2015 New England Sailplane Aerotow - May 14-17

[gunny11]

Hey Tom & Charlie you can't drive on the parkway's with a trailer. You're lucky the state troopers didn't stop you.

[BobM]

Wasn't able to make it to the New England Aerotow today as I was in Stamford CT for the 2nd annual STEMFest. Had a great time sharing information about the large scale sailplanes and scale aerotowing. Brought out 5 sailplanes (ASH-31mi, Arcus Light, Ventus 2c, Orlik II, and the MDM Fox). Seems lilke everyone had a great time learning about the sailplanes and aerotowing.

I have a few pictures from Friday at the Nr=ew England Aeratow. Thought I would share them......more to come as I will be back at the event for Sunday.

[stihac]

Hi Petr,

We're flying for sure.
Many guys are still here and staying on for Sunday. Weather forecast is for excellent conditions. Hope to see you there.

LEN

Hi Len,

Great, me and Veronika will be there in the morning.

Petr

[lenb]

Hi Petr,

We're flying for sure.
Many guys are still here and staying on for Sunday. Weather forecast is for excellent conditions. Hope to see you there.

LEN

[stihac]

Are you guys flying tomorrow or is the event over?

Petr

[Charlie]

Just showered up at the home base
Toms down in the dungeon , He did a great job driving back with only 5 people giving us the finger!

We found a new way by accident to bypass the Garden State Parkway
The palisades parkway took us right to 95 from the Tapoen Zee
Definitely going this way from now on!
No tolls and smooth road

Thanks to Len and Steve for a great time! food was excellent as usual
Jim working hard at the fight line as usual.
Great time, Tom and I were glad we made the trip, It was well worth it!

Thanks again Guys , Great time had By all.

Charlie

Did I say the food was awesome!

[Csessa]

Just a note to say thanks to Len, Steve and all the RC Probusters for another great event. I am disappointed I could not stay for Sunday, but as Jim Dolly pointed out; I am only allowed 3 consecutive days of fun. It was also great to see all my scale soaring friends again after a sparse season last year.

Special thanks to Steve as co-pilot and Len on the tow for my Blanik maiden flight. It took about 5 minutes for my heart rate to return to normal once I landed, but the plane flew great. After many more flights over 3 days I think I am getting a handle on it. By the way, if anyone needs servo connects made up Len is your man. Just ask him about brown side up, or was that down?

I got to tow some on Friday, and Saturday. Just foams, but I got a real appreciation for the effort of Jim, Len, and all the folks to stand there for hours pulling us up. Thanks so much.

Hoping to see many of you again in Muncy!!

[Steve P]

Day #3 in the bag! One more to go. Everyone likely drove to the field in the rain, but by the time we arrived the drops had stopped and planes were assembled. Len started tow duty with the Hacker Decathlon, Jim joined later with the Hangar 9 Decathlon. The H9 did some work before the flex header again broke just beyond a recent repair. Jim switched over to the trusty Porter and we flew all day.

We had some broad swaths of blue sky, some stone gray overcast and and occasional low ceiling that swallowed up the tugs and sailplanes alike. Flying never stopped.

Great support for the raffle with Charlie Reeve wining the big Carbon Cub (to be donated to a youth flyer back in DE) and club members won both the DLG and Charlesworth plan set. Over $660 was raised in the raffle!

33 pilots and another very good group of spectators (the newspaper coverage paid off). The grill guys did great duty feeding everyone. Team Gorgeous rolled out toward the end of the day. Sunday should bring great flying weather, sun, warmer temperatures and a more casual crowd.

Thanks to everyone who supported the event and worked to make it another success. Big kudos to Jim Dolly for masterful towing, Len for towing and being a great partner in crime, and to everyone who shagged lines and hooked up planes to keep the lines moving.

Next up in the east is Sky High Aero Tow in Muncy, PA. The first weekend of June!

[TomTerrific?]

What an amazing 2nd day of flying...

The wind was down until late. Thermals where all around. And, such a wide and varied collection of gliders.

Thank-You Len, Jim, and all for tows. Plus everyone's efforts who made this such a great event!

The two Ventus 2cx maiden flights where successful due to Lens generous advice, humor, and expert flying skills. I have allot to learn and grow into with her and hopefully she'll survive while my landing/flying skills improve

What a great group of guys too. Thanks for all the camaraderie. Everyone was kind while I hobbled around with the knee injury.

[Steve P]

26 folks flying today. The lunch break is now underway...

Super cool on the press coverage Steve! Glad to help out where I can, even if it's behind the scene. Here is the article screen shot of Len. (hmm, looks like I need to add the official Swiss1 flag smiley into the forum coding...)
Cheers, Thompson

[Steve P]

23 registered pilots on day one. A good start.

Here is some local newspaper coverage of Thursday. Both the scale and non scale epower entries,,,

http://www.theday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/...4009999&Ref=PH

Off to the field!

[lenb]

What a wonderful day at the New England Aerotow.
It was an EPIC lift day. No exaggeration.... I constantly heard the guys saying, " I have the spoilers on and I'm still going up"

Also, a big thanks to everyone who came out on a Thursday to fly with us. Towing never stopped, Planes filled the air and fuel ( lots of it ) was burned.

Gotta go,

LEN

[BobM]

Got to Salem a bit on the late side, by about 3:30 or so today and arrived to see a really great crowd of flyers already here enjoying good weather and fantastic hosting by the PropBusters. The corn isn't up yet and the field is manicured beautifully.

Always great to see friends, old and new, at the events and catch up on everything.

Several of us enjoyed a great dinner together at Flanders Seafood and Restaurant.

Sorry I don't have any pictures for today (I was busy trying to remember which switch on my transmitter was for the retract and not the tow release...........I think I got the shortest flight of the day for that one !). Once I finally sorted out the switches and got towed up the Arcus Light flew well. Planning several flights with it tomorrow as well as some of the other sailplanes I have hidden away in my trailer.

Looking forward to tomorrow, should be wonderful. I'll try to get pictures throughout the day and post in the evening at some point.

Bob

[stihac]

So, what's going on in Salem? Those of us still stuck at work need some updates

Petr

PS:see you in the morning