Archive for July 2004

Sat, 31 July 2004

Nats 2004 - RES and Nostalgia class

Photo Gallery

We woke up to rain again, I have never seen it rain so many days in Muncie during a Nats.  I stopped at drug store on the way out to the field; I needed some fresh rubber bands to mount the wing on my twenty something year old WindDrifter I intended on flying in Nostalgia and RES.  When I arrived at the field some people who had been in Muncie all week long were getting tired of waiting on rain and decided to just start their travels home a bit earlier.  But the AMA HQ was saying the weather was going to clear, and they were correct!

By about 10am I could tell we were going to fly, and the weather just kept getting better as the day progressed.  This was going to turn into the best weather day this event day has ever seen.  The winds were light, the thermals were abundant, and everyone who waited to fly was treated to one of those special "gas bag" days.  I specked my WindDrifter out twice today, I hadn't specked my ICON out in the past two days.  The pace was steady and laid back, but when we went to round 4, a place this event has never been before things started slowing down a bit as guys started getting tired.  Yet another day this week where despite the weather looking bad in the morning, we got a whole lot of flying in.

C.D. Tom Kallevang awarded the National Champion trophy in RES to Troy Lawicki, in second place was Brian Smith, and in third place was a very good junior pilot from Michigan, Kevin Steen.

In the Nostalgia event C.D. Mike McGowan awarded the National Champion trophy to Steve Siebenaler, in second place was Tom Scully, and in third place was Ed Wilson.  When Steve won this contest, he also completed his last task to complete his LSF level V.  This brought about massive cheers and celebration, as Steve has been looking for this win for some time.

It is a Nats tradition that a group of us celebrate the end of the week with a special dinner.  Usually this happens at Vincent's at the airport, but this year it was at a Sushi restaurant that JT found earlier in the week.  Steve's level V accomplishment was the spotlight of the evening, and we had enough people to fill two large tables.  They treated us like kings in this place, broke out some special Sake that the chefs mother home brews with ginseng in it, and the Sushi was surprisingly good.

It is always a pleasure to observe the all volunteer crew, veterans and new people alike, work together as a team to produce one of the best soaring contests year after year.  Not enough can be said about volunteers that travel here just to help make this event happen, and work hard all week.  People like Marna and Larry Jefferies, Marna makes the impound run like clockwork, it dictates the flow of a contest, and Larry keeps all the winches and launch equipment running all week, both of these are thankless tasks.  People like Sheldon Smith who works the winch turn arounds and organizes the kids retrieving lines, and he makes sure everyone has fun while doing so.  And to the entire LSF board, who I know have put countless hours into the small details that need to be completed on schedule with an event of this magnitude.  To all the people that give time to pull this week of premiere contesting off, thank you.  The work you do makes this event so special to so many people each year, whether they had the opportunity to attend or not.

Fri, 30 July 2004

Nats 2004 - Unlimited class, day 2

Photo Gallery

C.D. Dennis Adamisin wanted an early start today, so I set the alarm a half hour earlier and got on my way.  I think we were within 15 minutes of when he wanted to start, that wasn't too bad for such a large group of pilots.  The weather forecast was to have a mostly sunny day, which would cloud up towards the evening as another small front approached.  The wind was to gradually increase during the day as well.

Josh Glaab was tearing it up, he clearly was in the zone and nailing his task times and landings.  Daryl Perkins and Mike Smith were just one little landing bobble away in points, and through about 17th place pilots were maybe one to two mistakes away from the top.  And the weather was not making this a landing contest, in many rounds it was last man down.  There was a pretty consistent long cycle of conditions, from good to bad and back to good again. 

As the day progressed, it clouded over and conditions began to flatten out.  This was that late in the afternoon flying again, where the conditions tend to really soften.  It was time for a "lap around Muncie" as Joe Wurts would call it.  Basically that is flying about as smooth as you can and flying a huge box pattern to the limits of your vision, making just three 90 degree turns and back to land, unless you scored a little lift, wave or buoyant air to loiter upon along the way.  The last two rounds were fairly intense, and the names on the scoreboard were beginning to change positions quite a bit.  In the last round, Josh missed the landing costing him first place. The new National Champion in unlimited class sailplanes for 2004 is Mike Smith flying a Sharon, in second was Daryl Perkins' flying the Sheer Insanity of his design, and in third place was Josh Glaab flying a Tsunami.

