HIGH
POINT, MD: Therapy Flying
In a weird mood after hearing of Will Jenkins’
death in a helicopter accident the day before, Pete went to the hill by himself
for therapy flying. Despite a strongish forecast, launch conditions were
nearly perfect even if the sky was largely overcast. Pete soon realized
the winds were steadily diminishing, and worked thermals to stay in the
air. But after only thirty nine minutes aloft (max. 2,872 msl) he was
flushed into the un-streamered Fairgrounds lz where he had a perfect
landing. JR came from a doctor’s appointment to the lz to run Pete up to his
car at launch. There we toasted Wills’ memory with some tequila and beer.
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