Club Picnic

We got up to the flying field a little before 9 this morning, there were not too many people yet, so we picked out a place and got set up.  After a pilots meeting, the flying started.  It was windy all day, but I got in lots of flying!

I set up my table tent and it really helped keep the sun off me and the table.  The wind made for some interesting looking clouds, but it blew my table tent down.

Bob put on a nice show with his Yak 55 with smoke.  We were given cards for each flight, trying to make a good poker hand to win prizes with.  I ended up with two pair and won a tee shirt.  We visited, flew and had a good time until dark, then the night flying started.  I flew the quad, then the Slow Stick with glow wire on it.  Tom and another flyer from the Thurston County club had LED strip lights on their planes and it was really colorful and showed up great.  We had a good time watching them, it was the high light of the day.  Tom's friend offered me a chance to fly his plane and I really enjoyed it.  We finally headed home at 10:30.