 Monday
August 11th
Hiya,
Just spent ten minutes writing a message to you all, hit the
wrong key and lost the lot.....sod it!
The gist was: Did better yesterday, got a low penalty for
the penultimate pull-out but kept the last roller above the line so NO ZEROS! Hurrah. Now up to 52nd place.....difficult this world stuff,
innit!
Got a rest day today, Still hot and sunny. Nice. Team transport a bit cramped but very cheap.
Lucky and the Boys
Thursday 7th August
Oh woe is me etc etc.
Horrible balls-up for yours truly in yesterday's first unknown. Propping up entire results table for the day....can only go up from here! Jamie
done good, Paul only zeroed one figure and Chris is vying with me. Results instantly available on wgac2003.com .Paul and Jamie both flew very well in this morning's frees, Chris got low and missed last three figs, after scoring well on the earlier ones. I go late again
today.
Still hot and sunny. Going swimming now. Still
also trying to get some more pics for you, but has to be done rather indirectly cos these PCs will not talk to my camera.
Jó Napot
Lucky et A£
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Monday August 4th (later now)
Szia people,
Paul Conran has drawn the short straw and is first to fly in
the whole competition, which starts tomorrow (Tuesday) morning at
9.0 am with the first Known. Chris Cain flies 5th, Andy Cunningham
9th and Jamie Allen 14th out of 53 competitors.....so they are
obviously keen to give us a rest in the afternoon.
Lucky (still at large and facial-fungus-free)
Monday August 4th
Szia
Well, the Comp starts for real tomorrow. We had all got pretty consistent flying our frees right through, in the box and in the height, by Saturday. That was the last day of "free" practice. Today is "Official" practice, with flying order and HMDs installed to beep at us......so it's a bit ragged again...just to psych the opposition, you understand. Actually this is not fair on Jamie, who flew very tidily this morning. Just Paul, Chris and I decided to get a few crap figures out of the way!
 Yesterday (Sunday) was the opening ceremony and air show.
A BIG occasion because it was not only WGAC2003 being opened but also the newly-runwayed airfield itself. We had the whole works; the band, the majorettes, the ex-President of Hungary, and each team led out by a pretty young lady in national costume. Watched by a crowd of several thousand we stood lined-up in the beating sun like guards on parade, while a queue of dignitaries orated, were translated, and we waited...to see which team's placard-holding girl would faint next. Poland's went first and was carried off to an ambulance. The Cloggies' maid swayed, but bit her lip and stayed up, and our Lány would have gone had Jamie not nobly stepped forward to catch her in his arms, supporting the poor pale creature against his manly etc etc... (I thought after 35 minutes she would have been alright again but he insisted she still needed holding).
The ceremony was very well done, in fact. Hungary has a beautiful National Anthem, impeccably observed in a respectful silence, and at last we were let go.
Back from smart but sweltering team "uniform" (BIG thanks to Cindy for late-night action with borrowed hot iron to put the badges on the shirts!) to shorts and tees, and a pretty damned impressive air show. Lets just say that Zoltán
Veres would have been grounded after the first crowd-line skimming knife-edge pass in his Sukhoi. He did many! Including a heart-stopping full flick-roll at about 30 feet. Very, very good flying. Long may he last.
Bit of a party in the hangar last night. We met a lot of the other lot, including Sergei Krikalev, the Russian cosmonaut with 17 months' space experience (!!) and Luca, the sole Italian entrant who heroically wore full airforce dress uniform the whole day. It stayed 30 degrees plus until at least 8.0 pm.!
Everybody's happy, if sticky and hot most of the time. Flying order for the first known tomorrow to be decided later today...here we go!
More soon, with some more pics, I hope.
As they say here, Hello
Lucky and the boys.
I spoke to Andy this evening, the
temperature in Hungary was a scorching 40 degrees today, but had
cooled to a pleasant 32 degrees! The team may be glad of the early
morning draw tomorrow.
Jen B
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Tuesday July 29th 5.30 pm.
Hi people,
Blowing a hoolie today so no flying, but relieved in a way
'cos has been HOT HOT HOT the last two days. Paul Conran and I have had
six practice flights each so far.....MUCH needed when you compare with the too-perfect Hungarians and very
good Cloggies. The latter are old friends and sharing the same hotel....we are practising table-footie and pool too so we can
beat them at SOMETHING! The Organisation here is first class. The
Hungarians are V friendly AND efficient. I had to put in first protest
today when national flags run up....Union Flag stripes all wrong!! (harrumph erhem, bad form, I say chaps). Offending rag
removed immediately for re-striping. Organisers mortified...hope they give us extra points in consolation.
The airfield is superb. HUGE grass area with spanking new 700 metre
tarmac strip you could play billiards on. The box axis is just off
the runway centre and the edges are really well marked. A whole new experience, for me at least, to be able to see where I am (or
rather SHOULD be) most of the time.
You will see I have had to struggle to get a Hungarian mail
account to send messages to you. I can get my Toucandental
messages OK, but not reply from here. The computers provided are not keen to talk to my USB memory stick either, so I cannot, as
yet , add any pics. I am sure we will crack that soon.
SZIA!
Lucky and the Boys
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