When I talk about being at 8500 ft... the stabs had long since disappeared, the wings were literally toothpicks, and were disappearing as well - the fuse was non-existent. That's how Joe consistently beat the pants off all the CC guys for all those years. The plane was always in the optimum position - right behind the tailgate of the truck, and he would only stop to thermal in a hat sucker, and he never let the model get much lower.
Like I say... to be successful at cross country - "If you are EVER comfortable seeing the plane, you're NOT high enough..." At Taft, many years ago, I had to put in a time for Joe on Friday (I'd never flown cross country - Joe was out of town, and just needed a time and could make up whatever I lost the following 2 days). I was at the far turn in record time, I had the thermals for the ride home marked, and we were haulin' ass. That was right when I lost Wiley... Wiley did come home the following day unscathed(somebody found it about 7 miles off course), but I'll never hear the end of it... I've never really enjoyed cross country becasue of that experience. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
