2nd Annual TCRCM POLAR BEAR Fun Fly
JANUARY 1, 1999
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| Chet Braswell (left) watches as John Hanson high fives Clee Childress after a rare successful flight! |
| Ron Gibby discusses the finer aspects of his Goldberg Eagle with Jr. Kinniman. |
| Gary Jones prepares his first sacrafice for the day. | A little to much control surface throw gives Gary some exciting flight experience. |
| After the flight, Rick Magnuson (left to right) Terry Hane, Bill Greger, Gary Jones and Ron Gibby examine that control throw. After adjustment, it flew better..... but crashed. |
| Jr. Kinniman flies his Sig Hog Bipe. |
| "OK, the instructions say to run the engine counter- clockwise whe looking from the front." |
"Chief" (McMahan) cook and bottle washer in the cookshack posioning the chili. |
| Larry Mitchell explains the power of love while Rick Magnusen, Dave and Ryan Phipps
listen carefully. Larry's wife Cathy heads back where it is warm! |
| Brett Bowen's.?? with his dad's (Bill) Scat Cat in the background. |
| Monty Straton heads for the flight line with his ?? bipe |
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| Dave (left) and Ryan Phipps prep their Tower Hobbies Trainer. Both have soloed and are ready for a hot sport plane! |
| Ted Meier readies his HobbiStar! |
| Bill Peterson and Clee Childress discuss Bill's Currare-- then they go fly this fiberglas fortress! |
| Clee Childress keeps his plane in the air as another bites it in front of him. There were at least 5 crashes! |
| The "Lake Team" had took the experimenter class with a storm. Yes it
flew! They also brought another airplane with a video camera mounted with full pan and tilt, which transmitted a signal back to the ground where they fed it into 3-D goggles for out-of-the cockpit remote flying! Wish we had some pictures! |
| Mitch and Elizabeth Thompson. Mitch is currently a student of Bill Greger. He is almost solo'd. |
| Dave lake cranks up his chopper. |
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| Pictures of the Polar Bear Funfly taken by Ted Meier from a
Kodak digital camera strapped to the side of his HobbyStar! |
| Rob Opgenorth readies his old reliable Kaos for newcomer Renton Maxfield. |
| Never could get this Parasail off the ground! Ron Gibby and Steve Sterling look on in amazement. |
The group shot-- yea, I can tell who everyone |
I need help identifying some of the people.. Steve Sterling <sgsterling@webbworks.com