Here is a link to the final results:  Final Results

The evening was capped by an enjoyable awards banquet.  There was a great raffle (thanks to everyone that donated) where everybody won something.  The Hi Johnson award which is given to the pilot with the highest combined score in 2m and unlimited class was awarded to Daryl Perkins.  The Dan Pruss team award which is given to the team of three pilots in the same club whose combined ranking in the results of 2m and unlimited class competition are added together, and the team with the lowest score wins.  The SOAR 1 team consisting of Tom Kallevang, Steve Meyer, and I were the first SOAR club team to ever win this award.  The prestigious Le Gray award was presented to Jim Thomas.

Thu, 29 July 2004

Nats 2004 - Unlimited class, day 1

Photo Gallery

One hundred and one pilots gathered for the pilots meeting early Thursday morning, C.D. Dennis Adamisin was ready to get things rolling.  The only brand new model I have seen is Daryl Perkins' new Sheer Insanity design, it's hard to miss it, it is so large.  The weather wasn't as nice as it was yesterday, it was cool out again, a bit overcast and a bit windy, it was going to be some interesting flying to be sure.

We started out with an 8 minute task again, and went directly to 10 minute tasks in later rounds.  There may have been a 12 minute thrown in there in one round.  In the forth round I happened to be flying with Mike Smith, (it seemed like I flew a lot of rounds with Mike Smith, which was fun) and Daryl was timing for him.  We were standing in the pilot staging area and Daryl has a long slow look at my lime green over magenta ICON lite and says, "Jim, you must be a pretty good pilot."  I looked at him and I knew something was coming but I just listened.  He continued, "I remember when I was surfing a lot, I would go down to the beach and there would be all these dudes hanging out with the fluorescent colored boards, and the fluorescent colored suits... and they couldn't surf at all.  So you must be pretty good to have a model colored like Barney."  We all busted out laughing.  Like I said, it is fun flying with these guys.

I have to say those 10 minute plus rounds after 5pm really get a pilots attention, it reminds me so much of F3J, and I don't think guys tend to practice much at that time of day.  Do I have to mention the scores are tight after the first day?

It was going to be a pizza on the veranda night at the Roberts Hotel, an appropriate choice for the day.  This is an occasion where most of the pilots that are staying there have a stack pizzas delivered and we devour them outside on the veranda.  Just as I started unloading the gear in the parking lot at the hotel, Marty rode up on his new black '04 Electra Glide with a huge smile on his face.  I said, "Marty, nice Hoosier eve for a ride, huh?"  He threw me the keys and I got to take a very pleasant putt around Muncie, what a treat.  Got back to the hotel for pizza, unpacked the truck much later on in the evening.  It was another very long but fun day.

Wed, 28 July 2004

Nats 2004 - 2m class, day 2

Photo Gallery

The sun was out and bright today, the heat actually felt pleasant.  We usually get cooked by the heat of Muncie summer weather, but not this year.  Again, we started the day rolling with an 8 minute task, but flew 10 minute tasks most of the day.  Today the pace was rapid, and as far as competition goes it was all about making those landings and not making any mistakes with these smaller sailplanes.  There was some very skillful flying going on between Daryl Perkins, Troy Lawicki and Joe Wurts, their scores were so tight.  The top page of the score sheet was tight as well with lots of pilots flying very strong, as you would expect at a Nats.

We flew a long day today as the weather was the best most of us had seen all week, and we got in seven rounds.  We always seem to get a lot of rounds in during 2m competition, and I think it is great practice and mental preparation for the next two days of unlimited competition.

During the later part of the day, a new group of pilots start showing up at the field, the pilots that traveled in just for the unlimited competition.  So there is another reunion of pilots and friends going on, and the awards ceremony is just that much larger at the end of the day.  C.D. Jack Iafret awarded the National Championship trophy to Daryl Perkins who was flying a Laser 2MC, in second place was Troy Lawicki who was flying a 2m Duck of his design, and in third place was Joe Wurts flying an Image.

