Day 3 results Today was a day dominated by streamer duration flights, with a smaller mix of parachute and altitude flights. Thermals were a bit more active, taking three models out of the park. Bob Cox finished off his chute duration from yesterday with a respectable 391-second duration, then slipped in an 8x60 streamer, caught a healthy thermal at about 500 feet, and rode it for a 521 second streamer duration effort. Despite the thermal, he kept it in the park, drifting only 1670 feet. Curse that lack of wind! Bill Cooke's luck ran out. Down to his last model, his first streamer flight (using a fairly conservative 1x72 streamer) carried a respectable 4 minutes. He followed up with another flight that caught a thermal elevator, rising 500 feet, sailing a little over 3100 feet and ending his run. That leaves him without a model to fly in the parachute duration. Bruce Levison's altitude flight offers another good example of attention to detail and a strong grasp of rocket physics. He angled the rod downwind 3.95 degrees. Most other competitiors opted for a straight up launch rod alignment. If you check the flight profile, though, you'll see most of these designs are overstable, and weathercock a bit. By angling downwind, Bruce's weathercock angled it back to vertical, and he was able to juice extra altitude. He also went with a C4, compared to most others' C10. His lower velocity results in reduced drag and higher altitudes. Still, he was only able to hit 2777 feet, not quite enough to place for the event. Michael Pontikos turned in the day's most daring effort, stuffing a huge 40" parachute into his B-PD bird. Little surprise that with a little help from a thermal, he rode almost a mile, drifting out of the park on his first flight. Down to his last model, he caught dead air, landing a more modest 3 minutes later about halfway to the edge of the field. Peter Stanley decided to go for broke on streamer, upgrading from a 4x40 first flight to a 6x60 for his second flight. This proved effective, as he improved from 207 to 378 seconds, though the second model landed just past the fence, a taunting 100 feet beyond the boundary. With only one day left, it looks like a down to the wire finish between Bob Cox and David Allen, with Bruce and Claude breathing down their necks.