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Aspen Glen Way, Louisville, KY Map

Meeting room at St James Place Patio Homes, Aspen Glen Way, Louisville, KY.

Location is just north of Gene Snyder Freeway at Beulah Church Road

Directions
From I-64 or east Louisville take first exit AFTER Bardstown Road. (second exit after Billtown Rd)
Turn right. About 200 feet turn right into complex.

From I-65 or from the west.
Exit at Buelah Church Road and turn left. Make first right which is entrance to complex.

After entering complex count three buildings on the left. The meeting room is across the street from the third building. IMPORTANT- Park in parking spots that DO NOT HAVE NUMBERS PAINTED IN THE SPOTS. There are open parking spots on all sides of the meeting room building.

The first 2007 LASS Club Contest is in the bag! Gordy Stahl was the CD and we did 4 rounds. 1st round was a warmup and then the remaining rounds were an 18-minute add-em-up with an 8 minute max per round.

In the end, Ben Wilson was victorious by a hair over Tony Utley and Bruce Davidson. We had 8 guys show up to compete, and we’ll be adding more dates (hopefully one every two weeks) very soon.

You can check out the contests section of the site to take a look our club contests results and the new 2007 Mid-American Championship contest that we’ll be hosting in August.

For now we will have two meetings this winter at the McMahan Firehouse on Taylorsville Rd.

The dates are January 14 2007 and February 11 2007.

Doors open at 12:30.

Although guys bring items to sell at most meetings we will have a swap meet scheduled for the February meeting.

We need as many members as possible in January to discuss special activities the comming season.

Last Sunday (December 17th), the LASS crew headed for the Frankfort Slope. A group of about 10 guys from around Kentucky, Ohio and even Tennessee sloped in light to moderate conditions. Tom Hill came up from Knoxville (I think) and brought along a bunch of DS machines. Dave Smith from Versailles cranked out his Halfpipe on the frontside and Gordy brought out his trusty RnR Synergy to rip some 3-meter DS laps. LASS’ own Tony Utley pushed the technological envelope with some aerial photography!

Speaking of photos, there are some photos here: 2006.12.17 - Frankfort!

Wanna know when we are going to the slope the next time? Join our email mailing list!

It’s been a while since I have submitted something for the LASS web site. Ben has done such a good job I have been letting him do most of the work. Thanks Ben!

As a way of catching up let me start with some of the more recent activities and go backwards in time. As of today (11/26/06) our own Gordy has completed his LSF level 5 contest wins. The well traveled Gordy got both of his last two wins flying in the Tangerine soaring contest in Florida over Thanksgiving weekend. He took first both days flying in unlimited class. Congratulations go out to Gordy for completing what is to most people the hardest task toward achieving Level 5.

Gordy got his wins the same weekend the rest of the club stayed home and flew in the dark in our annual “UFOs over J-Town”. We had seven pilots meet in the dark at Vettner. Three pilots were from the Lexington club just to prove the Louisville guys are not the only ones that are a little unscrewed at the socket.
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The annual LASS Night Fly went down on Saturday evening with a group of guys from the Bluegrass Soaring Society showing up and strapping glow-sticks to sacrificial planes.

Photos were taken: 2006.11.25 - LASS Night Fly!

We had a good day of flying here in Louisville yesterday (Sunday) and we met some new folks, helped out a few more and managed to meet some LSF goals! All together a good day of fall flight. Read on for more!

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The Louisville Area Soaring Society is glad to welcome the 15th Annual MidSouth Soaring Championship back to Louisville. The annual “NATS Warm-up” will be held over three days, Friday June 30th, Saturday July 1st and Sunday, July 2nd. Handlaunch and RES competition on Friday, and two days of Unlimited on Saturday and Sunday.

More info, registration forms, directions, etc. here: Midsouth Soaring Championship 2006

From President Ed:

Confirmation today we have meeting room at firehouse.

Sunday, January 8 - 1/2 room due to previous scheduled party

Sunday, February 12

Sunday, March 12

Doors open at 12, meetings 1-3pm

Slope season is now officially upon us here in Kentucky! Last Saturday, we had good southwest wind and a few of us made it out to the Frankfort Slope to get our slope addiction fed. We took some photos and videos and you can see them here: 2005.11.05 - Frankfort Slope gallery.

A few videos in there as well — Gordy DS’ing his Easy Glider and Paul
Siegel tearing up the backside with his Trinity DS. And, of course,
there were some WindRider Bats.

Man, this slope never fails to impress… the wind forecast was only for
10 MPH, but the bowl-shaped “Trumbo Bottom” carved out by the Kentucky
River focuses and amplifies the winds. Ed Wilson remarked that this
was “some of the best lift [he’d] ever seen on this slope”. The real
capper to the day was that we were just past the peak of the “fall
color” season, so the valley was on fire with reds, yellows and oranges.

Our newest soaring protege’, 9-year-old Lee had his first slope flights
on Saturday as well. Seeing him handling the Easy Glider on the
frontside with ease, I handed him the controls to my CombatWings XR…
and he did very well! By the end of a half-hour session he was already
doing loops and rolls! Be on the watch for this kid in the very near
future…

I know you all hear those of us with WindRider Bats talk about them all
the time — but there is good reason for that. I tree’d my Bat three
(3) different times, slammed it into the hill a terminal speeds a
half-dozen times and even knocked off my vertical stab and it just kept
flying. Amazing. As long as you have metal-gear servos you’ll be set!

If you live within a few hours of us, keep an eye out on the wind
forecast for Frankfort and come join us on a south or south-west weekend.

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