Guys, At the SWC they had a fun type HLG contest on Saturday evening (thanks Garland). It started out as an all up last down event with the first 3 to land not advancing to the next round. I am new to DLG launching so I thought "this won't take long" for me to be out. I surprised myself and stayed in much longer than I expected. I thought I had really started getting the hang of launching (read as getting cocky) after staying around as long as I had, when on what was my last and probably highest launch, I look up and here is John Erickson's plane cruising over above mine by a good 30'. Well needless to say it put be back into reality and showed me how far I still have to go on learning to launch. Well, after they had eliminated all but the last three pilots, they changed the task to the one with the longest inverted flight wins. The first to launch was Art M. who promptly set a mark of 42.6+ seconds. Joe W. launched next but did not get a normal Joe launch do to a loose throwing peg which netted him something in the mid 20's. Craig Greening was the last to launch and he ended up with a flight of around 42.2 seconds. I guess this goes to show where this discus launch stuff has gotten to. It was not that long ago a 40+ second flight right side up was a good dead air time. These guys are launching high enough to do it inverted now. It was some great fun to play and watch in this contest.
See Ya, Pat McCleave Wichita, KS RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
