New England Aerotow May 18-21 - Salem, Connecticut

[Csessa]

yup for great photos.

[Jeff D]

Heard from several people at Windy Ridge said that the shots I put in earlier were not showing up. Will try again here. Let me know if they show...

Jeff

[Jeff D]

We're good.

When I was downloading the shots things got REALLY SLOW then the pc would not recognize the SIM card. A couple of passes and I got everything off. Working on em now.

[lenb]

I see no photos either

[gunny11]

Are we good? All I see are a few question marks.?

[Jeff D]

Thank you to the RC Propbusters, Tow pilots, ground crews, lunch crew, Horizon Hobby and everyone else that pitched in. Another great New England Aerotow is history. I had a great time seeing old friends, meeting some new ones and dragging one or two more into this sport. Oh ya - Flying Too! Great weekend. Thank you all for a great time.

I had a few moments of uncertainty with the camera after I got home trying to get the shots off onto the pc (cue the suspenseful music - Jeff notably sweats....) but I think were good. Here are a few quick cuts of the maidens / new ships. The album will be up as soon as I can get it done between other things. Patience as always please. It's only 1000 shots to widdle down

Later,
Jeff D.

[jjreds]

Good to see old friends and make some new ones, thanks to the Propbusters and tow pilots, looking forward to June 1
Jim S.

[JimD]

Home again after another marathon drive. Looking at the flight timer on the Bidule, it did a little over 14 hours of towing over the span of this four day event and consumed a little over 8 gallons of fuel. That works out to about 73 ounces per hour on fuel usage for the DA-150.

Scot and I alternated towing, so he had at least 14 hours of flight time as well. Add in Steve's several hours plus some time by Len and Aurele and we easily topped 30 hours of tow time for the event. Divide that by four days and that means there was non-stop towing for around 7.5 hours every day...and not one major mishap on towing through all of that time.

What we do is "performance art" and together we delivered a masterpiece!

Great time flying with everyone and now we look forward to Windy Ridge. 😎

[lenb]

Nice landing Scot !

[Stew2]

I really was out of gas, I swear....... Just ask Len, he told me the answer before I looked!!!

[Csessa]

just a short video from this weekend.

[gunny11]

Whew! That was fun... What a great place and the weather was fantastic. Thanks to the host club The Prop Busters for holding this event on their field. Thanks to the Tow Pilots for getting us airborne. As always a fun meet to attend.
thanks for the memories...
gunny

[Steve P]

Alan does a great job! 25 shots here... https://www.facebook.com/ScaleSoaringDotCom/

[Csessa]

Alan Scuterud, one of our club members got a lot of shots on Friday. I have uploaded a few and we are working on get the rest available. I believe there should be a link on the scale soaring Facebook page.

[lenb]

Another New England Aerotow in the books.
The 2017 edition was blessed with bright sunny sky's for 90% of the time and no rain!!! Thank you weather gods.
Those that attended the event this year were served up a healthy dose of thermal activity. Thank you to the Propbusters club for allowing us to occupy the field for 4 1l2 straight days and a special shout out to the members who keep us fed.
Jim Dolly, our supreme tow commander, was busy keeping the sky full of skinny winged airplanes while myself and the rest of the usual characters buzzed the flight line at ridiculous speeds. Scot Stewart once again showed why he is becoming one of the premier tow pilots on the circuit, logging close to 12 hours of towing time as well.

Thanks Steve for partnering up once again to put on this event, I'm always honored to work with you. A big thanks goes to Horizon Hobby for allowing us to provide the raffle prizes with generous discounts. Bob M, thank you again for helping fund the raffle.

Lastly,
Thanks to all the participants who gave up their time and came out to support the event.

Till next time.