Last weekend we went out to our club night fly.
Is was kinda cold and windy, didn't have a night plane ready, went anyway.
Hoping that this is going to be a good summer for night flying, not too many of us flew at all last summer.
I kinda decided that I would be doing some night flying even if I have to go solo.
Reading the news today I found out that tomorrow is going to be a Supermoon. Moonrise tonight came just before sundown and was glorious.
http://www.ksl.com/index.php?sid=20...supermoon-may-block-out-weekend-meteor-shower
I got home and did a quick light job on my HotRod Combat wing.
I taped a string of white (already wired up) underneath, lights facing into and through the foam.
Taped it on with red and green Zagi tape. Only one big battery was charged so I headed to the field alone.
Holy crap I forgot how fun night flying is. I hadn't done it in so long. Got my heart pumping a couple of times.
Really great standing in the field under the outrageously bright moon doing big loops and lazy rolls with the brightly lit clouds in the background. A little wind and right around 60 degrees.
The pictures suck but what a night.
Hopefully I can get somebody to fly tomorrow when the Supermoon is full!
Is was kinda cold and windy, didn't have a night plane ready, went anyway.
Hoping that this is going to be a good summer for night flying, not too many of us flew at all last summer.
I kinda decided that I would be doing some night flying even if I have to go solo.
Reading the news today I found out that tomorrow is going to be a Supermoon. Moonrise tonight came just before sundown and was glorious.
http://www.ksl.com/index.php?sid=20...supermoon-may-block-out-weekend-meteor-shower
I got home and did a quick light job on my HotRod Combat wing.
I taped a string of white (already wired up) underneath, lights facing into and through the foam.
Taped it on with red and green Zagi tape. Only one big battery was charged so I headed to the field alone.
Holy crap I forgot how fun night flying is. I hadn't done it in so long. Got my heart pumping a couple of times.
Really great standing in the field under the outrageously bright moon doing big loops and lazy rolls with the brightly lit clouds in the background. A little wind and right around 60 degrees.
The pictures suck but what a night.
Hopefully I can get somebody to fly tomorrow when the Supermoon is full!