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She was interviewed on television. She greeted the special guests, conducted the briefings and like the rest of us did not get enough sleep.

Jody and Pat Roberts were often out of sight. Keeping the Navigation route secret is a major concern. Charts had to be prepared. Competition packets were made up for all including prints of the six photos to be identified. Gate Captains had to be assigned and briefed.

Judges School was conducted by Sven Hugossen, Sweden. Two days of both classroom and then practical work setting up gates, judging landings etc. Judy Logue took video-tapes of practice landings to be studied by the trainees.

Pat Ward took responsibility for all the equipment in the storage shed, inventorying it and having it available as needed. She made up the sets to go out to the check point gates, including compasses, gates, watches, water, food etc and issued them to the gate captains. She was there in the dark getting people under way. It was too dark for photographs.

Tuesday night we went by bus to Orlando's Church Street Station for a barbecue dinner at the Cheyenne Saloon for dancing. I have a great photo of Adrian Pilling of South Africa, both feet off the ground, Cowboy Hat on head, dancing up a storm! Joe Kittinger, Champion Hot Air Balloonist, owner (I think) of Rosie O'Grady's came by to say hello. Those who came by car were judged the lucky ones, and did not have to leave with the busses.

The pilots were asked to have all the airplanes on the line in their assigned parking place at 1300 Wednesday the 14th. Kathy Long had made the competition numbers to go on both sides of the tail and under both wings. She made them large enough to be seen by the spotters at the gates. Black numbers on a square of white contact. She did not issue a number 13. Teams were responsible for getting their own number on the airplanes, but she made a point to supervise carefully. Kathy and I put silver tape over the Navigation radios in all the airplanes and a team of two husbands of 99s marked all tires with white shoe polish in the shape of a cross. The white marks help identify at what point the tire starts rolling on touch down.

At 1500 the Jury came out and inspected all 37 airplanes for proper taping, numbers and properly marked tires. Someone from Cessna should have been there to see all their aircraft. Of the 37 there were 2 Wilgas, 2 Piper Tomahawks, 1 Piper Warrier, 1 Cessna 172 and the rest 150's or 152's.

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