Tony Condon JS3 - Downwind Hutchinson to Gulf Coast ... Now

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Already east of Oklahoma City SSE bound. Should arrive by 6-7pm with 25kt tail wind.

Walt Rogers WX

On Friday, April 19, 2019 at 11:41:44 AM UTC-7, WaltWX wrote:
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Already east of Oklahoma City SSE bound. Should arrive by 6-7pm with 25kt tail wind.

Walt Rogers WX

And it's not in "Kate" his Standard Cirrus, Tony aka jet boy is flying a JS3 Jet this time. Can't recall if it's 15m or 18m.

Go Jet boy.

Frikkin cool.......he is known for....."going there......"..... kudos regardless of where he ends up.....!

Flying 18 meter today. Had a low scrape, dumped the water, but is up and has been moving again for a fair while.

Steve Leonard

Last Four hours GOES-16 0.5km visible video from takeoff up to 2119Z at Sunflower Aerodrome, Hutchinson (near Wichita, Kansas). Notice cloud streets up ahead! ... Looking good.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/wwi3cs69s1...90419.mp4?dl=0

He's headed towards Lafayette, Louisiana. Last night Tony told me the destination planned airport, but I forgot the name. It's probably the last good aerodrome before the Gulf of Mexico.

Walt Rogers WX

Try this Dropbox link...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qopphfev8x...sco.mp4?dl= 0

The naming and end time of the last videos was off in the filename. Try these...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qopphfev8x...sco.mp4?dl= 0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hmvfoug1b4...sco.mp4?dl= 0

The last video shows stronger cloud cover in East Texas up ahead.

Walt Rogers WX

The low scrape involved burning a couple gallons of diesel, unfortunately.

It was 1000km day and I was doing so so until I somehow fell out of the sky there. Once I got back up I decided might as well keep going since it was a kick-ass soaring day.

Climbed better without water, imagine that cranked the mc up to 4 And the Lx said I'd be to Abbeville LA by 7 pm just as TopMeteo predicted last night.

By Paris I was having issues with low batteries. Apparently the battery charger doesn't actually do that charging thing...

So I turned back towards my crew and landed at Antlers Oklahoma. He should be here soon and we'll be home tonight, late.

Sucks to let one slip away especially when I had the chance to do it in Leo's Js-3!

Tony turned around near Paris, TX to return toward home. Landed Antlers Municipal Texas. The weather and soaring did not look like it was a factor. Things looked good ahead. Some other unforeseen circumstance must have intervened.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dwp0tbm9ok...sco.mp4?dl= 0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fm13tsbhk3...90419.jpg?dl=0

Here's a folder of all my graphics or videos today:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/k8h4qvdla...XtSI6qa2a?dl=0

Walt Rogers WX