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And it WAS!
60+ degrees, light breezes, a fully charged and tuned winch/retriever and cloud formations to soar for!
I left Louisville at 8:30pm yesterday in my pickup, and got to Atlanta about 4am. Up at 9am to get some breakfast and then to the field.
Winch was hot at 11am, and I took the last launch at 5:30...must have been almost 20 guys out there!
Did any one see the rest of Tim Foster? If you know him, you won't recognize him cept for his voice! Somewhere since I last saw him he misplaced about 130lbs! The guy looks more like Shawn Connery than Norm from Cheers! WOW!
AJ got out Mueller's latest amazing works of soaring art...the Alita and the new E-4 Xtail. There's no way to describe how far ahead of the state of the art of sailplane construction that Mueller manages.
There was a Tragi 705, course my Pike Superior, Psyko Molded, Hera's, Xtail Hera, Ellipse...well a lot of nice planes.
Lift was wayyy up there today, and it was spread around. Like Paul Nanton's Secrets of Thermal Soaring said, "Warm, dry days following a cold damp spell can produce phenomenol conditions for thermal soaring." (Just watched it again yesterday:-)
Wish you all could have been there, Atlanta hides some of the best thumbs in the Midsouth.
It was worth the drive!
Gordy
Chattanooga tonite and tomorrow, then back to Atlanta this week
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