USA J AEROIdA Miller flu summer First air must cleared what some thought happened Work Koplan busy sewing up respective spots jack Hiner busier trying hold dpwn number three spota position held fourth round As last round ending Jackflew lOof 12 laps dis tance tasks perfect si-minute dur ation task coupled 90-point landing Most scoreboard watchers thought two flights enough nail down wnui IFTEENT NA offered ck ibt passed wo iple flights too nf best fowl nessed started off enis championshii *ying gra durationsaw o fliersn five-minute flights seven score less 85 landing poin perfect 360/100 secondsflandin 1000-point scores LeMon Payne f attempt maintain pace ha lished South Africa Payne pushe culmination program select three-I 1979 World Championships Pensacola Report Photos Dan Steve Work left Terry Skip Miller below reigning W Time sailplane designed Dave vator plane Team Finals Ke ter abor new fa won ing WA e Above Herb Smith original design Invador very clean ship con trolsrudder elevator spoilers flaps 8th Below Lee Renaud R helps Don Edberg get ready launch Aquila Grande Don 3 comuecutive 1000s Rounds 45 Carroll Moffatt above carries Aquila involved mideir collision Doyle Modestos Legionair shown below what looked like max have light breeze take bird downwind too fast pace meager height gain thermal giving Dale brought bird home before could max worse yet breeze caused Esprit land over 100 ters spotand rules brutally state thats zero flight score Only four fliers failed get maxes 12 scored less 85 land ing points Bob Gill Illinois flew Viking II perfect score 360/ 100 1000 points Day ended Distancethe make-you-or-break-you task pastby years rules has 12-lap maximum Further rules allow eight min utes working time 12 laps flown within four minutes Only half 40 fliers flew 10 laps just six maxed out among Steve Work New Mexico Terry Koplan California Kop Ian led end Round Two 3944 points point found out later scoring error 150-some points reversed Skip Miller Colorado Blame Miller Florida Rae Fritz Contest Director terrupted Nutters working time previous day calling measurement allowed RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS Speed tionDistanceRoundTotal P1Name/State/ModelRdSecs/PtsTime/Land/PtsLaps/PtsPointsPoints 1SteveWork1142/958358/50/88718447 NMex temp CA2359/90/97612/100019760 Bird Time3137/993358/90/97819708116857 4357/100/99612/100019956 5145/937358/100/99519335 6358/85/96512/100019650 2Terry Koplan1145/938359/100/99819358 California2359/100/99812/100019978 Viking3136/1000270/100/80818078113093 4353/95/97612/100019760 5170/800359/90/97617760 6357/95/98310/83318160 3Skip Miller1161 /845360/90/97818230 Colorado2360/95/9897%/64616349 Aquila Grande3150/906359/95/99118979111849 4312/100/89812/100018976 5143/951357/95/98219336 6359/100/99812/100019980 4Jack Hiner1152/895340/100/95718513 Illinois2357/85/96112/100019608 Aquila Grande3162/840357/100/99818373110326 4344/90/94612/100019455 5212/641358/95/98416262 6360/90/97810/83318115 5Bill Haga1195/697357/90/97716992 Texas2355/95/9781 0%/89618740 Legionair3166/819359/90/98017996109329 4359/100/100010%/89618958 5156/871359/100/99718696 6356/100/99110/83318240 6Bob Gill1149/913359/95/98718997 Illinois2360/100/10004%/39613958 Viking Mk II3138/986353/85/95619418108572 4357/100/99612/100019950 5166/819359/95/98618062 6358/95/98510/83318180 7Don Cameron1165/824358/85/96317893 Colorado23 57/80/9509/75017000 Aquila3148/919358/90/97818970107250 4359/55/90212/100019019 5170/800353/100/98417847 6355/100/9898/66616551 8Herb Smith1147/925360/100/1 00019252 Colorado2359/100/99812/100019978 Orig Invader3172/791360/95/99317841107236 4271/85/77611/91716926 5164/829357/95/98218118 6356/100/9916h/52015110 9Jack Hamilton1196/694357/100/9931687A Texas2359/75/94311/91718600 Legionair3187/727357/95/98717142107005 4360/95/99111/91719079 5196/693354/95/97616699 6359 /85/9891 0%/89518840 10John Gunsaullus1184/739360/100/1 00017391 Florida2357/100/9939/75017434 Original3174/781354/95/98017620106327 4358/100/99812/100019978 5184/739360/1 00/1 00017391 6355/95/9788/66616440 Dale re-fly duration task allowed balance working time count towards score plane re-positioned previous days spot working time allowed continue buzzer went off Steve Work retrieved Dale re-launched flew 344 made 90-point landing seconds before working time expired replaced zero score 314 points duration task Round Three no perfect scores Bill Johnson New York flew original bird 3581100 Because best round Bill earned 1000 points Only 11 failed score maxes 1 3 landing points under 85 mark Terry Koplan pushed Viking 136 speed followed Work 137 Gill 1 38 thirteens task However Hayes 140 put him back lead end round 5794 two points ahead secondplace Work 53 points ahead third-place Koplan Hiner fifth Skip Miller sev enth440 points behind leader point two contestants dropped out weather consistenthot 90s windwhen anyof six eight knots direction varied north northwest conditions pre RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS SpeedDurationDistance Round Total P1 Name/State/Model Rd Secs/Pts Time/Land/Pts Laps/Pts Points Points 11Craig Foxgord1192/708369/95/98716953 California2359/95/98711/91719036 Unknown3187/727206/85/63513626104814 4341/100/96110/2/87518357 5188/723354/95/97616994 6353/100/98512/100019850 12Ray Hayes1136/1000358/95/98519848 Indiana2353/90/96311/91718797 Osprey 9003140/971344/95/95919299103644 4231/80/6786/50011775 5144/944338/95/94118857 6354/90/9656A/54115060 13Blame Miller1177/768359/90/97617444 Florida2355/95/97810/83318110 Unknown3163/834358/60/91317470103137 4355/45/87110/83317047 5268/507350/100/97814857 6359/95/98710/83318200 14Bob Domer1173/786357/100/99317796 Colorado2359/65/92210/83317550 Legionair3165/824248/65/68315076102717 4356/80/95010%/89618457 5164/829359/75/94317727 6359/85/9867%/64516110 15Tom Williams1142/958360/1 00/1 00019577 Texas2359/100/9987h/60416019 Paramount3155/877344/0/75116285102369 4302/100/8761 0h/85417299 5172/790330/95/92317146 6360/100/100074/60416040 16Don Edberg1150/907355/85/95718632 California2318/0/6916/50011913 Aquila Grande3140/971356/0/77717487101871 4359/100/100012/100020000 5136/1000353/95/97319739 6357/100/9935/41614100 17Dwight Holley1186/731358/85/96316942 Connecticut2354/95/9768/66716427 Maestro3154/883355/100/99318765101659 4355/100/99110/83318246 5149/912357/90/97118844 6357/100/9933/25012434 18Dale Nutter1193/705358/95/98516894 Oklahoma2224/90/31411/91715992 Esprit3201/677354/95/98016569101092 4356/100/99312/100019934 5163/834358/90/97318082 63 59/95/9874A/37513620 19Matt Sheldon1156/872357/90/97218435 Colorado2359/100/99812/100019978 Olympic II3170/800178/0/38911886100754 4359/80/9567/58315397 5180/755358/80/95217077 6267/100/79812/100017980 20William Johnson1165/824357/95/98318069 New York2360/95/98910/83318224 