Might be the words heard from a certain multi-world champ flying the World's Heaviest Carbon Supra Lite today at the SWC.... "I need new glasses but you need your head examined!" Course it didn't help that I have the landing comp set up in reverse so that it balloons at full flap, just to make this comp challenging for me.
Did I mention that it was definitely Duck weather all day....as in the kind of Duck that quacks versus launches! It was misty and cold most of the day...the grass was fine but the dirt roads were mostly mud. Fantastic facility! Bathrooms close by, showers and a restaurant right on the property...and...the catering guy was set up all day with everything from BBQ to Hot Dogs. Good stuff and hot...important today. There were planes up all day, some times skied out - sometimes just shooting landings. The landing zone is a runway 'ladder' or boxes. Boxes are 2" wide 2" long, the center being 500 points and the ends (5 boxes in total) being 20 points , nose on a line is zero... (I might have the dimensions off a little on the boxes :-). I heard the flight times will be like 20mins or more... (not sure that's accurate either :-). In any case I have a red face tonite...from wind and I suppose rays too...should have put some screen on. Definitely some fantastic thumbs out today, so its gonna be tough. I'm shooting for 50th place . (I mean me and some others drew numbers out of a hat for specific placement finishes, so its gonna take some calculating to make the spot at the end, there's like $3 cash on it....(might have that part wrong too:-). Did I mention it was cool and wet? Seriously my plane spent very little time on the ground today...We all flew a lot. At the end the weather went from occasionally misting to actual drizzle, so they took down the winches...we tried to 'resist' but it was futile, apparently they didn't want us to break the lines :-) I did have a chance to test fly their winches and hats off to Rick Bothell and winch crew, they work really well with plenty of pep to gives us a nice contest launch. So I joined the Colorado F3J boys on their bungees, for about another half hour or so....Pete Goldsmith was launching a V tail Duck and was killing us all on alt by at least 40' per launch..course my WHCSL outweighs it about 29.5 ozs..... Anywho...we're here and you're not! Gordy At a secret lair tonite, so don't even think about trying to stake me, you'll never find my sarcophagus. **************The year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the Grammy Awards. Go to AOL Music. (http://music.aol.com/grammys?NCID=aolcmp00300000002565)
