We left home around 0700 east bound on I-12. Left on I-65 into Alabama. Things were going well until we hit Montgomery, Al. Almost out of town and over the hill a pickup wrecked causing a 30 minute delay. That put us into the rush hour traffic on the loop around Atlanta, Ga. Not fun. We got to the hotel in daylight and it's run by, wait for it, The Patel's. The place we stayed in Plainfield, Ct was run by the same group along with the gas stations.
Anyway we found the field and it's a nice venue. On Saturday I flew the Nomad 5 in profile and the P-40B in warbird. The winds were switching all over the place and the temperature was in the 90's. I was prepared for the light winds but not the temp. I have been flying in the low 80's for a long time but the 90's drained too much power from the engines. I had a poor first flight in warbird and turned up the power for the second flight and got first place. Not so in profile or the event on Sunday. They had a raffle and I cleaned up on that. A kit of the Jamison Special, a model designed in the mid 40's, a sheeted foam wing from somebody's project, an engine for the kit, some safety glasses, a fuel tank and a propeller. It's all about the raffle.
We stayed over on Sunday and left around 0315 and beat the traffic on the loop. No accidents or construction delays all the way home. WAZE took us a different route home.
I've got the Jamison built and being painted with dope this time. I brought some foam wing templates for the plane I have under construction to the contest as a foam wing cutter was there and the wings are being shipped today. I don't know exactly what I'll do with the wing I won in the raffle. It needed fixing as the controls were poorly installed but I got that fixed.
I met with the Park Board and they don't mind if there is a contest at South Park. I spoke with the person in charge and he is coming to look the park over. It may end up being the location of the local contest now held in Zackery if the park board (BREC in this case) gets too finicky.