Original3237/574358/1 00/1 00015738100682 4356/0/7767/58313589 5164/829360/100/100018292 6336/100/9488%/72916770 January 1979 81 Above Ray Hayes holds up Osprey 990 original design identification dis tant flagman Below models Dale Nut ter LI Dr Stan Pfost RI head starting point Dave Thornburg Betty Nutter LeMon Payne Nutter Payne 1977 US team members Above Jack Hamilton shows damaged rudder happened during distance task Asks Pruss Did strike bird shed parts Below Bill Haga Legionair rose 13th end Round 2 finish 5th Contest Director Rae Fritz Team Finals tough manage direct author gives Fritz high marks job well done vailed three days Don Edberg California took next duration task lust short perfect 359/ 100 first three-in-a-row 1000-point tasks Only six failed max 10 scored under 85 points landing circle second day competition ended third dayLabor Daywas taken lit erally Rae Fritz crew set fast pace earlythen maintained pace got 21/2 rounds lust before sun went down Distance second half Round Four started day early morning fliers bit skeptical about possibility getting 12 laps Results showed over half fliers logged 10 lapsthe best distance rounds contest end Round Four standings read Work Koplan Hiner Smith Cameron Skip Miller latter three being Colorado Bob Gill managed 4 laps Round Two 21st worked himself up eighth place Steve Work now 7787 points out possible 8000 Jack Hamilton Texas 10th place still within striking distance 7170 points Doyle Modesto Carrol Moffatt both Texas added excitement previous distance task both tried occupy same airspace lap seven Modesto landed Le gionair safely did Moffatt Aquila ever Legionair holding metal spar Aquila strike suffered broken wing spar Carrol set teled no-fix seven laps Dallas Body Fender Shop repaired Le gionairs wing tin 7-Up Gatorade cans Doyle took re-flight logged seven laps Round Five Don Edberg loaded Aquila Grande 22 ounces ballast turned 136 seemed speed barrier meet No turned faster Hayes Koplan gone fast 136 gave Don third 1000-point round row earlier missed landing six laps distance task kept him out top 10 spectacular bit flying Gill decided go broke plunked two pounds lead Viking II Gills technique have seconds counted off him during run base base B right time turn anticipated goes well run elevens Its gutsy ap proach Gill ready wife gave him count boiled through base count five Bob turn RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS Speed tionDistanceRoundTotal P1Name/State/ModelRdSecsIPtsTime/Land /PtsLapslPtsPointsPoints 21Tom Decker1193/705359/95/98716916 New York2358/100/99611/2/95819539 Unknown3200/680302/0/65913394100554 4348/30/82412/100018235 5167/814356/100/99118056 6343/90/9416/50014413 22LeMon Payne10/0360/1 00/1 00010000 Texas2359/90/97612/100019760 Legionair3169/805354/100/9911795999576 4357/95/98510/83318180 5142/957359/100/99719555 6358/100/9965/41614120 23Doyle Modesto121 8/624359/55/90015239 Texas2339/0/73711/91716536 Legionair3207/657360/90/9831639598896 4300/45/75212/100017516 5192/708358/60/89115996 6359/50/88910/83317220 24Phil Harris121 2/642346/100/97016111 California2359/100/99810/83318311 Paragon3193/704358/95/9891693798254 4360/95/99110/83318246 5208/653360/95/98916429 6266/95/7855//43712220 25Chuck Copeland121 3/638356/100/99116298 Alaska2356/90/9704/2/35413237 Grand Esprit3203/670261/90/7661436398006 4355/85/95911h/93818961 5200/680357 /85/96016408 6307/95/87412/1 00018739 26Fritz Bien1181/751352/75/92816796 Massachusetts2357/45/8749/75016239 T Aquila3165/824352/80/9431767597931 4359/85/9679/75017173 5167/814355/90/96717817 6271/100/8065/41612231 27Bob Baugher1185/735360/85/96717025 Pennsylvania2359/90/9767/58315594 Aquila3178/764349/90/9591722696505 4360/90/9809/75017303 521 0/648350/95/96716150 6335/100/9464A/37513200 28Allan Marshall1185/735355/85/95716917 Massachusetts2359/85/9657/58315485 Unknown3161/845308/90/8691713795133 4358/95/9878/66716535 50/0356/80/9479478 6360/100/100011/2/95819580 29Terry Ferentinos1205/663357/70/92815917 Florida2359/55/9008/66715666 Unknown3180/756347/90/9541709794561 4358/75/94312/100019433 5184/739356/100/99117304 6229/0/4985/4169144 30James Truitt1242/562356/50/88314446 Texas2356/70/9261 0%/8961821 9 Original321 2/642350/0/7641405790864 4233/95/7157A/62513395 5202/673278/75/76714406 6351/75/9268%/70816340 horn went off looked like 11-second run making wasnt high-G turn caused left wing fold went about 60 degrees dihedral Gill backed off nursed bird back through course respectable 166 819 points crowd loved Jack Hiner time decided play close vest just cruise speed course preserve third-place slot got too cautious after low upwind turn Jack stretch flight Aquila Grande what seemed like endurance run 212 seconds allowed fourth-place Herb Smith Colorado close gap time duration task ended certain Work Koplan first second places locked up Only third place con test sixth round flown Hiners slim nine-point hold third going bait least three people later proved four pursuit Round Six scheduled flights made faster scores could posted No seemed look far enough down roster see seventh-place guy name Skip Miller doing Wasnt way went Denver two years ago Hiner managed 10 laps distance Smith got six quarter Meanwhile Skip got 12 Smith got 356/1 00 duration paper Jack needed amax no land82 Model Aviation RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS SpeedDurationDistance Round Total P1 Name/State/Model Rd Secs/PtsTime/Land/Pts Laps/Pts PointsPoints 31Austin Leftwich1175/777191/95/62213989 Virginia2358/85/9635A/43814005 Unknown3167/814179/0/3911205290835 4246/70/6887%/64613342 5153/888306/95/87117606 6353/100/98412/100019840 32Bob Gerbin10/0230/95/7067065 California2356/95/98010/83318137 Paragon3160/850358/90/9781828289423 4356/95/98312/100019825 5205/663354/100/98616503 6342/100/9610/09610 33Fred Gregg10/0355/95/9789783 Virginia2346/55/8729/75018217 Viking MI321 4/636298/0/6511286186197 4356/75/9399A/81317514 5201/676355/50/88015570 63 56/55/8934/33312260 34Rick Norwood1193/705357/0/77614807 California20/0/09%/8138125 Javelin II3185/735165/95/5681302885340 4346/95/9618/66716274 5183/743360/85/96717105 6291/100/8509/75016000 35James Davis1235/579295/90/83714157 Alabama2358/80/9528/66716188 Legionair3227/599350/85/9501548882004 4358/0/7809/75015299 5212/641360/75/94515871 60/0/06/5005000 36Carrol Moffatt1193/705356/0/77414786 Texas2360/85/96710/83318007 Aquila3168/810347/0/7581567181103 4192/85/6037/58311868 5258/5270/0/05271 6288/80/8009/7 5015500 37William Leathers1206/660358/100/99616558 North Carolina2207/100/66711/91715840 Legionair3196/6940/0/0693868063 4355/95/98011/4/97919595 5325/95/9139130 38Art Sark1209/650311/85/86115116 Florida2354/85/9989/75017043 Paragon3208/654201 /0/4391092762831 4195/90/6215/41710375 5351/80/9369360 39Ed Berton1190/716351 /95/97016853 