Kansas City Scale, Woodie, TD and Aerotow Events

[mmartin55]

I would like to hear from modelers and flyers regarding interest in a woodie, scale, and TD event and aerotow to be held near our facilities here in Kansas City.

From local activity it is hard to get a handle on how much interest there may be for one or all of the types of events mentioned. We would love to be involved in such an event and even host and provide and coordinate sponsorship and prizes.

In fact, I am already looking for suitable flying sites with facilities to store assembled gliders through a two or three day event schedule.

Please let me know if you are interested and where you would be travelling from, and which type of event most interests you. Please do so by private mail so I can save your replies and email addresses to complete my survey offline.

It seems that we are fairly centrally located to hold such an event and attract flyers and modellers from throughout the central US - MN to TX, WY to TN???????

Tom
www.tmrcsailplanes.com
"Home of the Schweizers"

[mmartin55]

Rex Burton of Kansas City Soaring and Electric Club and I went up to the proposed Kansas City Area Annual Soaring, Scale, Woodie, TD, Fun Fly and Aerotow field today to get out on the grass and scope the lay of the land and its potential. It was awesome. The wind was blowing 15-20, big thermals were moving through, and you could feel the sink and lift temp changes on the back of your neck as they came through.

The owner and his wife came out and chatted with us for a half an hour. He is very literate on flying and has a hangar for his Apache, that may become available for storing ships over the three day course of the event, and he gave us some history on the field which had a hangar behind where I stood for the photo and had been an airport for the last 50 years. It is an FAA listed and charted private field as I said before and he has paved a great 2300 foot runway that rises to the west to meet you just over the rise to the right in the photo.

Spread the word and keep emailing me your interests so I can continue to store and file the messages for my poll of events we should run.

Here is a picture looking out towards eastern Cass County attached. I have folks saying they will come from as far away as Chicago and Florida to participate.

Tom
New web pages are now up at www.tmrcsailplanes.com
tm

[MrClean]

Where are you flying Tom? I've only got that Easy 2M thats flyable right now for floating, my Dave's SW1-26 comes down too fast. But I have a Monarch 2m in the box. Gotta buy too many servos to get it done quickly. Thinking about building a 3M wood ship for standard servos so I could have a big floater. Then again, I think alot and do very little.

Keepin an eye on your thread here.

[mmartin55]

Right now I don't have a ship but I go fly with the Kansas City Soaring and Electric club at several sod farms west of state line in s. Johnson Co.

All my effort and energy is going into getting you guys in the air right now, but...... when the glass fuses for the 1-23 hit my door I'm taking a break and gonna build no 1 for me! 105" span and I should have a Sterling 1-26D that I started by then too plus one of my 2 meter 1-26Es.

What you have is fine to come out to the event though. This is for fun and for everyone.

Where do you fly and are you with a club?

tom

[Bernie Wolfard]

I might be moving the KS City area, hopefully I will know this Friday. I currently fly with the Portland Area Sailplane Society, which has a contest schedule that covers almost every weekend in the summer. I am used to a highly competitive but very friendly and helpful soaring club and would like to be able to keep competing if I move the KC area. If I move I would love to link up with local flyers and help in any way possible to set up a local competition schedule.

I am currently flying the plane in my avatar, an Aegea Mantis.

Bernie

P.S. I am primarily interested in TD, multitask and F5B/F :D

[mmartin55]

You are the man.

Thanks for the offer, we hope you move and join up with us. I can use all the help I can get running the competition and we can benefit from your enthusiasm in wanting to grow the hobby and the sport of soaring.

Tom

[mmartin55]

The dates are set now for the Kansas City Soaring Fly In this year at 14th and 15th of August at 3409 E. 195th Street, Belton MO 64012.

CONTACTS:
Tom Martin at 816 331-8807 or tom at tmrcsailplanes dot com
Rex Burton at 913 484-5021.

MOTEL ACCOMODATONS WITHIN 5 MILES:
Econo Lodge AAA Hwy 71 at 58 exit west Belton
816 322-1222 or reservations 800 553-2666

Belton Inn Hwy 71 and 155th St
816 331-6300

Super 8 Hwy 71 and 155 th (on e. service road)
15202 S 71 Hwy
816 331-0300

Holiday Inn Express 71 Hwy at 58 Hwy exit east Belton/Raymore
17205 S 71 Hwy
816 322-8700 (the newest and probably the nicest-tm)

CAMPING
If your want to tent or have a self-contained camper or motorhome you may stay in the mowed portion of my pasture. Just let me know in advance-tm

TOW PILOTS
Jim and Mike Frickie

Please shoot me an email if you will be coming (one more time) with the subject line RSVP Confirmation

Thanks and look forward to seeing you all.

[mmartin55]

FREQUENCY ASSIGMENTS TO DATE 7/12

Jim Frickie towplane 19
Jim Frickie sailplane 18
Mike Frickie towplane 43
Tim Gastinger sailplane/towplane 30/31
Tom Martin sailplane 45
Rex Burton sailplane 23
Ryan Combs sailplane 29
Steve Moskal sailplane 53
Larry Purdy sailplane 60
Alden Shipp sailplane ham band 00 or 50.8

Please don't use frequencies assigned to tow.

tm

[mmartin55]

Thanks to all for coming out and flying with us and for making it such a resounding success. The weather was perfect and we often had more than seven aircraft in the air at a time searching out thermals and skying out.

A number earned Scale Soaring Achievement Medals provided by John Derstine of Endless Mountain Models for duration flights in scale sailplanes and almost all flights after the dew burned off were up to 30 minutes in length.

We are on again for next year and will post a date soon. Photos at http://www.tmrcsailplanes.com/sailplane-gallery.html

Tom Martin

[mmartin55]

Its getting to be that time again guys. Look to our club's new web page for dates as they get set in stone for the spring and fall aerotows. URL is http://www.kcse.us.

Spring is slated for sometime May/June and we should know more soon.

[mmartin55]

KCSE 2005 Events Scheduled:

May 21 & 22 - Scale Glider Aerotow #1
June 25 & 26 - Thermal Duration Contest
September 10 & 11 - Electric Funfly
October ?? - Scale Glider Aerotow #2
November - Turkey Fly

Log in to http://www.KCSE.US for more informaton and updates.