Flying Deuces, Albany NY area fun fly, June 24th and 25th

[Learn to Fly]

http://www.theflyingdeuces.com/ 17 days away!!!!!!

These guys are a great group. We had a great time last year. From beginner, to Pro, to Scale, to FULL scale...it will all be there. The only thing they ask is, THAT YOU HAVE FUN!!!!!!:D The field is very nice and not all that hard to get to. Directions are on the site.

Full size UH-60 Blackhawk landing.

Night flying, and bonfire

Contests, food, raffles. EVO 50 donated by Rc Hobbies and More Winsted Ct. On site vending by RCH and More.com for all you heli needs. :D

See you there

June 24th and 25th 2006

Best Western, Cobleskill - http://www.bestwesterncobleskill.com/ A king, 1 adult runs around $150/night+tax
just off Route 7 in Cobleskill, just minutes from Interstate Highway 1-88. To reach us, turn east off Exit 21 or travel west from Exit 22.

Holiday Inn Express, Schoharie - http://www.hospitalityi88.com/ A king, 1 adult runs around $125/night+tax
I-88 W: Exit 23. TURN LEFT ONTO ROUTE 30A. TURN RIGHT ON PARK PLACE - IN BETWEEN THE DUNKIN DONUTS AND THE MOBILE STATION. FOLLOW THAT TO HOLIDAY WAY AND THE HOTEL.

Super 8 Motel, Cobleskill - (No Website) Standard Room, 1 adult runs $49.95/night+tax.
just off Route 7 in Cobleskill, just minutes from Interstate Highway 1-88. To reach us, turn east off Exit 21 or travel west from Exit 22. Right next to the Mobil Mini Mart & across from Dunkin Donuts.

All of these motels are within 15 minutes of our field....

[DebianDog]

:smokin: Cool thanks for letting us know.

[rdlohr]

I'm thinking about going to this. Anyone else?

[Blakhawkdoc]

Dang I have already made plans to go to a funfly in PA on those days. I would love to see all freaks. Have fun up there in NY.

[Learn to Fly]

I will have a Hirobo Lepton to demo. :D I get her tomorrow. :mrgreen:

Plus the Pegasus .18 sized heli will be there too. Car motor...? should be fun :wink:

This is a great time with great people.

Jeff

[rdlohr]

Looking forward to it!

[rdlohr]

Finless, you coming?

Hehe, If you do, the Lohr hotel is open that weekend

[Copterklutz]

Finless, you wouldn't want to pass up a chance to meet me would you ?? The "COPTERKLUTZ" will be there live and in person on Saturday !!! :mrgreen:

This will be my first Heli event, so I'm looking forward to it. I'm hoping to see some nice scale machines too, I think those are cool.... :glasses2:

[Finless]

Ummmm have yo invented a Star Trek type transporter? If not someone going to donate airline tickets? Otherwise thats a long walk to get there ;)

Bob

[rdlohr]

Hehe, mostly teasing. Thought you might want to visit the east for a bit.

[Learn to Fly]

Saturday is soooon!!! :glasses2:

Got the Lepton almost ready to fly(new radio too :mrgreen: )

I know the crew is working hard to make this one fun event. :noteworthy

Hope to see some of you there!! Jeff

[PaulH]

I'm originally from upstate NY. Went to college in Troy and Rochester. I'd love to visit for the weekend, but I'm already committed to other things, not the least of which is my wedding anniversary! :shock:

I hope you all have a great time!

[Wayne]

Yea, I'd love to go to this one too, I grew up in Altamont, right near by! Maybe next year.

Wayne
www.flymha.com

[Learn to Fly]

2 DAYS AWAY!!!!!!!!! :glasses2: :mrgreen:

[playfair]

Looks like I'm hitching a ride with Ray and Kyle Stacy for Saturday!
Weather looks perfect.
Wish we could stay for the night flying (my fav!), but Sunday plans aren't allowing it.

[rdlohr]

We were planning for Saturday, but looking at the forcast I'm wondering if Sunday may be the better plan...

[Learn to Fly]

The weather man is ALWAYS wrong. So come on out!!! Tomorrow :glasses2:

[rdlohr]

OK, we are coming tomorrow afternoon. Looking forward to seeing everyone. I'll bring some gyro mounts and I'll even give a $2.00 show discount.

[Learn to Fly]

:D

[rdlohr]

Thanks all you guys for the hospitality shown to Copterklutz and I as noobs!.

We went hoping to see a few guys fly the way we hope to fly some day. We came home realizing once again that this hobby is great not only because of the helis, but because of the quality of the people involved.

We showed up early afternoon Saturday in time to see Kyle Stacy show off his incredible skills. He is amazing. Fours years of helis and 2 hours of sim time a day mixed with the right upbringing and lots of raw talent make for quite a pilot at 12 years old.

As he finished, I guess Ray Stacy noticed our jaws dropped, because he and Kyle walked over and greeted Copterklutz and I right afterward. Ray is a great dad and a good guy to boot. I asked him if Kyle could possibly give my heli a try, since my 3D skills are limited and I wasn’t sure if my heli was up to it. Ray graciously agreed and took the next half hour going over my heli. Thanks to the Finless Videos, and Finless himself, he said my SE was in really good shape. We did up the speed a bit, widen the pitch range, and move in the flybar weights, but those were all things that make sense when moving from how I had it set up for advanced hover to more 3D capable settings.

