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NEWS FROM NEBRASKA: The Lincoln
Sky Knights (LSK) held a fun-fly on June 21
and 22. It will be remembered as a cloudy,
breezy fun-fly. Although not one of your
better flying days windwise, the clouds kept
the temperatures down and the breeze kept
the bugs away.
One of our newer members, Roger
Hinrichs, probably logged more flights on his
Avistar then the rest of us combined. A rain
delay during lunch was followed by clear
skies and lower wind speeds.
This was a good time to test fly Brian
Miller’s design, El Grillo Rapido. What
started as a science fair project may have
received a little extra credit in Spanish class.
Rich Kuenning who performed the first testflight
duties reports all is well and Brian
greased in the first landing with his pride
and joy.
Ray Kieser displayed realistic flights with
the Cub he learned to fly with—now more
than 15 years old.
I don’t know where the day went but the
next thing I knew it was time to put the
steaks on the grill. President Neal did the
grill-to-order honors this year over charcoal.
Food and folks appeared out of thin air and
soon there was too much to eat and no place
to sit.
Sunday was a lazy, relaxed day of flying
and general goofing off at the airfield—my
idea of a perfect weekend!
—Tom Wild, contest director
Waverly Wars ’03: The Lincoln Knights’
Combat meet was held on August 8 and 9,
2003, at the LSK field. There were 10 pilots
registered for Class B Combat by 10 a.m. Six
rounds of Combat were flown with five pilots
in each heat. They flew a variety of airplanes
including home-built wasps, predators, battrick
types and plenty of A.J. Seaholm
Avengers. There were some righteous cuts
made and a few midairs to add to the day’s
carnage.
A couple of pilots, including Jeff Smith,
had six cuts in one round and there was a
number of four-cut rounds. Zack Parmenter
flew his first Combat meet on Saturday and
beat his dad, Wes Parmenter, by 20 points for
sixth place. He and his father were picture
perfect as their Picture of the Week made it
on the Radio Control Combat Association’s
Web site. There were a few fatal midairs, but
most of the models were fixable.
The pilot scoring was high for the first
three places. First place was A.J. Seaholm,
2,260; second place was Jeff Smith, 2,140;
and third place was Mitch Eaves, 1,500. Rick
Miller was fourth; fifth place was Mike
Yearley; sixth was Zach Parmenter; seventh
was Tom Wild; eighth, Wes Parmenter; Neil
Rohrke was ninth; Loren Blinde placed tenth.
Bernie Smith did the honors at lunch,
turning out burgers as fast as we ate them,
and Tom Wild took charge of the computer
for the final scoring. Thanks to both for
helping out. Also, thanks to Dave Greathouse
who helped with registration on both days
and setting up the clubhouse. Many thanks to
all the other club members who helped judge
the Combat heats.
On Sunday, there were six World War
II Combat pilots, mostly with Japanese
aircraft like the Zeros for six rounds of 2610
Combat. By the third round, there were only
four pilots left. (I think Mike means only
four pilots had airplanes left ... we don’t
actually have many pilot casualties in
Combat. —Editor)
An excess of furious combat and midairs
ended the career of my Japanese Zero and
both of Jeff Smith’s Zeros, but the airplanes
had enough parts left that they will live on to
fight another day. The top ace was A.J.
Seaholm with 1,768.
Some final thoughts: Rick Miller had a P-
51 that went amphibious after getting hit by
A.J. but not totaled out, thanks to some weeds
and water in Lake Fredericks. A.J. Seaholm
can literally fly four to five feet above the
ground with three streamers on his wings at
full speed. Pilots crashed trying to take him
out at that altitude.
We hope to have another great season of
Combat next year with the help of our pilots
from all over the country. Remember, if
you’re not a fighter, then you’re a target.
Also, “The easy way is always mined.”
—Mike Yearly
Associate Vice Presidents
Max Hansen, 1909 Wisconsin SW, Huron SD
57350
H. Michael Harrington, 6112 Ashton Ct.,
Ft. Collins CO 80525
Fred Hildebrand, 4015 Somerset Circle, Casper
WY 82609-3161
Nathan Lancaster, 3597 S. Kendall Street, Denver
CO 80235
Troy Lapp, 1619 Wichita Dr., Bismarck ND 58504
Travis McGinnis, 8027 W. 81st Circle, Arvada CO
80005
Don Moden, 410 Hart St., Salina KS 67401
Jim Ricketts, 4921 Fernwood Drive, Sioux Falls
SD 57103-5573
Jack L. Sibert, 3611 Kimberly Circle, Lincoln NE
68506-4524
Mark T. Smith, 14632 W. 50th Street, Shawnee
KS 66216
Frequency Coordinator
Steve Mangles, c/o Radio Service Center, 918 S.
Sheridan, Denver CO 80226
Colorado / Kansas /
Nebraska / North Dakota /
South Dakota / Wyoming
Russ Miller
Vice President
980 N. 3rd St.
Carrington ND 58421
Tel.: (701) 652-2321
Fax: (701) 652-2994
E:mail:
[email protected]
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