Just got my ticket to ANC for Fri 5/3. Who is planning on being at the Airmans show?

Jeremy,

Will you be competing at Valdez?

Hoping to make Saturday

I'll be there, look for the tall guy in the Alaska Airmen's ball cap with facial hair . . . . oh wait

Coming from "New Hampsha".

I'll be kicking around on Sunday... To collect my new husky...

Yeah, I'll be in and around, trying to find the elusive amazing deal on a IO-360 A1B conversion...

Be sure to stop by the Alaska RCC (Rescue Coordination Center) booth/corner/table...If you come by and learn about 406 beacons, the SAR process, how to lighten a 170B, or any other friendly topic, you can enter to win one of the graciously donated 406 beacons we'll have on hand in FREE raffles. We've reached out to every manufacturer for opportunities, so there'll be some goodies to look at.

And, at the rate the snow is still coming down, we could still be on straight skis at the Birchwood ski strip!!!

Karl

My two youngest daughters and I will be flying commercial up, staying with another daughter that lives a half mile east of Anderson Lake strip. I'll plan on dropping in to the airshow on Saturday, most of us plan to head to Valdez the next weekend.
Mark J

I will be there Saturday and Sunday.
Hope to meet up with some of you.

Ken

I'd love to make it up this year, but I have committed 100% of available time and money to completing the landing gear project, so it will have to be next year.

twflyer, bin there, did that, gotto give others a chance. Ha. I'm comeing up in a 737 'smoker', maybe the Cap will divert to VDZ!! otherwise looks like Ill be in a rentacar.

I'll be coming out of the bush for it as breakup should be in full swing with mud and slush everywhere.

scottd170 wrote:Coming from "New Hampsha".

what paht of New Hampsha ya comin from? From Dovah mah self . . . . fahrty yeahs ago anyway . . .

denalipilot wrote:Hoping to make Saturday

Planning to go to Valdez. Maybe still on wheelskis they way things are going. Maybe see some of the other C170 ski fanatics down there. Planning to compete in the flour bombing. Does anyone know how heavy the bags are? (Trying to get some practice in)

Planning to compete in the flour bombing.

You do know that the safest place to be on the ground is in the middle of the target?????

The last couple of years at Reed's fly-in northeast of Fort Collins on Memorial Day, we've had flour-bombing contests, using styrofoam cups of flour. The first year, all the kids stood in the middle of the target, but as bombers became more proficient and the cups dropped closer, one of the kids decided to step outside the target--and he was the only one who got "floured"!

Cary

I was at Valdez two years ago and got volunteered to help measure the flour bombs. There were some very accurate shots, if I recall right the winning bomb was within 1 1/2 feet of the center of the tarp. They were using small paper bags of flour stapled shut and with a few inches of survey tape with the N number written on it. Something like 1/4 lb, maybe 1/2. Not more than 1 lb for sure. The bombardier in the winning plane was on weekend leave from the air base-his day job? Bombardier, lol.

The sure made quite a noise hitting the ground. I was advised to NOT get hit as it would leave a mark.

PilotPeat wrote:I was at Valdez two years ago and got volunteered to help measure the flour bombs. There were some very accurate shots, if I recall right the winning bomb was within 1 1/2 feet of the center of the tarp. They were using small paper bags of flour stapled shut and with a few inches of survey tape with the N number written on it. Something like 1/4 lb, maybe 1/2. Not more than 1 lb for sure. The bombardier in the winning plane was on weekend leave from the air base-his day job? Bombardier, lol.

The sure made quite a noise hitting the ground. I was advised to NOT get hit as it would leave a mark.

What is the elevation (AGL) that they drop from?

For the flour bombings are you allowed to make a sighting tool?
It's a simple vector algebra problem - you have the horizontal (airspeed) and vertical (altitude) component of the triangle and then you just need to calculate the angle of the sight. Drop the flour bomb when the target is in sight.

AKclimber wrote:For the flour bombings are you allowed to make a sighting tool?
It's a simple vector algebra problem - you have the horizontal (airspeed) and vertical (altitude) component of the triangle and then you just need to calculate the angle of the sight. Drop the flour bomb when the target is in sight.

What about air friction? Vertical air speed will increase until you hit terminal velocity due to air friction, while forward speed will continue to diminish to zero due to friction.

You need to be 500 AGL. Make whatever site you choose but I think we may disqualify a B-17 and a Nordyn bomb site. You are correct on the math but just as often as not it was someone tossing it out on luck. Hope you all can make it, we have some new planes coming this year, it is the 100th anniversary of flight in Alaska.
Joe