As CD for this event, I really have to tell you that I am really glad that I was watching and not flying. The last two days were brutal and flying showed what this community is all about.
The flyers were cool in the really terrible heat when I put in times to challange the best they never complained when the decisions were made to make them work harder to win. If you were prepared, you did well, if not you did not. Just what a contest should be. The goal was 10 rounds for the two days and because of the forcast of bad weather on Tuesday we pushed the group to six rounds on Monday including the normal start-up delays. It always takes a couple of heats to get in the rhythm. The good news is we did eleven rounds and finished just a few minutes before the downpour. The team got the winches and landing areas switched for the UNl event tomorrow, one big effort. OK, I really have to tell you the contest team did their normal outstanding job. This year more than most it was a Lance Armstrong effort because of the weather conditions. The biggest hand goes to Sheldon and Sera and the turn-around trolls. Riding a cart for many hours over bumpy terrain takes a real effort and without them this event dies. Marna, Larry, Jim Thomas and Martin Doney really run the event and as usual it went off without a hitch, being a CD with this team is really easy. Congradulations to all the flyers because if you flew, you were a hero to me and if you were in the top 10, you could be in the running for the Lance Armstrong award, nice job. I am sure more will be said about this event, and I must say that I really am grateful that I could be of service to such a nice group of people. Jack On 7/26/05, Jim Bacus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 08:51 PM 7/25/2005, Marc Gellart wrote: > >Hot, and hotter and hottest. I saw 104 degrees on a bank gage at 6:00PM > >going to the hotel, but we survived. Do not know who is leading 2M, one > >of the ESL guys, Josh, Tom, or Mike I think. I am wooped and heading to bed. > > Man, do I know how Marc feels... lots of carnage, heat, sweat, and models > in the beans and corn. Challenging air and good flying, we are just having > a blast! > > P.S. You should have seen the wing rod modification I did today on my > mini-ICON on a winch launch, and the zoom that followed! 8-) > > 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 > -- 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
