Until a better system - such as public posting directly to some type of google web pages/ blog or similar, I will post any message I receive regarding travels by The Egg directly to this page. The Log, as shown below, will need to be updated at some future time. s/ P Kelly, 2/23/09

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Entry: 2/23/09 - email received from Fred LaSor at Minden.

Rob Stone (Stoney) captured the PASCO egg from its winter hibernation in
the SoaringNV hangar today, February 23, 2009, after a wave flight in
his 1-26. Stoney towed out of Air Sailing into good wave and flew a 300
km course before landing at Minden late in the afternoon to more than
meet the distance requirements and claim the egg.

Shown in the attached photo, Stoney (center) is congratulated by Fred
LaSor (left) of SoaringNV and Bob Spielman of Air Sailing, who was
Stoney's crew. The successful pilot's warm clothes attest to his long
flight at high altitude in the February cold.

The egg had resided in the SoaringNV hangar since it was captured from
Soar Truckee by Mike Mitton last fall. This is the first capture of
2009, but certainly not the last as the soaring season is just kicking
off in northern California and Nevada. Region 11 pilots are invited to
set their sights on Air Sailing, just north of Reno, if they want to
capture the revolving trophy and add their name to the list of
successful pilots who have flown at least 100 kms to bring the egg back
to their home club or FBO.

The folks at SoaringNV are sorry the egg will no longer grace their
hangar, but want to congratulate Stoney for his superb 1-26 flight.

Photo by Fred Whitney
Article by Fred LaSor

 

Region 11 Revolving Trophy Finds A New Home

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  The Region 11 PASCO  Capture Trophy - The Egg
     
