Flying in Salem CT

[TomTerrific?]

Great flying day and good seeing everyone.
Great big THANKS to Len, Steve, and Bob for the tows. Bob- thanks again for the lunch and Key Lime pie too. Lets hope for one more good flying day before winter.

[Steve P]

Turkey Tow postponed to S A T U R D A Y

Weather guessers predict a better day

[Steve P]

Gobble! Gobble! It's Turkey Tow time!

This Friday 11/25/16 at RC Propbusters' field in Salem. Bring your sailplanes, tow planes and full bellies!

All are welcome. http://www.rcpropbusters.com/flying-field.html

[lenb]

Unfortunately, the wingtips are the least of the concern. ;(

[TomTerrific?]

Oh- good. Winglet left in the locked medical emerg box at the field.

[Steve P]

King or Kubrick?? I think the color was clockwork orange because the other tip sadly died a violent dystopian death along with the rest of the airframe.

[lenb]

Yes it is don's. there is another one somewhere.

[yyz]

Wasn't that an 80s Stephen King thriller, "Winglets of the Corn"?

[TomTerrific?]

Found Today in Cornfield: left winglet from a 5+ meter sailplane. Orange color.

Maybe it's Don's?(can someone contact him to check)

Tom

[DB_02]

Final Score:

Dan: 8
Corn: 0

It was surely a great day out there. Everyone there had a great day of flying with no major disasters. Thanks to all who towed and Bob for providing lunch/a light snack. There was some lift out there which made things interesting and I could get about 15 minutes for my longest flight. Although, I heard word that Tom had scored 50 min. flight that day. Kudos to you. The ASW 20 continues to perform for me, especially when I get really down low on that corn. It was great to see Bob get the Bidule dialed in and Len get his Arcus completely dialed in for Vermont.

Overall a great day.

See you all in Vermont!

-Dan

[BobM]

Had a great time with everyone yesterday, that was a lot of fun.

Many thanks to everyone that helped with getting my Bidule working again.........very appreciated (I heard somewhere it takes a community to keep things working).......the engine works so much better when the ignition is getting power........turns out the kill switch was the culprit. Tom many thanks for use of the wire adapters to diagnose the issue.

My Bidule 170 seems to have awakened now with the tuned pipes for the exhaust system. I can tow everyone now without being asked when I am going to go to full throttle.

Caught some light thermals with the Arcus and had fun working that for one of the flights.

Looking forward to the next time we can get out together.

Bob

[Steve P]

Those casual days of flying with a group of good people are THE BEST! Love those long low approaches over the corn tops.

Big thanks to Scot for doing the lion's share of towing all day so the rest of us could play. Bob's tuned pipe conversion on the 170 appears to be a success too!

[hello82]

yup +1 on all of that. Another joyous day of sailplaning at Salem and dodging high corn.

Matt

[lenb]

It was great seeing everyone yesterday.
We had 9 or 10 guys there flying sailplanes all day. Lift was light at times so the tow pilots got a ton of practice landing over the corn.
Scot managed to obtain a new nickname........ "The Farmer" for bringing in a complete 14' cornstalk complete with corn and roots on the end of the tow line.. I don't think the Bidule even knew it snagged it.

Thanks for the tows guys, and thanks for lunch Bob.

Len

[TomTerrific?]

Nice day flying with everyone!
High complete cloud cover with lower clouds passing through gave us a nice day of light winds and scratchy lift.
Thanks for the tows Stew and Bob. Thanks again Bob for the sandwich, softdrink, and cake!!!