Subject: New speed trials?
From: Cliff Lindgren (OSOHIGH@pacbell.net)
Date: Sun Jun 20 1999 - 23:20:01 CDT
Ok, which one of you wants to step up to the plate and put all the energy into organizing this thing? It just don't happen by itself. I only saw two of you besides myself up in Washington to see the first one (Speed trials)ever to take place. Real interested aren't we? Arm chair quarterbacking? Safe enough to do. What,...you think you're going to hold a speed trials in your own back yard and get some kind of world recognition? Realistically, we don't have the site. It may not exist in California. Come on guys, where were you when we needed you? We could used you and your talents up at Eagle/Kiona this year. Even if we didn't give a good showing we all could have learned a lot. You could have given your input there and it would have been listened to. Everyone wants the wheel to be re-invented but when it comes down to it they want someone else to do it. "Everyone wants to go to heaven, but no one wants to die". If I go to another one with intentions of competing I'm going to use the Boy Scouts motto and "Be prepared".
When a event such as the Speed trials takes place it isn't just the slope rockets that may win. I learned that the hard way. If you stage a event like this, unless you have some real inside with the "All Mighty" you better have more than one arrow in your quiver. You will never get the perfect plane built for the perfect conditions. You may get lucky but that's where it starts and ends. Now if your smart, you'll have two or three planes designed for differing conditions and then if your good enough, establish a great technique for running the course then maybe you'll win.
As far as changing the course and doing away with the FAI, I'm all for it. But you still have to be prepared.
Cliff.
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