Tricked out trike

The club bought a Airborn Outback Trike to tow hang gliders with and Steve Burns was up from Texas to train tow pilots for the last week. We towed on Sun., Mon. and Tues. then the weather stopped our fun. Pictures are of Doug Allen on tow and Mark and Linda doing a tandem. Flights: 3 Air time: 1 hr

Introducing class of 2011 graduate Cody A. Brown

Cody graduated Friday night at a very nice ceremony at the Honeoye high school auditorium. Here are a few pictures from the ceremony and one special one I took while taking pictures for his yearbook. Not sure why he didn't choose this one I thought it was great!!!! Congratulations Cody, you-da-man.

Hammondsport 6/6/11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W2-5nhu-CY

Here is a link to a video by Chris Turner a student this year.
There was a work party called for Sunday at Mt. Washington and after many man hours of chopping, hacking and mowing the site looks great. Then it was time to play. Conditions were "textured" to say the least, Not everyone flew but a lot of people did and were rewarded with great flights. Skydog got 5+ hrs in two flights and Paul Senger 2hrs 15 min for a PB.
I only got a short flight but got a couple good climbs and worked on limbering up those flying muscles after not flying all winter. Should have gone for another as it wondered and they flew till dark.

Flights: 1
Air time: 24 min.
Max altitude: 3400'
Fun factor: 6

You think she looks like her Momma?

Here is a picture of Mandi and Alyss, do you see any resemblance?

Alyss in wonderland!!!

Mandi and Alyss were here for the weekend and I took a few shots of Alyss in her Easter finery. I am totally prejudice but is this kid cute or what!!!
Gotta work on the outdoors stuff, turns out the kid doesn't like nature touching her, made some really weird faces when the grass and mulch touched her feet. We will work on that this summer!!!

Cruisin' CMac

The wind was honkin' and there was standing water in the fields so we were off to CCFL and the parking lot for the performing arts shell. The wind was from the SSE and gusty, changing direction back and forth between S and SE. The direction was not optimal for the parking lot but very doable. I was able to use the grade of the lot to my advantage and coast into the wind to stay near the vehicle and not get to far down wind, then pull back up the hill with good speed runs when the wind peaked. I need to put brakes on the buggy for the downhill runs tho as I wore the heels of my shoes pretty badly dragging my heels to slow down and not over run the kite going down the hill. There is probably five feet of elevation change from one side of the lot to the other. Thanks to Andy for taking the pictures.

Cmac parking

The parking lot at Finger Lakes Community College for the performing arts shell has turned out to be an excellent place to kite buggy now that the ice is gone but the hay fields are still to wet to get out on. I met John and we got a couple hours of expression time on a beautiful warm spring day.
Here are a few pics of John on his land surfer and me with my buggy.