The Marshall Peak weather station is back online!

Thanks to the installers!

It was like a mini fly-in! Kind of tough conditions to soar in but lots of pilots flew. Had some out of towners visiting. Great burgers and hot dogs and salad in the LZ afterwards. What more could you want?

Crestline around 3 PM.

Thanks for your time with the club, Tom! I’m sorry to hear that your injury is limiting your activities so. May time provide further healing. Glad you’ll be getting another form of airtime. Good flying!

Congratulations to the team at Table Mountain for their part in the Psyche mission’s successful test of laser communication over a distance of 10,000,000 miles!

10 Million Miles Away: NASA Achieves Historic Data Exchange With Deep Space Optical Communications Experiment

With an uplink from Table Mountain to Psyche and a downlink to the Hale telescope at Mt. Palomar that’s a heckuva triangle flight! Or is it technically an out-and-return?

Great cloud shots JD, looked like fun.

I live a few miles SE of AJX and all I had was hours of light, steady rain and light breezes. Rain only got hard enough to make noise for a few brief periods.  Runoff in the gutters on my  E-W street got to within 1.5″ of the tops of the curbs.

This is excellent, David!

I’m so sorry to hear this. Stan was a great guy. He was very smart and I learned a lot about flying and weather in the course of riding up the hill with him and in the LZ after flying over the years.  His patient, analytical approach to hang gliding was a great influence. Great sense of humor.

He had a ritual of always eating a simple cheese sandwich right before launch to keep his stomach settled. He did train as an alternate Payload Specialist for a space shuttle mission, way back when.

In 2001 he lent his Fusion for the C.S.S. entry in the Crestline Days Parade (we won!). His son was the ‘pilot’ and his daughter tended a wingtip tether.