day one of the 2009 Gainesville San Felasco DLG contest

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my car with the rocketbox

the Harbor Freight $10 tent that was worth exactly that

snacks

a visitor inspects a plane

Kevin and Rick

a SuperGee II

ouch! but easily fixable with some steam and rebagging, though it might need a little spar reinforcement as well

kinda creepy

the competition flies for food

Gordy

a few lovebugs have bitten

Rusty

launching the Photon

Oleg launching

Multiplex radios provide more shade than other brands of radio

my three SuperGee clones - LightHawk in upper right corner

a nice plane box

lunch line

lunch line

lunch line

Charles with the virtual girlfriend

Ed doing the scoring

computer and amplifier power setup

MP3 player for audio files

Gerland and Oleg consult on a transmitter issue

Australian Nats badge from 1982-1983

my plane box - contains two homebuilt SuperGee IIs with Sean Porter pods, one XP-4, and one LightHawk - the XP-4 fuse fits on top of the others but hasn't been added yet. 4x8' sheet of coroplast.

Frank waiting for the giant Ava to get out of the launch window :)

the real secret to Phil's launch