Lots of people watch us rolling & tumbling through the air in combat with small, maneuverable, rugged little wings.
Here are some notes for those who’d like to join the fray.
The most prevalent wing in our combat sessions is built from a $29.95 24-inch wing kit, available from Mini SpeedWing.
But you’re welcome to fly anything in combat, as long as it’s not too fast or too big.
Friday morning a flyer made a quick field repair with a hot glue gun.
Unfortunately, he glooped a bit too much glue onto the fix.
A fellow flyer pulled out his car key and offered it as a putty knife to smooth the excess glue. It worked OK, but when the helpful guy tried to leave Baylands his car wouldn’t start.
Seems the coating of cooled glue gummed up his ignition switch.
Mike Nadler has a theory that flying wings can pass through one another.
How else to explain the scarcity of hits when six people fly wings in combat?
The nature of this phenomenon is not clear, but we see it often. Two wings hurtle toward each other. Impact is certain. Then whoosh, they dematerialize and quickly appear further along their respective trajectories without contact.
Call it an optical illusion, call it molecular alignment, call it a lattice phenomenon, call it physical transparency, call it magic.
The best scientific minds of the Great Meadow are baffled. The worst minds, too. 
Woe be to the flyer who loses his plane in the Great Swamp. These feathered dragons will protect their young quite fiercely.
Interesting Geese Facts
Canada Geese were over-hunted in the early 20th Century but since then improved game laws and habitat protection have restored their numbers in most of their native range.
As we know well from the abundant goose droppings on the Great Meadow.
Wednesday was windy. A perfect day for wing-to-wing combat.
Six people met for mayhem: Dave North, Rick Carmichael, Gary Morgan, Frank Ducker, Mike Nadler and Pete.
This was the most intense combat yet. The sky was filled with bits of color shaped like triangles.
Surprisingly, there wasn’t all that much contact, but there were a few dramatic smacks. (Read on for more pictures…)
New Colors. Browse 1306 pictures in the Photos section, updated Jul 3.
Royal Cessna (3/17/08)