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SEFSD Field, Sea World Drive.

“June Gloom”, a San Diego summertime tradition, was evident in force this Saturday, accompanied by an equally vile, strong, swirling, gusty, unrelenting and just plain nasty, north wind. It made the flying tough, landing sometimes exciting and furnished some surprising results.

Intermediate had three pilots. Ray (Santa) Fulks, with his Comp Arf “Miss Ellie. Steve Dente, who would have rather been flying Sportsman but, nice guy that he is, flew with Ray to “keep him company” and Steve Nelson. Steve Dente shared his pre-production Extreme Flight Extra 260 (74inch) with Steve Nelson. Fulks and Dente had a pretty good contest between them and the wind with Dente getting the nod, but barely. Then along came Nelson who flew like he never heard of the wind and won rather easily. The most impressive part of his victory was that he was flying a borrowed plane, which he’d never had in the air before.

Sportsman was the surprise class of the day, “bigger is better” fever is rampant in that class with the first three places going to pilots with planes of over 85inch wingspan. Of course bigger doesn’t mean an automatic win, the pilot able to plan for the wind was going to come out on top. Prior to the contest Howard Pilcher was doing a lot of hand wringing and bleating about his lousy handling Yak, some jive about the tail feathers being to low and evil handling in hammerheads---poor Howard! Then along came Lucas Worthen with his new 88” Extreme Flight Yak, not sure about how it would do. As always, there was Bruce Brown with his Air Wild Extra, as solid a pilot as there is and a favorite for the win. Lucas had a terrific first flight, winning the round and there were more than a few raised eyebrows. Brown was close and Howard was laying in wait, a close third. The final round had everyone expecting an upset from Lucas and it showed in their flying, everyone was on edge except Jolly Howard and his crappy Yak. What the hay, Howard just flew to have fun and the other guys choked so, wonder of wonders, Howard squeezed out a win over Bruce and Lucas, doing a nice job with a new, unfamiliar plane, was third.

Basic was a hard fought class. Craig Bosworth flew a steady contest but had his hands full with Steve Manganelli. Steve is really coming to terms with his plane and was breathing down Craig’s neck all day. A lesser pilot might have choked but Craig kept his head and won all four rounds. Steve was a close second and Mike Eberle, who was in his first contest and had been practicing furiously for it, was a solid third. Team Belnap was there and ready to rock and roll with Dan also trying his hand at precision aerobatics.

Tentative EMAC schedule
#4**** Sunday July 13
** #5***** August 16* San Diego IMAC Miramar club
***#6*******September 13
*** #7***** October 25
*** #8*******November 22

Results:

Craig Bosworth 3000
Steve Manganelli 2935
Mike Eberle 2775
Steve Belnap 2686
Sean Belnap 2505
Dan Belnap 2243
John Forester 905

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Sportsman:
Howard Pilcher 2930
Bruce Brown**** 2910
Lucas Worthen** 2812
Steve Neu*** ****** 2775
Chris Boutelle*** 2567
Randy Marsden*** 2478
Craig Hunter*** *** 1362

Intermediate:
STeve Nelson
Steve Dente
Ray Fulks