    Gliderport  
Date of Entry Launching Gliderport  
or Pilot / Note Flight Glider Capture  Relinquishing Description of Flight / Comments / Notes
Date of Flight     Time   Attempt The Egg  
1-Aug-1991   Note: PASCO Board establishes Rules for the Capture Trophy      
1-Jun-1992   Note: The new trophy was placed at Crazy Creek in honor of their new opening  
15-Apr-1993   Gary Kemp 3.0 Pegasus Orland-Haigh Crazy Creek Gary represented Chico Soaring at Orland. Bob Casamajor, sculptor of 
        The Egg kept it at the Orland airport. 
19-May-1993   Rex Mayes / Rodger Buchanan 4.0 SGS 2-32 Vaca-Dixon N/A Failed Attempt *  Vaca-Dixon, captured Egg at Orland,  
        but then did an outlanding at Willows Airport.   Egg was
          relinqished to Gary Kemp at Willows for return to Orland
     * Note: Existing rules in 1993  required a round trip flight, therfore the Egg had to be returned to Orland.
2-Apr-1993   Rex Mayes, Peter Kelly 4.9 Pegase Vaca-Dixon Orland-Haigh RM-3E Team Flight, Average Speed 52.2 mph.  Landed
         at Orland 5pm, captured Egg.Landed at VD 6:55 pm
15-Jun-1993   Jim Indrebo / Jim Trice 2.3 ASK 21 Crazy Creek Vaca-Dixon Good lift side of Berryseas, real thermals in the Valley.
         Jim Indrebo/Jim Trice on XC Dual.
18-Sep-1993   Jim Darke   3.0 Pegasus 1B Vaca-Dixon Crazy Creek Very lucky
    Note: Vaca-Dixon, previously Lagoon Valley in Vacaville, relocated operations to Williams                     
15-Apr-1994   Jeff Kroot 2.0 LS4 - JK Crazy Creek Williams Good Soaring Day, so didn't need much
5-May-1994   Ray Gimmey 2.5 Discus 7V Williams Crazy Creek Good soaring -- Cu's Everywhere
17-Jun-1994   Paul Sasse 6.8 ASW 20 PS Crazy Creek Williams Good soaring to Mendocino Range. To Eagle Pk, then slow 
          to Weaverville. Very slow on shear back to Williams
        Remained overnight at Williams * 
18-Jun-1994   Paul Sasse 3.0 ASW 20 PS   After overnight, flew The Egg to Crazy Creek 
         * Note: Existing rules said you had to fly the egg home.
14-Apr-1995   Stan Montagne 4.5 Ventus Williams Crazy Creek To Eagle Peak, west of Red Bluff, then CC and back to WSC
31-Dec-1996   Note: No Capture attempts in 1996       Egg on display at Williams
31-Dec-1997   Note: No Capture attempts in 1997       Egg on display at Williams
22-May-1998   Tom Hubbard 3.5 DG-300 Crazy Creek Williams  
1-Nov-1998   Sergio Colacevich 3.5 Pegasus RM Williams Crazy Creek Post frontal conditions. Williams, Berryessa Tower, 
        Calistoga, Max Alt 5400'
6-Oct-1999   Ray Gimmey 3.2 LS-8   7V Crazy Creek Williams Cloud base range from 5 to 7000 ft
20-Apr-2000   Kenny Price / Eric Lentz 2.0 ASK 21 Williams Crazy Creek Towed to clouds south of Hwy 20, w/student Eric
         Lentz, easy climb w/cu streets running everywhere!
10-Jun-2000   Rick Anderson 2.5 LS-4  JK Crazy Creek Williams Towed to Boggs - 5 - 7000 ft
22-Apr-2001   Marc Ramsey     Williams Crazy Creek Towed to Walker, went to St. Johns then Crazy Creek
9-May-2001   Chaan Beard 3.8 N115  TM Crazy Creek Williams Went to Kaletic - ST. Helena, 
21-Apr-2002   Gunard Mahl / Rex Mayes 4.0 ASH 25 Williams Crazy Creek WSC - Yolla Bolla - Crazy Creek - Williams
22-May-2002   Brian Choate, Ramy Yanetz 4.8 DG-300, LS4 Hollister  Williams Team Flight -Hollister to Williams. See story
              First glider flight ever made from Hollister to Williams.
5-Apr-2003   Bill Gawthrop 2.3 ASH 26E   F8 Avenal Hollister Avenal to Hollister
27-Apr-2003   Drew Pearce/Jeff Gooding 2.5 Duo Discus Hollister Avenal Hollister - Avenal - Hollister
30-Apr-2003   Bill Gawthrop 1.8 ASH 26E  F8 Avenal  Hollister Avenal - Hollister - Avenal
10-May-2003   Russell Holtz / Drew Pearce 5.5 Duo Discus Hollister  Avenal Hollister - Avenal - Hollister
28-Jun-2003   Peter Kelly, Jim Herd 3.0 DG800B PK, PW Minden N/A Team Flight -  Unsuccesfull attempt*.  The Egg was not at Avenal!
    *Note: Based on a tentative rule change, a glider flight of such a distance would allow the Egg to be relocated without the need for a glider flight back the departure airport. 
    Pilots mistakenly thought The Egg was at Avenal.  Dead glide from west of Mammoth at 17,500 ft, made to Avenal OK, pilots used motor gliders to return home, without Egg.
