{"id":3879,"date":"2019-09-09T09:03:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T13:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/blog\/?p=3879"},"modified":"2019-09-09T09:03:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T13:03:42","slug":"first-fall-flying-rjk-follies-muncie-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/first-fall-flying-rjk-follies-muncie-in\/","title":{"rendered":"First Fall Flying – RJK Follies – Muncie, IN"},"content":{"rendered":"

*** BE SURE TO CHECK OUT THE PHOTOS AT THE BOTTOM ***<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m back from vacation and swamped with orders.\u00a0 In addition, I now have two weeks to get all the trophies made for the Outdoor Champs and all of the Registrant Short Kits made.\u00a0 One day, I will be elected as the President of the Procrastinators Club (but not today).<\/p>\n

This last weekend was the RJK Follies meet in Muncie.\u00a0 This is an annual Free Flight contest put on by Rudy Kluiber (Cleveland area) and is focused on “other” Free Flight – but Rudy has added two days of FAC flying to his three-day event.\u00a0 He provided nice participant plaques and has promised to create a perpetual trophy for FAC High Point Winner.\u00a0 THIS CONTEST SHOULD BE ON THE TO-DO LIST OF ANYONE CLOSE TO MUNCIE.<\/p>\n

This was a wonderfully relaxed contest with only four events per day.\u00a0 Unfortunately, it was lightly attended, with only four FAC participants (excepting two stragglers that put in FAC times from the other side of the contest).\u00a0 They were Pat Murray, Winn Moore, Paul Boyanowski, and me.\u00a0 We had overcast, but calm weather Saturday and Sunday, excepting Saturday afternoon, when it was clear, calm and buoyant.<\/p>\n

Personally, I had low-lights and high-lights.\u00a0 I struggled getting things to fly (and to keep motors in planes).\u00a0 For example, I flew all day Saturday, but only logged six official flights (low-light) – BUT – four of those six were maxes (high-light) – but – one of those was a 8:18 deep into the beans and was lost (low-light).\u00a0 However, I got my Jumbo Stallion properly powered and have a model that is practically guaranteed maxes ever time (high-light), but a faulty DT\/Tail\/Seating caused a stall and crash shortly after launch that will require the entire nosebllock and prop assembly to be rebuilt – in two week – in addition to trophies\/kits\/orders (low-light).<\/p>\n

Lastly, I was shut out of the kanones.\u00a0 However, let’s look at the facts: Winn had a spectacular day one, winning three out of four events (Embryo, Dime, OT Rubber).\u00a0 In fact, he was High-Point Winner and picked up a fourth kanone on Sunday (Jet Cat).\u00a0 Pat Murray won FAC Scale and Jimmie Allen.\u00a0 And Paul Boyanowski won Simplified Scale.\u00a0 Nearly all of the events were close;\u00a0 OT Rubber had a fly-off between Winn (Wanderer) and Pat (Jabberwock).\u00a0 Pat landed at 4:15 with Winn about 10 seconds behind that – and they were within 100 feet of each other at the end.\u00a0 I had grand designs on Simplified Scale after my Jumbo experience on Saturday and did log a Max (after a 100 on the first flight), but crashed out on my third.\u00a0 Winn put in 3 90+ second flights on his Stout 2A-T, Paul put up a Max, 110, and a 103 on his (anything but simple – see below) Cessna 180, and that encouraged Pat to get out his high-flying WWII-Combat Grumman Avenger – practically a guaranteed winner.\u00a0 He maxed and then went down hill in the overcast afternoon, giving Paul the win.\u00a0 It seemed every event was close like that – a great contest.<\/p>\n

One last thought about the competition.\u00a0 We had four competitors – with 694 Kanones between us (as of the beginning of August – kanone reports is another thing I am behind on).\u00a0 That’s some pretty serious flying there – all of us know how to build and fly and win – and there can only be one winner in each event.<\/p>\n

I had a comment from someone that they did not see me post any photos after day one.\u00a0 She (my wife) was right.\u00a0 So I took some pics Sunday.\u00a0 Let’s call this “A Study in Perfection” – these are two planes by the Master – Paul Boyanowski.\u00a0 Usually I will do a single photo, but I am doubling up on these to show the exquisite detail that Paul puts into every model.\u00a0 The first is his winning Cessna 180 (modeled after Mark Houck’s full scale 180) and the second is his venerable Albatros D.i.<\/p>\n

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The prop is not bent, That is an artifact of a digital photo – the wind was turning the prop.<\/p><\/div>\n

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