[LASS Soaring] "Louisville Foamie Contest Today, MOM!"

[Brian Kopke]

I'll second the ball thing.  One very important thing to note, I had the
longest flight of the day at 6:01.  ;>)  No bottle though.  The lift was
cracka-lackin' when it was there and when it wasn't.....oof!  All together a
good day.  And I beat Gordy.

Brian

On 8/5/07, GordySoar at aol.com <GordySoar at aol.com> wrote:
>
>  We had two planes, MPX Easy Glider and Highlander.
>
> The Highlander has been thru hell and back because of walk up wanna be
> pilots used it to its near death too many times, fortunately it stopped
> getting repaired and they finally went away.
>
> Yet having had that experience under its wing saddle, it's still one heck
> of a flying machine.
>
> The air was steamy from the hard rain we had last nite and the 90+ degree
> temps.
>
> We started with no wind, then quickly moved to shifting gusts.
>
> While it was possible to get up and out, mostly the altitude limit was
> about 300'.
>
> 6 pilots walked up to the line to do MOM battle. Ben Wilson was CD,
> deciding on three rounds of 6min flights and 25 points for knocking over one
> of two quart water bottles.
>
> Each flight pilots alternated ships to fly, so we all had to fly each...on
> the last round the leading pilot had his choice of which plane to fly....and
> someone else had to do the winch pedaling. Mostly Ben and I since we were
> used to launching the two planes the most.
>
> Little Lee faced off against Brian (DLG guy) on the final flight, but got
> some really skunky air, while Brian got a max, crushing that 11 year old ;-)
>
> Ben flew against Ed in the final round and neither did too well, that left
> Bruce and myself.  Bruce had the choice and he chose my Easy Glider,
> launching directly into lift.  We had the line down and hooked up to the
> Highlander.  Ben was on the pedal, but the line snuffled a bit and the plane
> popped off almost immediately.  I brought it around as fast as possible
> which caused it to spin in on touch down, knocking off the rubber bands (in
> the mean time Bruce was enjoying the tiny view of the Easy ).
>
> By the time the Highlander was ready, the lift cycle was longgg gone,,,
> and I was lucky to get it back to the field from the launch!
> Final Results:
> 1 Bruce Davidson
> 2 Ed Wilson
> 3 Ben Wilson
> 4 Brian
> 5 Me
> 6 Lee the kid
>
> It was a ball!   I think the average flight time was like 1:45mins!  So
> didn't take too long :-)
>
> You should have been there!
> Gordy
>
>
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