You guys make me sick!
I have to drive 2 hours to some dinky hill and slope on cow farts wafting up
from the valley below.
Sick in Maryland,
Gordon.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pat McCleave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 10:37 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; RCSE; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [RCSE] Lake Wilson was Howling Today
>
>
> Hi Gang,
>
> My buddy Jeff and I headed out this am around 7 to go up to
> Lake Wilson for
> some serious sloping. The wind reading on the Weather
> Channels Site for
> Russell was already reading 14 mph out of the south at 5:30
> am so we knew
> things were looking good. The trip is about a 2.5 hour drive
> and by the
> time we reached the slope it is already blowing a steady 25
> with gusts over
> 30. I immediately pulled out my new Ellipse 4 and loaded in
> the 740 gram
> ballast slug and with the help of Jeff had the thing ripping
> shortly there
> after. When I first got the ballast system I thought I would
> never need any
> more weight than that for my plane but after today I can see
> that for these
> conditions a guy needs more. I have a line on a product that
> is supposed to
> be as easy to machine as steel but weighs right at double
> what brass does
> for a given size. My guess is that for today, that would
> have been about
> right. I flew for about 45 minutes and then the wind started
> switching more
> to the west so we had to move over to a different sight so I
> landed the E4
> and away we went. The other slope we moved to was much more
> into the wind
> but the landing zone has a major rotor so I kept the E4 in
> the car and we
> got out the foam stuff. I was flying my Patton P63 King
> Cobra and Jeff had
> his Patton Spitfire and we proceeded to rip up the sky until
> we could not
> take it anymore. The wind continued to build throughout the
> day with top
> gusts in the 45-50 range when the back side of thermals were blowing
> through. Jeff got out his Boomerang so we could do some
> combat (he has a
> wood tail on his Spitfire) and we proceeded to go crazy for
> an hour or so
> chasing each other around the sky. Jeff managed the only
> official kill when
> he caught me low and slow and flying with loads of ballast
> and no room for a
> recovery. I managed to hit hard enough to break my second
> and last servo
> arm of the day and by then we decided we had had enough SUN
> AND FUN for one
> day. I keep telling you west coast guys if you want wind and want it
> consistently to come visit us out in the plains. I have been
> out twice this
> month and had 30+ both times. We only had one weekend in the
> month of April
> with winds less than 20. Now if we could just get you guys
> to bring some of
> your tall slopes with you. The Midwest Slope Challenge is in
> 3 weeks at
> Lake Wilson, you guys need to find a way to come.
>
> See Ya,
>
> Pat McCleave
> Wichita, KS
>
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