On the Road to NEFI

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here we go!! Enjoy!

Grossman56 and Mrs. Grossman
Dan and Diane

[Grossman56]

Ah, that's the guy, I was on too much of a shock watching that plane fly!! We all agreed that we've never seen anything move out like that plane, and its a prop driven aircraft!! Good for you to get a vid Lon.
I'm going to try and post all the pics Diane took, a bit at a time, just right click them after opening and save whatever you want.

Grossman56

[benjack71]

https://youtu.be/ghNaArjna3s

[Lon]

To the left of Warbird Charlie(picture 1), is Bill..Bill is the guy who was flying the 200+mph electric!!!!! I filmed one of his flights. Will be posting soon.

[Grossman56]

Hi Guys and Gals!
Got home about an hour ago and just got the pictures downloaded. We had two x 14hour days of driving, what a challenge!
More pictures to come, but here's some of the gang!!
Snapped a few before we realized that Jay wasn't in the shot, being that he organized NEFI, we had to fix that!!
That's himself kneeling on the right in the second picture.
From left to right back row:
One of the spotters (didn't get his name, so chime in and help if you guys know), Mr. and Mrs. Captain Mike Smith, the next two fellows I can't, for the life of me remember their names so, hopefully you can help me out there as well, Then Warbird Charlie, better known, maybe, as OV10 on the Squawk, Pilot Ryan Ramzay (pardon the spelling Ryan) and our fellow Squawker Ben Jack.
Front row left to right is yours truly, my buddy Lon Louvar and Kevin, who is joining HobbySquawk after this party.
Brothers in Flight!
I tell you, I'm so glad to have finally met some of the guys, I couldn't help but think what a great R/C Club we would have made if we were closer to each other!
The Camaraderie was fantastic!!
Thanks so much to Ryan for the coaching in landing the P 40 and the Dave Browns he so generously gave me when the Pitts broke a wheel hub.
Thanks to Mike for maidening "My Little Gal" and making such a great success of her, she flew great!
Thanks to Lon and Ben for sharing the shade and the great conversation throughout the days, it was great guys!!
Especially thanks to Charlie Brown for being such a great friend! I only wish we lived closer to each other, we'd be inseparable!!

Big thanks to Motion R/C for all the things they donated, including a Flightline Spitfire, Sea Fury and LA 7. Extremely generous guys!!

Well guys, we've broke the inertia and had our first Squawk Fly In, the only thing left is to plan the next one.

More pics to come as I resize them

Grossman56

[Lon]

Here's a vid from this weekend at NEFI. What a great time was had. Meeting and flying with Gman, Charlie, Ben, Pilot Ryan, CPT Mike, Kevin and more!
More vids to come....

[benjack71]

I still got videos to get posted. Just came in for some lunch. Try to get them up tonight. I got some running to do this afternoon.

[OV10]

Gman,
Left AMA Headquarter fields yesterday at 1pm after doing the museum. The NEFI was great and I will be back next year as long I wake up on the top side of the dirt. The winds were not as favorable as I would have liked but after reviewing my flight log I still got in 34 sorties.
Getting to meet our Squawk celebrity pilots Ryan and Capt Mike was cool. Even better was flying my SeaFury in formation Ryan's Spitfire. Two other Squawk members showed up for the event and it was great to meet Lon and Ben. It was also great to watch Ryan and Lon fly their 38's in formation. I was saddened to leave but after almost 12 hrs on the road back to upstate NY I got home at 12:45am but was so damned beat from the three 18 hr days in 90+ degree temps that all the unpacking of 15 birds and clothes is happening today. I will be looking for a replacement to the beast(Skyraider) later today also. Speaking of that loss, I am now officially proclaiming that area of the crash site as the NEFI Triangle since Ben put one in as well as 2 other pilots exactly in the same spot. Capt Mike got to witness the total destruction as my observer and then we both got to hijack a NEFI golf cart(with custom mag wheels) to go fetch the remains. Both Mike and I agree it was a mechanical failure but may never figure it out exactly because of the massive damage. The bright spot about it was I didn't have to shoe horn so tightly on repacking the trailer. So I know you are hoping to make it back to Wy in two days and then a day or two to process the pics so hopefully by this Fri we can see the plethora of activities taken by Diane.
Just want to say thanx to all of ya for being part of my memories of my first visit to AMA HQ for the NEFI.
Best regards,

[Flygirl]

Well now I see why they always apologize to each other for going too high above themselves. ;)

[Grossman56]

Ever wonder ,"How do they do those videos?"
Well, here's Pilot Ryan filming Captain Mike and there's the rig, check it out.
We just nicely got back to the hotel room and are relaxing.
Captain Mike maidened My Little Gal for me and she flew great, thank God.
Everything was pretty well over by 1300, and we had a lot of disassembling to do, so we called it a day. Mike and Ryan were still shooting video, so be prepared for a lot of great new stuff from them.Got some great shots today as well, will get them all sorted out and posted when we get home, hopefully we can get there in two days, we'll see.

Grossman56 and Mrs. Grossman
at NEFI