The one footed Chris Smith wants me to mention what a killer golf cart driver, cart retriever he is. I don't get to see it that much as I've been at the north launch, but he looked smooth.

Bill Moyes is still causing heart attacks around here. He didn't preflight a Dragonfly that he and/or Bobby just built and the elevator bolts were on finger tight. Fortunately, they came off just as he was taking off so he could keep the plane on the ground. Otherwise we would be attending his funeral a bit too soon.

Corinna made goal specked out. She apparently spent the whole day hanging out above everyone else (she is light on her glider) and came in super high.

Andrew Vanis from New Mexico is here helping out for a few days. He's on crutches but he was still able to place the wind socks that mark the goal line out in the cotton fields near the airport. Amazing. They are 400 meters apart and need to be perpendicular to the last leg of the course.

The goal was a crop dusting field with cotton fields all around it but we had permission to land on the runway. There was grass next to the runway. It's green out here.

The thermals were tough again today. Hard to find and hard to stay up in, but still the good pilots made goal quickly.

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