Gordy,
The 4X WC is staying at my house. We just got back from dinner.
Thanks to you we had an extra beer as the 4X WC told me how FUBAR
your plane is. Great laughs.
The potential good news for everyone is the 4X WC's glasses are FUBAR
as well. He called a week ago wanting to get set up for an eye
appointment at a "1 Hour" glasses place. He needed to take care of
this because the "Spring Break" capital of the world where he lives
doesn't have such a thing.
Well, I set it up. I went to them and said, "don't care what you do,
but this guy cannot get a good set of glasses." So, 4XWC spent nearly
6 hours at the mall where this place is located trying to get his
glasses fixed. He just hasn't figured it out and his glasses are
still FUBAR. Well, two things got done. One, he didn't get to
practice yesterday and his glasses are FUBAR.
Today he went to the field and flew a little. After flying he went
back to the mall to get his glasses worked on.. They are still FUBAR
and the contest is tomorrow. Should be interesting. If he wins, the
glasses are fine. If he loses, he will blame on the glasses. I've
done my part.
Rick Bothell did a great job on the winches. We did lots of testing
and they should do an outstanding job for the contest. Despite the
weather today, the forecast is for great weather this weekend.
DArwin N. Barrie
Chandler AZ
On Feb 15, 2008, at 6:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Might be the words heard from a certain multi-world champ flying
the World's Heaviest Carbon Supra Lite today at the SWC.... "I
need new glasses but you need your head examined!"
Course it didn't help that I have the landing comp set up in
reverse so that it balloons at full flap, just to make this comp
challenging for me.
Did I mention that it was definitely Duck weather all day....as in
the kind of Duck that quacks versus launches!
It was misty and cold most of the day...the grass was fine but the
dirt roads were mostly mud.
Fantastic facility! Bathrooms close by, showers and a restaurant
right on the property...and...the catering guy was set up all day
with everything from BBQ to Hot Dogs. Good stuff and
hot...important today.
There were planes up all day, some times skied out - sometimes just
shooting landings.
The landing zone is a runway 'ladder' or boxes. Boxes are 2" wide
2" long, the center being 500 points and the ends (5 boxes in
total) being 20 points , nose on a line is zero... (I might have
the dimensions off a little on the boxes :-).
I heard the flight times will be like 20mins or more... (not sure
that's accurate either :-).
In any case I have a red face tonite...from wind and I suppose rays
too...should have put some screen on.
Definitely some fantastic thumbs out today, so its gonna be tough.
I'm shooting for 50th place . (I mean me and some others drew
numbers out of a hat for specific placement finishes, so its gonna
take some calculating to make the spot at the end, there's like $3
cash on it....(might have that part wrong too:-).
Did I mention it was cool and wet? Seriously my plane spent very
little time on the ground today...We all flew a lot. At the end
the weather went from occasionally misting to actual drizzle, so
they took down the winches...we tried to 'resist' but it was
futile, apparently they didn't want us to break the lines :-)
I did have a chance to test fly their winches and hats off to Rick
Bothell and winch crew, they work really well with plenty of pep to
gives us a nice contest launch.
So I joined the Colorado F3J boys on their bungees, for about
another half hour or so....Pete Goldsmith was launching a V tail
Duck and was killing us all on alt by at least 40' per
launch..course my WHCSL outweighs it about 29.5 ozs.....
Anywho...we're here and you're not!
Gordy
At a secret lair tonite, so don't even think about trying to stake
me, you'll never find my sarcophagus.
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