Re: Danville [TANKS]

[Rick v100 <rickv100-at-yahoo.com>]

Frank, 

Is there current plans to attend the East Coast
Military Vehicle Rally in May at Ripken Stadium in
Aberdeen? 

Rick 

--- Frank Pittelli <frank-at-rctankcombat.com> wrote:
> MHayes wrote:
> > How did Danville go?
> 
> In a word: Fantastic!!!
> 
> We had 8 members of the hobby attending, with plenty
> of vehicles and 
> technology to show off.  James Miller and Steve Tyng
> showed everyone 
> their new vehicles under construction and answered
> any and all questions 
> about the systems.
> 
> We set up a TV and played battle video all day long,
> which opened a few 
> eyes of the spectators.  We also set up a steering
> course with orange 
> cones and allowed kids and adults to drive a  Stuart
> and the UN Support 
> Vehicle around the course.  About 80-100 people ran
> the course over the 
> two days.
> 
> But, the best part was the firing range.  We set up
> the Navarone Gun 
> with 7 targets down-range and gave everyone 10 shots
> to hit 6 of the 
> targets (the 7th was an ambulance ... penalty for
> hitting that).  We had 
> over 200 kids, parents and grand-parents giving that
> a try, shooting 
> well over 2000 rounds (some kids took multiple
> turns) through the virgin 
> Navarone barrel.  We kept track of the time for
> perfect scores, with the 
> fastest official time of 13 seconds.  (Another kid
> did it in 9 seconds, 
> but that was his second time on the gun.)
> 
> The best part about the firing range was the sound
> of the gun when it 
> fired without a paintball in the chamber.  It
> literally "boooooomed" and 
> then echoed around the building we were in. 
> Whenever we wanted to 
> attract a crowd to our area, we simply pressed the
> button a couple times 
> and all heads turned (even those of the 1/16 scale
> guys playing LED tag 
> with each other!!!)  At one point, we probably had
> at least 30 people 
> standing around watching and cheering the action,
> with up to 10 kids 
> standing in line at any given time.  Lots of action,
> lots of fun and 
> lots of happy spectators.
> 
> On Sunday morning, we had some time to ourselves, so
> we held our own 
> steering and shooting contest.  We drove our own
> tanks around the 
> steering course, then we each drove the UN vehicle
> around the course and 
> then average the score.  After that winner was
> decided, we moved over to 
> the firing range and took one turn each at that. 
> Unfortunately, the 
> scores are sitting at home on my desk, so you'll
> have to wait for the 
> results :-)
> 
> Out of the 500+ people who came by the booth, we
> probably got 10 people 
> interested in looking further into the hobby and
> possibly 2 guys who 
> will actually participate one day.  That's a pretty
> good return on 
> investment.
> 
>       Frank P.
> 
> 


                
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