Everyone loves a parade
Robert Prager
rprager33@yahoo.com
Robert Prager (rprager33@yahoo.com) belongs to the Whitewater RC Flying Club in Whitewater, Wisconsin. He wrote that the city of Whitewater holds a Fourth of July parade and festival every year that features a specific theme. This year’s theme was “Set Sail on the 4th of July Honoring All Men and Women of the Sea.” Robert said:
“Our club put together a float for the parade and set up a display with airplanes at the festival. This was done to represent our club and promote the hobby we love to do. “The float was designed and built to mix RC airplanes to go along with the parade theme. The planes on the stand on the float did spin in a circle. All of the floats are put in different classes and judged. Well, to our surprise, our float was judged first place in its class, and also judged the best float in the parade. Very exciting for us.
“Along the parade route we received a lot of great comments and people clapping. Our display was set up for people to see some of the planes up close, and also had a flight simulator set up for the spectators to try flying. We thought that we would like to share this with others in the hobby.”
Robert’s photo was taken with a Samsung Galaxy S5. Specifications included an ISO of 40 and an f-stop of f/2.2 at 1/660 second.
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