John Boyce demonstrates the proper way to cultivate a corn field with a standard class glider, somewhere near Stockbridge.
Yep.
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At least he's between the rows (mostly).
Further up the valley, three gliders landed on corn fields owned by the same irate farmer. It takes about 300 square feet to grow a bushel of feed corn in VT and a bushel is worth about $7 right now (all time high). As you can see, landing rolls in the soft soil are extremely short (<< 200 feet). A messy off field landing might cost 2 bushels of corn. Maybe. More likely, damage from 3 gliders was less than 2 bushels, total.
In any event, the following morning the CD read to us an email received from the aforementioned farmer's local pastor. The obvious product of some hours labor and rich in powerfully worded phrases. Most memorable was the reference to our "pleasure seeking" "at the expense of hard working VT farmers".
No one disputes the liability issue, but it did seem a lot of huffing and puffing over not very much actual harm.
Already, one of the landees had been in contact with the farmer's wife (charming and hospitable) who runs a B&B and dining room at the same farm. Arrangements were made to fill the dining room with contest pilots and crews that evening in the interest of "economic stimulus". The dining room was filled to capacity, a great meal was eaten, gifts were left (inc. "A Fine Week of Soaring") and B&B brochures taken. Reportedly some contest pilots plan to stay at her B&B next year. It doesn't hurt to make friends.
Lest you wonder why all the landings in corn... simple: the corn is short and grass is really tall (little cutting so far). One new aileron for a German glider is about 2 ACRES of corn at current prices.
-T8
Tearing up unprocessed biofuel with an unpowered machine. Silly pilots.
So who won?
Results are not "official" yet -- apparently there is some bug in the scoring program that is fouling the numbers. The class winners are known, just not the final scores.
Oddly enough, the newest glider won sports class and the oldest glider won 15m. Standards didn't have enough entries to make a class this year (it takes five) so they combined with 15m for a class of fourteen, which is pretty good for R1. When this happens, the standard guys get a 102% handicap, which is why you see all the handicap BS in 15m.
Results here: http://tinyurl.com/5ups22
-T8
Congrats. + Bonus congrats for beating all that fancy new stuff.
Still no official results. What's taking so long?
Bug in the scoring program. It's affecting three contests at the moment. It must be tough to fix - the programmer has been working on it for a couple of days now.
Isn't technology wonderful?
Corn happens.
we call it maze-simply a maze ing-
...at least he didn't land out there in August.
Motorless aviation. Hmph. The very idea is just corny.
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