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This message from "C. David Campbell" <cdcampb@ismi.net> brought to you by EFLIGHT!
Hi all,
 Just a teaser for all of those who missed out on the fun, and those who left early on Sat........
This was a GREAT show! I had a good time last year, and this was even better. There were around 80 (!) pilots, and most everybody brought 3 or more planes. The food was very good, and the weather was perfectly clear and calm. We had still air for the slowfliers in the evening, and a few flew during the day. The demo's were really good, and the AULD wasn't too imposing for the sport fliers.
As I had hoped, there were a lot of good speed 400 sport and scale planes also.
The most fun was after the event closed on Sat., and the field opened for "open flying". The Slowfliers came out, and enjoyed the calm cool air. The moisture came out too, as the jap tissue on my Breezy Junior pruned up, and changed all of my trims about oh, 3/4 inch! So that's why we have computer radios!
The Slow flying ended at about 9:30, when it was too dark. But you know what? there were STILL a full line of pilots along the line at 10:00!
After that, the ties came off, the Cyalume sticks were cracked open and the night flying commenced. Midwest R/C's club president treated us to a 3D heli demo that was outstanding, and there were always 4 planes in the air. Darwin Garrison's NightOps equipped Pushycat was very visible when it got totally dark, and the Cyalume sticks that Doug Ingrahm got at Kmart were very bright and lasted until after I left at 11:30. He made the statement that the planes look 3 times faster at night and it's true. I bet there were some UFO sightings in Michigan that night. Heck, one of 'em had a headlight :o) Just hearing Pat Mattes cackle was worth staying up. A good time had by all.
I can't wait to do it again.
Dave
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