10/30/06--The sunny SW is beautiful today. The temperature is 76 with light winds at noon. Gaige is in his shop working on a 60” thermal wing; that he hopes to have ready to fly tomorrow.

Jack has reported in that he and Adrian have purchased supplies and have finished 3 pilot safety fences measuring 8 x 3. Pictures will follow as soon as they arrive in my email.

Dick is putting out a challenge. If you don’t want to just see pictures of him and his planes, get some pictures of yourself to me. Dick is working on a large scratch-built, high-wing yet to be officially described much less named. Stay tuned.

Gaige flew a Diamona for the first time Saturday. The Diamona is an electric-powered glider. You can check it out on the SAGE website Saturday report: http://www.sageflyers.com. It is the featured plane. The rest just shows a little maintenance on the field and shed being completed before our annual fall contest next weekend. Clean-up, fix-up is the same all over.

Check out this link http://www.rcuvideos.com/uvideos.php?UID=35&type=public to see some incredible flying at the Tucson Aerobatic Shootout. It was held at TIMPA flying field this past weekend. Fliers competed from across the U. S. and around the world. We went out Sunday to see the freestyle; they seem to go all out on Sunday afternoon. They have nothing to lose but an airplane at that point. We did see one go down after a wing rod broke. Also heard a report of one pilot losing a wing in a similar situation, flipping the plane on its side in “knife edge” and successfully landing and saving the plane. Try that one in your next flying dream.

Remember send some pictures or you’ll just have to look at Dick and Gaige!!! Old planes, new planes, shoveling snow, whatever!!!