Okay, OVSS aspirants and all you other sailplane lovers, the Gateway Open is
fast approaching.
The contest WILL be held at its traditional location, the Emerald View Turf
Farm, Highway 79, O'Fallon MO. The flood made a mess of things, but the field
has recovered. It isn't its usual beautiful
As all you Gateway
Open aspirants know, the contest had to be rescheduled. There was talk
of having it this coming weekend, June 28-29, but that isn't going to
work because of continued flooding and other concerns.
At this moment we are trying to shoot for August 23-24. That will be
right in the
Gateway Open will be RESCHEDULED!!
The
field is still completely dry, but the water is lapping at the
neighboring fields and the drainage conduits around our field. It's
forecast to rise 3 - 4 more feet. Therefore the TD contest will be
RESCHEDULED (not
To all those who are planning to come to the Gateway Open (June 20-22) this
Friday (HL), Saturday (Unlimited) and Sunday (Unlimited):
At this moment the weather is beautiful, the field is dry, and all is well.
However, the water-level forecast is very unpromising.
If the Mississippi River
Tiger Woods, Paris Hilton, and Elvis have been invited. ..And me
too!
I'll be there direct from Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
Gordy
Bakersfield Ca Airport,recovering from DLG'ing with the big dogs :)
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The Gateway Open, THE summer event, timed this year to coincide with the pagan
Feast of the Solstice.
Dance with the naked Vestals at dawn. See how the sun illuminates the
Sacred Landing Spot at exactly noon on June 21, the longest day of the
year. Drink the traditional flask of mead at sunset,
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...I think I can return to St Louis on Friday evening about 9pm,
then attend the contest that weekend!...
He's talking about the weekend of June 21 and June 22, for the fabulous Gateway
Open. Welcome to Gordy and other
Well, what a tough weekend of soaring. Six rounds both days, winds in the
20-30 m/h range on Saturday with thunderstorms around and Sunday, much nicer
conditions in the 7-14 m/h range and some really nice air and some air that bit
some bad. Seeded MOM with some huge shake ups both days from
This past weekend in St. Louis was as nice a soaring weekend as I guess I
have ever seen, it was not give me air, but just three beautiful days.
Friday was a brain dead day for air, we flew some HL and set a couple of
winches for fun flying. I wish that we would have been somewhere where XC
was
Just a reminder for the Gateway Open in Northwest St. Louis on June 17-19.
Friday is a HL contest in the AM and afternoon free flying. Saturday and
Sunday is Unlimited class, fly what you brung at any time, seeded MOM.
Check the following link for hotels, entry, maps, etc.
The weather at the sod farm was perfect: blue skies, puffy clouds, temp
about 80, winds 10 knots. Twenty-seven fliers from nine states battled
for Gateway Open honors.
Seven rounds with a total time of ninety-two minutes (yep, that's 92
minutes). The rounds were: 10, 10, 12, 20, 15, 15, and 10.
What happened at the GW open Sat..?? Brian Smith
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of winning something at the Gateway Open are
looking better all the time..HmBrian Smith
From: Jack Strother [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: James V. Bacus [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [RCSE] Gateway Open, June 9-10...Sorry STL
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 08:32:31 -0400
Karen and I are going
In a message dated 5/4/2001 10:29:51 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Too bad the Gateway open and the Fred are on the same day. Both a fun contest
to fly. I to will be going to the Fred. It is about 2 1/2 hrs closer for me.
Plus I think they are doing some HLG?
Mike Fox
At 01:45 PM 5/4/2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Too bad the Gateway open and the Fred are on the same day. Both a fun contest
to fly. I to will be going to the Fred. It is about 2 1/2 hrs closer for me.
Plus I think they are doing some HLG?
You bet! HLG is on Friday CD'ed by Steve Dangerous
Almost, those guys are coming May 26, 27 and 28 to the SOAR F3This contest,
and intended to tow planes until they explode or tattoo them.
Since the Fred Fredrickson memorial contest on June 9-10 is an OVSS series
contest, all the babes are coming... 8-)
(All in jest, I haven't missed the
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