Subject: Re: New speed trials?
From: Richard Parker (rparker1@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Mon Jun 21 1999 - 08:22:50 CDT
Yeah... gotta get high... REAL high!!!
Richard
PS. Who turned the wind off at SunSet???
Scott Hewett wrote:
> Are you trying to jack my jaw? Who needed help up at Kiona? Who
> needed input? Cliff, darling, there wasn't no event up there.
> Remember sitting around waiting for the wind to shift to Eagle? No
> one could fly shit at Kiona, so why are you trying to make people feel
> like they missed something. It was a bust, pure and simple.
> You need to stop writing fiction.
> S
>
> Cliff Lindgren wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> > 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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