Russell Brown had the tug all set up on Wednesday for any pilots ready to go. The winds were out of the southeast consistently (the direction that we love here) but the overall weather pattern to the north in Texas wasn't favorable for a record attempt on that day. Lauren Tjaden and Pete Lehmann flew and got used to the area.

The weather patterns this year are the best that we seen in many years with the daily forecast for southeast winds every day, so far. The high pressure is centered just where we want it south of New Orleans. There are mid level clouds this morning and light winds so it doesn't look like we'll make an attempt today.

In spite of the widespread mid level clouds blocking all the sunlight out, the "over running" is here (low level cumulus streets racing up from the southeast).  Relatively cool moist air coming up from the Gulf running over the warm desert and being uplifted by the slowly rising terrain.

Andre Wolfe is here from Brazil with his driver. Dustin is here with his driver and a Quest Air tandem glider in addition to his Wills Wing T2. Kent Robinson wants to come down for the upcoming weekend with another pilot. Paul Tjaden is driving for Lauren but has his glider set up also. Robin Hamilton is in Houston looking at the weather and will come down if it looks like a record weekend.

Everyone is excited about the possibilities. From the forecast last night it looked like the WRE might be over in one day with records set today, but the conditions this morning are not right. Gary says tomorrow or the weekend.

Gary is here with his little Woodstock, trying to beat the light sailplane records in a lower performance light weight sailplane.

In spite of the plentiful mid level clouds the overrunning was thick and dark, at about 1,500' AGL. By 11 AM the mid level clouds were gone and the streets had lined up in a perfect direction and Dustin and Gary were flying. From a look at the radar at 11:30, the streets didn't go more than 100 miles, but we'll see later if they developed to the north.

The streets do indeed develop along the route to the north. Dustin, Gary, and Lauren fly in the local area and land at the airport after late launches. Pete and Paul continued north. Paul launching after 3 PM. We hear over the radio Paul go down 21 miles out, so not a great spot for retrieval. Lauren was lackadaisically chasing him so that should prove interesting. Pete was north of Laredo last I heard.

No record attempts today. Everything started three hours too late after the midlevels cut out the sun. But Zapata is back to where we love it. The wind forecasts are showing more easterly than we are actually experiencing, so the upcoming forecasts look great.