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18 The 44th Annual Soar-for-Fun Cumberland, Maryland November 6/7 2010 Pete Carr, wb3bqo@yahoo.com R/C <strong>Soaring</strong> <strong>Digest</strong>
A big Schweizer breaks ground on the tow. Although the grass sloped slightly there was no problem with keeping the sailplanes tracking behind the tugs. Normal climb-out was with shallow left turns in a spiral to altitude. The weather forecast for the site on Saturday, November 6th was cold, cloudy and winds from the north across the slope. I decided to go on Sunday when the weather was decidedly better. On arrival I went into the small building perched at the treeline of the meadow to sign up and pay the ten dollar “landing fee”. There were a large number of sailplanes already flying and I mentioned that it looked like a good turnout. The very nice fellow who was handling the paperwork said, “Oh, if you think this is good you should have been here yesterday!” It just showed that glider people are like fishermen. They can always stretch the story! I had a chat with Don Harris. He and his wife had come from the Columbus Ohio area. Don is a thermal dude who has flown many an AMA Nats event over the years and is a superb pilot. I also talked to Carl Luft about the possible scheduling of a Spring 2011 event at the Cumberland site. The fall event is run so late in the season that there is barely 10 hours of daylight available. The conditions are so good that those pilots looking for the LSF 8-hour slope task could make it there if there was more daylight. The local sailplane club is the CAMS group and Carl indicated that information about a Spring event would be posted there. The flight line was jammed with large trailers all packed tight with December 2010 19
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