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From Blackhawk - Tony Deleo flew to Santa Maria - 204 miles (new site record) , Bruce Barmakian landed just outside Plowshare - 183 miles, John Scott flew 120 miles and Owen Morse flew 106 miles.(Personal bests). Way to send it guys. Good flying in Marshall too.

WOW! Nice flyin' everyone. Interested in seeing the track logs of those flights. Post em' if you got em'...

Anyone flying tomorrow? Somewhere.....?

Very impressive! Nice job to all. Guess Tony only stopped when he saw the ocean?! Good call on the weather John, hoping it holds through today also.

As usual, if anyone cares you can find my write up here : http://socalxc.blogspot.com/2009/05/bla ... o-i-5.html

I'll include my track log to the write up later.

John

A more accurate description of where Bruce and I landed would be this:
Bruce midway between New Cuyama and Plowshare. I landed about 1 mile east of Twitchell Resorvoir. I was tempted to go land at New Cuyama ,170 miles apprx, to allieviate the chase snafu instead a little west of the refinery east of Mc Pherson Peak, at 4500', i got a weak thermal drifting out of the north east. Above and behind me clouds were forming. The shear line had pulsed out one last time. After a few turns and at 5K I turned and went back into the mountains and went to 10K over the Dick Smith wilderness. I was a couple of miles south of the crest of the mountains. At this point about the 175-180 mile mark and with the goal 200 miles I went on final glide westward over the wilderness into a 10 mile an northwest headwind. (A month or so earlier Eddie and I had been at Plowshare and I ascertained that the landing area at Plowshare was at the 198 mile mark from BlackHawk.) I could see the river bottom up ahead about 20 miles. A voice was saying Tony don't do it. I said what the heck I was now way into the wilderness with Plowshare to the north a couple of mile with no landable areas. The last few miles were spend gliding thru and over the terrain. At 1000 agl I pulled down the flaps and landed next to 166 where I activated the Spot locator beacon. I was fortunate to have Bruce and his crew come back and get me- I truly owe those guys one. We were back in San Bernandino by 2:00 ish.

Outstanding, Tony. I wish you had some photos!

Tony congratulations with amazing flight! Any chance you have GPS track for this flight?

I have both Bruce's and mine-just give me your e-mail and I will forward them both to you.

Thanks a lot,
Alex