Promising Weekend?

Congratulate John Earlywine and Lachlan Ohman of the Kendallville club on the new Indiana open multiplace 100km triangle speed record at 50.46 mph, flown on July 8. They broke Don Reid's record set 20 years earlier! They also established an open multiplace free triangle distance record at 65.2 statute miles.

Likewise, congratulate Gerry Whitson on setting Indiana open singleplace and sports class records on 29 May in the Distance Using Up To Three Turnpoints category, at 116.66 statute miles. Gerry also set records in the 15M and standard classes, but I need to pin him down on which ones he wants to claim - his flight would qualify in several categories and under the 2004 revisions to the Sporting Code, a pilot can only claim one distance record in each class.

The first weekend of October looks good. Come on out and fly!

I still hear your sea winds blowin'

HURRICANE RITA TROPICAL CYCLONE UPDATE
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
255 PM CDT WED SEP 21 2005

DATA FROM RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT INDICATE THAT RITA HAS REACHED CATEGORY FIVE INTENSITY WITH ESTIMATED MAXIMUM SUSTAINED SURFACE WINDS OF 165 MPH. THIS WILL BE REFLECTED IN THE 4 PM CDT ADVISORY.

FORECASTER AVILA

I Know What You Did At The Last Resort - update

George Saunders sends this:

THANK YOU!
Thanks to everyone who made the Last Resort weekend a great success. To the tow pilots who worked overtime to get the gliders back and forth – Gerry W., Rich S. and Eric D. Eric deserves special praise for being the only tow pilot on Sunday. He really worked hard.
Thanks to the glider pilots who took some very LONG tows – Ron C., Dan D., Nyal W., John M., Dale I., Ken H., Todd R. and Cheryl B.
Thanks to Dale who flew the tow plane back on Sunday. I was VERY happy not to have the tow plane left on the ground for Monday’s storms.
Thanks Ron, Dan, Mario, Pete, and Mike N., who hung around on Friday waiting for the ceiling to lift above 1000 feet so we could ferry the sailplanes over early. It never happened.
Thanks to the crews on Saturday and Sunday who put out a special effort – Dick H. did a great job tearing down and moving things back to Alex!
Thanks to Nyal who helped arrange the weekend. He made sure we did it right. As a novice at this I really appreciated it.
Finally, a special thanks goes to Pete D. who really made this happen. He set up the operations and spent all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday working. He was the crew chief on Saturday and the crew chef on Sunday. Thanks for the great breakfast, Pete.
We have a great club! I had a lot of fun working with you all.
George S.

ZA says:

A sincere THANK YOU to the organizers of the CISS "Away weekend" .
George and Pete you guys deserve special mention as we know you bore the brunt of most of the organizing and arrangements to ferry equipment back and forth etc. As well the Crews, operating at an unfamiliar airstrip and the Tow pilots all did an outstanding job.
The field was a very good venue, especially the camping facilities.
Ron (ZA)

By the way, ZA has notified me of a state record claim from Sunday.
Vice President Tom Ruble and Chief Instructor Nyal Williams also expressed their gratitude to the Wilson family. Original post here.

Seymour Fly-In

Larry Pennington reports:

There is a 'Fly In, Aviation event' at Freeman Field, Seymour, IN the weekend of Oct 8/9. George Robins is connected with this event and has asked if we would do a static display of a sailplane. If you could get this to the private owners or anyone else that may want to do this, they can call George Robins at [area code eight one two, phone number five two two dash three five six five]. If anyone wants to do this please send me an email. Thanks.
Larry

(Larry's email address is: lpenni [at] netzero [dot] com)

Away Weekend September 17-18

There will be NO SOARING operations at Alexandria Airport Sept 17-18. Our operations will move for that weekend to Last Resort Airport (7IN9).
Address: 7406 North 100 West, Springport IN.
GPS: Lat 40-02-15.0N Long 085-24-38.0 W.
Questions? Contact George Saunders by phone (his number is on the crew schedule) or by email: gsaunders[at]comcast[dot]net

More Silver and Records

Larry Pennington got his silver altitude on Saturday, September 3!
Ron Clarke also notified me that he flew a triangle distance record over the weekend. Details to follow.

It Rained Here

We got a couple of inches of rain in Indianapolis on Tuesday from the low pressure system formerly known as Hurricane Katrina. Meanwhile the Gulf Coast, especially New Orleans and Mississippi, is having the humanitarian crisis of a lifetime. Donate money.