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PostPosted: Mon Sep 29, 2014 11:07 am 
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Just asking, but why didn't you push in the clutch or hit the kill switch?

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no clutch, automatic trans. I hit the kill switch asap. If I hadn't I wouldn't be writing this. In a dragster real estate runs out at an alarming rate. By the time you realize you are in trouble you have already eaten up most if not all of your reserve.
Just saw the first video about 2 minutes ago.
Anyway that was last week . Now on to the Gasser.
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Is this what you were racing on? Each leg measure about .45 of mile on google earth.

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If you draw a line between the P in Picton and the G in Google the middle of the line is where I went in. I was almost up to the spot where the trees are full grown. It is a standard Allied WW2 Airport. This one is an old Army Base and was closed in 1969. We use a 1/4 mile to run with the rest for shutdown. Typical attendance is 2 to 3 thousand. We run twice per year and occasionally three times. It is organized by the group Armdropdragracing.com out of Kingston Ont led by Glen Conway. They are all volunteers and any profit is donated to a local charity. There is no prize money. It is old School run what ya brung. You come up already paired with who you want to race and there is no waiting , no lunch breaks, no classes, just non stop run after run. All runs are heads up. Every run is videoed. There are staging bulbs for starting and times are available but only by cell phone or smart phone feed which they arrange at the drivers meeting. Most of us with the dragsters altereds and gassers have raced at other tracks so we have a good idea who runs what and don't bother with the feeds. Choosing instead to spend a day running each other for fun and shooting the breeze between times. Some of these relationships go back over 40 years. It is a very special place. California's Eagle Field Drags is of a similar nature and we usually race on the same day just by coincidence however this year their fall one is next Sat.
don
It is my understanding or so I have been told that all three runways are 3000 feet and that that is standard for any Canadian WWII Military Airfield
I was told that by a retired RCAF flight engineer and I assumed he knew a lot more about it then I.

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3000- 1320= 1680ft

minus the bleach box and staging and traps= 1320 shutdown

I dont get it

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Good to know you're still in one piece, Don.

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