Run day reports.

[HRC]

Dave & Rich playing chase. Dave's driving the Titan and Rich the Spartan.
Dave's Titan was running really well with the Leopard 4082, T180 and X447 prop. His next time out with it the ESC blew thoug

http://youtu.be/y41hLb4oJ9Q

Checked the motor and it is shot as well. Not sure who took out who. :)

[tiqueman]

That hurts....

[bill34207]

Not a bad day at Ackerman today. We had about a 9 mph breeze from the east most of the day with occasional higher and lower winds speeds. We actually did some racing today too.
1st video up: Dave doing some early morning testing on the Titan after putting a new motor & ESC in it.

http://youtu.be/7S_hhTO1Svk

[bill34207]

Another test session. This time Hugh and his Revolt

http://youtu.be/GznVxufjAaY

[bill34207]

Our 1st actual heat of the day. Hugh's Whiplash vs Pat's Oberto in a round of LSH.

http://youtu.be/FjE_NWA5K9s

[bill34207]

A 4 minute round of Limited Spec Offshore

http://youtu.be/zWoYD71p6eE

[bill34207]

The 2nd wave of LSO boats.This seems to be a popular class.

http://youtu.be/0oLCEg4puhU

[bill34207]

A partial video of a round of Q Offshore with Rich & his Spartan. Hugh and myself running Sprintcats. Ron told me he accidentally bumped the mode button on the camera. We actually ran a full 3 minute heat but lost some of the video.

http://youtu.be/2sdGJ5lvH5s

[bill34207]

1st time I've had this one out since repairing the hatch. Ron volunteered to run camera for me again. Still a little too much breeze to really let it loose on the offshore side. Down the front straight seemed to work well enough though.

http://youtu.be/LHqY-8V9_S0

[bill34207]

A little intermission after the 1st set of heats and we let some of the visitors toss in their boats. Rich flipped his Spartan (again) in this video. This time it almost sank as it broke the upper deck loose from the lower hull.

http://youtu.be/cNpU2EM-7qU

[tiqueman]

the big boys didnt get filmed?

[bill34207]

I sat this heat out to run the camera and shoot some of the other boats running in an unofficial P mono heat.

http://youtu.be/eoVnIdHPmM0

[bill34207]

the big boys didnt get filmed?

Not sure of what happened on that one. There was about 10 or maybe 15 seconds of video that stopped around the time we started pulling away from the shore line.

[bill34207]

Finally. The last upload to Youtube finished.
Ron ran the camera again for this round of P mono that I was driving in. I cut a buoy but still managed to take a 1st place finish in this heat.

http://youtu.be/mCT0mTgURZQ

[bill34207]

For those inclined to watch...

Took a ride over to Lakeland with my flying buddy Brian today for the last day of Top Gun.
Wound up shooting way more photos and video than I realized I was at the time. Still working on uploading it at this time but the playlist will be here when it's all done. The 1st video is all photos and put it up at the full 1080 resolution. The actual flying videos at 720 to cut down on processing and upload time.
I think my own personal favorite of the day will be video number 7 once it gets uploaded. That's the one with the 20 foot wingspan B-29 that carries up and releases a model of the X-1 rocket plane.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWp7KZlp7jBXU7cBWKx9jvg28mdTmzFn5