Quiz answer: You can see the Exxon sticker on the... quiz thing if you look closely. It is intended to be flown from car aerials, "you have a tiger in your tank" - Exxon advert.
Others thought it might be an ambitious yawstring, and other uses were suggested (shame on you all!!!). We did find a use, though... thanks to Christine for her sense of humour!
The crews do work hard; here are the 18m primary crews attempting to keep the prodigious dust off their ASG-29's before launch yesterday:
We grid together by class and country, so F1 and XG are together. ST is usually some distance away...
OX is close by; here is Swiss team captain Willem ambushing Jerzy with "Swiss Karate" on the grid two days ago; Jerzy still went on to win the day...
Finally, a pic of F1's new PowerFLARM antenna fit. There is a ground plane under the glare shield, and the antenna is fed from the bottom. Range seems acceptable.
Tasks and weather:
So, a later start to convection; grid at 1245. If the day is even shorter to develop, the "B" task - shorter in all cases - may be called.
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Range with the antenna is better than acceptable, I see other flarms 10-15 km away!
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