TOCINOWACK 2
I was doing my usual rounds of reading everything in the RCPhilippines forums when I ran accross this word. How strange I thought. Tocino & wack mixed together. I had thought that some bloke had mispelled my hometown’s specialty dish… it turns out, it was something more.
“An all-electric fly-in” was the description offered, and Maddafunker gave a good historical background on how the first Tocinowack had come about. Interesting I thought.
Despite threats of wind and rain, the organizers decided to push through with it. And we were truly blessed that day with good weather & great company.
Three weeks prior to Tocinowack, I realized that I had no airplane prepared for the event. I planned on rebuilding a 3DBatix plane for it. Life hardly goes as you’d planned as on the eve of Tocinowack 2, I had nothing ready to go.
A quick trip to Duck RC and I had Marlene ready an ESC for me. When I got home, I spent nearly six hours just repairing an Ultrafly Outrage instead. I’d decided my 3DBatix planes were too beat up already to perform well. At 3:30 AM, I was finished with my set-up. I got my alarm ready and went off to bed.
That morning, I awoke at 8 AM - a very horrified man. I’d slept through my alarm. I rushed bathing, packing and my goodbyes.
No doubt, I was rushing too much even in driving to the point wherein I got into a vehicular accident. Some pedestrian decided to cross the street at the wrong time and a taxi in front did a sudden stop. The driver in front of me managed to hit the brakes of her car on time, missing the cab by an inch. But me, nope. I saw it all too late. So in addition to the cost of gas & toll fees to get to Angeles City, I’ve to add the cost of the repairs of my car & the lady’s car whom I had bumped.
No serious damage on either side, but still - my wallet had been emptied of more of its meager contents to pay for things. Of course, I had to hit the car of the mayor’s secretary, right? Tsk. Its a good thing it was a minor accident where no one got hurt. She was quite amiable and we set things straight.
Anyways, I took Angeles City in a jiffy. By 11 AM, I was already in Nepo Mart… Angeles City’s main market place. I purchased Tocino from my favorite vendor (what is Tocinowack without Tocino?). On my way out, I passed by a shop where my mother & I used to purchase buko sherbet. Hm. I got three gallons of that to make-up for the fact that I was late. Close to noon, I was at Kamikaze flying field.
To my surprise and delight, I saw a long line of vehicles parked. A good sign. Moreover, there were at least a hundred different folk present. I was so happy. The turnout was so good, Tocinowack 2 was so well-attended.
I arrived just in time for lunch. For about fortyfive minutes I was doing nothing but shake hands with different people - old friends and new.
There were a plethora of planes strewn all about the flying field. Amazing little planes to mammoth-sized wonders. Better still, there were quite a number of them in the air. What a joy it was to see so many flying all at once.
Helicopters were also in abundance. TREX, X400, Lepton, EP8, XCell, Shuttle… and everyone was nice enough to do a little demo flying with their choppers.
Of the flying skills of the participants, I can only say one thing: how I wish I flew that well.
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