Re: Richmond at Cardington, 1986

From: Yuan Kang Lee <ykleetx_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 03 May 2013 14:44:39 -0000

From Steve Brown:

"I witnessed the flight in question. It was launched late in the afternoon, it was raining pretty hard (inside and outside) all day and the conditions were very gusty. There was so much air motion in the building that the airplane actually gained altitude after 40 minutes. The temperature was under 50 degrees even in August."

"The drafts on the last day were unbelievable, up, down, sideways. There had been a hurricane in the Atlantic and the weather over England was stormy the entire time. It rained all during the World Champs. The building was full of holes and people were holding umbrellas over their models inside. Participation was great there were a couple of hundred people."

NICE!

--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "Yuan Kang Lee" <ykleetx@...> wrote:
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> I was reading the Model Aviation article (online digital archives) of Warren Williams's report on the 1986 World Championship at Cardington and saw this passage:
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> "Jim Richmond's fifth flight was like sunshine breaking through the storm, and we watched, rapt, as he flew through wind and rain in complete command. Balloon in hand, he played the string like a violin, and it was more than 50 minutes before the model landed. Even after subtracting balloon time, Jim had a new FAI record of 47:44. No one but a master could make a time like this under so many adverse conditions."
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> NICE!
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