Cowlitz Valley Radio Control Flyers Picnic

Today was the annual CVRCF picnic, this is just after we got all set up and were visiting with our friends Leonard and Audrey who came down from Olympia.  It was a nice sunny day, but boy did the wind blow.  It was 10 mph most of the day with a high gust of 15 recorded on my anemometer.

 This is Leonard making the first flight flown at the field today.

The club president Mike did the cooking and it was great, plus some members brought side dishes so we had an awesome meal

This is the North pit area during lunch, we ended up with about 20 people there.  In spite of wind, quite a bit of flying went on, Vera counted 7 planes in the air at one time.

This is part of what I flew today, I also flew my F-15 and P-51C.  The new electric retracts in the F-4 worked great after the first flight when the nose gear doors kept the nose wheel from coming down all the way.  I took the doors off for the second flight and everything worked great.  As usual, we were the last ones to leave, I got to try out my one dollar GPS from the garage sale yesterday and it worked great!  I had loaded new firmware and maps onto it last night.