Florida2358/100/9954/4/3541349837561 Unknown3330/0/7217210 40Stan Pfost1181/751359/90/97617275 Florida2214/70/6176/5001117336417 Paragon3270/95/7977969 ing some combination total 350 points raw Jack got 360190 thats everyone started handshakes Meanwhile Miller getting 358/100 won Round Six also trip Belgium As sun setting scorer noticed Miller taken third less two points thought score tight Rae Fritz called score recount top 10 Thats Miller/Miller scores straightened out results finalized Sidelights site contest Navy Auxiiary Landing Fielda mile square grass best flying fields youll ever see Pensacola club has using 21 years Rae Fritz retired Navy Chief just pleased out come Steve Work AD4 Navy man sta tioned San Diego special thanks Clint Bobe Rick Herrmann did outstand ing jobs tabulating keeping scores posted Works Bird Time Dave Thornburgs design same design Dave used two years ago Denver miss team two points Bird has kitted limited run Steve second achieve LSF Level V mark earned three years ago final note doubt contest finest caliber fliers ever assembled contest well run competitively clean very well flown Besides excellent duration/landing scores speed run out 120 crossed center line azero score Strategies subtle yet bold sake preserving secrets some tactics wont revealed herenot until next summer anyway few unintentional incidents could have provoked protests Instead heads turned challenges made air rule book Thirtysix 40 contestants still final round Work Koplan Miller know earned way Belgium Next July will represent name USA Soaring Lets support January 1979 83 Above Craig Foxgord holding original de sign sailplane Rick Norwoodboth California Foxgord 11th Below Art Sark CL Stan Pfost walk flight line Pfost president NSS Above Discussing what might have Dale Nutter LeMon Payne Bad luck early rounds kept repeating team members both giving final rounds Below Judge Jim Davis winch hauler chose appropriate ly named brand wed have say CL COMBAT TEAM COMMIHEE ANNOUNCED committee responsible dev s ng obtaining approval carrying out pro gram selecting US 1980 Control Line Combat World Championships Team known Combat Team Selection Committee consists representative 11 AMA districts follows Steve Sacco District 478 Main St Norwell MA 02061 Bill Bird II 123 Beechwood Rd Florham Park NJ 07432 Charles Rudner III 3530 Radcliffe Rd Cleveland Hgts OH 44121 Bill Harris IV 11004 Harding Rd Laurel MD 20810 W M Henry V 629 Elysian Fields Nash ville TN 37211 Gary Frost VI 22 Glynn Dr Florissant MO 63031 Paul Smith VII Chairman 323 N Walnut Apt 904 Lansing Ml 48933 George Cleveland VIII 36 Antiqua Kenner LA 70062 Dave Jones IX 666 N Volutsia Wichita KS 67214 Charlie Johnson X 3716 Ingraham St San Diego CA 92109 Chuck Thomas Xl 7711 Easy St Everett WA 98203 Members committee generally recruited Miniature Aircraft Combat Association MACA endorsed respective AMA vice-presidents final step installation committee confirmation members previous program participants obtained mail ballot October POSSIBLE CHANGES TO CB PROCEDURES written AMA Executive Council together Contest Board chairmen CB coordinator process voting mail three proposals revise Contest Board Procedures recent printing document April 1978 issue page 74 Likely re sults vote will printed next month Preceding vote proposals dis tributed Contest Board members re view comment such comments mailed would vote propo sals follows Three-Year Rules Cycle proposal submitted Control Line Racing Advi sory Committee J E Klause chairman change present two-year rules cycle three-year rules cycle three-year cy cle intended increase stability rules also provide years period testing newly enacted rules before commence ment next time period accepting rules-change proposals Proposers Experience proposal also CL Racing Advisory Committee add spaces rules-change propo sal form proposer show number years experience catego ries Indoor FF CL Scale RC show number times proposer has flown and/or directed events past two years Further proposal calls adding fol lowing statement adjacent CD endorse ment space especially important CDs thoroughly analyze implications proposal prior endorsing it' said inclusion information form will help Contest Boards evaluating various proposals before Provisional Supplemental Rule Events Nets Gail E Jacobson College Park GA proposes revise CB Procedures also rule book allow events Provisional Supplemental rules flown National Contest Further proposal provides automatic upgrade Provisional Official events held Nats according such rules notes Provisional Supplemental rules events have held Nats despite pro hibition CB Procedures rule book revisions proposes will legalize present practice Age Class Determination falls under sole jurisdiction Executive Council Contest Board mat ter Council presently considering proposal Joe L Norcross Clovis CA change date age determination clas sification purposes Junior Senior Open July 1 year January 1 year states using present July 1 date results confusion AMA member applicants well officials accept AMA applications fees contests Using January 1 determination date will reduce confusion believes INDOOR WORLD CHAMPS Report Jim Richmond US Team Member 1st Place modelers life little com pare thrill winning World Cham pionship personal standpoint achievement significant cause 10th anniversary 1968 win Rome felt come through time ever going spite short notice British SMAE did usual fine job organizing run ning Championships hat off effort made behalf also outstanding performance result ing first team win UK expedition began panic made mad dash catch charter flight seemed continue varying levels crises excitement until very last day Hot Rod Hulbert made itto Gatwick just time us catch return flight home Just drive through London left side street enough excitement rest hard-working manager Ray Harlan held up very well through did fine job looking after interests addition T-shirts jackets decals travel arrange ments super carrying box get planes processing still found time build optical wingspan checker used precision checking questionable wings during competition also went bat us regarding questionable new un limited steering rule able get jury outlaw sharks tooth hook some installed fronts planes purpose balloon towing plane new location believe ruling avoided controversy could have impaired good spirit competition As turned out British team demon strated outstanding steering capability wit out tooth credit won competition conducted under much better flying conditions endured 1976 weather staying fairly constant mild throughout morning air cool heavy until about 100 PM after flying conditions good rest day US team able get end flying period extended 600 700 PM first day competition provided enough time fly good air Unfor tunately