{"id":1698,"date":"2003-06-10T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2003-06-10T20:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2003\/06\/10\/favorite-moves-2\/"},"modified":"2003-06-10T12:00:40","modified_gmt":"2003-06-10T20:00:40","slug":"favorite-moves-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/10\/favorite-moves-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Moves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Very nice day at the field. I played with doing a kind of Immelman. Fun! My  maneuver was a bit different. I did my 1\/2 roll while in the vertical. That  seemed like more fun at the moment.Today I felt much more connected to the plane than previously. This gave me a  lot more control and smoothness than I&#8217;ve had in the past. I&#8217;m rolling better,  managing power better, managing the exchange of altitude and speed better.<\/p>\n<p>Favorite moves:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Launching, giving it full throttle and watching it climb directly away from    me in a straight line, ascending at 20 degrees. It just gets smaller and    smaller.<\/li>\n<li>I was flying 45 degrees away from being into the wind and straight toward    me. I noticed that in order to track correctly, the plane was actually    side-slipping a lot. We don&#8217;t need no stinking rudder!<\/li>\n<li>Standing in the middle of the field and having the plane zip around me like    a loyal dog darting around in the grass.<\/li>\n<li>Getting up to 250 feet, pointing the plane directly at me, building up    speed and then bringing the plane straight up, right over my head. As it    ascends, I roll. My view sees a dark line in the sky rotating around an axis.    I then pull out and dart away.<\/li>\n<li>Flying by low and slow, low and fast, low and really really fast out of a    steep decent, low and really slo[crash!] oop! When it flies by, engine off,    silent except for a &#8220;shhhoo&#8221; of air, I grin ear to ear.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, I forgot to mention what I did on Sunday! I went to the Poconos  field. \u00a0 I watched just one <strong>Stick 40 combat<\/strong>. Zowie! They had to  cancel the rest of the combat because moisture was tearing the streamers after  just a few seconds in the air. I saw a plane on the ground rev into a fence,  shooting 1\/3 of a prop 50 feet over peoples&#8217; heads and into the side of the  truck. The fuselage of the plane was broken \u00a0 in-two. Lastly, back at Great  Meadows, I saw a 7&#8242; wingspan pattern plane (?) do looping, rolling, flipping <strong>3-D  tricks <\/strong>that blew my mind. My jaw was literally agape! It looked like a  sprite fluttering about, only this sprite was larger than me and weighed like 50  pounds. Earlier in the day, I was impressed with a biplane doing what looked  like shoulder rolls. But this new stuff was in a class 3 times removed.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I also tried flying at a local unused baseball field. I can now tell you  that I can just barely keep the Zagi flying in a little league baseball field. I  can also tell you that it sucks to have to fetch a plane in chest-high grass.  Personal note: That&#8217;s about the smallest field I think I could ever fly at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very nice day at the field. I played with doing a kind of Immelman. Fun! My maneuver was a bit different. I did my 1\/2 roll while in the vertical. That seemed like more fun at the moment.Today I felt much more connected to the plane than previously. This gave me a lot more control [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}