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Originally Posted by PBS_Rudder
That glassair and few others was built at old Williams Field by Phoenix Composits, Dace Kirk. We were friends and when they kicked him out he went to Falcon Field where I was finishing my Glassair. My Avitar pic is at Falcon Field, with Red Mountian in the background Mesa, AZ. That pic was before I had did any mods. After the mods I ran a race starting at St. Johns to Woodworth to a silo south then back to St. Johns a 100 miles triangle course. I avg 255mph at 5500 alt.mp only 24 psi so was only running at 75% power. Came in second cut my turn to wide at the silo, so my good friend Roger beat me at an avg of 262 mph, he was 1 plane length in front at the finish.
Ron
We stopped by Williams on our return from Vegas it did not look the same to me, except my old barrack and chow hall was still standing.