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had a wonderful week near Woodruff, South Carolina in the middle of May when I attended the 2013 Joe Nall Fly- In. Pat Hartness, Mike Gregory, Bob Shaw, and announcer Bob Sadler made this trip a very exciting one. Mark Weiss also put on a great and successful effort to introduce or re-introduce control line flying to as many volunteers and participants as possible to this predominantly R/C gathering. Last year his efforts, with the help of many involved, resulted in over 200 one-minute electric powered control line training flights. This year his efforts and even more volunteers brought forth over 600 one-minute training flights.
I have received a report from Mark, and I will put his report in this column. Step up to the microphone, Mark.
“Wow! That is all I can say. In only our second year at the coveted Joe Nall Fly-In at the Triple Tree Aerodrome in Woodruff, SC, we were thrilled and delighted to match our total of 241 training flights of the 2012 event. We reached and surpassed that num- ber on the third day of this week long event! Even though we were rained out on the final day, we recorded approximately 600 train- ing flights this year!
“I say ‘approximately’ for we recorded the names of about 400 students but flew many more flights as we had a huge number of students who returned for more flights until they soloed. Some of the younger pilots came back a dozen times. I am confident that our estimated total of 600 training flights is a very conservative number.
“Pat Hartness and his crew delivered wonderful circles last year, but they out did themselves this year. Over 150 cubic yards of dirt were moved into the area to provide very level circles and more area between the
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PHOTOGRAPHY: ALLEN BRICKHAUS
Bruce Jennings points out the adjustment on one of his handles to Mark Weiss at the 2013 Joe Nall event held at Triple Tree Aerodrome near Woodruff, South Carolina. Mark is in charge of the control line training portion of the Joe Nall and his report is the subject of this column.
circles for stringing out the lines of waiting airplanes. Pat also added underground sprinklers into each circle. When we ar- rived, we were blown away by these beauti- ful new circles.
“After learning much from our inaugural year, additional preparation was made for this year in hopes that we would add to the 241 training flights the prior year. Again, the airplane of choice was the RingRat 250 from Stevens Aeromodels. These electric powered planes were set up with E-flite timers and Thunderpower Li-Po batteries.
With over 600 flights, the group of instruc- tors and their students logged nearly 7000 laps of Circle #2, the Training Circle. 7000 laps!
“On Circle #1, all the experienced C/L pilots flew their airplanes as well as some selected advanced training flights, mostly under the expert eye of World and Nats Stunt Champi- on, Bob Hunt. Circle #3 was dedicated to the wonderful and full fleet of top shelf planes brought by Bob Shaw and flown by such won- derful pilots as Derek Barry, Dale Barry, Charlie Reeves and Allen Brickhaus. Circle
Derek Barry and Bob Hunt (above) flew a demonstration flight on the main runway at the 2013 Joe Nall. Allen was pleased to have been asked to “talk the flights” to the over 1500 people watching the noon demo. Derek Barry helps teach his daughter, Layla (at right), how to fly control line. She became adamant that she does this over and over again, which of course pleases Derek.
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