Sounds like fun, glad I stayed home. I was really thinking of coming until I called family in Kettering and they said I was crazy to come.
Jack On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 1:06 AM, Karl Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just got back home from the Cincinnati Memorial contest which was the > first this year in the Midwest OVSS contest series. What a blast it was to > fly in! Rain was predicted all weekend but it never showed up. The winds > however were up in the 15 to 25mph range both days which made for some > rough, exciting, challenging, hairy, lumpy, and fun flying! There was a lot > of carnage and it was the most times I have ever heard "Heads up !" at a > contest. There was a treeline on the West side of the field which created a > nasty and turbulent rotor on the field over the landing zone. This made for > some of the most difficult landings I have ever done. Many planes were > swatted out of their flight paths by the furious winds and tossed like > leaves sideways and down to the ground prematurely into the pits or out of > bounds. Amazingly no cars or persons were hit. Two pilots did manage to land > in the trees. The omnipotent Gordy was there to the rescue and bravely waded > through over a foot of water and climbed the tree to free John Diniz's > Supra. He let out a loud Tarzan yell as the plane came tumbling out of the > tree with only a broken loose servo and some wing scratches and dings. > Hooray for Gordy! > Other incidents included: a smoking winch, which just happened to occur > while I was launching my Icon... ( I think it was a coincidence of wind and > wear so they gave me a relaunch), A turn around was pulled out of the ground > while I was shagging chutes and flew over me and luckily landed 50 feet > away. It travelled over a 100 feet in the air! Did I mention the ground and > grass was muddy and marshy from 5 days of previous rain? There were some > interesting launches where various parts departed on the way up including ; > a v-tail shearing off, Steve Sebenalar's fuselage boom snapping in half, a > Genie had one half a stab flying off and the other remained for a very short > flight, and several others. Many a wingtip and fuse was broken or bent just > trying to land. I somehow escaped mostly unscathed with only a new crease in > the bottom skin of my wing. Saturday was all 6 minute tasks and it was > difficult to get 4 and 5 minutes with the wind and very short winch lines. > Sunday was a little better weather with 10 minute tasks all day and some > huge lift did come by in irregular cycles if you were lucky to be the group > that was in the air at the time. That did happen to me on my last flight of > the day Sunday, and I finally got to sky out against the numerous huge, > looming,cumulous clouds in the blue and partly sunny sky. Thanks to Barry > Anderson, Paul Seigel and all at CSS for hosting this event. It was a great > soaring contest and one I think I will remember for a long time! Can't wait > for OVSS #2. > Results from memory I think are: > Saturday 1.Pat Crosby 2.Steve Sebenalar 3.Karl Miller 4.Rob Glover 5. > Glauco Lago > Sunday: 1.Karl Miller 2.Paul Siegel 3.Glauco Lago 4.Chris Lee 5.Walt > VanGorder > Karl Miller > Soar > Chicago,IL > > ------------------------------ > E-mail for the greater good. Join the i'm Initiative from > Microsoft.<http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?source=EML_WL_+GreaterGood> > -- Jack Iafret Home and Hobbies
