Monday January 1, 2018 SDKC held its Umpteenth Annual New Years Day Fly.
This is not usually much of a challenge in San Diego and once again the weather was everything the Chamber Of Commerce advertises. After some early fog we had parlty cloudy skies, temps approaching 70, and decent wind.
-We had a good showing of big kites and a fair numer of two and four lines kites.
-We were joined by the Convair 220 Ham Radio club who have been experimenting with using kites to lift antennas and they had pretty good success on this day.
-We had a pretty good number of TOTL kites in the air as a tribute to Don Tabor who passed recently.
-The Pot Luck Lunch was excellent with lots of good main and side dishes. We were a little shy of desserts this year but no one was complaining because some years we are heavy on desserts and light on real food.
-A few people were there early when you couldn’t see a hundred yards because of fog and a few were still there at sunset.
-All in all a pretty good time. We finished 2017 with our Annual Fighter Kite Challenge, brought in 2018 with our Annual New Years Day fly and still have our normal monthly meeting to look forward to in January!
Photos by Rick Spurgeon, Dan Willan, Dave Lambert, Bob Anderson
All photos clickable for a somewhat larger version
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- Mariners Point, Mission Bay, San Diego as seen from the nearest bathroom.
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- Dan’s Big Sleds
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- Steve’s Jordan Airform
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- A Jose Sainz Kite from Charles’s collection
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- Fire Darts
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- The Rev Flier numbers fluctuated throughout the day. Just a few to start.
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- From Charles’s collection again.
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- A Brasington from Charles’s collection.
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- It is impossible to see a Bol and not try to take a picture with something centered in the hole.
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- Impossible I tell you.
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- Steve contemplates untangling someone else’s mess.
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- Steve hauls in his Airform slowly.
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- Lunch behind a handy windblocker.
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- We had more food than we could eat. Lots of main dishes and sides but a shortage of desserts for once.
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- Chillin’ after lunch.
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- Checking out some radio gear.
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- Dan prepares to join in the Rev group flying fun.
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- Must be a mistake, nothing centered in the Bol.
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- Dan and Dave explain Don’s contributions to kiting during our own small tribute to Don Tabor.
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- Mike Dennis gets ready to try out an old TOTL friend.
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- We were joined by the Convair 220 radio club this year. They were lifting radio antennas with kites.
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- Antenna lifting kite.
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- The new and improved antenna rig proved to be a bit of a challenge. Rig 2.0 will be out soon.
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- Bye Ben.