Pylon Races Are Coming...

It's ready. First flight was yesterday.
Great flying plane!

Your pylon racer looks very pretty, Frits and I know that you will do well in the racing.
It already looks like it is doing 80 MPH just sitting still.

Are you going to be in the practice racing next weekend, I think it is?

Nice Frits.

99% complete with Jim Jordans top flite contender.

Fixing to start the monokote on Paul K. stenson.

Looks good Frits. Did you come up with those colors on your own? Nice to see you're in touch with your feminine side .

Take a good look at our club logo. The azelea flower which is pink. If you find our club logo offensive then come to the Tuesday meeting and see if there is interest in changing the logo and the club name to a more manly logo and name. Good luck with that. On a personal note I'm neither hot or cold on our club logo or name. It's just a name and logo- we could do worse!

Fritz did a verygood job in his colors and there is nothing wrong in picking out colors that represent our club or club logo. The plane was well built and flies very well and knowing Fritz he is going to be hard to beat in pylon racing.

I think that the color is more of a Metallic Magenta instead of pink.

I had a Pink Metallic Magenta "Wonder" flying wing one time.

I don't think his color selection has anything to do with our club or club logo. He just likes those colors, just as he has for the entire 15 years I've been around this club and subsequently around him.

P.S.: Russell, I'm giving you a homework assignment. Type the following 10 lines:

Frits
Frits
Frits
Frits
Frits
Frits
Frits
Frits
Frits
Frits



Also, the LA Racer pylon planes do fly extremely well and are very well matched. Should be tons of fun. Too bad I won't be there next weekend for the first practice run.

This post has been edited by Mike on Mar 8 2010, 01:51 PM

BTW Russell, I was teasing Frits and I'm pretty sure he knows it.

Hey Mike, type the following ten times: these
these
these
these
these
these
these
these
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these

I don't know what you're talking about.

Russ, Mike and I had a great little unofficial "race" yesterday — using only one pylon post...

It felt good to race around and chase Mike and Russ. (I was lagging behind most of the time, but I was holding back, of course...)
Consider me BACK in bi'niz...!

Now, about those colors I use...
I have used pink, sky blue, yellow and purple on several of my planes.
It takes a real man to use those colors on his airplane, especially titty pink...
Here are some of my earlier racers...



It wasn't always like that:
Here's my Great Planes Patriot. It was my 4th airplane. And the Yoshioko Flash, my pattern plane...

hey frits,what is the 1st and 2nd plane in the pics that you had?
the planes look awsome.I like the purple on the planes.the purple and
pink and yellow stand out.I was gonna tell yall that Dale Sr had a pink
car at one time it was a 56 ford fairlane i believe.they had red paint and white
and mixed it and it came up pink when they sprayed it.it looked good.I want to do
another plane and do it a purple..-oh by the way,ill see yall tomorrow night.
ps-the new club name for vote"kennys hide out flying club"

This post has been edited by kenny2 on Mar 8 2010, 04:35 PM

The first one was a Scat Cat Quickie 500 pylon racer.
That one is still somewhere in the woods across half Mile Road north of the field...

The airplane on the right of it was a Four Star 40, slightly modified. I had clipped the outer wing bay off of each wing, and renamed it a "Clipped-Star 40".

I never really liked the open engine compartment and those ugly "cheeks" of a Four Star, so I built it and shaped it like the nose of the Flash, the fourth picture.

Here's another one, before I really started to like that pink MonoKote...

looks great fritz, wish i was going to be home. i'll be home the 17th.

I like what you did to the four star 40,it stood out big time.You have
really got some talent when it comes to building and covering thats for sure.

After i type all those words-i'm going to be pretty smart right Frits(Fritz). Your plane flies great.

Thanks, but anyone can do it. It's not hard.

Here's how I do it...

I spend about an hour or more planning the patterns and colors.

I may make six to ten outline drawings of the top view and side view of the airplane...
Then I use my granddaughters color markers and I color the drawings to see how each scheme will look... And I pick one.

Then I follow the instructions that come with each MonoKote roll...

This post has been edited by Flying Dutchman on Mar 10 2010, 05:12 PM

Hey frits,I talked to gary and he said he was "SHAKIN"in his shoes.He said
he has done forgot all youll ever know about flyn.He said he was gonna go by
us so FAST that it will look like we are in reverse.He said we should just not even
have pylon races,cause he hates to take our pride.
Just kidding on all of that,I did talk to him and he thought it was just for our club only.He wants to get one is what he said.