Re: First Rantoul flying session
Terrific news Mike!
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> On May 22, 2016, at 9:28 PM, mkirda_at_sbcglobal.net [Indoor_Construction] <Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> So the first weekend of flying is over.
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> We had 13 flyers total.
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> At one point we had four F1Ds in the air, including Al Stone, Rey, Jeff and myself.
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> If there is any doubt that this is a records-capable site, they were dispelled with Bill Gowen came within two seconds of the record for LPP on a test flight. His several attempts to better this came close, but he wasn't quite able to pull it off.
> Larry Coslick put up the first ever flight on a sub-300 milligram EZB and did 20 minutes.
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> The air was beautiful both days, with no turbulence noted, even on Saturday with 15-20 MPH winds. There is drift- interestingly we noted it would be one direction right at the ceiling, but another direction 5' below.
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> What is certain is that the work everyone put in last weekend (and part of Saturday) sealing the hangar made a LOT of difference. The drift wasn't bad in October but it is now significantly reduced.
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> On Sunday morning when the ceiling temps were still several degrees cooler than the floor - normally this seems to equal pretty turbulent conditions - the first flights up a bit after 8am were very smooth.
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> Regards.
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> Mike Kirda
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Received on Sun May 22 2016 - 21:06:53 CEST
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