Spares to Spare
A Feast for the Eyes. The first ones were black & white, then we found color!
Props break, motor mounts rip off, elevons get chewed, wings get gashed and sometimes they split apart from the rigors of multiple impacts and hard landings.
Dave North now flies with a spare prop or two in his pocket and an extra O-ring on his finger. (We use O-rings to secure the props to the prop saver.)
He and I regularly bring an extra Wild Wing to the combat scene. When one steed goes down, we swap the battery into a new mount and charge back into battle.
Wing Overflow. Dave’s, Mike’s and Pete’s Wild Wings spill off the picnic table.
Actually, we bring two, and sometimes three. You never know…
Today, Dave kept breaking props. But despite multiple impacts, my plane kept flying. Tomorrow, though, might be my Bad Prop Day.
Dave, Mike Nadler, Larry Smith and I had several wild sessions—lots of taps and dramatic hits. Combat among a group of four is fun.
It’s even wilder with six, and six it became when Gary Morgan and Kevin Chin appeared. Kevin brought a classic Boomer. Everyone else was flying a Wild Wing.
At least twice today we achieved carom crashes where two wings collide, then one of the collisionists collides again with another wings. Whap! Whap!
Peaceable Kingdom. A Boomer in the foreground socializes with lots of Wild Wings.
Gary and I wonder what will happen when more people join the melee. With eight pilots, say, will we still be able to focus on our planes within the furball?
We hope to find out.
Meanwhile, our field research indicates that two spare Wild Wings will keep you in the air on all but the most unlucky of days.
Tags: Baylands, Combat, Flying, Wings.
August 15th, 2008 at 8:56 am
In that last picture a discriminating viewer might notice Mike’s former boomer (elevator torn off by … well, I thought I did it but I’m not sure. Mike tore mine off!) and my Boomeroid, a small-prop boomernose hybrid that never had an elevator.
No two wings end up the same. That’s part of the fun, though. Nobody has yet to match Mike’s terrifying devil boomlet.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Kevin held his own quite well.
We should put a cone on the field and call that show center - then have every one make a rush to that point and see the first triple…
When someone finally develops the skill to make contact on command - that will surely be an awesome pilot. Now however as Pete and I were discussing - it’s a crap shoot. Very rare is the planned attack successful.
I’m hoping to develop the “Tuck Under Break” (1/2 outside loop - roll out at the bottom) to actually hit somebody. The secondary pass on an attack is also promising. Some walk some talk…
We should also amend the kill rules to state that if you hit the ground while making an attack run it counts as kill for the other guy.
With that I plan to fly at stall speed at 3 feet and watch the gnats commit Seppuku
What was my point here… Ah! to heat it up.
Gary
August 19th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
2 kits coming……