It was a great turnout of Club Members at our first Monthly Meeting last month. We also had a great fun fly, “Spill the Beans”, (I’ll have more on that here in minute, ok Alan). Now comes our July meeting and get ready for Hot Dogs and soda’s. The club is back in full swing!
On other news, and I believe Brad mention this but we could use your old chairs out at the field. Seems like some have walked away. Sorry we missed out the Fourth of July this year. Thought of doing something for Labor Day weekend?? Some thoughts would good!!!
FAA Safety team event went well and Thank You to Jim for putting the event together. Great Job Jim!
Our First Fun Fly of the year (well over a year now):
Spill the Beans was a good laugh for all. 16 participants took to the sky avoiding spilling any beans. I took-off with 20 beans flight time (53sec) and came back with none, zero…Frank was up next, with his flying (46sec), he came back with 11. Then we had Dave (45sec) and Bob (1:30) and both came back empty. Next was Brad, of course his flight was smooth (49sec) um, came back with just 2 beans??? Dennis (used a glider) went up after Brad, (60sec) and came back with zero. Eric took off did his loop and back down in 31 seconds. Fastest to do the task, however, he too came back with zero beans! Jeff was next (48sec), he came back with 5 beans. Frank was looking pretty good so far for the lead. Larry took his turn (43sec) and also had zero beans! Frank was smiling.
Fritz took the stage on this flight (32sec) and had 13 beans. Sorry Frank. Pressure was on Daric now (45sec) and come back with zero beans. Alan, gets in his first club event for the first time. Yeah, you know Alan, the one who flies into the gates and…. well, here’s Alan, flies in safe mode (yes it was approved to do so) takes off, gets ready to do his loop, (safe mode off to do the loop) and then he just gently fly’s around, getting his approach lined up and lands. (1:18) Bean count, are you kidding me, all twenty beans were accounted for. Have you ever seen an, um, excuses me, old man dance on the runway, a site one would not want to see…? Now talk about pressure on Quan to achieve the same Plato that Alan was riding. Quan up (54sec) and lands with zero beans…Here comes Nick, all calm, no sweat takes off does his loop lands (51sec) and he, ties Alan with 20 beans…OMG. Mike took his turn (48 sec) and he came with 13 beans. George was the last contested (1:11) with no beans…
Congratulations to Nick for finishing in 1st with the time of 51 seconds all 20 bean and Alan taking second with the time of 1:18 and his 20 beans and I’m still having a hard time taking this in!!! Coming in third was Fritz with 13 beans 32 seconds, 4th was Mike with 13 beans 48 seconds, 5th was Frank with 11 beans 46 seconds, 6th was Jeff with 5 beans 48 seconds and our 7th place winner was Brad with 2 beans 49 seconds.
Special Thanks to the team of players who helped, Forest for being the official bean counter and Randy for keeping time and altitude.
Jovi