your weather and climate sounds about like here Tony, we hit 50 celcius sometimes but normal is around 45 in the summer, i am about 30 nautical miles from death valley where its about 10 deg hotter than where i am. anyways when it gets over a 100 we just say its hot

good luck with the competition, hope you do well[sm=thumbup.gif]
you can see my terrain behind the plane, pretty dry, but i love the solitude, im the only rc,er out here ,got the runway to myself

and yes that is a dry lake out ther with the worlds larges soda ash deposits in the world. a lot of borax also.[X(]