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Flight Articles from Saturday, 4/1/06 (in order of posting time stamp)
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Bob Ramey
Saturday 4/1/06

Well, I had a crappy flight. I launched Eliminator and went straight for the tit.  Flew over the tit - so far so good. I managed to dribble it away.  I was hanging out over the monastery not really losing about 1900 feet.  I heard Hammer on the radio bragging about getting as low as 1800 feet.  I then saw John Lyon way below me.  I was low over the monastery - right on top of his shadow.  I remember thinking - gee if he gets any lower there that cross is going to change his religion.  Anyway, little by little it was slipping away from me.  I was over Parma - about 200 feet over Upper looking at landing- and damn there's John again.  He hadn't gained anything but was still hanging in there.  I came around and landed in Upper Parma (a perfect landing as usual).  And waited for John to come it.  I was amazed to see him crawl out of there.  I saw a couple more people over the monastery and expected to have some company soon.  But no one every landed there.  It was really depressing.

Robert Ramey