You're making me feel guilty for not showing up last year ; ) Jeff Lange
On 8/9/09, Mark Langford <[email protected]> wrote: > NetHeads, > > Jeff Lange has mentioned that he'd show up in person this year if we wanted > to do another of those "performance evaluations" that we did two years ago. > This is not a race....cover it at your own pace, but times will be kept. > It'll be the same triangular course between MVN and two other nearby > airports. We've scheduled it for departing at 8:30 Saturday morning, > weather permitting. It's open to anything that started from KR plans, at > the very least. We'll need 2-3 "time keepers" to keep up with takeoff and > landing times. Folks with stopwatches are encouraged to bring them. More > details later, such as the airport identifiers to key into GPS's. Mine > should be a little slower this year, because I have more of a cruise prop on > it (54x58 Sensenich). The 54x54 allowed me turn it up to 4000 rpm and get > some real power out of that Corvair. Jones will running that one this year, > unless he bags another deer between now and then. > > It's probably time to remind folks that if you'd like to host the Gathering > next year (2010), this is the year you have to pitch it to the KR builders > and pilots assembled at the KR Banquet Saturday night, Sept 19th at MVN > airport. See http://www.krgathering.org/ for more details on the KR > Gathering. Rest assured that if you want to hold it on the moon, you'll > have no complaints from me, but you will have to get the majority of the > attendees to vote for it over MVN. It never hurts to try. Selling it in > advance on KRnet would get you a long way towards that goal, rather than > throwing it out there "cold" on Banquet night. Larry still needs a rest. > > I was looking through some pictures from last year's Gathering and came > across this one at http://www.krnet.org/misc/070923069.jpg . Who needs > enemies when you have friends like these? > > Mark Langford > N56ML "at" hiwaay.net > website at http://www.N56ML.com > > -------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to [email protected] > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html >
