The 2005 Nationals Soaring events are in the books, what a fun filled week it was! As Daryl mentioned before, we Southern California guys are soiled with our weather back home! Muncie was an experience I'll never forget and as always was another great opportunity to match the names we find on this exchange with the person's face! Made some good thermal friends and I know we'll meet up again! Heard some great soaring stories and witnessed some fantastic flying. I learned first hand what landing in the bean field is all about, another great experience and the folks back home will never let me forget this one as well! This goes beyond the "Walk of Shame" teasing, something I'm used to by now. Yes, I've grown THICK SKIN OVER THE YEARS!
It's nice to see the TRUE meaning of SPORTSMANSHIP among our soaring community. I had some minor problems with a glider of mine after a hard flight and was in need of some building/repair supplies, Barry Kennedy, Eber Graham and others were quick to lend a helping hand to get my bird back up and running for the next round! Stuff like this keeps me coming back to these soaring gatherings. We're all kids at heart out to have some fun under the HOT Sun and to just talk about our passion for soaring! Gordy is one such person that can talk your ear off and I want to thank him FOR HIS WORDS OF WISDOM he SHARED WITH ME... Gordy does know a thing or two and we can easily learn from his experiences from traveling from one place to another. Keep up the great work and keep pouring that extensive knowledge of yours towards improving our hobby! Special thanks to Jim Deck for showing us what class is all about, love that 3M Gnome of yours... when you decide to sell that bird, LET ME KNOW!!! Marc Gellart, I still LOVE YOU MAN!!! Thanks for keeping all of us flying and enjoying this great contest format! Larry Jolly, just thanks for being YOU! One class act to follow and I'm honored to be able to fly with back home! Craig Greening, great flying and keep out of that corn field! Folks this is one strong, tough competitor, he stayed around and gave the good fight to show off his flying skills while barely able to open his eyes from all that swelling from the pollen reaction he experienced while heading into the corn fields to help another soaring pilot find his downed glider in this tall stuff. He didn't think twice he just jumped in the corn in search of that glider and Craig paid that price with an allergic reaction to his face and body! Most of us would have thrown in the towel but not Craig; he just kept on fighting and showed off his flying skills to win WOOD in 2M and Unlimited! As Albert would say, "He's got b#$#s of steel!! Sorry I had to run off the field of Friday after my last flight, but Albert and I had to run to catch a Boeing 737 to take us back home. Great flying with you all and keep those hot thumbs active in search of those thermals!! There are too many names to thank for this past week but special thanks to everyone whom volunteered their time to run this contest and I'll see back in Muncie next year! Edgar "The Soaring Junkie" __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com 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
