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Old 05-29-2006 | 09:40 PM
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Final score: Murphy 3 - Ken 0

Woke up this morning with it being windy, but flyable. Feeling a bit better from the cold and wanting to scrape at least one flying day out of this weekend I loaded up and headed out. Day started off grand with the local field "wiseguy" smarting off with one of his jokes that seems to get under everybodies skin. already off to a grand start. I started off by maiden flighting an Ultra Sport 40+ that a buddy gave me. Flew like a dream. great. the day was getting better. Another great flight on the Ultra Sport. Decided to pull out the P-40. This is where the day took a very wrong turn. Pushed it for just one too many passes and ran out of fuel. Tried to stretch it past the tall grass and stalled from about 15 feet. Snaped the wing in half, repairable but not fun. Back to the Ultra Sport. Was testing inverted flight, it got a bit out of sorts so I pulled under out of inverted. I don't know if it was the wind or what, but it pulled into a wicked spin that I couldn't pull out of. Made a great start on my kindling supply for next winter. Totalled. [>:]

So Murphy kicked my butt this weekend. Oh well, it happens sometimes. Came home and cleaned off the work bench to get back to a couple of projects that were backburned and that I want to finish now.

Hope everybody else had a good weekend

Ken