Well, I was at the Round Valley Dome Indoor Contest. I met some people that I only knew from the Internet, sold some kits, and did some flying.
I still didn't get to see what the Giant NoCal Beaufighter can do. I took it to Round Valley but forgot the stooge! Dave Gee and I thought about finding a two person method of winding it but it suffered from a problem that many of our other models did, warps from altitude and humidity. When we unpacked our models we found that many of them had warped going from 830 feet above sea level and 50% humidity to 7080 feet above sea level and 7% humidity. We were more concerned with straightening out the models we were competing with than sorting out the Beaufighter. More on that later.
Round Valley Dome is a very interesting venue. It is a flattened dome over a sports stadium, 95 feet high in the center and 400 feet across. The altitude requires that you use about twice as much rubber as near sea level to get a good climb (unless you are flying the F.A.I film covered stuff) and the glide is not as good but there were some spectacular flights in the space.
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