RC Flyer News Sept/Oct 2018 (Vol-23-02)

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Summary While I’m not a turbine-powered jet owner and don’t plan to be any time soon, I am impressed by the fact that Red Flag provides a competition format for them. It is a format that pits the best pilots and jets against one another. It reminded me of Formula One racing. After all, how many of us on this

Here Team Viper makes a pass over the crowd with smoke and lights on. Their routines put them in first place for Team.

planet drive F1 cars? Very few! Even so, watching a Formula One race will get most peoples heart rate up more than a few beats. Such is the case when you watch Jase Dussia fly a freestyle routine with his four-meter wingspan Leonardo powered by a Jetcat P400. His jet is just impressive and to watch! He would fly it on knife edge down the

length of the runway, literally inches from the pavement and straight as an arrow. That is a turn-on any way you look at it. It was the same with Kal Reifsnyder and Spencer Nordquist. They were flying their machines to impress both the judges and the crowd. It certainly had me wanting to be 40 years younger I can tell you!

Mike McConville finished in third place in the aerobatics competition. Again, he was flying one of the many Havoc jets entered. rcflyernews.tumblr.com

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