Anyway, on to the main subject of the post.
Doug, a friend from church, called this morning to tell me that he was making a spur-of-the-moment trip to visit an R/C flying field about an hour north of here. Since he moved here he's been looking for a really good field to fly at, since he's an R/C enthusiast who's been flying for over twenty years, and, finding that we have a common interest, he's taken me with him on some of his scouting trips before. He's also taught me to fly a little, and whenever we go to visit a new field he takes his planes and the trainer and he coaches me in my flying (in between taking his big planes up).
Anyway, we made a day trip out of it this time, and spent about four hours up there. It's a fairly big club, with a lot of great guys, and Doug did quite a bit of flying.
His big bi-plane just looks impressive, even on the ground...
...And it looks even better in the air...
There were two helicopter pilots there, too. They were both very skilled, but I only got pictures of one heli.
And a couple of other miscellaneous planes. I was really impressed by one guy's scale model of a P-47 Thunderbolt
And another person had a foamie model of a Navy trainer
I flew Doug's training plane for a while, and also had my first experience at the controls of a bigger model. It was one of Doug's electrics, and had way more power and agility than I was used to. I was pretty nervous, but I did okay anyway. Doug insisted on taking a picture of me with the plane afterwards.
I had fun, and so did Doug. He likes the field and the club; the membership is very low, and they have a paved runway, both of which are fairly unusual.
I think we'll probably be going back there at some point.
