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mifflin sports class day 5
Day 5 is in, and the contest is official.
We have blue thermals, light NW winds, and some scattered cirrus. The call is a 4 hour TAT. The first leg takes us east out across the river. Thermals are 2-3 knots and not very high. Gagle city. The second leg takes us upwind across the same valley to nisbet with a 15 mile radius. Again, it's weak flatland blue thermaling (just like home for me!). The third leg takes us back to mifflintown. Here is where it got tough. It was remarkably hard to get up on the high ground. Those who did found fantastic thermals. Most did not, leading to a number of landouts and low save stories. Then upwind to tall pines and back. Again, few very strong thermals over the high ground. By now all the gaggles had disappeared, so it took courage to recover, go on and wait for the few good thermals. I and a few others found the best thermal of the day on final glide of course. It leads to regrets, but in the end it's not all that bad to thermal up to final glide at 7 knots. Looks dicey today This contest as usual at mifflin was superbly run and organized. Great social and meal events, excellent task calling, superb ground operations and friendly people make it all a pleasure. Alas we again had two gliders damaged. One was a groundloop on an off field landing. The second hit trees on the ridge, sustained substantial damage, but continued the flight. John Cochrane BB |
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mifflin sports class day 5
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The second hit trees on the ridge, sustained substantial damage, but continued the flight. That one just begs for more detail. Among other things, does "continued the flight" mean "immediately found a spot for a successful emergency landing", or "completed the task with parts of their glider missing"?? |
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mifflin sports class day 5
From the SSA web page, Charlie's report starts of with:
(Begin quote from SSA web page) Charlies 5/23 Report Hi race fans, 5/23/06 Before I tell you about today I should tell you that we had two ships damaged yesterday. Harvey Howell had the most frightening experience going down a ridge and hitting enough sink to take him into the trees. Amazingly Harvey went into the trees with strikes both on the wings and tail surfaces then managed to pull up enough to escape the grasp of the trees and fly on to the next turnpoint where he landed. Harvey withdrew from the contest. Heinz Weissenbuehler was coming back to Mifflin when he realized he could not make it over the last ridge in his Nimbus 4. Heinz turned back and found a huge hay field to land in. As he touched down a gust caught him and the wing tip went in. The ship spun around and the fuselage broke in half. Heinz has taken the ship back to Elmira and will return tomorrow with his Ventus and fly as a guest. (End of quote from SSA web page) For the rest of Charlie's report, visit the SSA web page. But I agree with Marc: This story needs much more detail. Ray Lovinggood Carrboro, North Carolina, USA At 15:24 25 May 2006, Marc Ramsey wrote: BB wrote: The second hit trees on the ridge, sustained substantial damage, but continued the flight. That one just begs for more detail. Among other things, does 'continued the flight' mean 'immediately found a spot for a successful emergency landing', or 'completed the task with parts of their glider missing'?? |
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