I got to deliver the prize airplane down to Sun and Fun one year with Steve Ell's from AOPA. It is a fun event and lots of work go into the refurb of the prize.
But, the best fun today... was watching a video where somebody radios to an RV to slow up please, so we can catch up.
Priceless.... and of course the lucky guy looking over his shoulder at 9 o:clock.
Just fun !!!!!!!
Steve was cruising at 170 kts and when he slowed up, I'll bet he was down to about 115 or so and the Debonair was still struggling to catch up.
The plan was it would be orbiting just to the east of the field when we were about to leave Winsted. I left the tour of the Waco project to walk up to the terminal building to go to the bathroom and look for the Debonair.
I thought I heard it, but I'd left my hearing aid at home and with just one working ear, it's hard for me to determine the direction sound is coming from and I decided it was a tractor working the soybean field nearby.
Then as we were taxiing out, I could see it off in the distance about 4 miles or so and as Steve hit the throttle, I could see Tom Horne turning the Debonair BACK EAST in the circle and thought, "nooooooooo!"
He never would have caught us if he hadn't asked us to slow down.
And by "slow down", I think he really meant, "turn around and come back or I'll never catch you."
BTW, the one thing I've noticed with RVers who win these things -- 2, I guess -- is that in the scenarios on how to make it work financially, selling the RV NEVER enters to the realm of possibility.
Oh, one other note: I turned 60 this year and I'm having the best year, I think,I've ever had (knocking on wood). Lots of great moments. Every single one of them somehow involves my RV.