Indoor Team Finals
THERMALS, WIND, downdrafts and gusts-sound like some outdoor meets you've been to? Well, it all happened inside of hangar #5 at NAS Lakehurst, N.J., during the final contest of the Indoor Team Selection Program over the Labor Day weekend. In the face of a gloomy forecast for the holiday (vastly influenced by Hurricane Caroline and a massive low-pressure system over Mich., Ohio and Ind.), 24 of this nation's top Indoor fliers met, with dogged determination, to win a place on the 1976 U.S. Indoor Team. Eight of these men, by the way, had all or part of their air fare to this meet subsidized through entry fees earned in this program. Under an entirely new format, the top nine fliers in regional contests may win travel assistance to attend the final round of this national competition. With a full day of testing set aside before the mélee, entrants spent most of Saturday tuning their machines to the ever-changing (or so it seemed) air conditions ahead of an advanced cold front.
