I think that the fact that Jerzy Szemplinski has flown with such
consistency is awesome and not only did he win at Perry but he
literally held the contest lead at Mifflin throughout the entire
event. If that doesn't make you want to hang around Jerzy and learn a
thing or two you are crazy. Nice work Jerzy and you can bet I for one
will be following your scores at the worlds. Good luck in the 18meter
class at Uvalde.
If that wasn't enough excitement for one contest the fact that Chip
Garner took a DuckHawk (that literally had under 20 hours on the
plane
TOTAL and that he personally only had 2 flights in including his
practice day) and competed consistently with the a top class group of
pilots, going on to claim the top spot (among american pilots) is
almost unheard of. There are many challenges to competing in a plane
that you don't have a lot of experience with but Chip deserves a hand
for that effort and display of skill.Looking forward to Chip flying
the DuckHawk at the Open Class Nationals in Minden in a few weeks.
Greg Cole also deserves a hand for all of the effort put into the
DuckHawk project and for bringing another fun and good performing
sailplane to the market!
And if somehow all of this isn't enough for you the Concordia just
flew yesterday! Look forward to hearing more about the flights of
that
unique and amazing plane as well.
What a great time to be completely addicted to soaring!
If the world is wondering how to get more youth/people involved in
soaring I think they should start telling them about how much
excitement there is going on and tell them it's not unrealistic at
all
for them to start learning how to fly these machines and working
their
way straight towards the high performance machines written about
above!
-Wade


On May 24, 8:36*pm, "Sean Fidler (F2)" wrote:
+1

Jerzy is the big story (American patriotism aside). *Winning Perry and 15m Nationals back to back is highly, highly impressive.

Congrats Jerzy!







On Wednesday, May 23, 2012 11:18:45 AM UTC-4, Derek Mackie wrote:
Not to open a bag of snakes or take anything away from Chip and/or the
DuckHawk, but Jerzy Szemplinski won the 15M Nationals. *Nonetheless,
Chip is the US National Champion as the top American.

Kudos to all.

Derek