Flying at MRRCS

8-19-2021

We spent most of Wednesday getting ready to spend a night at the Mt Rainier Radio Control Society field.  They have three RV sites with thirty Amp services.

8-20-2021

 

We left home about six this morning and took the back roads most of the way to the field near McKenna WA and got there about nine.  You can see from the tracks in the grass it took me a couple of tries to get the motor home parked where I wanted it.  The first thing I did was assemble the Skylane and go down for a couple of flights.  Then I got the B-36 out and put it together.

After the B-36 was put together I took it down to the field.  It is a really nice flying site with a club house, paved runway and covered benches.

This is how it looked most of the time today, I would wander down and put in a couple of flights all during the day.  There was a member opening the gate as we pulled up, he flew three or four flights and left.  Then a visitor from another club showed up and flew as my guest.  I had met him years ago when he flew during an event at Toledo.  Then Karl the club president and Laurie showed up to take some measurements for a project.  We had a nice visit with them and showed them the motor home.  It was getting pretty dark when I made my last flight of the day with the F-4 Phantom the lights on it showed up great and really helped me keep oriented during the flight.  I got the Dish antenna set up earlier so I watched football all evening.  I had stored the planes in the club house for the night in case it rained.

8-21-2021

People started showing up to fly a little after seven this morning.  I got to do lots of explaining about the B-36 today and met a bunch of nice members.

Vera came down and took this picture of me with the B-36.  I ended up flying it twice today, once this morning and once after the meeting.

This is Karl during the meeting, they had a good turnout because they were going to discuss a new repeater for cell phones.  The field is down in a hollow and most of the time I didn't have any bars showing on my phone.