Uhhhh...Burning incense & virgin sacrifices??? -----Original Message----- From: Jack Iafret [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 5:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Soaring@airage.com Subject: Re: [RCSE] "2 meter r hurts...at least in Dayton!"
Been there, done that. The DARTS are devious and the air in Dayton generally sucks except for the DARTS. How do they do that?????? Ex Daytonian On 7/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Had my trusty (more like rusty since it never gets out to fly) Organic > charged and ready for some ass kickin today in Dayton. > Woke up at the local Holiday Inn to sun and calm winds. Got to the > field to find sun and wind building. > > All the big dogs showed up to put the hurtin on me, Don Harris, Paul > the Siegel, Marc Gellart, Jerry SuperV Shape, and a cast of other > rough looking types who were obviously ringers brought in to insure > that I wouldn't be hauling any more Dayton wood away. > > I tried my own intimidation by showing up pulling a trailer (you know > to carry all the wood), but in the end it didn't work. > > It was sooo obvious what was afoot....First they rig the winches to > lull me into complacency by making sure that I out launced everyone in my rounds. > That part worked, I zoomed well beyond all, and headed out distracted, > so never noticed that I flew through hundreds of thermals. > > After 6 rounds of 10minutes each, I had amassed a total time of about > 6 minutes (the total air time out of all 6 rounds) while everyone else > seemed to get their times. > > First round they had rigged a tree line to extend upward so that I > would get stuck behind, off field in some beans! These guys are > devious. That put a bunch of poke holes in my Organic's Ultracoat and > put a wrinkle in the new fuse's tailboom. > > Then they had trimmed bushes up wind so that I had tremendous > turbulence in the landing zone, which caused a flip over landing. > > All in all a pretty fun day, and seriously one of the most challenging > flying sites I have ever flown and easily some of the best thumb > wiggling soaring I have been privileged to witness. > > Wish you all could have been hosed like me :-) Gordy Columbus, > Cincinatti, Louisville, Harrisburg, Rochester, Jamestown ND....then > Muncie! -- Jack Iafret Home and Hobbies RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