flying stop 600 PM second day because banquet being held evening caused some such self either fly bad morning air lose flights Since already posted good flights previous day afternoon time good air given teammates hopes im proving positions Bud Romak de fending champion fortunate being able fly whenever chose manager Erv Rodemsky put forth tremendous effort came very close capturing second victory third flight 4253 tipped scales Just slight amount bad luck point would have washed out view team flying schedule re quired last day expected see some new innova tions Championships planes pretty much same before Swiss getting some impressive times long Archaeopterix planes Chiub ny Czechoslovakia showed up un usual arc-shaped cabane ship Someone pointed out top four places built planes underweight used ballast make 1 gram Goes show light construction still important Although would have liked bring home Team Championship once again felt second place good showing considering first World Cham pionships other members team British pretty emphatic about holding next Indoor Championships else although great sheds Card ington magnificent site event cant blame wanting someone share burden once Personally Im looking forward return Cardington some day air right flying really great INDOOR WORLD CHAMPS Report Bill Hulbert US Team Member 16th Place participation US Indoor Team certainly culmination years model flyingdating back 1940 Indoor flying has very fascinating particular FAI use Goodyear Air Dock has un doubtedly contributed success other factor Midwest have high ceilings available develop 84 Model Aviation kind flying such Lakehurst Santa Ana opinion Goodyear hangar certainly finest facility available world time After making team last fall spent winter months building preparation fly ing salt mines Romania ie stiff motor sticks reverse flair props etc location changed new building pro gram started six completely tested ships two extra wings 40-mm flight plus number 37s 38s convinced ready new Pirelli rubber looked good abandoned rubber used Team Trials Kennedy Airport set tone whole trip made arrangements special handling two model boxes Cleveland hour half layover Kennedy vanished completely because ramp bag gage problems ended up actually running catch Laker flight just made Fortunately models went through excellent shape Only some minor holes required minimum patching return wings almost totally demolished Glad other way arrived Gatwick early AM very little sleep spent whole day trying arrange transportation getting County Hotel Bedford another whole story arrived couple days before contest stayed couple days afterwards Jean wife spent interesting hours sightseeing England fascinating country much heritage side Saturday test day arrived first glimpse inside Cardington ex cept Richmond Romak before air shed quite different Goodyears sides rising almost straight up yet narrowing very limited space between two top catwalks absolutely necessary fly above catwalks achieve maximum time however side drift often problem ballooning expertise often required Controversy over steering will undoubtedly lead new rules proposals weather generally good during event Sunday being superb day Test day saw flights feeling out air shed motor size propellers What seemed best too different INDOOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS RESULTS PL Name Country1st2nd3rd4th5th6th 1 James Richmond USA 2 Bud Romak reigning W/Champ 3Ron HiggsCanada 4Dieter SiebenmannSwitzerland 5Laurie BarrUK 6Shigeyoshi NonakaJapan 7Jack McGillivrayCanada 8Eduard CiapalaPoland 9RonGreenUK 10Rene ButtiSwitzerland 11Deryl MorleyUK 12Cornelius WoithomNetherlands 13Vilim KmochYugoslavia 14Kurt ViglerW Germany 15Yasutoshi BanbaJapan 16William HulbertUSA 17Eduard ChlubnyCSSR 18Jan DihmPoland 19Takaji MatsuzawaJapan 20Karol RybeckyCSSR 21Harro ErofejeffFinland 22Carlo CotugnoItaly 23 Ryszard Czechowski Poland 24 Ferdinando Migani 25 Leopold Gabrijel 26 Swn-Olav Linden 27 Jiri Kalina 28 Michael Thomas 29 Klaus Nottelmann 30 Daniel Domina 31 Willem Beekmeyer 32 Harri Raullo 33 Germano Masciullo 34 Teodor Strazberger 35 Sven Pontan 36 Werner Wetzel 37 Milan Sitar 38 Timo Forss 39 Edmund Liem 40 Anders Jonsson Italy Yugoslavia Sweden CSSR Canada W Germany USA Netherlands Finland Italy Yugoslavia Sweden W Germany Australia Finland Netherlands Sweden 4149 4055 3516 1305 1103 2833 3545 3443 0640 3437 3045 3120 3038 0838 3433 3439 3331 3258 0014 3223 3032 3415 3106 2701 2607 1618 1148 0643 0518 2314 2811 1555 1624 2215 1624 1429 2141 1736 0047 1324 TEAM RESULTS 1 United Kingdom 2 USA 3 Canada 4 Japan 5 Poland 6 Czechoslovakia 21827 21425 - 21212 21038 20521 19711 3652 4027 3944 3032 3723 3305 3720 3815 2928 2852 3257 3620 3340 3012 3537 2628 3540 3055 3540 1039 2940 0800 2759 0148 3328 2400 2947 2632 1922 1129 2644 2352 2303 0042 1539 2648 2426 2047 1907 1908 4253 1343 0918 3723 2454 4036 1139 3344 3717 3806 3458 3705 3429 Disq 2348 3417 Disq 0906 3303 3059 3347 3313 1618 3254 3003 3115 3207 3033 3037 2922 2408 3127 2731 2510 2739 2232 2542 1840 3116 2858 3057 0824 1513 2711 2542 1259 2238 243 1 3100 3302 2409 2938 2501 3310 2252 3144 3117 2934 3225 2947 1942 2859 3117 2050 3140 2712 2843 1400 1913 2550 2656 2304 2504 2328 0519 2705 2002 1456 3151 1437 3232 3634 1228 3619 3458 3918 2703 2541 1247 2631 3603 3023 3149 3222 0615 3009 3321 3010 1007 1152 0845 3134 3116 2415 1140 2551 2519 2818 2130 2247 2255 1627 2348 3322 3645 3730 0113 2555 3434 3406 1036 3323 3322 3501 2347 3438 2241 3049 1215 0020 2836 3140 2909 2941 2600 3129 2953 2709 0931 2316 2115 2528 0646 1936 7 Yugoslavia 8 Italy 9 West Germany 10 Netherlands 11 Finland 12 Sweden 13 Switzerland 14 Australia Best 2 8442 8122 7629 7453 7357 7341 7339 7313 7302 7154 7128 7121 7045 7032 7000 6917 6911 6715 6657 6544 6528 6514 6453 6453 6445 6428 6256 6244 6050 6026 5848 5631 5514 5443 5235 5216 5205 4937 4930 3748 18933 18521 183 38 17139 17136 15411 14607 5205 configurations used Goodyears hang ar 37-mm flight concluded busy flying day things looked good Unfortunately own flying activities such almost impossible spend time visiting other fliers ob serving models regret however Team Championship paramount everything else secondary flying same design flew Team Trials using 21 prop variable 32 pitch loop 17 x 054 new Pirelli rubber found necessary use heavier motor Monday because cooler conditions first official flight Sunday cal culated safe flight topped out just under top catwalk never trouble 34 39 flight Richmond Romak put up great flights obvious conditions improving first flight used 1940 turns se cond 2080 model climbed perfectly exactly centered within 5 top looked great however consternation did cruise down 25 mm am sure 38 39 mm possible ever loosened wire caused excessive wash-in left