From Bruce:
“It was SSW wind but I thought at 22 MPH there had to be some lift. The front side was nice and the backside was really rough. I did manage to rip it up quite a bit though. While I was waiting for my plane to charge I decided to tape my camera to my hat and take some video while I flew. I threw it up on youtube here.”

Flown and shot at the Frankfort, Kentucky slope.

Our man Tony Utley has been video-crazy the past couple of weeks - this one is Bruce Davidson sloping his Pike WR(?) V-tail on the backside at the Frankfort slope. Tony has been putting together fantastic soaring videos out at the Frankfort Slope (and elsewhere) and you can check out more of his AU Video Productions here: http://nex12go.blogspot.com

Mike Lantz from down Knoxville, TN way sent in this video of him sloping his Mig-3, set to music.

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Aspen Glen Way, Louisville, KY Map

Meeting room at St James Place Patio Homes, Aspen Glen Way, Louisville, KY.

Location is just north of Gene Snyder Freeway at Beulah Church Road

Directions
From I-64 or east Louisville take first exit AFTER Bardstown Road. (second exit after Billtown Rd)
Turn right. About 200 feet turn right into complex.

From I-65 or from the west.
Exit at Buelah Church Road and turn left. Make first right which is entrance to complex.

After entering complex count three buildings on the left. The meeting room is across the street from the third building. IMPORTANT- Park in parking spots that DO NOT HAVE NUMBERS PAINTED IN THE SPOTS. There are open parking spots on all sides of the meeting room building.

I recently returned from a short trip to Gatlinburg. After going on weekends for years I learned this trip I will never do the weekend thing again. A totally different place to visit and shop in during the week verses the weekend.

After several years of wanting to I was finally able to visit the “Tennessee Museum of Aviation” in Sevierville. The museum is located at the Sevierville airport just about three miles out of the center of town. Admission is $12.50 for adults and their web site can be found at www.tnairmuseum.com.

Unlike the museum at Dayton this is a living museum. Over half of the planes are in flying condition and several regularly make trips to air shows in the eastern U.S. and Canada. The stars of the museum are a pair of very rare P-47D Thunderbolts. But there is a F-86 Saber Jet, a pair of Mig-17s, a Mig-21, two P-80 Shooting Stars, a T-28 Trojan and a forward fuselage section from a B-25 that MGM used to make air to air movie shots including “Catch -22”.

All the planes are located in a hanger where the walls are painted white. This is much better than the hangers at Wright Patterson as you can get better light reflection and some very good pictures. They have two warbird flyins a year. We just missed this years October gathering by one week. Check their web site for next years shows.

I am sending Ben some pictures I took. Look for the drip pans under the engines on some of the planes to see the ones in flying condition. I recommend you stop by this museum some time. It is only 10 -12 minutes from I-40 at the Sevierville exit. Just allow more time on weekends.

Photos in the Tennessee Museum of Aviation gallery.

Photos, scores and flight reports on the 2007 Mid-American Soaring Championships page.

For the first time in it’s 30-plus years, the Mid-Am Champs is coming to Louisville. Normally held in Lexington, the BSS Club has given us the opportunity to host this storied competition. We’re making a slight change, though - this year the Mid-Am Champs will be fully man-on-man, just like the rest of the Ohio Valley Soaring Series (OVSS) competitions. Don’t know what “man-on-man” competition is? Check out this: Basic Guidelines for True Seeded Man-on-Man competition.

We’ll be holding this year’s Mid-Am at the site of last year’s Mid-South Soaring Champs - beautiful Hays-Kennedy Park in northeast Louisville, right by the river.

RES on Friday and then two days of Unlimited on Saturday and Sunday. All the info you’ll need is here:

2007 Mid-Am Soaring Championship

Ben Wilson is covering the Soaring NATS for the AMA’s NATSNews daily publication.

View our 2007 NATS Photos (updated daily, hopefully!)

Live(ish) updates on RCGroups: The Road to the 2007 NATS

Update: Ryan Woebkenberg has made a report on the NOS NATS: 2007 Nostalgia Nationals.

Update: Unlimited Final Scores. F3J Preliminary and Final Scores.