DIST. 7 WHITTER NARROWS CONTEST

[John]

 An interesting little story about the Advanced class winner, Dave Dehart (Team Yuma).  
  Dave & I got to the Whittier Narrows flying field at about 7:30am Saurday morning and wanted to get a quick flight in before the contest started. So Dave fired up his Desire and went out for his warmup flight. I also went out to fly a few minutes later. After a bit Dave called out that he was landing and if any one knows the Whittier site, the landing pattern is generally from right to left, with a "little" obstacle to clear on the right.  then heard Dave call out he had a dead stick, then he said "I'm not gonna make it" and "I just landed in the shooting range", which is the "little obstacle" about a 10 ft high brick wall to clear on the right. I said "no way" and even though I was flying and didn't see it happen, I didn't think it could be good. I landed right away and started to go over there to see if I could help out. Dave and Lynn Burke (contest CD) had already gone over to the shooting range to retrieve the plane, and as I had just cleared the corner into the range,  Dave was carrying his plane, fully intact with NO damage at all. He had apparently missed all the obstacles in the shooting range and the plane had stopped about 2 inches from hitting the block wall. A perfect no look, no see landing. Talk about plain old luck, or with Dave's plane it would be old plane luck. 
Congrats Dave, for your win and your "landing"
John Contreras        


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Jarvis Johnson 
To: discussion at nsrca.org
Sent: 8/15/2004 5:49:03 PM 
Subject: DIST. 7 WHITTER ARROWS CONTEST RESULTS


District 7: 
Whittier Arrows Contest Results
Aug. 14-15

Pre-Sportsman:
1. Chris Johnson             4000            Excelleron           YS 110

Sportsman:
1. Jim Riccio                  3937            Javelin                 OS  46
2. Alex Shim                  3895            Excelleron           OS 120

Intermediate:
1. John Graham              4000            Focus                 3M 170
2. Jim Brown                  3775            Focus                 OS 140
3. Harry Gould               2476             Focus  (RIP)        OS 140

Advanced:
1. Dave De Hart             3976             Desire                  YS 140L
2. John Lees                 3952             Phase One (JW)    YS 140DZ
3. Jarvis Johnson           3818             USA Star              YS 120FZ
4. Bruce Brown             3579             Electric 120 Size (scratchbuild)
5. Chuck Hartman         3574             Focus                    YS 140
6. Jim Bronowski          3055             Swallow                  YS 120
7. John Contreras         2525             Quest 90 (RIP)        OS 160FX???

Masters:
1. Jerry Budd               4000              EMC                     Webra 160
2. Rusty Fried              3924              Smaragd-Z             YS 140DZ
3. Bill Sheet                 3723             Focus                     YS 140L

FAI:
1. Tony Frackowiac      4000              PL Partner Electric
2. Greg Froreich           3964              Smaragd                 OS 140 (4-blade)
3. Frank Kelly              3827              HydeAway               YS 140DZ





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