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Events, Shows and Fun Flys > 495th Squadron Heli Fun Fly Sept. 28th 2008

jctpro
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Location: Andover, MA - USA

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The 4th annual heli fun fly hosted by the 495th squadron in Tewksbury MA. will be held Sept. 28th 2008. Factory pilots will be attending. Last year we had 83 pilots registered. All AMA members welcome.

Contact info:

CD - Jim Thompson
jctpro@hotmail.com
978-683-0060

Directions to the Pinnacle Street Field

From Interstate 495:
Take the Rt. 38 exit (#38) from I495.
At the bottom of the ramp, turn south in the direction of Tewksbury. Follow Rt. 38 south for 2.2 miles to East Street.
Take a left on East Street, and follow 0.8 miles to Livingston Street. Take a left onto Livingston Street, and follow 0.4 miles to
Pinnacle Street.
Take a right onto Pinnacle Street, and follow for 0.6 miles. The field will be on your left-hand side.

Vehicle parking is allowed on both sides of the road as long as
your vehicle is off the road surface. Please stay off neighbors property.

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Dino Spadaccini
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Team Raptor will be there again this year Dino

Team Thunder Tiger
Team Futaba
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rbort
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Location: Franklin, MA - U.S.A.

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Looking forward to it!

Wow, 83 pilots...that's more than the 66 registered pilots at the gathering in NJ this past weekend. Guess the weather put a damper on that one, hoping for a day like today for the 495th event!

Will bring my gassers to fill the sky and the little one (450) maybe for a night flight if I'm there that long!

-=>Raja.

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Dino Spadaccini
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dir

never mind read the top post

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E J Atchison
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Location: Winsted, CT USA

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Jim, I'll give you a call, it looks like I'll be making my up as well. I keep hearing what a great event you put on! Love to help keep everyone flying.

E J Atchison

I'll admit I'm not a great pilot, but I can hover with the best of them.

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jctpro
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Location: Andover, MA - USA

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Night flying at the end of the day

If you want to make it a long day, lets do some night flying until 9PM!

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E J Atchison
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Location: Winsted, CT USA

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I'll be sure to bring along night flying gear, for those that may be in need (blades, light ropes, etc.)

E J A

I'll admit I'm not a great pilot, but I can hover with the best of them.

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rbort
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Location: Franklin, MA - U.S.A.

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Night flying it is!

I got my little 450 so after some hours in the air with the gassers I'll spend an hour in the air with the 450 :-)

Looking forward to it, hope the weather is best behaved!

-=>Raja.

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rbort
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Location: Franklin, MA - U.S.A.

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Oh oh....

They are saying rain on Saturday....did you guys think maybe to reschedule in case of this?

If so maybe October 18th?

Events are that I know of,

4th, heli invasion
11th, heli phenomenon
18th, free
25th, helis over delaware

Let us know and thanks!

-=>Raja.

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LongVu78
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Location: Andover Ma

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I'm wondering too..

Rain Sat. and Sunday also,

Thanks, Long

09-24-2008 Over year old.

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jctpro
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Location: Andover, MA - USA

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Reschedule call will be tomorrow (Thursday evening)

We will post a reschedule date on Thursday evening if the rain looks like it will hit us. Stay tuned!

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jctpro
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Event will be on Sunday Sept 28th Due To Rain

The published rain date is Sunday the 28th and the latest forecast is for a pretty good day. I hope to see everyone this Sunday!

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Simmer
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Location: Massachusetts

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Sunday!! Please show guys we need a good turnout this year>

Raj, get those great flyers from down south up this way!
I have not seen Jeremy in a long time.

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rbort
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And you may not see Jeremy for a long time

He's a hobby shop owner now, no time to go flying regularly any more...I'd say if you want to see him your best bet is to come to the Phenomenon, sure he'll be there selling stuff at the event.

-=>Raja.

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Simmer
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Location: Massachusetts

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I am very excited to come to this one. Will be good to see the gang.
Not sure which day, My 25th wedding aniversary is the same weekend so whichever day I have free, Ill be there early. Hope I can find it again

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rbort
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A BIG thank you guys!

