Joseph,
Don't take my poor landings at Kentucky as anything other than poor piloting skills. Do a youtube search for the carf hawk and you will see many short field landings.

I pitted next to Joseph in Kentucky and we talked about the Hawk and as most who see it, realize it's just the right size to give a good presence and handling in the air and still be small enough to move around without help. I just had a bad week at Kentucky as far as the Hawk goes. I had the brakes lock up which caused a tire to come off but it wasn't really violent as it ended up partially in the grass. I pulled the wheels off and lubed up the O-rings and put the tires back on. I put a curve in my brake slider to not make them so sensitive. Unfortunately, I didn't check that my gear was functioning correctly for the next flight. I didn't see a reason to as the previous landing was just a little skidding event. Well I couldn't get the right main to come down on the next flight and after cycling it again I couldn't get the nose or left main to retract so there was no choice . I landed on the runway with the nose and left main down. It skidded off the runway and managed to find a runway light which impaled itself into the wing about 5 inches at the root. It will be repaired in a few days. This landing resulted in me receiving the prestigious gong award at Kentucky Jets.

On another note, Maybe I should have seen bad luck coming for the Hawk at Kentucky. A day or two before these problems, I went to the hangar in the morning to retrieve the Hawk and had to lift it over all the other jets that were still in the hangar. About a half hour before I went to get the hawk I had sprayed my arms and legs with bug repellent as the no see ums where feasting on me. Apparently, the clear canopy material doesn't like bug repellent. I assume it was the Deet which is the active chemical. The canopy touched the inside of my upper arm when I was lifting it and the Deet attacked the plastic. Took a lot of elbow grease polishing to get it off.

Marty