DiveBombDave
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We had two great days of flying. I can't emphasize enough how great it was to meet more of the "Skydiver gang!" The weekend was marred by only the loss of one complete airframe (I did not witness the crash, but heard something of it, sorry for your loss). One skydiver took the fast lane down into the corn - after many many volunteers' help wading through through the "maize," the diver was finally recovered.
Several divers (including both of mine) had the occasional line-over or worse spin situations. Sadly, a few "did not opens" happened, but I purposefully didn't take any "corpse" photos.  
One diver, however, caught a thermal so strong that it was ascending while in a full spin. When the fight was won, he had traveled quite a good distance, and came down (the consensus was) in a soyfield that was the EXACT color of the camoflage parachute. Searchers yielded nothing, as well as a full scale powered parachute pilot. We miss you, Little Juan. Hopefully the fieldowner (who is RC plane friendly) will be able to find him.
I guess I should get to the goodies- Jules finished in first place with a five jump score of 410 for Saturday alone, I do not remember what his Sunday score was, but it was enough to cinch the victory. Huge congratulations from all of us, bravo, Jules. There are two photos of Jules where the whole crowd got a good laugh - after an especially centered landing, as we were all clapping, the wind picked up and guess what? The chute opened up and dragged his jumper slowly all the way out of the circle! I hope it counted anyway; the jumper was on his back for several seconds with the chute fully collapsed. (Be sure to note the seventh and eighth photos in post #34!)
Second place was Gary V. Gary started the weekend with several back to back high scoring landings that made the rest of us consider packing up the planes early. His diver performed with probably the fewest malfunctions of any there, and his approaches were very consistant. Good job, Gary.
Third place overall was Juan Fernandez. Little Juan had put in a lot of airtime with big Juan helping him at the sticks, and it was obvious with his performance this weekend. It was wonderful to get to meet you, Juan, as I built my first jumper from your plans for Little Juan.
There was a trophy (no kidding) given post-mortem (AWOL?) to Little Juan for the longest jump.
I know I'm forgetting alot, but I'll add that Wes came in second (for the day) on Saturday. Good job!
And a shout out to all the fine, fine drop pilots that managed very large RC planes in random take offs and landings, mixed in with jumper pilots on the field to retrieve their little guys. Not the first tense situation occurred all weekend, and the ugliest landings were soft simple nose overs with no prop breakage, thanks to Wes, Gary V, and myself (good job guys, down stick down stick down stick...)
Everybody present this weekend were so helpful to one another, it was amazing. Imagine a swap meet/airplane repair shop where everything's free and the work's done for you. I can't thank everyone enough who helped me keep my divers and planes going.
I'll post my photos in a subsequent post, just in case my img tag thingy blows a screw. Had a blast, good times, big thanks to the AMA headquarters for hosting again this year.
Dave
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