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Old 10-09-2006 | 04:10 PM
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Default RE: Look what we got finished

Darcy's computer is down so I'll give an eyewitness report. We flew the Hornet on Thursday to get it ready for the Kingman airshow and Darcy got 4 great flights without incident. We went to the airshow on Saturday morning and the four of us all had great flights. (Darcy, Jens, Mark and me), the crowd loved it! Darcy had a picture perfect take off at show center turned on the smoke and went for it. Loops, rolls, low pepper passes, ect. It was hard to believe he was flying his first scale jet with only 5 previous flights. The landing was nose high and butter. The rest of us also had great flights and lots of fun. The second day didn't go as well (for me at least) We only got one flight each and then got grounded because of wind. I had a gear problem on my Tam F-16 and as I was setting up to land in the designated emerg. landing zone (in the weeds away from spectators) I noticed a cop car parked middle of the zone. (where did that come from?) As I was walking across the runway to get past the cop car I got a little too far out and too slow and you can figure the rest out. A Tam gear failsafe would have saved the jet! All in all great fun especially watching the Royal Maces Hornet. Darcy you da man!