tip did explain after 12 15 flights Goodyear Cardington wing cant third flight made using different plane higher pitch prop enough power Monday significantly cooler put three flights top heavier motor resultant faster RPM Almost top flights made Sunday times attest quite disappointed felt could win lot ifs left behind Car dington British flew well should have won particularly outstanding effort Richmond clearly class field Romak flying individ ual since reigning World Cham pion following closely behind banquet fitting climax World Championships toasts much good cheer also provided oppor tunity socialize some unable meet during really strenuous flying conditions found out very quickly flying representative country certainly far different doing own thing dividual such trying make team discovered also team member others very graciously contributed materials other assistance expectation anything return except best effort am indebted Ray Harlan others help Finally am indebted AMA op portunity represent country COMBAT WC RESULTS mistake team results Combat World Championships reported Decem ber issue page 82 third round team results end contest follows 1st England 2nd West Ger Belgium France 5th USA Cana da Italy 8th Ireland Holland 10th Australia 11th Sweden 12th Mexico Brazil 14th Switzerland January 1979 85 1979 US Free Flight World Championships Team members L-R Nordic A-2 Bob lsaacson Lee Hines Jim Wilson Power Ijoug Ual breath Roger Simpson Carl Bogart Wakefield Rubber Walt Ghio Bob Piserchio Bob White Except Bogart California means strenuous process involving local Qualifications Regional Semi-Finals lots haggling over sites procedures last Finals aspirants positions USA teams have sifted sorted winnowed distilled until nine re main what teams have Taft CA site Finals se lect 1979 USA World Championships teams Wakefield Rubber A-2 Towline Glider FAI Power event held September 2-4 Chosen US team members following Wakefield Rubber Walt Ghio Stockton CA Bob Piserchio San Diego CA Bob White Los Angeles CA Nordic A-2 Bob lsaacson Los Angeles CA Jim Wilson Los Angeles CA Lee Hines Los Angeles CA FAI Power Carl Bogart Manassas VA Roger Simpson Sacramento CA Doug Gaibreath Davis CA protest lodged concerning A-2 results AMA President Clemens has accepted Jury recommendation results remain unchanged assump tion principle behind Jury deci sion applied consistently throughout event Some Finals recent years have disasters because poor weather poor local geography combination two Taft ideal siteperhaps best USand weather early September usually excellent rain unheard During first two days three-day meet weather mild side typical 97 degrees F mid-afternoon no strong winds Models seldom drifted over quarter mile Thermals regular mild no Taft trash-lifters between first two rounds Labor Day started drizzle remained between drizzle light rain rest day strangely neither modelers nor models seemed mind too much Ther mal activity decreased bit sort weather have home FAI competition flying done rounds contestant required make flight within specified time period maxis normally 3 minutes flights lasting longer 3 minutes scored 3 minutes Fuse clockwork devices rigged make models descend quickly after making max name game make maxes possible Model specificationsweight wing area etcare such severely limit performance Power model engine runs limited 7 se conds Wakefield rubber motors limited weight 16 oz example still air such thing best A-2 Nordic gliders can barely make 3-minute flights Power Wakefield models 4 minutes thermal activity doesnt mean much What goes up must come down thermals going up air between thermals coming down Find thermal dont max So thermal detection real game Methods include sensing changes 86 Model Aviation Left A qUalified welcome sign greeted Visitors Middle Willard Smitz team member 1975 1977 flew both Nordic Wakefield used mini-trail bike retrieval did others Right Frank Paulinwho made first flight Finals uses special transit track model Device gives compass bearing Wind strong enough make retrieval problem knew experience prepared air temperature speed direction eyes skin mylar streamers attached tops 20-ft poles bubble machines cat tail fluff thrown air air-tempera ture measuring instruments can react within second some equipped stripchart recorders best another model circling overhead World Champs survive seven regular rounds described above maxes go flyoffs maxes successive flyoff flights increase 1 -mm increments Flyoffs occur late day thermal activity has decreased isnt long before winner decided format Finals pick US teams made tough three days started flight before dawn 4minute max made within 15-minute time period intended simulate World Champs flyoff rounds followed day five rounds normal 3-minute maxes made within specified 1-hour bracket totals 18 flights altogether about enough check out technical psy chological factors affect persons poten tial winning World Champs An tougher program would better perhaps impractical Rounding up 30 36 timekeepers shortly after 6 am wasnt easy atfirst some ad justments made couldnt get through processing line fore starting gun worked itself out Power first round day half contestants launched within min ute after round opened Towline glider fliers started towing too very start round modern circle-tow techniques can tow almost indefinitely look ing suitable thermal activity before releas ing glider towline Needless say 33 guys running over place line crossings aplenty Fortunately vertually no wind during first rounds fliers could run off both direc tions starting line reduced problem bit January1979 87 Marc Nagasawa age 20 has flying Nor dics three years third Models trick towhooks own de sign Beautiful workmanship tidy equipment Nordic fliers line up receive towline winches timekeepers start round Tense moments Sick jokes unnecessary fussing hardware ease tension Bob lsaacson hooks up towline protected drizzle hand-held mobile tent Final scores Nordic close lsaacson topped field Left Bob Hatschek likes light tails short noses Aluminum-tube fuselage houses own version circle-zoom towhook invented Rwsians Right Jim Wilson got spot team using V-dihedral model meet C C 0 0 LI 0 p 1 aaaaamaaaaaoaamaOaoaaa-o O0O0JO0S00J0-- omOooaoOosoOOa a -3 2 m 00 ammamama 1 222 2222222222 000000000ca0O0 2 ammmaammama 22 C I- cm.aoma Oaaaaoaaaaa aO0O0M0c00O000OS0.c0O00S00O00O0Co 00M0s0 000OMO 000 oM0MMOJcQ~000000 000000000000 OOOMmMcc 0200000000000 . am aOOO aoa--c--M00000 ma 000O00aOaO00c000000~M 0400000 OaOOOQ MMWa0000 004 00MM ft OWo S 0 U w 0 o ow S cc P jo MM 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c 0 g ~2 o 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 out looked like wet noodle airplane Taft plastic tent stakes used anchor winding stooge broke