Saturday was a perfect day at the flying field. Glenn, Kip, Kris, Joel, Nick Jared and myself spent the day either flying, watching or taking video. Glenn received his new Hawker Hurricane that I picked up at Northern Hobbies on my way to the field. We flew a variety of planes but the highlight of the day was formation flying with 3 P-51's. I used my "FlyCam One 2" positioned facing the rear of my plane to capture aerial video of the other two birds. I am in the process of editing the video but there are a couple of sections where Glenn's plane is so close you can read the writing on it. Kris pulls off some barrel rolls in view of the aerial camera. No real crashes occurred Saturday but there were a few dead stick landings in the wheat field.
Kris' Extra experienced a burn out but he brought it down gently. Glenn's electrified P-51 had some sort of electrical problem but he too was able to drop it down in the wheat. Jared made the trip and retrieved the plane. I had the camera attached to the bottom of the wing so we got some really great high speed flyby's. Kip showed up and ran the camera for a bit. Nick showed up for a while and flew his Mini Titan. As usual he dazzled us with a bit of 3D helicopter flight.
I did get the Superstar and the F-4 Phantom airborne. Great flights but a tough landing for the Superstar ended up with bent landing gear. By the end of the day I had flow 8 missions, 2 short of my goal for the day but considering all the video and action I was more than satisfied. The day ended with a campfire at my house.All in all a great day for the UncontrolledFlight guys.
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