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Saddam Hussein's demise . fabulous!Hat's off to this intrepid group!Concluding Saturday's run ofevents, the Masters Individual Precisionwas won handily by Master'snewcomer Bill Hanson . Second placewent to Susan Batdorff followed byBill Edison in third .Sunday was a repeat of beautifulweather but the wind took an earlyvacation sending competitors backinto the Atlantic for more relief . Fortunately,the wind lulls were short-livedand the schedule was, more-or-lessheld in tact . After another brillianthang-gliding display by Miami HangGliding, things got off to anothergreat start .First up . . .the Experienced IndividualBallet. In the first of his backto-backfirst place finishes, QuinnRickman took a 21 point victory fromTed Dougherty, who was visiting fromTexas. Robert Bono of the LookingSkyward team took third .In the Precision event, it was Quinn,again, with a 3 point clinch over RayMelikian . Ted Dougherty added tohis ballet finish by taking third placehonors .First place in the Intermediate IndividualPrecision went to Mike Moore(second in the ballet) . Second positionwent to Ben Gomez with anarrow margin over Chris Belli .The SSKC was the first event of theyear to include a Pairs 'division . Thefirst-time running of the Pairs, in thiscase, was done along with the Teamevent . The idea was to factor out thetop three finishing pairs for separateawards once the overall team winnersslots were filled . The interestingpoint here was that the top threefinishers in the entire event WEREpairs, . . thus, they got double awardsfor their efforts. First place went tothe home-town Skyward Edge whoflew a repeat of their AKA GrandNational routine . Second placehonors went to another Florida team,Jim Bunce and Ruth Bradley, theHurricane Squadron . Third placewent to the Deja Vu team of Cris andSusan Batdorff .Quadline Precision, anotheropen-classed event, was won by T .C .Powers who flew a technically beautifuldisplay with a full-size Revolution .The second position was nailed downby Dennis Kucmerowski, flying a PeterPowell Omni, with a scant .03outpointing of Bob Hanson, whoflew a Revolution 2 .The first running of the SSKC was agrand success . This has to be one ofthe best venues possible . . . highly visible,beautiful weather, appreciativeaudiences, and an attentive staff .We've every notion to expect thatthis will become one of the showcaseevents of the circuit! See you therenext year!