Model airplane flight friends

http://users.ids.net/~bdfelice/	Brian Felice, (click here to see him testing his new camera) from Rhode Island USA, At left, he is holding his own designed, favourite ugly truss construction "wedge", which even hoovers at night with incandescent lights in the wings. Brian depends on YS for instant power when needed to beat the smoke out of his opponents, Click on the picture to see more construction details of his Wedge, which he put in his home page (at last).
http://www.jimarcher.cwc.net/	Meet Jim Archer from Norwich UK, who, amongst others, helped me to Spitfire "hands-on" workshop info. In his hands he holds (rumour has it), the result of "slave labour" in Brians cellar during his 2000 USA stay (for the Gremlin event?). No amount of Marmite could bribe his guards to turn their heads. That engine, so shamefully covered by his hand, (not Laser nor Irvine) must be Brian's, to make sure he did not finish first in the Combat event. An opponent with his willpower is best kept at close quarters. It seems he lost most of his hair when trying to tug gliders. While visiting Jim autumn 2000, the return trip was prevented by hurricane force wind speeds. Old England was reluctant to let go of me. Click the picture to visit his home page
	The Gremlin Combat Group 2000, especially erected (just kidding Bill :-) ) to lure Jim from the cosy old world into the clashing of arms at Rhode Island. Brian only just managed to beat him!
April 2001, I had an opportunity to work in Detroit, after which we went to visit Brian to check the tales on his prowess with the wedge. It was a long drive east, with a stop to visit Brian Stephens inHamilton (Ontario) to exchange some Ryobi engines and visit the Hamilton steel mill. Rhode island is the smallest state in the US. When asking directions, people warned me to take care. The RI welcome sign has welcome both on the front and on the back! We finally made it, and while driving into Gervais street, we noticed a house wth a Dutch banner flying! Our host surely went WAAY_OUT to make it easy for us to find his place and feel at home. 'Sir' James Archer from the UK also had ship-wrecked on Rhode Island. After some memorable time in Brian's infamous cellar, Jim emerged with his Suk-O-Doy, and Brian finished his 'Edam cheese" park flier in his famous truss construction design, while I made myself useful scrounging for small bits and pieces. Sad enough, Jim "finished" his plane in the first windy flight, before we could take pictures.
	This is the "Edam', Clark-Y airfoil, PAW 19 diesel engine. Ugly, elegant and tail heavy at the same time. It needed a plastic bag of Brittish pennies for balance (not shown here) At night of course there was a lot of tech-talk
	The engine still was extremely tight while checking the throttle response. The 11" prop we used at first, was a bit too much, but flew well enough, sometimes burping like a WWI radial during landing. Throttle response improved much after we tried a 10x6 prop. Just visible is the plastic bag of pennies taped to the nose to get the balance anywhere near decent. This was supposed to be a park flyer! Well, it flew in the park all right, and with some more trimming would be a very decent trainer. Good show Brian.
	AMA???????
	After warming up a bit, Brian tail-slid the wedge in so close, that it was easy to touch it, or grab it out of the air. A slight breeze blowing in our face, as can be seen by the angle that the plane hovers
	After a while, Bill Archibald joined us in the park. From left to right: Bill (Mass), I (Hollan) and Brian (RI).
	Model flight American style: Drive'n'fly, with Jim (UK) re-adjusting his cap, adorned with RI club insignae