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Looking to come to our 4th annual High Sierra Fly-in? Many of you have asked for the location. Here you go.
Coords for everyone: Copy and paste into google earth: 39 8 53n 119 17 14w
You can also find more information here:
http://www.backcountrypilot.org/community/events/my-events/viewevent/12-high-sierra-fly-in-2013
We hope to see you in the desert!
Congrats to team Voodo! If you missed the air races this year it was a real treat to watch Voodo beat Strega. Here is a link to over 200 photos of mine covering the past 4 days. It was a great time! The BCP gang and our annual gathering at Daves hanger, abortion buy the Carbon Cub guys from Texas and all of the others that I had the pleasure of meeting. I am already looking forward to next year! Hopefully I will see many of you in a few short weeks in the desert at our 4th annual High Sierra Fly-in.
We were asked to participate and assemble a team this past spring for the upcoming weekend in Long Beach. Long story short, if you in and around the Long Beach area this weekend we will be sending it off the Long Beach pier with our own flying machine that we have been working on now for the past 2 months… 
Anyway, any bets on if she will fly and if so, how far? The winner will get a free T shirt and hat…AND WAIT there is more…if you guess the distance and make it to our fly-in in October you will also get a free case of beer 
Why not make it interesting anyhow.
Here is our craft and team photo. There is a fan favorite vote and thats very easy to do. You can text in a vote to 72855. Our team number is LB17. The easiest way is to go to the website and vote online. http://www.redbull.com/en/events/1331590594102/red-bull-flugtag-2013
Thanks for your vote and lack of confidence in our craft… 
Im betting we are going to get real wet in front of a 110,000 people and we may go 50 feet or so…
Our design comes from a kit called “the pig”. The local EAA group here has helped us on design as well
Aircraft and push cart
Push cart
Pilot and craft…we are weighing the craft for CG load this evening. The pilot seating placement will change obviously
Our team
Whats your bet??
AKT
A fun morning on the west circuit. Meet a few friends and flew to a number of spots we know in the Sacramento valley. Good times watching the Wilga’s. Many water landings and fun gravel bars made for an entertaining day. Here are some photos.
No words can describe this event. One just has to go and experience it for themselves. I did not take the night shots. They are from my buddy Grant Kaye who actually has photography skills. He also built the sinking boat your see here.
Needed some water to get off this one
