SOGGI Club ALES contest Results Aug 11th 2019

[Mike S]

Unfortunately, perhaps due to changing event dates/weather, there was only four contestants.
Thus these results do not contribute to Ales standings.

Never the less we had fun.

Adam Mass came first with 2316 points.
Jim Laslett " " 1870 "

interestingly the points to fourth round were quite close- 1187, 1076, 1040, 851.

Having watched Jim make massive zoom launches, I increased my zoom each launch
until in the fourth round I went for the gusto pulling a massive g load on the ICON 2
resulting in a moon like launch followed by the shedding of the left wing (37" gone on one side)
followed by a death dive at mach 1. Fortunately I was able to recover pretty quickly by going to
cruise mode ( which gave me flaps acting in unison with the ailerons) and I went to max control
rates. This configuration made it quite controllable. I only needed about 1/3 full throw.
(all be at Mach 1).
It came down in a big arc from 400' to ground in ?? seconds (Timer still had his mouth open and
failed to stop the stop watch for my fourth round) Bet it was a record low time.
The ship came past at low altitude but way too fast to go for landing points so I consumed much
of our field to make the landing.

The other high light of the day was Lyles claim of the only tree on the field.
It took him the full contest of practice, but finally he succeeded in snagging
the highest twig. See attached evidence.

Thanks to those that did turn out and especially in helping me (with my gammy leg).

Especially Lyle, who again provided lunch.

Mike S
CD for this event.