MISSOURI VALLEY JET FLY

Jerry and I ventured to Tecumseh, Nebraska for the 2nd Missouri Valley Jet Fly, this past August 5th and 6th, and had an absolutly great time. Below the gallery of pictures, is a summary of the meet posted to the RC Jet's list by Tony Green, resident press guy and jet pilot. We'll be back next year for this one for sure.

Talk about service, the city even came out and hosed the FOD off of the runway!! mvjs2k01.jpg 48.92 Kb	Ahh, breakfast at the 4-H booth, at the county fair mvjs2k02.jpg 96.07 Kb	All set up, and ready for a good day of flying. mvjs2k03.jpg 84.36 Kb
mvjs2k04.jpg 119.37 Kb	mvjs2k05.jpg 108.29 Kb	Ivan's electric A-10 mvjs2k06.jpg 99.98 Kb
Your webmaster's Byron F-20 mvjs2k07.jpg 76.99 Kb	...and the F-15 mvjs2k08.jpg 65.38 Kb	For some reason, Jerry just couldn't get over our room coming with it's own flyswatter collection..... mvjs2k09.jpg 23.48 Kb
Saturday nights roaming about the town square, after the banquet for the pilots mvjs2k10.jpg 57.85 Kb	For some reason, I found this shot hilarious, and Jerry not seeing/getting what I was laughing at just made it worse :) mvjs2k11.jpg 93.90 Kb	mvjs2k12.jpg 42.88 Kb
Some great F-15 formation flying. mvjs2k13.jpg 34.83 Kb	...the formation birds... mvjs2k14.jpg 79.84 Kb	and the ~~crazy~~ err.. daring pilots. mvjs2k15.jpg 80.73 Kb
Tony "No I won't fall off this/ No I haven't flown the Mig yet" Green, the show photographer mvjs2k16.jpg 49.00 Kb	Nice varitey of craft. mvjs2k17.jpg 67.66 Kb	Award ceremony getting underway mvjs2k18.jpg 85.94 Kb
mvjs2k19.jpg 85.02 Kb	All the planes, and all the pilots. mvjs2k20.jpg 56.95 Kb

"I want the Jet community to know that the Missouri valley Jet Fly went off with out a hitch or an accident. We had 31 registered pilots from California, Missouri, Iowa , Nebraska, Minnesota, Colorado and Kansas. We all had a great time. The weather was fantastic along with the food. The town of Tecumseh opened up their town and the airport to the guys. Ward Neesen did a fantastic job of being the CD and even the AMA VP was impressed enough with what was going on...He took plenty of pictures and asked alot of questions. We expect to see a write up in the AMA mag. He was surprised that we had conformed with ALL of the AMA rules and no one complained. Even Ivan and Paul M. were seen to be smiling....SEVERAL times during the weekend.

It appears that scale jets out numbered the sport jets and there was a decrease in the # of turbines present. We also had at least 3 electric's flying. The most popular manufacturer was TopGun Aircraft followed by BVM & Byrons, JHH, Kyosho and a list of others. We gave away awards in 8 categories. Best Turbine went to Don Reger w/ a Kangaroo, Scale turbine went to Lance Campbell and his Phillip Avonds F15, Best Sport D/F went to Kevin Hyde and his BVM Maverick, Best Scale D/F went to Jim Simonitch and his JHH F86. Pilots Choice went again to Don Reger and his Roo, Top Gun went to te boys from Colorado and their F15 flying that is Paul Munninghoff, Ivan Munninghoff and the CDs award went again Kevin Hyde and the Maverick and the highly coveted,"I WAS SCRAMBLED IN THE BRAMBLES" went to David Fox.

I would like to thank all the sponsors personally starting with Larry Wolf and JHH, Frank Tiano of FTE, Bob Violett of BVM, Dubro,Boca Bearings, Robart MFG, MAN, RCJI, BYRONs,Scale Model Research, Airtronics all in no particular order. Look for the video because there will be some interesting things on their. Look for us in 2001 "