Here is a link to the final results:  Final Results

This is an evening where there is always a lot of action on the field after the contest.  Many guys want to put their unlimited models up in the air, re-adjust to the larger models, shoot some landings, fun fly, etc...  Jack and I put out TK's winch and flew our ICON lite models.  The landing zone felt much better with the larger model, Gordy and I shot a few landings side by side and Gordy decided we tied.  We were nailing the landing tape repeatedly.  Peter Goldsmith was also out, and watching me land.  He was impressed how my ICON was stopping right where I put my nose on the ground, and had to examine the nose of my model.  He exclaimed, "I need one of those Jabbers!"  I busted a gut laughing, I had never heard a skeg called a jabber but it certainly was appropriate.  I showed him how I modified a Tim McCann belly skeg to be a nose skeg, and to use strapping tape to hold it on.  We flew until dark, it was a very fun day.

Tue, 27 July 2004

Nats 2004 - 2m class, day 1

Photo Gallery

The weather pushed through and it looked like we could fly with perhaps minimal if no rain delays today.  As usual at the start of a two day event, we start with a rather long pilots meeting.  For the second year in a row, the C.D. Jack Iafret decided to allow a throw out round in 2m competition, if we completed more than 12 rounds over the two days.  And today the pilots' meeting was even a little longer because they awarded the F3B trophies this morning as well.  Daryl Perkins was awarded the National Championship trophy for F3B, Tom Kiesling placed second and Joe Wurts placed in third.

The first round of the day started with 8 minutes, but we usually flew 10 minute rounds throughout the day.  The first thing that surprised me even though I inspected them is how deep the landing zone cones were.  In my first group, nobody maxed the 8 minute task, and as I scratched around the corner of the cone to make a legal entry, I didn't have enough altitude to get back to the landing tape and took a zero landing, and so did a bunch of guys in my group.  I wouldn't let that happen again for the rest of the week, and I felt no pity when pilots who were low on altitude cut the cones to make their tape, only to get zeroed on the landing by an official.  A landing zone like this is proper when there are so many models making landings simultaneously.  The last thing one wants is a model cutting across a number of pilots landing zones so he can make his tape, which is a recipe for a mid air.

Extremely variable weather, a little cooler and tougher than previous years and I think that was fun.  The pace of the contest started slow, but as everyone began to mesh together the pace rapidly picked up and we completed six rounds.  No rain today, the first dry day this week.  Joe Wurts put on an entertaining show of flying a toy R/C UFO under the main tent at lunch that Jack Strother brought out at an appropriate moment. 

(I have that on video, I need to put it online here)

Mon, 26 July 2004

Nats 2004 - HLG

Photo Gallery

I really wanted to participate in the HLG event this season, but my work schedule at my business prevented me from getting any models built in time.  It was all I could do to make sure I had models for the two day events.  None the less, I was on the field timing for all of Steve Meyer's rounds, and taking pictures when I could.

For the last three years, the HLG contest always seems to get the worst weather.  It rained hard, it lightly rained, sometimes for a few minutes it stopped raining, but we were all soaked.  A couple of transmitters were damaged from the rain.  Guys were tipping their models tail downward after rounds to drain the water out.  Early in the contest Joe Wurts broke the tail boom on his Encore during a launch, that round was costly for Joe.  Bruce Davidson, another lefty, had a Photon II that he lent to Joe for the remainder of the contest.  Bruce flew strong the entire contest, I really like being around Bruce at contests, he really has a good attitude.  Mike Smith was really flying strong too, no surprise I guess, he really was flying well the other day when I was watching F3B.

C.D. Marc Gellart, used the entire day to slip rounds in between the rain as best as he could, we finished late but the pilots sure did look like they had a good time none the less.  Bruce Davidson wins the national championship flying an XP4, Mike Smith in second also flying an XP4, and Joe Wurts finished the day flying a Photon II to third place.

Here is a link to the final results:  Final Results

Sun, 25 July 2004

Nats 2004 Winch and Scale Aerotow, F3B - day 2

Photo Gallery

Woke up Sunday morning and it was raining.  No rush to get to the field, hit the drive thru at Mc D's and snagged a #3 with a large coffee, and drove out to the field.  The rain just got worse as I drove down Memorial drive.  When I arrived at the parking lot by the aerotow flightline everyone was either still in their vehicles or under the main tent, so I sat in my car and ate my breakfast.  After awhile Hartmut came by to visit and we talked about what he did for a living, a mechanical engineer by trade, working up in Michigan on automobile turbocharger projects.  He had worked on the new Corvette "Blue Devil" project, the new Z06, and obviously that got my attention.  CD Dennis Adamisin held a pilots meeting and said he was going to not call the contest, and was going to hold up because it was supposed to clear up in the afternoon.  Many people left, but I just hung around and talked to people, and went over and watched the F3B guys some more.

