From: mju@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (michael.j.urban)
Subject: Re: C/L Combat Nats article in MA
Organization: AT&T
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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 17:22:23 GMT

In article <Bv604K.E3B@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
>I just got my Model Aviation this morning and it seems that they've
>changed the look yet again.. now it has a binding (eg. like National
>Geographic) and has more of an "RCM" look to it..Not that I don't 
>like it, its just different  9-)  Interesting how the three Speed 
>fliers on the front cover have been caught looking like rabbits  9-)
>
>Anyhow be sure to read the C/L Combat Nats coverage. Phil Cartier sure 
>knows how to write blow-by-blow accounts! Very vivid and interesting. 
>Makes me wish I'd made the trip this year *sigh*.... there was even a 
>Singapore Combat Team in FAI. Lots and lots of pictures. I'd say this
>is in a class above any other Nats coverage I've seen in the past. I'm
>looking forward to reading about the rest of the events too. 


	Haven't gotten my copy yet, seems I'm always several days behind,
	but you're the second person who has told me it was a good
	write-up.


>Steve Wilk from Minnesota took Fast. He also took first place in the 
>big DeKalb,IL thousand dollar meet in August so he must be a really 
>good flier. Our own Mike Urban was CD at the Nats, as well as at De-
>Kalb. 

	Steve is an excellent flier who has been on a real hot streak
	this year.
	
	I ran four combat contests this year, more than I've ever done
	in one year.  Two of them (a 5-round 1/2A contest, and the combat
	event at Sig) I also competed in.  Now those were busy days.
	The other two (the NATS and the Duke Fox Memorial at DeKalb)
	I considered too big for me to try and compete and CD at the
	same time.
	
	I was trying to recruit Steve Wilk to run combat at the '93 NATS,
	which would get him out of competition, and also he runs a quality
	contest.  He said he wanted to wait and find out where it would
	be.
	
>
>Hmmm.. just how far _is_ Lubbock from Texarkana? A bunch of us drove 
>from Bloomington, IN to San Antonio and we got to Texarkana about dawn. 
>The worst part of it all was realizing that we still had another 12 
>hours of driving ahead of us *groan*.. we spent as much time driving 
>in Texas as it took to get there.
>

	As anyone who knows Texas will verify, Lubbock is several
	hundred miles from anywhere.  It's in the lower panhandle, and
	the only interstate access is a spur running south from Amarillo,
	which is in the mid panhandle.  This is not all that bad,
	because the ordinary Texas highways, like everything else
	there, are a generous cut above the norm.  When I was in school
	in Austin, I tried to carry on a relationship with a nursing
	student at Texas Tech in Lubbock.  She was nice, but not that
	nice.  It's a honking long drive.
	
	Don't go through Texarkana.  If you come down I55 and catch
	I40 at Memphis, stay on I40 at Little Rock and ride it all
	the way through Oklahoma to Amarillo, and turn left.
	Actually, the best way for you from Indiana is to take I70
	to St. Louis, and catch I44 through Missouri to Oklahoma
	City.  Then pick up I44 to Amarillo.

	
	BTW Iskandar, no, I haven't tried that door covering from
	Duck.  What's it good for?  I, for one,  never fly doors.
	

	All this talk about Texas and combat is because I'm pretty
	pumped right now.  Second weekend in Oct. I'm off to fly in
	the Combat Classic in Houston, free plane ticket courtesy of
	Jeff Dawson.  Of course, I'll probably go 0 for 3, but somehow
	I don't think that will keep me from having a good time, which
	is what its all about.
	
	
	Mike