End of year wishes

Happy New Year to all of us, and may all your soaring experiences be more pleasant than this one.

1968 Wave Flight

In the previous post's comments, a discussion developed about an article from Soaring Magazine. Now, thanks to Tim's Wayback Machine, you can read it again (or for the first time if you missed it 40 years ago).

Mt Rainer Wave

I swiped this picture from:

http://www.komonews.com/weather/blog/35631614.html

More pictures can be found there.

Tim

Milestones

Three of them.

1. Tom traveled to BHSS, where he finished off his training and passed his Private Pilot flight test (Congratulations, Tom, but this doesn't get you out of the job of reassembling our 2-33.) Next time you see Tom, ask him to recite the standard tow signals, and get his opinion on the use of radios.

2. Tony traveled to TBSS, where he will fly this winter. It was his first long-distance drive with 7H. Ask him what he thinks of high-speed tractor trailers on I-81. Here's hoping he'll send us some flying stories.

3. This is the 100th edition of PMSC News for 2008. I'm so proud.

Bloemfontein

You may remember that Roy from GBSC takes a flying vacation in South Africa each Spring. His writeup appeared in PMSC News last year. Well, he's at it again. You can read his story here for the next week or so. I expect that he will have some good pictures, too.

"Bloemfontein" means fountain of flowers. It's a nice name for a dusty place in the veldt.

Hibernation season begins

On a frosty November afternoon, Andy, Evan, Andy, Sonny, Tim, Tom, and David (not pictured) assembled to disassemble the Blanik for the winter cold season.


We succeeded in transporting the Blanik and 1-23 to a secret location where they will spend the winter season of short flying days. The 304 is parked at Andy's house. The only aircraft in evidence on the field now is the towplane, which will be put in winter storage a hangar at the end of the month.

Thanks to all who came out to work today, and special thanks to Bob for once again providing storage space at the secret location.

I'll continue blogging, if anything happens during the winter seasonal break from flying.

Last flight of the year

Andy and Pete headed off into the sunset on the last flying day of 2008:


Don't forget Disassembly Day next Saturday. It's always a lot of fun.

Weekend Report November 1 - 2

We are definitely winding down. A very small number of flights this weekend, but they were all interesting. The weather was clear and beautiful both days. On Saturday, Sonny and Steve shared two flights in the Blanik and found some wave. Pete showed them up in 3J with a 1.5 hour flight in thermals. Pete then repeated his performance on Sunday, this time in the Blanik. There were instructors on duty both days, but no students showed up. Doug drove all the way to Post Mills to make one tow (Thanks, Doug!)

The 1-35 and 1-26 both packed up and left the field this weekend. Oxygen systems were removed from club gliders and trailers were checked out for winter storage duty.

We are definitely winding down.

Boo!

Kevin put on his glider pilot's costume today, took a high tow, enjoyed a wave flight to 8000 feet, and got home in time to hand out candy to the Post Mills trick-or-treaters.

Happy Halloween!

Don't let this happen to you - V

A new OLC season

The 2008 Online Contest season has ended. Here's how we did:

New England: 2nd place
USA: 70th place
World: 745th place

That was fun. Let's do it again next year!

The 2009 season has started, and Skip has put us on the scoresheet already.

Gorham photo credits

All of the wave camp photos in PMSC News were taken by Skip and Pete. More of Skip's photos can be found here and more of Pete's can be found here and also here.