By this time the air at about
3:30-4pm is about the best its been all day, and I am like SURE! I'LL
FLY IT. Jack let me fly it up the tug and I flew it for a long time, 40
minutes or longer, and then the ultimate TX who-ore himself, McCarthy
couldn't take it any longer so he took the sticks, and he flew it for
another 40 mins. Finally I pried his fingers from the pizza box and I
got it back for some more, and then TK wandered by and he took it for a
long flight, and then finally back to Jack, the last sailplane to land on
Fri. I forgot the final launch count for the day, but the tugs went
through 10 gallons of gas.
Of course then all the electric fun fly stuff came out... and then over
to a BBQ at John Diniz house for excellent food, drink, electric heli
flying in the driveway, and John did a small jam session in his basement
later while McCarthy tried to finish building the scale model he didn't
quite get flying earlier in the day. Just more fun!
Today was a windier, with more people in attendance, but less of the
flying at anyone time. Only one tug worked the flight line
constantly. I flew once in the morning when the wind was calmer, but
decided to help work the flight line and snap pictures and video in
between the chores. Paul Siegel and Steve Siebenaler flew over from Ohio
in Paul's Super Cub to check out the action and really put in a nice
landing on the grass strip. Flying continued non-stop all day
long. Later in the day there was a raffle for 1:1 scale glider rides,
and although I didn't win one, I have never been up in a glider so I
bought a ride. What a HOOT! So I got to sit in the front seat of 2-33,
did an aerotow, and even got to fly it awhile. Shot a lot of video up
there, and got some of flying site from above, with little sailplanes and
tugs flying beneath us.
Now that tops off a great couple of days! 8-) Don't miss this event
next year, apparently it has really grown, now in its 3rd year. This is
my first, and I really regret missing the first two.
Pix and video tomorrow.
Jim
Downers Grove, IL
Member of the Chicago SOAR club, and Team JR
AMA 592537 LSF 7560 Level IV R/C Soaring blog at www.jimbacus.net
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