15-Dec-2003   Note: Trophy Rules were officially revised in December 2003 by the PASCO Board of Directors. A minimum of 100 k must be flown to capture the Egg.  
        If inbound flight, to the last home of the Egg is successful, the egg should be sent to the new home. No longer necessary to fly it home.
25-Apr-2004   Bill Gawthrop 5.2 ASH 26E  F8 Avenal Hollister   
27-Apr-2004   Marty Eiler , Chuck Griswold 4.3 ASW 27  11W Cal City Avenal * Team Flight- 1300 ft tow, Tahachapi Vly, death dive from Bear Mtn into
          San Joaquin Vly, low pt Buena Vista 3100  msl, arrive for CCSC contest
     * Note: The new rule about only having to fly in to capture The Egg was widely discussed, and story appeared in PASCO WestWind in May, 2004, a few weeks too late to 
    avert an entertaining diversion for The Egg- outside of Region 11.  Cal City is not a part of Region 11, but they heard that if a pilot flew a glider into Avenal, they could capture
     the Egg. Since Marty and Chuck were coming to Avenal for the contest, they flew into Avenal from Cal City and "someone" told them where the Egg 
    was "hidden" and off it went to Cal City.  It is reported that the "main" Avenal pilots were quite surprised that The Egg had been taken.
     The Rules were published in The West Wind a few weeks later, discussion followed and all seemed to agree that The Egg officially belonged at Avenal.
9-Jun-2004   Gary Kemp 5.3 Nimbus-2 NK Williams Avenal Crossed Delta low, good conditions, flew past Avenal 30 mi, (for 
        a total filght distance of 300 miles),  return null *
    *Note: Flight made in hopes that The Egg would be shipped from Cal City to Williams.  This was only the second glider flight that had ever been made from Williams to Avenal.  
18-Jun-2004   Peter Neuman 4.0 HPH-304 Bishop Cal City/Avenal I returned the PASCO Egg to it's lawful domicile ( Region 11).
    Note: Peter Neuman reported that he flew from Bishop to CalCity without knowledge of the Egg, but it was an excellent opportunity for a PASCO member to return the 
    Egg to Region 11.  While The Egg was at Cal City, Cindy Brickner graciously transcribed the log book into this data file version that you are now reading.
11-Jul-2004   Peter Kelly 5.8 DG800B PK Williams N/A Failed Attempt -  via Mendicinos, N of Lake Shasta, to Fall River Mills
21-Aug-2004   Peter Kelly,  Key Dismukes,  2.9 DG800B PK Truckee Bishop/Avenal Team Flight - See Story-- www.valleysoaring.net/egg/silverfox.htm
    Jim Darke, Sergio Colacevich   Four gliders departed Truckee one landed Bishop to transport The Egg
17-Sep-2004   Peter Kelly 5.6 DG800B PK Williams N/A Failed Attempt -  via Wave- 16,000 over Mendicinos, then east to Lake 
        Almanor - landout at Chester
29-Sep-2004   Peter Kelly 2.8 DG800B PK Williams N/A Failed Attempt -  via Tow to Orville - landout at Paradise Airport
    Note: no other attempts reported for 2004.  Egg remained in custody of Truckee personnel.  
8-May-2005   Sergio Colacevich 3.6 Discus C1 Williams Truckee/Avenal Failed Attempt - landed at Blue Canyon, retrieve a group effort.
        Rex and Kenny drive rig and car to Sacramento, Jim Darke drive up 
        to Blue Canyon, derig in dark, and back to Sacto by midnight.
13-May-2005   Peter Kelly 2.2 DG800B PK Williams Truckee/Avenal Tow to 6,000 ft, east of Chico, work up to Quincy, good lift to Truckee
    2.7 ( Return Flight  TRK - WSC )   Self-launch at Truckee into 5 kt thermal, 13,000 to Sierraville, soar
        to Williams without restart.  Egg is now ready for capture in Region 11
28-May-2005   Matt Herron 1.5 LS-4A Crazy Creek Williams 22 kts of wind from the Northwest to 7,000 in convergence.  Still at 
           7,000 at Gold Mines.  Piece of Cake to Williams
29-May-2005   Richard Hanchu 1.9 LS-6 Williams Crazy Creek To Walker and Angwin before landing at Crazy Creek
    Note: no other attempts reported for 2005.  Egg remained on display at Williams Soaring Center   
    for the remainder of 2005  
28-May-2006   Ramy Yanetz 6.5 LS-4 Hollister Williams Having first flown from Hollister to near Coalinga, Ramy then flys north
         to Diablo and makes a flat glide over a cloudless sky to Rio Vista Airport,  
