No really great speed times or distance flights. Due to field limitations, many of the speed and distance rounds were flown with different wind directions than normal. I think that 5 of the 6 speed rounds were flown with the wind going the opposite direction of what would normally be set up. Wurts had the best speed run, around 16 seconds. I don't recall any really good distance flights. The course seemed to diverge out a little farther away from the sights in both directions and some of the best air was out away from the course. Landing out was a real risk since the dirt out on the course was pretty rough. I have one damaged wing tip landing upwind on a distance flight in this stuff. I guess for California, it was a really good field, but compaired to the sod farms I normally fly on, it was really bad. They were mowing dirt to clear some of the junk in the winch line areas before the contest. We still had quite a bit of line rash on the groundlines and everyone chewed up quite a bit of line. Wind conditions were really variable through the day due to the wind coming up the valley from the bay in the afternoons. One Sunday afternoon was really blowing. We had a fair amount of crosswind launches and one distance round that was slightly downwind almost the whole round. For models, Wurts - Cobra, but he did fly his new model which has two working names for the last round since he had no throw outs. Botha - Y2K which has molds made from the same plug as the Millenium, but construction of the model is different. He was flying a 3-piece wing version. Perkins - that ugly Cobra Stu sent him. Green with yellow spots. It died an ugly death plus a resurrection in round 5. Jason Werner has pictures of that. For us east coast guys who gave california a good run for the money, Kiesling was flying a Tragi 702 and I was flying a Tragi 701. I think Jennings was 6th flying a Diamond. For radios, my recollection is MPX, Stylus, MPX, JR8103, JR10X, Stylus A few cobras died on launch. These guys can't coordinate things. They all killed the left wing panel, so now we have a lot of right wing cobra owners. RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
