Eat your hearts out guys, I made it to the Lump in the Blue Ridge Mountains
today for about 3 straight hours of Alpine type sloping.
Huge thruster type climbs to a spec then screaming verticals down for
blistering passes with my Synergy 5.
The hawks are really bold and love to travel with our planes. I saw a
'Rodent' knock off that used a Weston Mosquito HLG wing with a few extra
layers of glass to toughen it up and was flattened out, mounted to a homemade
built to measurement Rodent fuse and tail group. That thing ripped, so if
you are stitting on a Mosquito wing, flatten it and bag a layer of 5oz top
and bottom, put it on an old TD open class shoulder mount fuse, make some
slap balsa stab and vertical, glass them too, and go rip!
I get to fly most parts of the country and the Lump is sooo sweet and
different than most types of lift and view. My favorite site, tied with
Fresno (but Fresno has a sweet DS course).
The Lump is an actual land mark, ex-home of "hang down your head Tom Dooley",
it is located up Hyw 16 from Wilkesboro, NC, just west on the Blue Ridge
Parkway. Well marked so no way to miss it if you were driving that way.
Proably back Wednesday nite.
Gordy
