A bit of what I remember...
Sat morning I got there around 9, and Sanborn and Scheaffer were
already there as was Coslick... Larry had everything organized for
the weekend, and ready to go... Unfortunately, they were moving
things at the hanger, and the back door was open until around 1:30 or
so... so no one was really doing much at that point, since drift was
really bad... The regulars (Joe, Tom, Tony, and Karl) also showed up
late morning... Tom I, Dave D, John K, and Max Z also were there...
(sorry if I missed anyone...)
The air was really "blowy" (think that was John's quote...) all day,
and drift was really bad... Lot of PP and LPP flying, but even those
were getting blown all over the hanger... (one nice part was that the
Air Force had the fenced-in area gate open, so at least you didn't
have to worry about that...) Larry was flying F1L, and it seemed like
everyone had a HLS... Tom, Tony, John, and Max all had the big guys
out at some point... Pretty cool seeing all of those huge planes
flying at 25' on quarter motors...
Sun wasn't really much better condition wise than Sat... I know that
all of the times that I was there last year, there were no days that
drift was that bad... With Larry's help though, I did manage to get a
personal best with EZB on Sun... but it went almost 3/4 the length of
the hangar during the flight... and from one side to the other
also... Unfortunately, on Sun night with it getting dark and even
worse, I made the mistake of sending it up one last time, and as I was
packing up my stuff, at about the top of the hanger, it moved about
100 ft in a few circles, and is now a fixture on the side wall on a
girder at the top...
I don't have the "official" result sheets, but Coslick did set a new
Cat IV F1L record, I think... 25:15 or thereabouts... (forgot to
write everything down before I left... we left the hanger on Sun
night at about 8:00, and it was completly dark, to the point that you
couldn't even really see the floor... storm was going thru...) He
also had a really high EZB flight (32+ ?) with his new .3g EZB... I
seem to remember that there might have been another record in there
somewhere, or something close... Kagan might have the results sheets,
since I think he stayed there thru Tuesday...
Kagan was flying the "Moose", but on one of the early (if not the
first) full motor flight it came down with something like 6-7
breaks... blew me away that he had it back in action in about an
hour... It was almost in a ball, and he got it right back together...
There were some pretty decent LPP times, from what I remember... Max
seemed to be getting some good ones, but I don't know the times...
Brett, Doug, John, Tom, and Max were going to be there on Mon and Tue,
I think, so maybe they know if anything exciting happened then...
That's about all I can remember...
JH
> Did anything exciting happen at L:akehurst this past weekend?
>
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