Patrick's Thunder Tiger Fun Tiger Extra prepares to take off in the bomb drop competition
The FunTiger Extra ARF on climb out on another bombing run
The Fun Tiger Extra returns from a successful drop to get another bomb
Bill Kearns does a fly by with his Goldberg tiger 60 during the bomb drop competition
Bill's Tiger back on the runway to reload
Patrick flew his GIANT stinger at lunchtime.  Here it is gathering speed for the next maneuver
The GIANT Stinger has a smoke system.  Here is a close up during a flyby.
The Giant Stinger on a downwind pass with smoke on.
The Giant Stinger turns to begin the next maneuver
Smoke on during a snap roll.
More smoke!!!
Patrick's GIANT Stinger lands safely after another fun filled flight!
Greg Kloepper also had his GIANTStinger there!
Greg prepares to grease the stinger in after another successful flight!
Greg's Stinger climbs out after a touch and go.
KC Moore lands his BEAUTIFUL Somthin Extra done up in the great KANSAS JAYHAWKS color scheme!!!
Tony Holladay flew this SIG four star 40 in competition.  If only it would always look so good!!
Tony greases the four star 40 in during the touch n go competition
And back into the air again!!!
Look at those checkerboards!!! All done by hand and a very patient Tony.
Don Brents flew his Sig Fazer during the touch and go competition.
Patrick flew his Sig Fazer during thetouch and go competition as well.
Here he lines up in an attempt to land "on the carrier"
Aclose up of the bottom of the fazer after a touch and go.
And around it goes for another touch and go.
Another shot of the bottom of Patricks Fazer.  The bright colors really help it show up!
We flew several rounds of Combat too.  Here Steve Pollard's SPAD looks like a monument to fallen comrades after a midair collision with Tony Holladay
A close up of the carnage!!! Can you believe this airplane actually flew and completed a combat round?
Tony Holladay caries his airplane back to the pits after the midair collision with Steve
Steve's wing was shredded and the fuselage stuck in the ground.  Good thing it had rained some earlier in the week.
A close up showing penetration into the hard packed runway.
We can rebuild it, We have the technology....
and the packing tape!
LOTS of packing tape!!!!
Tony had tied in combat so it was neccessary to have his plane fly again in the flyoff round.
Before the flyoff for combat, we ran the musical airplanes event shown here.  When the music stops, the pilots all race to land and taxi to a designated spot
The flyoff would feature Keith Roehl and Tony Holladay dualing for a four minute time period.  At the end of four minutes, if nobody had gotten a kill there would be a race to cut the ribbon between the limbo poles.
Ready and waiting for the command to fight!!!
Keith's Extra tows his streamer in a dive.
Keith and Tonny managed to get close a few times.  This time they had just missed.
Keith with Tony in his sights and going for the kill!!
Neither one scored a kill by the time the four minutes was up so the race to the ribbon was on!!!
On the last pass they both missed the ribbon.  Here keith sets up to hit it.
Tony was Free then to make severall passes at the ribbon.
Unfortunately, Keith tried to hit it knife edge, but the ribbon didnt break and it threw Keiths plane into the ground.
Here Tony Finally getst the ribbon and wins the Combat event!!
Keith looks over the damage to his well used Flightcraft EXTRA.
Photos by Don & Ray Brents
Pictures from the 5th Annual
Franklin County Fliers
FUN- FLY
Sept 22, 2001

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