Last weekend here in Virginia we had 100F temps and I decided to fly my Reaction with a P-60 at our local field which I had never done before. Even though it's about 500'+ grass which is plenty for the Reaction, it is surrounded pretty closely with trees and I just didn't feel comfortable flying it there until last week for some inexplicable reason. The Reaction usually gets up easily with no flaps in about 300' on grass. I did have a slightly canted wheel which casued some drag but I never had a problem getting enough speed up to rotate until last Sunday. After using up around two thirds of the runway and pinning full up elevator for what seemed an eternity, she wasn't close to lifting the nose. At that point I could have dropped the throttle and hit the brakes but probably still would have ended up in the high grass and probably had wing/gear damage so I just held the full up elevator and hit the flap switch to full flaps and she got off probably fifteen to twenty feet before the end of the runway[X(]. During the flight the plane seemed slower than normal at full throttle and I definetely feel it was due to the heat and humidity.

Marty