The guys from the my taxi way at SZP just got back yesterday.
John Lynch won the RV class at 212 MPH as Tracy Saylor and Dave Anders
did not show. Klaus won his class and Steve Wolpin came in
fourth in the Long EZ class.

Klause went 234 MPH but was outrun by a 360 cubic inch Ford V8 
direct drive in a Long EZ at 235 MPH. This guy has been working
on this airplane for many years and finally has it going pretty
good. The V8 block is now aluminum and it is bored and stroked
to get the HP down around 3100 RPM or so. I did not see it
so I don't know how he is cooling it.

According to the guys a person stalled and spun in on base to final in 
an RV and died. It is easy to be fooled at a high altitude 
airport. You are close to the ground and your ground speed is 
much faster and you might think you are not near stall speed.
It is essential to check your airspeed from time to time.
The other thing that happens is you tend to overshoot the runway heading
on base to final because the radius of turn is more at high altitude
so the tendency is to pull harder.

My technique is make a high approach and dive a bit on the base to 
final turn to keep the speed up. Then slip on final to lose altitude
with out gaining too much speed which minimizes float and landing
long. I think it is important that your fuel pickups in the tanks
can deal with slips when the tanks are low on fuel.

Paul Lamar
 
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