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    Ridge Racing

    April 06, 2017

    When I think ridge racing I think Mifflin PA. The first two times I flew there it was with local pilot Mike Robison in his Nimbus 3DM. We were dry but lugging an Austrian beauty behind the cockpit. As we cruised on the ridge we were generally the fastest.

    What I did learn from this is that no matter how much faster we were the time was lost in the transitions. We had a few times where we pushed

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