I’ll post some pics as I go along. Working on installing servos in the wings and stabs tonight.

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Scott

The highlight of the night came after the sun was fully set and darkness fell on the airport. The Gatineau fire department hosed down a section of the tarmac and two fighters took turns in the spotlight so the photogs in the crowd could take some unique shots of these impressive machines running up their engines.

It was amazing to watch and hear and I think I did a good job of capturing the event. Please click on the photo below to see a few of the shots I took on that darkened tarmac.

I hope you enjoy them.

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Scotty

After dinner we had a campfire and the laughs and good times carried on until the early hours of the morning. Sunday the weather was just as nice as Saturday and again we got in plenty of flying. A great time was had by all in attendance even though some of us might have been a little slower moving than usual.

Rene let me warm up for the day of flying by taking the sticks of his Taylor Craft and I was quite pleasantly surprised at just how nice a plane it is to fly. Thanks Rene!

Larry and Goose were both out on Saturday to capture the events on film errr sort of. Click the photo below to check out Larry’s galleries. Goose hasn’t posted his shots yet but I’ll post a link when he gets them online. Thanks guys!

Thanks to everyone that came out to enjoy the event and those that helped out.

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Scotty

About an hour south of Syracuse just off I81 you’ll find the Chenango Bridge Airport, a beautiful grass strip airport and home to the Binghamton Aeros. The Aeros are a small club of modellers who fly giant scale models exclusively off this site. Every year on the second weekend in August they throw open the gates and welcome guests to come fly for the weekend.

This year a group of us decided to make the trip down to Chenango Bridge and check out this great site for ourselves. In all there was a 12 of us from the Ottawa area attending the event. We made up a quarter of the attendees. The organizers acknowledged our presence with the playing of Oh Canada at the official opening of the rally.

The weather for flying was great and I did plenty of it. The Aeroworks Extra 260 is finally working really well and I had a great time throwing it around the sky. I think I put a dozen or so flights on it over the weekend. Ed had fun with his Raven, Mike, Emmanuel, Gerry and Donny all got in multiple flights over the weekend. This was Paulo’s first time at a giant scale rally and after a rough first attempt managed to log a few flights with his newly acquired 1/4 scale Piper Cub.

Mike brought his TF Giant Scale P47 along and it was a crowd favorite. He really does a great job of flying it in a scale manner. He was in good company as there were 3 other Jugs there and plenty of other warbirds.

At noon the organizers arranged for a few different demonstration flights. First up was WWI airplanes. What a site!! Eight giant WWI planes all in the air at the same time. It was great to see and Joe would have loved it. Sorry I didn’t get any photos of it. Next up was a group of heavy metal WWII warplanes. I can’t remember how many but it was an impressive site as well. Next up some civilian planes including a 40% scale Cessna 140. Great looking plane. The organizers then invited Ed and I to try and wow the crowd with our two aerobats. It was a blast to share the sky with my good friend and have a little fun. I heard some Ooos and Awws and I think the crowd enjoyed the show. We enjoyed putting it on.

I didn’t take a lot of photos because frankly I was having too much fun flying but you can click on the image in this post and check out some of the pics I did take.

Next year the Binghamton Aeros will be hosting the annual IMAA Rally of Giants in June. It’s a great site and should be a great event. I know I’ll be there. Hope you can join us.

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Scott

I shot a little video of the fun last night. Check it out.

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Saturday was the first ever Electric Fun Fly hosted at the Stetson Flyers field. It turned out to be a great day. I don’t know how many pilots we had but the parking lot was full and there was plenty of action in the pits and on the flight line. It was pretty windy all day and of course it was crossing from the north so it made for some interesting flying and challenging to land in.

Emmanuel, Paulo and I brought the Fun Cubs out and had a great time dancing on the wind with them. These simple little planes are a blast to fly and are proving to be quite durable. Joe mistook us for a pack of Zeroes and took to the skies with his Corsair and tried to take us down. Paulo’s Zero err Cub and the Corsair made contact and the Cub won. That was it for the Corsair. Joe tried again with his Sea Fury and though there was contact both pilots kept their planes alive to fight another day.

I got my speed fix with both the Evader and the Habu32 and I think the crowd enjoyed the 200 km/h plus passes only a couple feet off the deck. I really love flying the Habu32. It looks great in the air and it really handles nicely.

Larry and Goose were both out shooting the event and you really should check out these guys’ galleries. They really do an awesome job of capturing the fun.

Goose has already posted a gallery. You can click on the photo below to go directly to it. I’m sure it won’t be long until Larry get’s his gallery up. You can find his photos by following the link in the sidebar.

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So tonight Emmanuel, Paulo and I headed out with 3 Fun Cubs for a little fun. Our usual park flying spot was occupied so we tried out the beach at Petrie Island.

It turned out to be a great spot. We had the wind and sun at our backs. There was plenty of open space and the hard packed sand made an interesting runway.

Using flaps was a lot of fun making landings and takeoffs super short. Get it just right and you could have the plane down and stopped in it’s own length.

Manu decided to try some Alaskan bush pilot style flying with not so great results. Hehe

I can’t wait to put this little bird in the air again

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