Ray noticed a bit of vibration in the tail, but we decided to take it up anyhow since there was no quick fix apparent. I can see how Kyle ended up as good as he is watching Ray and the effortless way he was able to guide my heli lightly between rolls, inverted hovers, and other stunts as easily as I hover.

Well that was fun but now things got interesting. My SEs tail kicked out, at first slowly, then faster in an instant. Ray quickly hit throttle hold and set her down, but there was no avoiding a crash landing. I thought maybe the belt had broken, but it turned out the tail hub had exploded as I have read about so many times. Both grips ripped off with the screws sheared (even with the hardened black versions). Where the grips had gone, we figured we would never know.

Ray felt terrible since he was at the controls, but I quickly assured him not to worry a bit since crashing to me is an expected part of the hobby. Besides, there was nothing he did wrong, it would have done it to me soon, and probably with worse consequences.

I thought my heli was done for the day, but Ray pointed down to the “RC Hobbies and More” tent where I should be able to find any parts I needed. So Copterklutz and I headed down to get some parts. To make a long story short, LearnToFly, Steve and Erwin were there to help us out, and they allowed me to use their tent and table to do my rebuild.

I ended up with a new hub, grips, tail blade, main blades, boom, boom supports and some gyro mounting tape. (thanks to the guy who donated the tape whose name I didn’t catch) Erwin took good care of me on price, and we made good friends with these guys in the process. It took me about two hours, but my bird came out in one piece. I had bent my nice new gold covered Finless horizontal fin, but was able to bend it back.

About this time Ray came by and we decided to give “him another chance to crash it”, as he put it. This time it flew perfectly. We also got Kyle to take it for a spin. I no longer can ever use my bird as an excuse for anything because in the hands of pros, my TREX SE is a sweetheart! Someone even found my grips and tail blades intact, so now I have a set of spares.

We stayed the rest of the evening and watched many talented flyers. It’s going to be tough for Copterklutz and I to go back to our field and be content with figure 8s and barrel rolls now. Our standards have instantly moved up. I have a feeling my wallet is going to suffer in many ways too because the TREX seems mighty small now that I have watched Rapter and Vibe 90s for a day. Also, the scale models Stan and other were flying were quite impressive.

To top the evening off, we were treated to some 3D night flying that was really something to see. Stan evening took his scale Bell up for a spin and gave us quite a show.

In conclusion, I just want to thank the Flying Deuces and everyone who came to the show and made it such a treat for us new guys! Sorry this was so long winded, but we had a great time and I wanted to share it.

Can’t wait till next year!

[playfair]

Nice review, rdlohr!
I forgot to look for you, but met Learntofly (you ever gonna change your name to "learnedtofly"?) and a bunch of other cool folk. Just keep pushing, and the skills will come!

The weather man is ALWAYS wrong

This is an understatement... Saturday was PERFECT! I burned through a gallon on the 50's, plus a Trex flight. Sorry to miss the night stuff, but we were truely exhausted and had a 3.5hr drive home. Had a great time! Ray even commented that it was more fun than IRCHA!

Hope you guys can make it up to our Rochester show the end of August!

[Learn to Fly]

Great to meet you all. Rick, Copterklutz...friends for life? :D Sounds good to me, I will come up to fly any time. :glasses2: I learn so much every time I go to an event. Did my first stall turn, and first piro stall turn...plus I had it ripping as fast as I have ever gone, and I had great control of it for once. I think I know how to fly...I just need to grow some cahones!!!! Having others around to push you is a great thing. I really really need to find a "cool" bunch of guys in my area. The Flying Dueces are a great bunch of guys, worth the trip every time. Stephen Fox put my Tiger50 through the paces, man this kids is GOOD total control 14 years old!!!! :glasses2: Sorry Clyde but he says he wants a 611 now. :shock: I wish I got more flights in, I figured out what was wrong with my Evo on the way home, it helps to put the nut on the motor!!! :? DOH!!!

Rochester is a FOR SURE!!! Buddy box time with CY? NICE!!! I will be glued to my sim for the next month to try and advance my skills. Last year at Roch. Ray convinced me to take off my training gear, and was way to nervous to fly. Maybe this year I will be able to hover inverted!!!

Great to meet you all. This is a great hobby with great people.

Jeff Stairs

[Copterklutz]

"friends for life?"

No problem here......Mapquest says you're 2 hours away. That settles it. We're coming down to fly your evo. :mrgreen: (After I warm up with my birds).

I was impressed with the Flying Dueces' hospitality and how nice their field is.
Also, the Stacy's are great...warm friendly and genuine. Jeff, let Rick and I know what your schedule looks like. We want to crash - er I mean fly at your field...

[DebianDog]

Sounds like a good time!

I am gonna try and make the Rochester show this year.

[Chris DeSain]

Excellent event

Well you pulled off another fantastic event guys !!! Top shelf all the way around !! Just simply fantastic...

Thanks again for putting on such a great event and thanks to the vendors that were there or whom contributed.

That little pagasus heli was a hoot to fly.. I loved it !

Nice to see the rochester gang down to lay the smack down with some fantastic heli flying !! I know you guys had a full schedule so taking the time to come out our way was really appreciated.

Great time, great people, night flying was a hoot can't wait for 07 !!!