The first thing you see when you get to Ernie Huber's fantastic flying field is the lush greenery and those two heli's on his welcome sign. Above you'll see Ernie, doing what he does best - helping flyers of all ages. Here he's discussing tuning tips with David Carter's son, Daniel and his LMH-100 at the '97 fun fly.
The weather was excellent for the entire weekend with BLUE skies, mild temperatures and very little wind. We were very fortunate to get a chance to see Bob Fiorenze fly in with his own-built Rotorway Exec. This ship was impecably finished right down to the beautiful paint job. For $60,000 and a lot of elbow grease you can have one of these "kits" too!
There was quite a nice selection of helis present. The Agusta above was an electric model manufatured in Germany. I've forgotten the name but I'm trying to look it up. Flew very nicely. Above on the right was Ewald Heim's Mega Star model. Ewald as always was VERY smooth in all his flying.
The pretty Airwolf won first palce in the scale event followed by Ralph Daluso's Huey and another Bell 212 entry. The "Big Dawg" below in yellow is John Pennell's Vario Benzene (Gas) Trainer. John has lightened up this model significantly and it really scoots. In the background Bob Belluomin hoists an Icarus ECO 8 electric heli. Neat looking little electric that I wished we had gotten a chance to see fly.
The last entry above is Bob Belluomini's Heim Slim Line. Note the unusual decals - "Ga Me". Apparently the meaning is somewhat secret. Another sweet flying Heim. Bob is noted for his HUGE loops and the Slim Line was certainly up for the task.
My apologies if I've not labled all the helicopters with owners. I didn't take any notes...oops.
Ernie...thanks for the hospitality, I'll be back next year for sure....john anast