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A Mixed Weekend at Jerilderie LSF
The 2007 Jerilderie LSF tournament will be an event I will not forget for a long time to come, for lots of reasons, one being that my TD Icon “died” during its first flight of the competition. That failure really capped off a very traumatic few weeks for me, actually.
I went into the Jerilderie tournament full of anticipation, and expecting to do quite well, but in the end would rather have not turned up. The only consolation was that I managed to add nearly 2000k’s to my new Subaru Forester XT, and that I finally managed to trim my F3B Icon to near perfection.
But the lasting memory will always be of watching my 6 month old TD Icon literally blow itself apart at the top of the launch on my very first flight in the event. I’d never seen one of these big F3J class sailplanes explode on launch, and (from a disjointed observer’s perspective) mine was quite spectacular to watch, but from a personal perspective, I was shattered, distraught, quite upset, and never really recovered afterwards. I’d lost my beloved Icon, the one plane I’d spent nearly $5k on, and it ended its flying life in an orgy of carbon fibre, balsa, fibreglass, and kevlar.
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posted 10 August 2007 @ 15:32 by Rebecca »
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