At the recent Perry contest I was able to try the chute and it worked fine after a few small changes. Trish Drury was nice enough to make a series of very good pictures of the Concordia landing with chute deployment which was very helpful in sorting out the small issues. The Drogue chute is…
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April 14 at Perry – A Nugget’s View of the Region 5 North
by Bill Elliott •
As in my series about “The Seniors” at Seminole Lake, I plan to give you a first-hand look at competition soaring from the point of view of a newcomer, or in my Navy terms, a “Nugget”. This series comes from Perry, SC, home of the premier U. S. soaring event, R5N, as it is known among…