2006
Rough River Canard Fly-In
Central States Association
September 29th to October 1st
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There are a lot of images on this page, and it may load slowly if you
have a dial-up internet connection.
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There were simply too many great canard aircraft to include pictures of
each.
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Bruce Vinnola's E-Racer made its Rough River debut this year.
After many years of building, the effort was definitely worth it.
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There were a lot more people camping this year, possibly because the
lodge and cabins were full. We rented out the entire park for the
weekend. There are always plenty of rooms within walking distance
of the airport at a couple of local motels, but many people prefer the
convenience of camping at the airport.
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Rob Martinson flies in from Colorado every year in his fast
Varieze. Rob races a lot.
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Last year, Rough River organizers Sam Chambers and Dave Russell
lamented about people flying from California and England to attend, and
they were local but not flying their EZs. They swore that
wouldn't happen in 2006. Well, here's Dave's Varieze.
Anybody seen Sam's Long-EZ?
To be fair, Sam has been flying his very nice Long-EZ, but had a bit of
engine issues this summer and is reworking the instrument panel...
again.
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Steve Wright's Stagger-EZ is a beautiful and unique canard creation,
and it flies as good as it looks. People flock around the
Stagger-EZ and Steve answers a lot of questions. Steve flew a lot
of demo rides this year, and a few others did as well.
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Chris Esselstyn's Cozy Mk IV has a 540 cubic inch engine.
Everyone was anxious to see how the front hatch worked. The baby
is under the wing, protected from the light rain, and is checking out
the clever Velocity retract landing gear retrofitted to this Cozy.
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James and Sandy Redmon flew up from Texas again this year in their
Berkut. For a lot more info, check out http://www.berkut13.com.
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Two people can see a lot of the world if they have a Cozy and a couple
of folding bikes, and they're a great way to get around the Rough River
State Park.
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At Rough River, you can always see clusters of builders and builder
wannabes gathered around planes, getting a lot of great ideas and
motivation.
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We had a Q2 and a Dragonfly at Rough River last year, but they must
have their own fly-ins because even though there are many flying, we
don't see too many at Rough River. This year, we had the most
beautiful Quickie imaginable. The attention to detail was obvious
and very impressive.
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Camping under the wing of your Long-EZ is a lot of fun, although it was
a bit soggy Saturday night.
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Harry Manvel is a Rough River regular. He flies his very nice
Defiant down from Michigan every year.
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Chris was flying a lot on Saturday, including some low passes.
That is one FAST Cozy!
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Bill Allen (standing) flew up from Dallas in his Long-EZ. He flew
it over from the UK last year and left it in California. Fellow
brit, Graham Shevlin, flew up from Dallas as Bill's wingman, although
Bill says he made him do all the radio work while Graham listened to
CDs. Bill is saying bye to Graham, who departed on Saturday.
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Graham Shevlin, taking off Saturday late afternoon in his Long-EZ on a
flight to Birmingham.
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There were a lot of EZs flying overhead throughout the day.
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The Saturday evening get together has traditionally been at Terry
Schubert's cabin. For the past two years, we all met at the
airport
building.
There were a lot of great prizes again this year, and The Sam &
Dave Show was funnier than ever.
We seemed to have another record crowd, to which Chrissi said, "There
may be something to this canard thing."
The official canard aircraft count was 70, which is about the same as
last year even though the weather all day Saturday was much worse than
last year. Several builders flew to Rough River in non-canard
aircraft.
Everyone seemed to have a lot of fun despite the weather, and it was
another
safe canard fly-in. It's time for you to start planning for Rough
River 2007.
As always, thanks to Terry Schubert, Sam Chambers and Dave Russell for
making it
happen, and thanks to all the canard enthusiasts who show up and make
this such a wonderful event that just keeps getting better every year.
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Sunset over the canards
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If you have any spectacular photos you think others would enjoy, please
email them to:
webmaster at roughriver dot org
Previous years, I received CDs full of great pictures and sorting
through them was overwhelming, so I'll leave it to you to select your
best images.
If you have factual corrections or additional information, please let
me know.
Finally, and I'll probably regret this, if you'd like a free CD with
218 full size JPG images from the 2006 Rough River Canard Fly-In that
can be viewed on your computer or most modern DVD players connected to
a TV, please email me your mailing address. Offer valid in the US
and Canada only.
The next batch of images were taken by Dave Philipsen on Friday.
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The next batch of pictures were taken by Bruce Vinnola on Sunday
morning.
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