As always, another beautiful day in Seattle! We had light, variable winds for the first couple of rounds in the morning, and as the day progressed the winds came up from the south, but just enough to move the floaters down the field. The thermals were big in the morning but became smaller and harder to find as the day progressed. 16 pilots were out to fly and another 5 or so in the club had lame excuses (like dislocated shoulders), so we've got a really great group of HLG'ers in the area and we're always growing! Out for his first outing was Jay Allison with a Sidewinder, he managed to find a thermal or two and I hope, have a good time! We had one soldier make it in from Tri-Cities, Glenn Whitcomb, and he was happy to add his Sidewinder into the fray. The best piloting for the day was put in by Paul McKee with his own designed Fire Eagle. Paul must have been flying really high, because I don't remember seeing him more than a couple of times in the air the entire day! Phil Pearson was back in the groove and fought to second place with his own design Encore. I managed a 3rd with my Ionosphere for four rounds and flew three rounds with the Dizzy Bird prototype (59" EPP HLG). The rest of the contestants ranked as follows: Pilot Plane Airfoil #1000 pts Final Score Paul McKee Fire Eagle (own design) AG16-AG18 5 6695 Phil Pearson Encore (own design) Secret 2 6484 Adam Weston Ionosphere (own design) Try12A 3 6327 Mark Bryan Tweener AG16 1 6169 Dave Beardslee Tweener AG16 3 6118 Jim Pearson Sunspot/Encore S6063 3 6024 Dick Barker Uplink 58 (own design) Uplink003 2 5987 Ole Skotvold Tweener AG16 0 5963 Tim Johnson Cosmos (own design) AG04 1 5876 Jonathan Bryan Tweener (own design) AG16 0 5876 Lauren Anstead Uplink 58 SD7037mod 0 5671 Russ Young Tweener AG16 1 5617 Bruce Kimball Terminator SD6063 1 5344 Glenn Whitcomb Sidewinder S6063mod 0 5286 Tim Naugler Uplink 58/Orbiter2 Uplink003 0 5017 Jay Allison Sidewinder S6063mod 0 4140 Thanks to Thermal-Gromit Works (www.tgworks.com) for donating door prizes: a Downer model down alarm, a 5 piece CA set, and 2 eat-sleep-fly T-shirts. Our next HLG contest will be July 14th. Also, keep August 11th and 12th open for the Pacific Northwest Hand Launch Glider Regional competition. Keep checking Thermal-Gromit Works' and SASS's website (www.seattlesoaring.org/sass) for details on this exciting two day HLG contest (or email [EMAIL PROTECTED])! Thermals, RED -- Adam Weston Seattle, WA RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