winding model model demolished managed bend borrowed stooge too fortunately out fatal results once started stretch out motor winding torquemeter situated between geared winder motor disassembled itself torquemeter just little stronger waited break motor fully stretched would have meant third de stroyed model winners have hard luck Carl Bogart destroyed two new Power models practice posted two perfect scores meet using models year half old day before contest started Doug Gaibreath wiped out best models wore out two brand new engines bad fuel Bob Whites model stalled way ground flight out-of-kilter wing went unnoticed wouldnt tell story Chris Matsuno merely excellent free flighter superb modeler long-term record shows tell merely example what can happen frequently does happen competition among best best start twelfth round Chris tied first perfect score thermal model damaged repaired test flight would necessary ensure nothing out whack getting late Chris elected fly still air model slow climbing machine long motor run easily does over 4 minutes thermal-free air So didnt need thermals feltall needed neutral airno uppers no downers Chris launched soon evident air poor side neutral model landed minute short 3 minute max model dam aged taken time test flight thermal model chosen correct moment launch usual skill care might well have national hero instead also-ran Id writing hard-luck story about some other superb modeler Watching Chris fly lesson time-andmotion analysis isnt much wasted muscle twitch Everything hasa proper place goes back finish es winding winder goes its assigned spot winding stooge number turns gets written down little book toolbox lid toolbox gets closed Only does start looking suitable air launch model easy write hard-luck stories about guys almost made first place Its harder write about two maxed outWalt Ghio Wakefield Carl Bogart Powersimply because flew ordinarylooking models ordinary-looking way made maxing look easy Bogarts two models 11/2 years old two newer models became instantaneously worn out pre-contest practice Both simple slab-sided affairs No rakish pylonsor trick wingtips Almost Power models have sheet-covered wings automatic incidencechanging mechanisms stabilizer rudder quite few have gadget starts timer instant model re leased wont mention Carls models have things engines stock Ros sis mounted Oliver pans docile ther mal model sports 9% Cherney airfoil 27% stabilizer having thickness ratio 75% four-minute model features 71A% wing thickness 21% stab 5% thick has vari able rib spacingclosely spaced center widely spaced toward tips Nothing unusual about models except perhaps ability make 18 straight maxes Walt Ghios new RL-1 Wakefield model considerably stretched compared ear lier Flux Span flat increased 59 66 fuselage length 48 52 motor tube 18 24 earlier rather popular chem-milled aluminum alloy motor tube has abandoned partially because Walt never totally happy partly because good ones no longer readily avail able partly because has developed motor tube likes much better con sists inner layer epoxy-impregnated DuPont Kevlar cloth layer 1/16 balsa grain running fore-and-aft outer layer thin epoxy-impregnated fiber glass sticking together done epoxy Both models feature highly cam bered Gard-7510 airfoil two turbulators newer has double-tapered planform totally covered 1/32 sheet Most modelers nowadays wind mo tors prop disconnected blastproof aluminum tube stuffed fuselage Quite ritual involved getting rubber wound model assembled ready flight Walt has tried thatincluding winding prop hub attached rubber motor prop blades removed has reverted old-fashioned system winding protective tube inserted fuselage prop attached motor small detachable shield pro tects prop shield turns out too small has plenty identical prop blades fuselage itself blast-proof January1979 89 Above Chris Matsunos pro-flight procedures classic time-and-motion analysisnot wasted motion Includes stretching rubber motor near limit holding 30 sec stretching again winding Below Carl Hermes flew same models used represented US 1963 World Champs Theyre still good shape flew well Right George Xenakis relies heavily recording air-temperature indi cator tell thermals coming ises cat-tail fluff thrown air too Bubble machines also used mark thermals Above Walt Ghio made perfect score Wakenot easy 18 flights Bill Bogart LI holds US record max flights made during day Left Bob White heaves model thermalalmost lost out Carrol Allen cocked wing caused model stall made team anyhow fourth time Whites Vol Libre twin-fin Wake MA plan No 194 Walt demonstrated few times Getting broken half motor out fuselage facilitated having remov able tailboom held place aluminumtube rear motor peg Tailbooms both models simple square-on-edge tapered boxes Sides 1/16 balsa top bottom longerons 3/32square spruce side long erons 3/32-square balsa Nothing un usual about models except perhaps ability make 18 straight maxes cliff-hangers right through last flight start last round 26 seconds separated Gaibreath Kerr Power Gaibreath would need 148 seconds win Kerr maxed Kerr flew first made 180-sec max Galbreath went up air wasnt especially good quite awhile wasnt certain would make watch indicated 148 sec cheers went up group supporters led Crew Chief Head Cheerleader Ken Oliver model landed short max 12 sec onds later administrative aspects Finals superb Opinions concerning site selec tion competition format eligibility par ticipants other such sticky matters got sorted out committee charged getting done voted par ticipants accordance basic system formulated Hardy Brodersen some four years ago Finals participants well formed what going well advance meet predictable processing contestants obtaining sufficient num ber timekeepers would hassle especial ly early-morning rounds deed hassle sensible adjustments made smoothed out fuss Southern California Aero Team SCAT responsible Finals made go made happen deserve thanks admiration bit much made team few hard-working bunch Andy Faykun Finals Administrator Bill Har till Contest Director Joe Norcross Chief Timekeeper Ross Steckel Nordic F 1 Event Director lrv Aker Wakefield FiB Event Di rector Craig Cusick Power FiC Event Di rector Rol Anderson preceded Bob Stalick George Xenakis FAI Committee Chair manplus committee members too numer ous mention Youngest Power flier Bruce Hannah takes break money until adjusting screw came loose thirteenth round Dick Lyons checks out Power model tween flights maxed last nine flights finished sixth place Carl Bogart Power post perfect scoreand the three teams outside California Simple clean models used stock Rossis Tail Bob Mattes model displays usual array gadgetry optimize trim climb transition glide Dave Rounsaville 75 team member changes plug Excelsior newest long line Engine specialist Doc Anderson 1 Dick Swenson ctr help Rol Anderson check out model before dawn first days flying Rol chairman FF Team Selection Comm Tom McLaughlan flew until bitter end helped Jerry Wagner despite cracking shoulder tripped over tent rope darkness Below Roger Simpson second Power Below Doug Joyce seriously lacerated aHis latest wing uses double spars diagon thumb 1st round fiberglass prop butal ribs between covering balsa flew canard 18 flights anyhowfiberglass Cured flutter thin wings
