Saturday was the Kansas Kowbell Klassic free distance contest. Held
annually on the first safe saturday after the first full moon after
the Summer Solstice. The Cherokee and I had a good flight, making a
distance of 167 miles to a nice wheat field in southern Nebraska.
Flight report is on my blog, http:/cherokeesailplanes.blogpost.com

It was a struggle just to stay aloft for most of the flight while I
flew mainly between 1500 and 2500 AGL but occasinoally as low as
800-1000 AGL and as high as 4000 AGL. I didn't feel like I was making
great speed but the average came out to 37 mph which I feel was pretty
good for the conditions. There was one time where I got to 4000 AGL
where i was so brave as to push the speed up to a whopping 60 mph
until I had lost 1000 feet.

Pictures from the landout he http://picasaweb.google.com/abcondon/Kowbell#

Leah and Summer were great crew, arriving within a half hour of my
landing and we had the Cherokee on the trailer and ready to hit the
road in another half hour.

Sadly I fried my loaner Cambridge 20 GPS so no OLC trace this time.