        arriving in a blue thermal at 2,000 ft.  Observation plane snaps his photo
        as he starts his second climb 6 miles east of Travis. Ramy then continues
        NW of Williams before landing to claim a 500k flight for the day.
        Flight details : low=2,800 ft, high=8600ft, Distance=515 km (320 miles)
15-Jun-2006   Yuliy Gerchikov 2.2 DG800B Byron (NCSA) Hollister ( HGC) Blue day, most lift below 4K, had to follow eastern foothills of Diablo range.
    Note: no other attempts reported for 2006.  Egg remained on display at Byron for the   
    remainder of 2006  
21-Jan-2007   Rex Mayes, EJ Endrebo 4.4 ASH25 Williams Byron Having climbed to 18,000 the day before in Jerry's ASH22, Rex invites EJ
        to join him on another high flight.  Again, to 18, 000 over Sutter Buttes,
        they turn south and land at Byron to bring the Egg back to Williams.
17-Apr-2007   Morteza Ansari   ASW-20 Byron Williams A renegade group of pilots flew up from Byron and captured the beloved   
    Ramy Yanetz   LS-4   PASCO Egg. A flight of three single seat gliders made the trip from Byron 
    Shannon Madsen   Grob 102   to Williams on 4/17/07. ASW20 "EP", piloted by Morteza Ansari, landed 
         at Williams, was presented with the Egg, and after a short tow, flew back  
        to Byron with the other two gliders.  LS4 "TG", piloted by Ramy Yanetz
         and Shannon Madsen in his GROB102-ASTIR CS "SS" remained airborne
        overhead WSC while the Egg was captured.  Both Morteza and Shannon
         are relatively new XC pilots, having started flying XC only last year. 
         Shannon turned Williams for a declared diamond goal flight and Ramy
        turned Willows and Williams for a 535 km flat triangle distance ( the first 
           500km from Byron AFAIK). 
22-Apr-2007   Jack Harkin 3.2 ASW-27 Williams Byron Neither rain, sleet nor snow kept the egg in Byron. It is indeed a long 
        lonely glide across the delta.   Jack
5-Oct-2007   Darryl Ramm ? ASH26E Hollister N/A Darryl   Ramm flew from Hollister to Williams to get the egg. Ray 
        Moeller from Byron already landed and captured the egg as Darryl 
        was approaching the Delta. 
5-Oct-2007   Ray Moeller, Shannon Madsen,  Various Various Byron Williams Roy Moeller (Std Cirrus - "WH"), Mike Mayo (Ventus B - "E5"), Shannon 
    Ramy Yanetz, and Mike Mayo    Madsen (ASW-20 - "EP"), and Ramy Yanetz (LS-4 - "TG") flew from Byron in nice 
          post-frontal weather, fighting a 10-15 knot headwind across the delta toward Williams.  Roy landed to 
          capture the Egg and the others turned various points northwest of Williams.  On the way back, one pilot 
          landed out at Rio Vista and the other three made it back to Byron.  There was one additional landout in 
          Tracy after an attempt to continue south from Byron.
10-Oct-2007   Davis Anisman-team flight 3.8 DG300 Hollister Byron  
    Matt Gillis, Rich Haven- passenger 5.1 DG1000      
13-Oct-2007   No Claim Received ? ? Byron Hollister Yuliy and Buzz maybe?  - Awaiting Claim
14-Oct-2007   Darryl Ramm ? ASH-26 Williams N/A Came within 6 miles ? of reaching Byron, but did not capture The Egg
20-Oct-2007   Darryl Ramm ? ASH-26 Williams Byron Successful flight. -  Awaiting Claim.
         
    Note: no other attempts reported for 2007.  Egg remained on display at Williams Soaring Center 
    for the remainder of 2007  
7-Sep-2008   Ramy Yanetz ? ASW27 Truckee Williams Truckee - Mt Shasta - Trinity - Gravely -Ramsey Gap - Williams - 650km
        Release altitude 7100 feet MSL (7000 ft above Williams) - Distance required
        133 miles, distance flown via Shasta - more then twice the required
        distance.  
28-Sep-2008   Mike Mitton ? ASW27 Minden Truckee 
Mike Mitton "captured" the PASCO egg from Truckee September 28 with a
  
        nice flight out of Minden.  He towed with SoaringNV to the west to see  
        if the clouds on that side of the valley would work, and after  
        scratching around for about an hour finally made it south far enough  
        to have the 100 km distance he needed from his destination.  
           
Note: no other attempts reported for 2008.  Egg remained on display at Minden