The F3B pilots took a break to eat lunch, so I joined them under the main tents.  As the afternoon approached you could see it was going to clear up, people started finishing up their lunches so the flying could begin.  I figured if the F3B folk were itching to fly, so would the aerotow guys so I headed back over there.

Sure enough, scale models were being assembled, some were already on the tarmac waiting to be launched.  Johnny was no where to be found at the moment, so Jack's and my tug was put into action, TK was tug pilot, I believe it was Skip that was up into the sky first.  Skip went right to work on the X/C closed course.  Capn' Jack put his Ventus up next, and I was about to fly my DG 800s when Peter Goldsmith came over and introduced himself and struck up a conversation with me.  I told him how excited I was with all this and really was impressed with the larger models Skip and he were flying.  Without hesitation he offered me a 1/3 ASK-18, and said, "you fly a 10x, right", yup.  He hooked his TX to mine with the DSC cable and transferred the ASK-18 program to my TX and said go have fun.  I must have had a blank look on my face, he said "you can't hurt it, it is simple to fly, besides, if you do it's not mine, you will have to deal with my wife."  I chuckled, and I think he was serious; he has a keen smile and accent.

The ASK-18 seemed very simple, rudder, elevator, spoilers, ailerons and tow release, that is it.  And it was much bigger than my model, this has to be good.  Johnny was back on the scene with his Pegasus and gave me a tow.  It was a very simple model to fly, heck it flew great, big slow and stable.  Shot a nice landing and asked Peter if he minds if I took it out on the X/C course, and he doesn't mind a bit.  I do and take the longest run I have all weekend, 3.4 miles.  Excellent, I am very happy with this.

Peter asks Sheldon and I if we could take him on course, his crew left in the morning thinking it would be a rain out.  Of course we are in, I am ready to take a break from flying and it was the least I could do to help crew for Peter.  Peter took a reasonable launch to about 2,500' and we got in the back of Sheldon's bright red Avalanche.  Let me tell you guys, this is the ultimate X/C vehicle.  Sheldon had two bean bag chairs in the back, great music pumped in, and a sunroof so he and a spotter could sit in the cab.  Peter kicked back into the bean bag chair, looked at me and said "Chillin' like a villain" and we were off down the road.  He flew a clean tight course, no thermal turns whatsoever, Sheldon and I just helped keep him just outside the course boundaries.  One of the cool things about the closed course was that other teams progress was evident.  You would pass a teams car, and they might pass you again.  The teams jeer at each other, and the pilots work harder.  You might even lap a team, we did when Skip stopped to work a thermal over the cemetery.  Thirty seven minutes later and countless laughs, we landed at 9.7 miles even though Sheldon was begging to drive around the corner to get 10.  It didn't even strike me that this team just won the event, I was having such a great time it wasn't even a contest, I wasn't paying attention to that at all.

We finished the day fun flying, I stuck the short wing tips on my DG-800s and was more aggressive than yesterday.  I had a couple of strange very high speed tucks at altitude so I took it back a notch, still enjoying large loops and rolls.  Other guys were tearing it up too, Skip and Dr. Dan look like they do this quite often.  People were wandering over for the awards ceremony, so we were getting an audience, the applause is always pleasant when you do something cool.

Dennis asked us to settle down and land so he could present the awards.  As I mentioned yesterday, it was Marc Gellart and team in first place in winch cross country, and Peter Goldsmith and team wins the first scale aerotow cross country at Nats.

The F3B results were not announced today, but when I spoke to Daryl later in the day and asked how he did he smiled and winked, and I knew the answer.

I think if you spoke to most of the guys that participated in the scale aerotow X/C event that they would agree that this was one of the most fun new formats that has happened in quite some time.  Peter has said that next years JR Aerotow event will also have a cross country contest, I will be there!

Here are the links to the final results:
Final Results Scale Aerotow X/C
Final ResultsWinch X/C

Sat, 24 July 2004

Nats 2004 Winch and Scale Aerotow, F3B - day 1

Photo Gallery

Any nervousness or contest anticipation was instantly eliminated as I drove on to the AMA grounds Saturday morning.  The place was a bee hive of R/C soaring activity, every R/C channel was going to be in use for the next two days, at three different flying sites on the same grounds.  The F3B guys were setting up their area, the winch cross country guys were setting up winches and test flying, and the scale aerotow cross country guys were assembling some gorgeous models.  Harry DeBoer drives by and slaps me a high five truck to truck, waving to everyone on the first field tour of the year.  You have to appreciate the size of the AMA flying fields, it is a large facility, and I like to cruise around and check out what is happening, shoot video, pictures and talk to people.

