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Helicopter Events
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2008 Events |
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IRCHA 2008 - Muncie, Indiana
Paul spotting for his friend Aeryk
Hurley of Roosevelt, Utah flying his Century Freestyle. |
Enjoying the Noontime Demos on Friday.
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PG flying by with his 10S Miniature
Aircraft Razor 600E.
It was good to see our friends from
all around the country as we all converged on Muncie, Indiana once again. |
| In Mid July we
attended SMRCHA. Southern Maine Radio Controlled Helicopter
Association's event held in North Hollis Maine. We were the lone
campers. Although it was a small event, everyone had a good
time. The local television station even came out and filmed Paul and
Bob Libby flying.
Burt Dummond, club president,
asked
Paul to fly his T-Rex 500, shown
on the right in his trailer. |
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| On June 15th we
attended the 2nd Annual Rod Black Fun Fly at our home field in Guildhall,
Vermont. |
Paul did a noontime
demonstration with this 10S and 12S Razors. The weather was gloomy
and rainy. Sorry no photos. |
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We had a great time
at the Huntsville event. Fantastic pilots from all over the country
were there. I had a great time. The T-Rex team of Jason
Krause, Bert Kammerer, and Alan Szabo put on a great show with their new
T-Rex 700. |
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Nick Maxwell flying his Stratus in the ditch at
Birmingham. Fellow Miniature Aircraft team member Ben Parrott
spotting for Nick.
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Paul spotting for another Miniature
Aircraft team member, Kyle Stacy at Birmingham. |
| Unfortunately,
at the Port Charlotte Event in February 2008 PG's tailslide ended in disaster.
In front of Bert Kammerer, Matt Botos,
Mike Fortin, Elvis Leslie, Pete Campbell, and Jared Granzow, Paul decided
to see how low a tailslide could go. When the experiment failed, the
bullpen was speechless, even Mike Fortin.
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Elvis Leslie and Paul talking about radio
techniques at Port Charlotte.
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Some of the gang. Paul and
Art Hughes to the right at Clint's Birthday Bash in January 2008. |
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Bryan Blackwell wrenching on
his T-Rex 600N. |
Let a pro show you how it
is done. That's Bobby "High Voltage" Watts on the
flightline. |
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Paul and Kyle Stacy at the Toledo
Expo.
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Paul flying Ron Osinski's
Airskipper 90 Prototype at the Hoosier Heli Rumble in Indiana. |
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Hanging out at Dayton Wingmasters
in Dayton, Ohio. |
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Paul flying Greg Alderman's Bergen
E-Magnum at IRCHA 2007. |
Paul spotting for Nir Meiri flying his
Aurora at IRCHA 2007 |
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Checking out Dan's new camera at
Blacksheep. |
Heli pad at Blacksheep.
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Henry did an "oops" with
his Knight 600E.
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We attended the following events in 2007:
Clint's Birthday Bash in Statesboro, Georgia
Rod Black Memorial Fun Fly in Guildhall, Vermont
North East RC Flyers IMAC Event Troy, Vermont
Mid-Ohio Heli Challenge in Urbana, Ohio
Hoosier Heli Rumble in Lafayette, Indiana
IRCHA 2007 in Muncie, Indiana
Dayton Wingmaster Heli Event in Dayton, Ohio
Blacksheep in Pendleton, South Carolina
Paul also flew at Curtis Youngblood's in Hearne,
Texas and
with the Szabo's at the LVRC in Las Vegas, Nevada. |
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Clint's Birthday Bash
2007
It was a great time, as
pilots from the region joined at Clintstone's house to celebrate his
birthday. It was great to see all the Miniature Aircraft gang there and
other top 3D pilots flying Raptors, TRex 450 and 600s, and Avants.
PG 378 Just
Hangin' Around to the left.
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Bobby Watts'
Miniature Aircraft Stratus |
Clint Flying his
Ion-X. |
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Paul night flying his T-Rex 450SE one night at
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Clint's with Zak Johns standing by. |
H2theC's Toys |
Clint's Battery Set Up
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| 2006
Helicopter Event: |
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| IRCHA SOUTHWEST IN
LEHI,
UTAH-SEPTEMBER 2006
We had a great weekend at
the 2nd Annual IRCHA
Southwest event held in
Lehi, Utah. Rain shut down flying most of Friday, but Saturday and Sunday
there was lots of flying. Several folks took to the night sky and gathered
around a campfire. I entered my first "competition" a Pad-Hop at
the event. We also met lots of nice flyers from around the region
including Jake Botia and his dad from the Vegas area. We also ran into
John Poulsen whom we had met at the HeliProz flying field in 2005 in Billings,
Montana. We met the Aeryk Hurley and his family from Roosevelt, Utah--another
father/son flying team. |
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| THE BIG EVENT: |
IRCHA HELI JAMBOREE-MUNCIE,
INDIANA |
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In August 2006 we attended
our second IRCHA Jamboree. It was great being with the top flyers around
the world. We had met many of the "best" the previous year such
as Alan Szabo Jr. this year we were able to meet Colin Bell, Stephen Girard, Nir
Mieri and Nigel Brown. We spent some time with Kyle and Ray Stacy.
They are such a great help and we appreciate them very much. At the 2005
event I had just been off training gear one week. This year I was flying
3D.
The highlight of the event
was spending time with Curtis "The Iceman" Youngblood. I was
able to spot for Curtis during his night fly!
If you have never been to
IRCHA in Munice-make it some how! All the pilots are very nice and
helpful. The event will be August 9-12, 2007 at the AMA headquarters in
Muncie, Indiana. You will see hours and hours and hours and hours of the
best pilots in the world flying during the four-day event. The noon time
demos and the Saturday night fly are the highlights.
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Other Events:
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 Our "home" field
is located in Guildhall,
Vermont. Every
summer our club has a fun
fly. Flyers from
Vermont and New Hampshire gather together for flying and food.
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helicopter friends John and Mike both fly IMAC airplanes too. |
 
In
September 2005 we went
to a fun fly in Zilah, Washington. We saw
some of the flying lawn mowers (you
can too by clicking on the lawn mower pic)
and witches there. We also had the pleasure
of meeting and see Kyle Woshens of Port Orchard, Washington flying his 35%
IMAC planes. If you ever get a chance to see him fly you will be
impressed. (Click on
Kyle's plane to view a quick clip of him doing a rolling harrier.)
When Kyle flies everyone sets down their transmitters and watches. Kyle and his
family were very friendly. 
They also had great
hamburgers!
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