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Old August 28th 07, 06:44 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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On Aug 28, 8:46 am, Tony Verhulst wrote:
kirk.stant wrote

Drag, I spit in your face!


I fart in your general direction.

Tony "ducking" V.


Sniff sniff? - aha, lift!

Try that in your hermetically sealed ubersegelflugmachine!

Oh oh, my LS6, she is giving me the evil eye...

Kirk
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Old August 30th 07, 10:35 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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On Aug 28, 10:44 am, "kirk.stant" wrote:
On Aug 28, 8:46 am, Tony Verhulst wrote:

kirk.stant wrote


Drag, I spit in your face!


I fart in your general direction.


Tony "ducking" V.


Sniff sniff? - aha, lift!

Try that in your hermetically sealed ubersegelflugmachine!

Oh oh, my LS6, she is giving me the evil eye...


Hit it with a stick then...

Al

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Old August 30th 07, 09:39 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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"kirk.stant" wrote:
Sniff sniff? - aha, lift!

Try that in your hermetically sealed ubersegelflugmachine!


Kirk,

I did. One day by myself at the Hobbs Standard Class Nats last month I
located two thermals by sight--a refinery burning off gas in a large
flame and, later, a dust devil. I used my olfactory sense to help core
them both...in my ASW 24 (albeit with the nose vent wide open!).

The refinery thermal smell was more powerful but the dust devil-
spawned thermal had a distinct "agricultural" odor, too. They were
both narrow and fairly strong and I needed all the help I could get
staying centered. I flew in and out of the refinery thermal several
times before I finally got it cored.

Chip Bearden
ASW 24 "JB"
USA

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Old August 28th 07, 03:59 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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On Aug 28, 8:31 am, "kirk.stant" wrote:
Ahh yes, the pleasures of a sports canopy (open cockpit, to those not
familiar with the breed) 1-26 on a warm summer afternoon, coring a
corn husk - marked thermal, chilling out at cloud base - then barely
making it back to the field after drifting downwind....

Drag, I spit in your face!

Kirk
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thats the problem with trying to get back to the airport Kirk. I had
one exciting flight like that. Was out thermalling matt michael in
his lark and eventually noticed i was about 4 miles downwind at 4 or
5000 feet. yikes! turn into the wind and it was like the world just
stopped moving. made it back though.

 




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