Check in at HQ, get my package, and bump into Sheldon.  Instantly we are on the same groove we were on a year ago, he is going to team with me today and tomorrow in the scale aerotow X/C, and is excited as I am.  We head over to the aerotow area and park the trucks, instantly it's a reunion of Nats friends.  I have a hard time assembling my 1/3.75 scale DG-800s before the pilots meeting, I am talking to too many people.  There is a huge group of people participating this weekend, good pilots from around the world.   A very nice gentleman is cracking jokes to me during the pilots meeting, as he starts to get me laughing I pay a little more attention to the back of his shirt and notice it is Dave Brown, I didn't even recognize him.  So I get to meet Dave for the first time in a very loose situation, how cool.

Dave is here to watch the new scale aerotow X/C event, I notice we have a lot of spectators.  They have our flight line set up on the back end of the grounds, where the Free Flight guys usually fly.  After two tows Dave talks to CD Dennis Adamisin and suggests he move the aerotow flight line to the R/C tarmac landing strip, he was worried about us possibly interfering with the adjacent airports landing approach.  Some people were grumbling, but I thought the change was great, I wanted to land on the tarmac instead of the grass.  Most guys carried their models in the back of their crew vehicles to the new location.  By the way, at the end of the day Dave Brown said that the new scale aerotow X/C event was one of the neatest events that he had ever seen, and was already considering an extension perimeter road around the AMA grounds to give us a bigger lap!

We set up and the tugs were active.  My first tow of the day was going to be with Johnny and his Pegasus.  Johnny is a great pilot, loves to tow and is a bit of a hot rodder with his tug.  I told Johnny I was new to this stuff, I only had learned last weekend, and to take it easy on me.  He smiled and agreed, and did just that, although it was steepest tow I had ever performed.  Due to the wind, (around 15 mph), a steep tow into the wind with no downwind leg is the safest approach.  Johnny's tug is powerful and we towed at about 80 degrees at a high rate of speed, it was almost like an extended winch launch!  I released at about 1800' and cruised around and just felt out my model in the wind.  It seemed hardly affected, hey this was fun!  I setup my first approach on the tarmac, set it down smoothly and tried to keep the tips from touching the ground as long as I could as the model rolled out.  Huge smiles, everyone was sporting one.

Peter Goldsmith, flying a 1/3 Nimbus 2B, and Skip Miller flying a 6m Nimbus 4, John Derstine with a 1/3 Ka6E and Antonio Quesada were attacking the traditional 10k X/C course.  Capn' Jack flying a 5m Ventus AX, Tom Kallevang flying a Discus and I felt staying on the course inside the property was going to be the most fun for our teams.

On my second tow of the day, again I asked Johnny to be careful and he was.  On the third tow I didn't think I had to mention it again, so I didn't, and he didn't take it easy.  As soon as we were climbing he started rolling the tug.  I thought, OK, just do what I normally do and it was working, people were cheering, and I hear Dr. Dan scream, "Bacus, roll it the other way".  Good idea, but I am too new to this and don't want to mess up my new model so I just ride it out to the top.  Johhny was chuckling, and so was I, that was pretty cool.

The earlier part of the day turned out to have the best weather of the weekend, although windy, at least some sun and no rain.  The only serious attempts on the 10k X/C course by the winch guys happened in this period of the day, and Marc Gellart with team mates Steve Siebenaler and Bubba Glover took Marc's LET Albatross 6.93 miles out on the course, which would end up being good enough for the win.  But the afternoon brought light rain which shut down the aerotow and winch flightlines and I went over to the F3B field to spectate.  They were still flying in between drizzles when they could.

