Flying in Oklahoma

[billrcpilot]

I live in Crescent Okla. and was wondering if there are any good hills or slopes to fly from, Thanks for any info you all can give :confused:

[Hudley]

Best hill I know of is in Geary....about 40 miles West, Northwest of OKC.

Hudley

[billrcpilot]

Thanks Hudley:

Whats the best way to get there from OKC. I live off of Hwy 74 also know as portland, north of the city.

Bill

[Hudley]

Bill,

Give me a few days and I'll get you a contact. It has a fenced entry.

Hudley

[Okiecamp]

Hello Bill,

I am just south of you in Guthrie. I am working some small wave action off the trees at Liberty lake when the wind is out of the south. I am flying a Fling off of the kit's high start.

Mike C.

[dgoebel]

Check Slopeflyer.com website under OK Flying sites, there's some listed there with better directions. Bask when I lived in SW OK, I flew off a couple of dams, Lake Stanley Draper, just SE of OKC, and the Dam at Fort Cobb State Park. Some of the guys said that Thunderbird (Also SE of OKC) was a good spot also though I've never been there.

I found I had more fun saving up for trips to Lake Wilson in KS when the LASS folks have one of their awesome weekends up there like the MWSC.

[Hudley]

Bill & Mike C.

Are you guys interested in electric sailplanes? Something along LMR type airframes?
Thats my main interest these days in TD. If so, I live in Moore and we could get together some time since we are close.

Hudley

[billrcpilot]

Hudley and mike c. you guy's we need to meet and do so flying together i'am new in the sailplane end of R/C flying, i was given a Spirit 100 and a HD high start system, so any help i can get would be great.

Bill

[Okiecamp]

Bill and Hudley,

I am flying a Fling for the moment but I have a Gentle Lady ARF under assembly. I could not resist stepping up and trying a 2M. I do not have an electric sailplane but I do have my eye on an Acent ARF. I just have to figure a way to get it past the wife.

I flew at Liberty Lake last night with the Missisippi Kites and completed my first hi-start launch to flight to hand catch after threading between the power lines and cedar trees.

[billrcpilot]

Mike C. and Hudley:

Sense i am new to sailplane! what is mean't 2m,3m.F1 , Etc. maybe i need to buy a book on sailplanes, any suggestions??

Bill

[Okiecamp]

Bill,

2 meter in length wing span or 78 inches. Bird of Time is a 3 meter sailplane. By the way if you work up to the larger planes you will need a Suburban.

Pullin yer leg.

Mike C.

[Hudley]

Bill,

2m is two meter wing span, 3m is 3 meter wing span. F1...I am not sure. LMR is limited motor run. No need to buy a book, just ask questions. Its neat to have new people in the sport/ hobby that are not yet jaded.

Do you or Mike have a good field to fly from? Lets get something together in the next couple of weeks and meet in your area. I think I could get a few more people to come and fly. If you want to make the trip down to Moore....that would work also.

Hudley

[tsunami]

F1 is a outboard race boat...dunno what it means in sailplanes but im attepting to learn slope(have a 3m spadaquilla but its still in calli) dunno if any of you are close but i'd like to try to wacht and learn till i get my othe rplane from my dads house.

Casey Sorci

[billrcpilot]

:D Casey:

Mike c. and i live North of OKC. Its about 45 minutes for me and about 30 minutes for Mike to the city. Hudley live in Moore Okla, thats South of Okc maybe 15 or 20 minutes. I have heard of pawhuska Ok but not sure about the location.

[kepople]

How bout some photos?

I have relatives that live in Yukon on the west side of OKC and I might have to make a trip up there.

Kirby

[Okiecamp]

There are some good looking parks to the west of Moore just off of the H.E.Bailey turnpike. The terrain gets hilly on the east side of OKC which would work for sloping. I am pretty much game to travel about an hour to a site so that puts us all with in reach. The few sites I use are the Guthrie parks. Soccer and baseball are done and the areas I use are open. I usually hit them early morning or late evening, late afternoon. I have to work my time around work and Boy Scouts. Lets see if can hook up on email and iron out meeting details and keep this forum on soaring. Speaking of which.......I have all my control surfaces installed on by ARF Gentle Lady and I am about to install all of the electronics. After constructing GWS models with small pico receivers and servos......it doesn't seem right to put normal sized servos and that big dual receiver in the GL. I just tell myself that I need the balast in these Oklahoma winds.

Mike C.

[tsunami]

keep in mind i was gonna try slope, although ive been told the big red one would thermal, not shure on that(it needs a diet when it gets back),and the other ...well if it cought a thermal a 747 could fly in it couse it has to have a decent wing loading, no pick of my flik yet. .....spad concept is fun but it doesnt help if you cant gte to a flying site..grrr and pawhuska, http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?ed=M7tNO.p_0TqT&csz=Pawhuska%2C+OK&country=us&new=1&name=&qty= heres a map, anyway im gonna try and think of a new plane to biuld ttyl

[Hudley]

Mike and Bill,

I have a couple fields close around Moore to fly at. What about the 28th or 29th of August as target get together. My Email is shudson1@cox.net.

tsunami,

Your a bit north of Tulsa. You might want to get in touch with TULSOAR. Its a good club close to you.

Hudley

[tsunami]

any ideas if a therminator with a crusifix tail and dehydral istead of poly be good for our wheather, im considering biulding one what still keeping me is i dont have a foam cutter and as it is ive got to buy balsa and servos becouse the size. any of you into HLG's???ive wanted to visit tulsoar but ive had about as much luck getting to kaw damn(havent been their yet) O the reason to get my license. ^_^

[tsunami]

change of plans i found an old .049 in a corner and im gonna biuld a powerglider out of FFF probly either sand a foil as close i can to a dreala or just round the leading egde of some 1/4 in thik and deal with it. if it works ill finally get soem stik time and if it dont...oh well i got the foam from a renovaters trash(asked of course first)

^_^

[billrcpilot]

:cool: tsunami:

i have a cox .049 have played around the idea of installing it on a Gentle Lady or some other small 2 ch. glider. Keep us updated on you progress.

Bill

[tsunami]

it wont be somthing technical just somthing slow to have fun with, also i hope it has a good glide couse i want to only do lmr's (keep the niose down) also ive heard its possibly to throttle these???? im prolly gonna go a/e/f or a/e/t if i can find out how to throttle it. im bored and its the weekend debating weather to make it look like the preditor drone or a normal gliders fuse wont affact performance, heck might even just use tlar for everthing. one last thing the airfoil im thinkin of i cant use a spar as its too thin, im worried if i use a thiker one it wont penetrat for junk once the moter cuts off. will tape be enough?????