Aero Hobbies Sunday Fun Day Helicopter Fun Fly 1998

Last Sunday May 7th 1998, Bruce, Lee, Weldon, and I attended Aero Hobbies first helicopter fun fly in Denton, TX. For their first fun fly they had a great turn out of about 40 pilots! They had some nice raffle items to. The best of which was the NHP/CSM simulator. Guess who won it? Lucky Lee!!! He must have been destined for helicopters.  It was only a couple of weeks ago that he decided to try helicopters and got a really good used helicopter from Bruce for an exceptional price. Then after practicing on my simulator, he flew for the first time and did exceptionally well. On that first tank, he was already at the stage it would normally take a gallon of gas to get to! Then at his first helicopter fun-fly, he won the $170 grand prize! He will get a lot of good use from the CSM simulator. Watch out Curtis :)  Speaking of really good pilots, Mark Kiner was there. He amazed everyone when he came into an inverted hover only a couple of inches above the ground and then executed multiple elevator and aileron flip flops with his blades rotating just inches above the grass! We had a good time there. The place was easy to find. We did however discover a shorter route through Greenville. While we were passing through there, we saw Tom Nuchols getting some gas. I guess the saying "It's a small world" holds true.