Joe Nall Saturday Coverage - Hobby Lobby/RCGroups.com

[Jim T. Graham]

Look for photos sometime this evening. 5/14/05

[Jim T. Graham]

I'm walking out the door for the last day of Joe Nall but I wanted to check in and give a little Joe Nall report. The weather has been perfect. It was pretty hot the first couple of days but the wind was really low and perfect for flying. The thing about Joe Nall is that it is really laid back. Everyone is there to have a good time and you can feel that as you walk around. The planes are amazing and there are all levels of pilots on the flight line. Bob Sadler and the Joe Nall gang have been great to work with and hang out with. They could not have treated us any better and that treatment extends out to everyone that attended.
Last night was the BBQ and bluegrass. What could be better than sitting in front of a huge hangar full of classic full scale planes, with a plate full of good food, a bluegrass band playing and Jason Shulman walking around with cookies for everyone...not to mention the full scale airshow before dinner? Amazing.
Watching Sadler go up in a cherry picker basket to pluck a plane from the tallest tree on the field was a fun thing to watch. The Hobby Lobby Mystery Drop was not only fun but was interesting to watch. When you drop AXI motors and Jeti controllers from a plane on to the field there is going to be some action!! Eddie Noble, the pilot of the drop plane, said he could feel the ground shaking before the saw the people run by him! I heard someone say it was like the running of the bulls but more intense. I got to do some guitar picking with some of the pilots that brought instruments. The biggest names in RC were continually on the flight line flying the biggest planes in RC. All these things make for an event that I will always remember. I was totally blown away.
It will be sad to leave but great to know this event will be waiting next year to attend.
Thanks to everyone that made this sucha a great event.

[Bill K.]

Billy,

Thank you and HL for sharing it with those of us who could go!!!

BK

[tailskid2]

Billy, for guy from Nashville, ya did gooooood :)

Jerry

[Kmot]

Thank you for the awesome coverage and fantastic photos!

[brn-grose]

Another fine job of event coverage on behalf of the HL crew !! :)

[Merkaba]

Yea, I went on Friday. Great show, great atmosphere, great pics!

Thanks guys!

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[Mike Parsons]

Ok..I have to ask about these last photos. The plane obviously went in the drink, but what happened. Mostly HobbyLobby hands doing the recovery.....so I assume it was a team members? Or was it Community Service? Thanks for the photos on the last day you guys. Well done.

-Mike

[Jim T. Graham]

That was one of the biggest planes at Joe Nall and we never saw it fly until the end of Saturday. During that flight he lost it. We jumped in the HL cart and went to find it. It was over the trees in a pretty good sized pond floating. It should have been totaled but it was actually in good shape.
During the noon demos a 220mph P51 went in at the far end of the field. We took the cart and found that one too. It had scorched in at top speed through a row of trees and left a trail across the pasture. The only thing still in one piece was the tail wheel.

[Mike Parsons]

Thanks for the info Billy. Good for the decathalon owner (that thing is huge!)...bad for the owner of the P51.

-Mike

[kushal_22]

Any Idea of How Many Planes did not make the return trip Home?

Thanks
Mal

[catboater]

That was one of the biggest planes at Joe Nall and we never saw it fly until the end of Saturday. During that flight he lost it. We jumped in the HL cart and went to find it. It was over the trees in a pretty good sized pond floating. It should have been totaled but it was actually in good shape.
During the noon demos a 220mph P51 went in at the far end of the field. We took the cart and found that one too. It had scorched in at top speed through a row of trees and left a trail across the pasture. The only thing still in one piece was the tail wheel.

Please tell me it wasn't that big Mustang with the inline 3 cylinder and 3 carbs! It was a beautiful airplane. How'd it crash? Shootdown or dumbthumbs?
Did you guys really clock it at 220 mph?
It must have crashed on Sunday because we were there Friday and Saturday. We only saw 2 go down during that time.

[tailskid2]

This carnage reminds me of Ida Grove.....:(

Jerry

[anthonyw]

Please tell me it wasn't that big Mustang with the inline 3 cylinder and 3 carbs! It was a beautiful airplane. How'd it crash? Shootdown or dumbthumbs?
Did you guys really clock it at 220 mph?
It must have crashed on Sunday because we were there Friday and Saturday. We only saw 2 go down during that time.

I am not sure which Mustang Billy is speaking, but it was NOT Drake/Dane Edwards with their Mustang (the one with the inline Three cylinder). They were pitted with us and they packed it up in one peice around 5pm on Saturday.

[RGose]

This carnage reminds me of Ida Grove.....:(

Jerry


Are you referring to Striking Back?

[tailskid2]

RGose, no I'm referring to all the planes that went down during the fly-in. Toooooo many of them were flying their FIRST flight and/or the crowd made the pilots nervous - but it wasn't uncommon to see 2-3 go in each HOUR!

Jerry

[RGose]

RGose, no I'm referring to all the planes that went down during the fly-in. Toooooo many of them were flying their FIRST flight and/or the crowd made the pilots nervous - but it wasn't uncommon to see 2-3 go in each HOUR!

Jerry

Okay, I thought the carnage might have resembled the Striking Back show that Byron used to do at Ida Grove. :D

I didn't think unproven airframes (i.e. first flights) were supposed to be performed around spectators/crowds.

[tailskid2]

They weren't - and that was why so many didn't last past the first flight! Pilots had to sign that the plane(s) had already been flown - but when you saw so many problems in the pit area, it was quite apparent this was the first (and frequently) and last flight!

Jerry

[weflyrc]

It was not the 3 cylinder P51 that went in. Atleast not the one that belongs to Drake Edwards that his son flew all week. He actually brought it home, which is more than he did a couple years ago at the Nall.