11/21/06 Good Morning and Happy Turkey Day to all. Gaige is getting his new smoker ready for the bird right now. We will be smoking him tomorrow, so that we can go flying on Thanksgiving.

Can anyone identify this mystery flyer?? Here is the flying report straight from his mouth: I put in a flight of 30 minutes on an engine run of 4 minutes 45 seconds. I was still a mile high on a really surprising bit of thermal activity and was getting tired and cold so dove down and landed. Adrian put in one flight on his Mayhem. Shot a few landings and then the engine started cutting out occasionally so he hung it up. Good choice. All in all a good day under the conditions. Forty three and about 4 mph wind. Not too bad. We're planning on getting together with a prospective new member for breakfast one of these days soon. Let me know your guess for our “mystery man”.

The SkyGo better known as the MN wiener is a success. Everyone down here loves it. Gaige is enjoying flying it for me until I feel confident to try myself. He also has introduced the SAGE flyers to the Twinjet. They are all impressed with that one too. Gaige just completed an E-Flite Cub which we will try out Thursday with a flying report to follow.

Remember we need some pictures of your projects, rumor has it more of you are flying “choppers” now, pictures to follow.

11/9/2006: Our weather is still beautiful, and it sounded like you had some terrific weather this past week too. Did anyone get out flying? I think the word for next summer is beware of monsters – “Sea Monsters” that is. Adrian is building one; rumor has it that Jack is too, and Gaige has one that he has flown once. Dick forwarded these pictures of Adrian with his as it looks out of the box.

There also seems to be a fleet of mini-helicopters in the Longville-Pequot Lakes area. Adrian flies his in the kitchen, and I am waiting for a picture of Dick trimming Pat’s hair with his.

Jack has listed our club and this blog with the Minnesota RC clubs; check out their website when you have time. The link to it is:http://www.rc-airplane-world.com/minnesota-rc-airplane-clubs.html . I set up the club with its own email address which is llamf@yahoo.com . Please refer any potential new members or interested flyers to that email address and someone will get back to them. This avoids having any personal contact information posted on the blog.

Our local club here in Tucson had its fall classic glider contest this past Saturday. You can check out the results and pictures at:http://www.sageflyers.com/page7.html You might note the picture sequence toward the bottom where one of the contestants actually hit himself and his timer w/his glider and received a cut on his leg. Another safety point to keep in mind as his equipment (spoilers) failed and they had no way of getting out of the way in time to avoid the collision. Also had another frequency interference problem during the contest—no damage as the problem occurred during landing approach and the downed plane won the contest (both categories). Any members considering replacing their radio equipment over the winter might be wise to check out the new 2.4 GHz radios which are being touted as being “interference-free”.

Remember to send in pictures or information about any new purchases or building projects you may have going. Even Linda has a new plane she’s going to bring out next week, the Flying Kielbasa. See ya then.