Just want to take a moment to say THANK YOU for the excellent hospitality inviting us to fly and share the field with you not to mention all the free food and drinks! You guys are an awesome bunch -- had a good time and it was great to see you all again.

The most interesting event of the day was the guy that got confused flying inverted, rolled it out of the sky in a dive. Recovered to level at the last minute but it SLAMMED into the tall grass with a whack, then it bounced up 5 feet blades spinning seemingly unharmed. Somehow either he dropped collective of it came back down as he thought it was crashed and quit flying it, and it came back down tail first and did a boom strike when he hit the grass again. If only he had given full collective when it got back in the air after the initial impact, it would have been a great save!

For the night flying, jctpro had a raptor 50 with two LED flashlights on the skids plus light string and light up tail blades and main blades. The led flashlights were so bright it looked like an approaching plane in the sky as he turned towards us. A couple of times he did a nose down funnel and the lights were shining a spot on the runway as he went around. It was really cool!

Thanks again guys for the good times and looking forward to seeing you again in Mansfield in a couple of weeks!

-=>Raja.

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09-29-2008 Over year old.

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Simmer
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Location: Massachusetts

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Thank You Raja for coming all the way up to our field. While the weather didnt completly cooperate, we did get some flying in in the afternoon. It ended up being a great day to do setups and there were three or 4 guys who needed thier helis gone thru from scratch.
I got a chance to work on three of them, used the Dx6 and Dx6i so now I have some more experience with those guys and refresher on the ideal way to setup mechanical bottom up theory (thanks Dave for the reminders)

Thanks the Jim who was the CD for the event. Would not have happened without the help of Jim, Dave, Toni, Bill and a few others whos names escape me.

The club really did an impressive job despite the weather being only 1/2 cooperative.

Lots of pilots went home learing tips about setting up and so this in itself was a huge success. lets face it, 10 heli guys sitting around waiting on the rain to stop, were dying to help setup the other guys helis.

We will hope for much better weather next year, looks like maybe a new CD for the event

Who knows

and maybe (I'm thinking) a spring event as opposed to a fall event?

There was no raffle so a Trex600 might be purchased by the club or ? built up for a trainer

We can dream can't we?

Jim you lookiing at this? I move we adopt this Trex as a learing tool for any heli pilot looking to practive hover. What a great tool and the chance to have something unique to again show out standout club.

10 heli guys with 40 bucks ought to do it,

Just one of a few thoughts I have about it. Hey we could even do up the canopy to advertise the vendor(s) like Bills Hobby Barn?
Now its looking more interesting isnt it

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dr1
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Location: leominster mass

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funfly

bucky here hi guys

i dont know if you remember me i was at the funfly with my trex 450
but could not fly didnt have my ama
trex 600 would good club trainer..Thanks For the good time, I will contacting you and/or joining the club soon...Hope to see you at the field soon!

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LongVu78
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Location: Andover Ma

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dr1 soon will be an other Heli Pilot at the 495th

This is fun.

Thanks, Long

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Simmer
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Location: Massachusetts

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Hi Guys,

I am working on getting a donated heli to put together for a club trainer. This is going to have to be a grass roots things because I cant count on the club helping out with the cost. I can put together an 8103, a gyro and servo, and a muffler for a 30 or 50. I would need to get a frame and an engine, maybe some servos. My thinking is I could bring this to the club whenever I go. If someone wants to learn I can teach them to hover (safely) with little or no damage. I have done this before for several people its just that they owned the heli and I simply worked with them to get them started. This idea is something I have come up with in the past day. It might be a pipe dream, but my thought is , what club do you know that can provide a trainer heli ?
This might be a great way to interest people who want to lear, but do not want to spend the money until they see how much fun it can be. I dont have a ton of hope if getting this idea into a reality, and I am tossing this idea out and around to see if there is a need for this kind of thing. What do you think?

I remember you by the way, Dr1. Chuck here.

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