I was double booked in the afternoon so I got right down to the flights I felt I had to do, starting with my first entry in the ½A glider duration contest: the Uff Da, on a ½A3-2T.

I’d say it was a rousingly successful flight, aside from two things.

Nice straight high boost. Good deployment of the flexwing glider. I’d never gotten around to building any additional gliders, so it was this or fail. It flew well, circling, but there was enough wind to send it east. And east. And east… For a long, long, long time. Past the tree line, out of sight behind it, undoubtedly into if not past the corn field on the other side. I didn’t have a prayer of finding it. No big loss — three sticks, a spring, and a grocery store produce bag; I can knock off another in half an hour. But a DQ for the contest which I would’ve won handily if I’d been able to recover the glider.

And the booster — I failed to watch it come down so spent a while looking for it, but I found it and it was in good shape except somehow it lost its streamer.