{"id":2109,"date":"2010-03-05T21:52:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T21:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=891"},"modified":"2018-11-08T14:50:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T19:50:05","slug":"last-big-splash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/fantasy-of-flight\/last-big-splash\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Big Splash!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_893\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 500px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Duck-on-Target.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-893 colorbox-2109\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Duck-on-Target.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"391\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Duck on Target<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We had a successful 1st Annual Last Big Splash last September with about 35 seaplanes in attendance. \u00a0Many showed up the evening before for a BBQ on the shores of Lake Agnes. \u00a0Later we watched a WWII film \u00a0called &#8220;Coastal Command&#8221; about Sunderlands on\u00a0a big screen hung on the side of our Sunderland down by the lake. \u00a0It was a &#8220;big&#8221; hit!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The next day we had a number of seaplanes enter the competition and I faired pretty well with the Grumman Duck. \u00a0The Duck is almost impossible to see out of because of the big engine and lower wings and I totally lucked out in the spot-landing competition. \u00a0Having no idea where the two spot landing buoys were I just lined up, cut the power, and floated as long as I could. \u00a0If you land <em>before<\/em> the buoy line you are disqualified, which I was not. \u00a0As you can see by the above picture I was darned close! \u00a0I touched down just after the two buoys marking the target line, one of which is behind the tail spray! \u00a0A Husky on floats (with great visibility by the way) beat me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Luck was not with me during the bomb drop contest and, mainly because of the visibility, I failed miserably. \u00a0The &#8220;bombs&#8221; (melons) did luckily land in the lake! \u00a0But in the short take-off competition I surprised myself and my competitor by getting off the water first and beating out a 450hp Dehavilland Beaver on floats! \u00a0In retrospect, had I\u00a0created a category for seaplanes over 1000 hp, I could have won everything in my class!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Kermit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a successful 1st Annual Last Big Splash last September with about 35 seaplanes in attendance. \u00a0Many showed up the evening before for a BBQ on the shores of Lake Agnes. \u00a0Later we watched\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,11,40,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calendar-events","category-fantasy-of-flight","category-grumman-duck","category-kermit-weeks","last-big-splash"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6372,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions\/6372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}