Edition: Model Aviation - 1979/01
Page Numbers: 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90
USA J AEROIdA Miller flu summer First air must cleared what some thought happened Work Koplan busy sewing up respective spots jack Hiner busier trying hold dpwn number three spota position held fourth round As last round ending Jackflew lOof 12 laps dis tance tasks perfect si-minute dur ation task coupled 90-point landing Most scoreboard watchers thought two flights enough nail down wnui IFTEENT NA offered ck ibt passed wo iple flights too nf best fowl nessed started off enis championshii *ying gra durationsaw o fliersn five-minute flights seven score less 85 landing poin perfect 360/100 secondsflandin 1000-point scores LeMon Payne f attempt maintain pace ha lished South Africa Payne pushe culmination program select three-I 1979 World Championships Pensacola Report Photos Dan Steve Work left Terry Skip Miller below reigning W Time sailplane designed Dave vator plane Team Finals Ke ter abor new fa won ing WA e Above Herb Smith original design Invador very clean ship con trolsrudder elevator spoilers flaps 8th Below Lee Renaud R helps Don Edberg get ready launch Aquila Grande Don 3 comuecutive 1000s Rounds 45 Carroll Moffatt above carries Aquila involved mideir collision Doyle Modestos Legionair shown below what looked like max have light breeze take bird downwind too fast pace meager height gain thermal giving Dale brought bird home before could max worse yet breeze caused Esprit land over 100 ters spotand rules brutally state thats zero flight score Only four fliers failed get maxes 12 scored less 85 land ing points Bob Gill Illinois flew Viking II perfect score 360/ 100 1000 points Day ended Distancethe make-you-or-break-you task pastby years rules has 12-lap maximum Further rules allow eight min utes working time 12 laps flown within four minutes Only half 40 fliers flew 10 laps just six maxed out among Steve Work New Mexico Terry Koplan California Kop Ian led end Round Two 3944 points point found out later scoring error 150-some points reversed Skip Miller Colorado Blame Miller Florida Rae Fritz Contest Director terrupted Nutters working time previous day calling measurement allowed RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS Speed tionDistanceRoundTotal P1Name/State/ModelRdSecs/PtsTime/Land/PtsLaps/PtsPointsPoints 1SteveWork1142/958358/50/88718447 NMex temp CA2359/90/97612/100019760 Bird Time3137/993358/90/97819708116857 4357/100/99612/100019956 5145/937358/100/99519335 6358/85/96512/100019650 2Terry Koplan1145/938359/100/99819358 California2359/100/99812/100019978 Viking3136/1000270/100/80818078113093 4353/95/97612/100019760 5170/800359/90/97617760 6357/95/98310/83318160 3Skip Miller1161 /845360/90/97818230 Colorado2360/95/9897%/64616349 Aquila Grande3150/906359/95/99118979111849 4312/100/89812/100018976 5143/951357/95/98219336 6359/100/99812/100019980 4Jack Hiner1152/895340/100/95718513 Illinois2357/85/96112/100019608 Aquila Grande3162/840357/100/99818373110326 4344/90/94612/100019455 5212/641358/95/98416262 6360/90/97810/83318115 5Bill Haga1195/697357/90/97716992 Texas2355/95/9781 0%/89618740 Legionair3166/819359/90/98017996109329 4359/100/100010%/89618958 5156/871359/100/99718696 6356/100/99110/83318240 6Bob Gill1149/913359/95/98718997 Illinois2360/100/10004%/39613958 Viking Mk II3138/986353/85/95619418108572 4357/100/99612/100019950 5166/819359/95/98618062 6358/95/98510/83318180 7Don Cameron1165/824358/85/96317893 Colorado23 57/80/9509/75017000 Aquila3148/919358/90/97818970107250 4359/55/90212/100019019 5170/800353/100/98417847 6355/100/9898/66616551 8Herb Smith1147/925360/100/1 00019252 Colorado2359/100/99812/100019978 Orig Invader3172/791360/95/99317841107236 4271/85/77611/91716926 5164/829357/95/98218118 6356/100/9916h/52015110 9Jack Hamilton1196/694357/100/9931687A Texas2359/75/94311/91718600 Legionair3187/727357/95/98717142107005 4360/95/99111/91719079 5196/693354/95/97616699 6359 /85/9891 0%/89518840 10John Gunsaullus1184/739360/100/1 00017391 Florida2357/100/9939/75017434 Original3174/781354/95/98017620106327 4358/100/99812/100019978 5184/739360/1 00/1 00017391 6355/95/9788/66616440 Dale re-fly duration task allowed balance working time count towards score plane re-positioned previous days spot working time allowed continue buzzer went off Steve Work retrieved Dale re-launched flew 344 made 90-point landing seconds before working time expired replaced zero score 314 points duration task Round Three no perfect scores Bill Johnson New York flew original bird 3581100 Because best round Bill earned 1000 points Only 11 failed score maxes 1 3 landing points under 85 mark Terry Koplan pushed Viking 136 speed followed Work 137 Gill 1 38 thirteens task However Hayes 140 put him back lead end round 5794 two points ahead secondplace Work 53 points ahead third-place Koplan Hiner fifth Skip Miller sev enth440 points behind leader point two contestants dropped out weather consistenthot 90s windwhen anyof six eight knots direction varied north northwest conditions pre RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS SpeedDurationDistance Round Total P1 Name/State/Model Rd Secs/Pts Time/Land/Pts Laps/Pts Points Points 11Craig Foxgord1192/708369/95/98716953 California2359/95/98711/91719036 Unknown3187/727206/85/63513626104814 4341/100/96110/2/87518357 5188/723354/95/97616994 6353/100/98512/100019850 12Ray Hayes1136/1000358/95/98519848 Indiana2353/90/96311/91718797 Osprey 9003140/971344/95/95919299103644 4231/80/6786/50011775 5144/944338/95/94118857 6354/90/9656A/54115060 13Blame Miller1177/768359/90/97617444 Florida2355/95/97810/83318110 Unknown3163/834358/60/91317470103137 4355/45/87110/83317047 5268/507350/100/97814857 6359/95/98710/83318200 14Bob Domer1173/786357/100/99317796 Colorado2359/65/92210/83317550 Legionair3165/824248/65/68315076102717 4356/80/95010%/89618457 5164/829359/75/94317727 6359/85/9867%/64516110 15Tom Williams1142/958360/1 00/1 00019577 Texas2359/100/9987h/60416019 Paramount3155/877344/0/75116285102369 4302/100/8761 0h/85417299 5172/790330/95/92317146 6360/100/100074/60416040 16Don Edberg1150/907355/85/95718632 California2318/0/6916/50011913 Aquila Grande3140/971356/0/77717487101871 4359/100/100012/100020000 5136/1000353/95/97319739 