Cumulus popped around 10:50am CDT this morning on schedule (or slightly ahead) compared to yesterday. With a trigger temp of 90F we should see cloud thermals or cloud bases to 5500msl by noon. Pete Alexander “98”, who has been sniffing for us daily, wi…
Assigned area tasks for all classes: 4:5 hrs. for Opens for 679 K nominal and max 804K, 4:5 hrs. for 18M for 605K nominal and max 750K, and 4 hrs. for 15M for 568K nominal and max 699K. Weather very similar to yesterday with some increased chance for T…
Welcome to day 4 at the WGC! The sun is shining and the day looks promising. As we are all putting ourselves together after too much fun last night, the CD and his team are working on the task for today – keep close, it will soon be posted.But in the m…
Good morning! The US Team party was a huge success last night and there was a special guest: Oreo, a Texas Longhorn. We’ll have pix up soon. The task selection committee is meeting with the weathermen at this hour to plan the day. &nb…
Today was quite the day – a day full of brilliantly fast speeds for the pilots and a night well ended with the lively (to say the least) U.S./S.S.A. hosted party. I say lively because there was a Texas Longhorn in attendance at the party tonight….
Just got back to contest central after working the recovery flight line and picking up the webcams from the runways.(Sam and I are part of the AARP flight line crew) We saw lots of smiling faces and understand there are some smoking hot speeds-c…
Well, Day 3 at the WGC! As everybody is silent and listening to their radios, keeping in touch with the pilots, I think I can make some story telling for all of you.It’s hot, really really hot, desert style, with lots of sand in the air you breath, hea…
It is very quiet on the airfield on this very hot afternoon. The sky is still sumptious at 4pm. Spectators are following the tracking links that you can find on this site, Way Aero and Spot. 5 competators from each class are riding with the…
Whew, it was hot on the grid today. Staging time was 12 noon and first possible launch at 12:20. The sniffer said “go” and the launch began on time. All classes have loooooonnnnng racing tasks today: 18M 613K, Opens 715K, and 15M 644K…
Visit http://www.ustream.tv/user/WG_Championships now to see live streaming of the launch line for 15M/18M ships!
