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Papa3
December 20th 10, 03:45 AM
Was looking at some old Soaring magazines the other day, and I noticed
a number of badges earned from Great Barrington in the 1980s and into
th e1990s. So, I'm assuming there was some sort of regular operation
there for a while. Any ideas what happened to this operation?

Andy[_10_]
December 20th 10, 05:57 AM
On Dec 19, 7:45*pm, Papa3 > wrote:
> Was looking at some old Soaring magazines the other day, and I noticed
> a number of badges earned from Great Barrington in the 1980s and into
> th e1990s. * So, I'm assuming there was some sort of regular operation
> there for a while. * Any ideas what happened to this operation?

That was a location for Nutmeg Soaring for a period of time.

I got my Gold altitude there June 1, 1985 flying the club ASW-15. Mike
Opitz was with me flying his DG-300. We got trapped under an overcast,
ridge soaring upwind of the field. Eventually we got high enough to
make a downwind run and caught a thermal to cloudbase. Once there we
moved out to the upwind side of the cu and ridge soared up the face of
the cloud to 12,500 feet. Memorable flight.

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