VISIBLE LIFT
July 2007 newsletter for S.W.I.F.T.
For Radio
Controlled Sailplanes & Electrics
Academy of
Model Aeronautics Chartered Club #2749
Check the SWIFT
BBS for flying info.
Calling all
Glider Guiders!
The next SWIFT meeting will be at 7:00 p.m. on
Thursday, July 5 at Chalco Hills.
SWIFT EVENTS at
the COBRA field.
Old Timer Climb and Glide event sponsored by COBRA:
Saturday, July 7, 2007. Time; 10:00 AM. Location; COBRA field.
This event will be held the first Saturday of the month through
October. Contact George Eheman (gseheman@cox.net)
for more info.
Mid-summer T.D. and E-Glider: Sunday, July 8, 2007.
Time; 10:00 AM pilots meeting. Location; COBRA field. Task TBD.
SWIFT members will be flying gliders at the COBRA
field on Saturday or Sunday through out the season pending other
events at the field. This will be a good time to practice
launching, landing and just getting in stick time. The field will
remain open to all flying. Check the BBS for info.
COMMENTS
LINOMA #2 was held on June 11, 2007. The
task for the day was three rounds, 3:00, 6:00 and 9:00 minuets
with runway landing with a maxim of 100 landing points per round.
A perfect day was 1380 points.
SWIFT
LASS
Bryan Quick 864 points
#5 Tom Wild 643 points #7
Terry Lamm 995 points
#3 Loren Blinde 1247 points #1
Bob Turner 1048 points #2
Dan Lorimer 136 points #8
Larry Bailey 748 points
#6
Mike Meyer 902 points #4
June 2, 2007 Old Timer climb and glide event.
The Cobra R/C Club put on an Old Timer Contest
Saturday June 2 with 12 in attendances. The wind was straight out
of the west and breezy at times but everyone got to fly. As a
result of the wind three flyers missed the field so no score was
counted for that round, a hard price to pay.
Old Timers
points Non Old
Timer points
Ed Splittgerber
945 Terry
Lamm 1009
Tom Egbert
849 Mike
Meyers 940
George Eheman 721
Jud Bock 596*
Ed Jelinck 584*
Larry Bailey 458*
(*off the field)
June 30 All Electric Quiet Day was held with
great success. 32 people signed up for the event and about ten
flew anything from flat foam, multi-engine foam, large acrobatic,
mid-size acrobatic to a large electric powered glider. A big
thanks to Dan Cramer for promoting, organizing and advertizing the
event. And thank you to the COBRA guys for cooking lunch. Thank
you to our local Electric vendor for attending with lots of
goodies for sale. And most important, thank you to everyone
attending. We are looking forward to having another Quite Day.
After the meeting we will have some items for sale
and some items free. See the partial list on the SWIFT meeting
reminder e-mail. There is a lot of stuff.
Bring something to fly in the parking lot after the
meeting. If the weather is fair, we should have an hour of
daylight for flying.
Bring some show and tell and see you at the
meeting.
S.W.I.F.T. OFFICERS
President:
Terry Lamm (402) 319-7514 cell
mushroom_1@cox.net
Vice
President: Larry Puls (712) 328-3511
ldpuls@aol.com
Secretary/Treasurer: Dan Lorimer (402) 896-0963
dl_thermalchaser@yahoo.com
6506 South
142nd Street – Omaha, NE 68137-4806
VISIBLE LIFT:
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