These guys like the wind, they were getting huge launches with ballasted models on their F3B winches loaded with monofilament line.  As I walked the flightline the contest was in progress, I was getting a lot of nods and quick "hellos", but these guys were busy and I tried to stay out of their way.  I shielded the camera with my rain coat as best I could and snapped pictures.  Dave Hauch, also spectating saw what I was trying to do and helped me out by holding his big umbrella over top of us as I snapped as many shots as I could.  Daryl and Joe were teamed together with this new guy I had never heard of before, Mike Smith.  I watched Mike do a speed run and I instantly saw that he was very good, looks like he had spent some hours on the slope too.  I managed to catch his smooth run on video with Dave shielding the rain.  Well, that is an awesome team, and the South African F3B/F3J team was competing, Michelle and Craig Goodrum and Anton Coetzee, they decided to stop by on their travels to the world championships just a week later in Red Deer, Canada.  Went and spoke with the SOAR guys where Richard Burnoski and William Wingstedt were having a good time, and doing OK despite the weather conditions.  A couple guys asked what was up with the wild aerotow, I got to smile and say that was me on the end of the line, and Johnny was doing that on purpose.

The skies opened up again, and the scale aerotow flightline rapidly turned into an acro fun fly session.  Skip started it off with some high speed passes right down the landing strip, into smooth large rolls.  Dr. Dan tells me to get the video camera rolling, and Johnny towing Dr. Dan instantly takes the tug inverted as soon as it breaks ground, then into a series of rolls, and Dr. Dan rolls his sailplane the opposite direction.  If this wasn't enough, at this point they both continue the tow inverted.  Everyone cheers, (we have a lot of spectators now), and they keep it up until the line breaks, it was impressive, and I caught it on tape.  I put the short tip extensions on my DG 800 and took several flights doing some nice loops and rolls, a few howling passes and I love attempting to shoot those perfect landings on the tarmac, with the wind we could roll to a stop and still keep our wings from touching the ground.

Even "Ornery Jack" was having a great time! 
video link 1:02  5.3mb  QuickTime movie  Sony HC-40 miniDV  edited with iMac & iMovie

The evening ended with a famous Joe Dirr BBQ at the AMA campground serving some of the best food I had all week.  His grilled corn was just awesome, as well as everything else he had prepared.  We had music system with an iPod full of tunes, bonfire, marg sphere and a great group of friends enjoying the evening on the campgrounds.  What a fantastic ending to one of the best kick off days of Nats that I ever remember.

Sun, 18 July 2004

My first scale aerotow on video

5:22  24.9mb  QuickTime movie  Sony DCR-HC40 miniDV edited on a Mac with iMovie

I thought it might be a good idea to learn how to aerotow my scale ship before we arrive at the Nationals in a week, and so did a group of SOAR club members.  We now have permission to fly aerotow at a farmers private grass strip, and it is a perfect site for this.  We all wanted to prepare a little better for the upcoming scale aerotow cross country event at the Nats, it will be a new event.

The first tow you see on the video is my very first scale aerotow launch and landing.  The launch and flight was uneventful, the landing was a little hard, the down comp. on my programming was a little much, and when I hit the flaps on final the down was a little more than expected.  I pulled back the stick rapidly, and even though the landing looked rough, no damage was done.  I flew it three or four more times that day.

Also, this was the first use of my new palm sized Sony miniDV camera.  As you will see, I have not mastered it yet but the image quality is much better than shooting mpeg video from my still camera.

Sat, 10 July 2004

The latest mod to my Z06.

I had to remove the center console to do this mod.

I removed the ashtray and installed a custom mount for a G-Tech Pro performance meter and a serial I/O port so I could hook up my laptop to it.  I really like logging devices like these, I've already improved my 0-60ft and 0-60mph times by looking at the graphs after the runs, slightly changing my technique, and inspecting the graphs again.

I have to say the install looks good, and the backlit blue LCD display on the G-Tech Pro goes well with all the other blue lighting going on inside my blue Z06.

Mon, 05 July 2004

The SOAR Fred Fredrickson memorial contest was held a few weeks ago, this is usually our biggest contest of the year, it is also a stop on the OVSS tour.  I usually photograph and write about this event, but I am getting into digital video a lot more lately.  Here is a video I put together of the event, shot in mpeg movie mode on my Sony DSC-P9 4 megapixel still camera, and edited with Window Movie Maker software.

SOAR Fred Fredrickson memorial contest video  -- 35mb, 13:42 .wmv

Sat, 03 July 2004

Here is the latest DVD I purchased, it definitely has some interesting footage on it.  Check out some of the trailers that are available to download.

Fri, 02 July 2004

The latest mod to my Z06

I added some billet pedals in my Z06, I like the look, but a surprise to me was I like the light grippy feel of the accelerator pedal.

Thu, 01 July 2004