Scale NAT's 2016 anybody?

[Larry B]

The 2016 scale NAT's are quickly approaching, they will be happening June 24, 25 & 26th. This year should be a good one as the event has a new CD and he is having the event on the grass field at the back of the AMA complex instead of the usual paved runway.
Hope to see you there,
Larry B

 

[Bartman]

geez, I didn't realize they're already here! Thanks for the reminder!

 

[Jetpainter]

View attachment 83386 The 2016 scale NAT's are quickly approaching, they will be happening June 24, 25 & 26th. This year should be a good one as the event has a new CD and he is having the event on the grass field at the back of the AMA complex instead of the usual paved runway.
Hope to see you there,
Larry B

Very cool airplane Larry, can you tell us something about it?

I went to the Scale Masters when it was in St. Louis many, many years ago. The weather was lousy, but there were some awesome airplanes!

 

[WMcNabb]

geez, I didn't realize they're already here! Thanks for the reminder!

Any chance of getting someone here at GSN to post a ton of photos if they're going? I would love to see these fascinating aircraft, but can't make it to Muncie.

 

[Bartman]

i can't commit to going either. if anyone is planning to attend and would like to post coverage here at the site please message me or email me at bart@giantscalenews.com

Thanks!

 

[Larry B]

Thank you Jetpainter, the model is a 1/4 scale Fiat CR-32 scratch built from my own plans, it is a good flying model that I have been flying for just over 2 years now. Last year I was able to place 4th at Top Gun flying in the Masters Class which made me pretty happy.
it is all traditional wood construction covered in Solartex and painted in Klass Kote. The cowling & wheel pants are glass made from my own molds.

My wife Brenda has a Kindle which will take photos, tomorrow we will experiment and see if we can post a picture taken with the Kindle to this site. If we can figure this out maybe we can post some pictures at the NAT's and try to give you guys a look at the action. Stay tuned for the test run of the Kindle!
Larry B

 

[pawnshopmike]

Very cool model Larry. Mikey like!

Best of luck at Nats.

 

[TazmanianDevil]

You can count me in, in 2017 though.
Any plans for that yet ?

 

[Larry B]

This morning the wife and I were out at the field getting one last practice session in before the NAT's. She was playing around with her Kindle taking photo's to see how it works out. We will try and get a bunch of pictures for Giant Scale News and post them.
All I did was take-offs & landings just to get "back in the saddle" when it comes to flying the 109E, like any 109 model it requires that you be on your toes when taking off & landing.
Larry B

 

[Larry B]

It was a full day today at the field, and it was just a practice flying and static judging day! I'll post a bunch of photos for you in no particular order, everything from the registration to static judging with both the R/C & control line scale guys.
Tomorrow we fly the first two rounds of actual competition.
Mike Barbee had a fantastic pizza dinner at the field this evening for everybody, all day long we had beautiful weather and it's forecast to be even better tomorrow with a light wind right down the runway.
The AMA crew did a fantastic job in getting the flying site ready for us, I think they mowed it 3 times Thursday in preparation for the scale event. The runway was like a putting green with both ends being just a bit taller grass, so if you ran long on your landing there was not even a bump, a truly beautiful flying site.