6357/100/9935/41614100 17Dwight Holley1186/731358/85/96316942 Connecticut2354/95/9768/66716427 Maestro3154/883355/100/99318765101659 4355/100/99110/83318246 5149/912357/90/97118844 6357/100/9933/25012434 18Dale Nutter1193/705358/95/98516894 Oklahoma2224/90/31411/91715992 Esprit3201/677354/95/98016569101092 4356/100/99312/100019934 5163/834358/90/97318082 63 59/95/9874A/37513620 19Matt Sheldon1156/872357/90/97218435 Colorado2359/100/99812/100019978 Olympic II3170/800178/0/38911886100754 4359/80/9567/58315397 5180/755358/80/95217077 6267/100/79812/100017980 20William Johnson1165/824357/95/98318069 New York2360/95/98910/83318224 Original3237/574358/1 00/1 00015738100682 4356/0/7767/58313589 5164/829360/100/100018292 6336/100/9488%/72916770 January 1979 81 Above Ray Hayes holds up Osprey 990 original design identification dis tant flagman Below models Dale Nut ter LI Dr Stan Pfost RI head starting point Dave Thornburg Betty Nutter LeMon Payne Nutter Payne 1977 US team members Above Jack Hamilton shows damaged rudder happened during distance task Asks Pruss Did strike bird shed parts Below Bill Haga Legionair rose 13th end Round 2 finish 5th Contest Director Rae Fritz Team Finals tough manage direct author gives Fritz high marks job well done vailed three days Don Edberg California took next duration task lust short perfect 359/ 100 first three-in-a-row 1000-point tasks Only six failed max 10 scored under 85 points landing circle second day competition ended third dayLabor Daywas taken lit erally Rae Fritz crew set fast pace earlythen maintained pace got 21/2 rounds lust before sun went down Distance second half Round Four started day early morning fliers bit skeptical about possibility getting 12 laps Results showed over half fliers logged 10 lapsthe best distance rounds contest end Round Four standings read Work Koplan Hiner Smith Cameron Skip Miller latter three being Colorado Bob Gill managed 4 laps Round Two 21st worked himself up eighth place Steve Work now 7787 points out possible 8000 Jack Hamilton Texas 10th place still within striking distance 7170 points Doyle Modesto Carrol Moffatt both Texas added excitement previous distance task both tried occupy same airspace lap seven Modesto landed Le gionair safely did Moffatt Aquila ever Legionair holding metal spar Aquila strike suffered broken wing spar Carrol set teled no-fix seven laps Dallas Body Fender Shop repaired Le gionairs wing tin 7-Up Gatorade cans Doyle took re-flight logged seven laps Round Five Don Edberg loaded Aquila Grande 22 ounces ballast turned 136 seemed speed barrier meet No turned faster Hayes Koplan gone fast 136 gave Don third 1000-point round row earlier missed landing six laps distance task kept him out top 10 spectacular bit flying Gill decided go broke plunked two pounds lead Viking II Gills technique have seconds counted off him during run base base B right time turn anticipated goes well run elevens Its gutsy ap proach Gill ready wife gave him count boiled through base count five Bob turn RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS Speed tionDistanceRoundTotal P1Name/State/ModelRdSecsIPtsTime/Land /PtsLapslPtsPointsPoints 21Tom Decker1193/705359/95/98716916 New York2358/100/99611/2/95819539 Unknown3200/680302/0/65913394100554 4348/30/82412/100018235 5167/814356/100/99118056 6343/90/9416/50014413 22LeMon Payne10/0360/1 00/1 00010000 Texas2359/90/97612/100019760 Legionair3169/805354/100/9911795999576 4357/95/98510/83318180 5142/957359/100/99719555 6358/100/9965/41614120 23Doyle Modesto121 8/624359/55/90015239 Texas2339/0/73711/91716536 Legionair3207/657360/90/9831639598896 4300/45/75212/100017516 5192/708358/60/89115996 6359/50/88910/83317220 24Phil Harris121 2/642346/100/97016111 California2359/100/99810/83318311 Paragon3193/704358/95/9891693798254 4360/95/99110/83318246 5208/653360/95/98916429 6266/95/7855//43712220 25Chuck Copeland121 3/638356/100/99116298 Alaska2356/90/9704/2/35413237 Grand Esprit3203/670261/90/7661436398006 4355/85/95911h/93818961 5200/680357 /85/96016408 6307/95/87412/1 00018739 26Fritz Bien1181/751352/75/92816796 Massachusetts2357/45/8749/75016239 T Aquila3165/824352/80/9431767597931 4359/85/9679/75017173 5167/814355/90/96717817 6271/100/8065/41612231 27Bob Baugher1185/735360/85/96717025 Pennsylvania2359/90/9767/58315594 Aquila3178/764349/90/9591722696505 4360/90/9809/75017303 521 0/648350/95/96716150 6335/100/9464A/37513200 28Allan Marshall1185/735355/85/95716917 Massachusetts2359/85/9657/58315485 Unknown3161/845308/90/8691713795133 4358/95/9878/66716535 50/0356/80/9479478 6360/100/100011/2/95819580 29Terry Ferentinos1205/663357/70/92815917 Florida2359/55/9008/66715666 Unknown3180/756347/90/9541709794561 4358/75/94312/100019433 5184/739356/100/99117304 6229/0/4985/4169144 30James Truitt1242/562356/50/88314446 Texas2356/70/9261 0%/8961821 9 Original321 2/642350/0/7641405790864 4233/95/7157A/62513395 5202/673278/75/76714406 6351/75/9268%/70816340 horn went off looked like 11-second run making wasnt high-G turn caused left wing fold went about 60 degrees dihedral Gill backed off nursed bird back through course respectable 166 819 points crowd loved Jack Hiner time decided play close vest just cruise speed course preserve third-place slot got too cautious after low upwind turn Jack stretch flight Aquila Grande what seemed like endurance run 212 seconds allowed fourth-place Herb Smith Colorado close gap time duration task ended certain Work Koplan first second places locked up Only third place con test sixth round flown Hiners slim nine-point hold third going bait least three people later proved four pursuit Round Six scheduled flights made faster scores could posted No seemed look far enough down roster see seventh-place guy name Skip Miller doing Wasnt way went Denver two years ago Hiner managed 10 laps distance Smith got six quarter Meanwhile Skip got 12 Smith got 356/1 00 duration paper Jack needed amax no land82 Model Aviation RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS SpeedDurationDistance Round Total P1 Name/State/Model Rd Secs/PtsTime/Land/Pts Laps/Pts PointsPoints 31Austin Leftwich1175/777191/95/62213989 Virginia2358/85/9635A/43814005 Unknown3167/814179/0/3911205290835 4246/70/6887%/64613342 5153/888306/95/87117606 6353/100/98412/100019840 32Bob Gerbin10/0230/95/7067065 California2356/95/98010/83318137 Paragon3160/850358/90/9781828289423 4356/95/98312/100019825 5205/663354/100/98616503 6342/100/9610/09610 33Fred Gregg10/0355/95/9789783 Virginia2346/55/8729/75018217 Viking MI321 4/636298/0/6511286186197 4356/75/9399A/81317514 5201/676355/50/88015570 63 56/55/8934/33312260 34Rick Norwood1193/705357/0/77614807 California20/0/09%/8138125 Javelin II3185/735165/95/5681302885340 4346/95/9618/66716274 5183/743360/85/96717105 6291/100/8509/75016000 35James Davis1235/579295/90/83714157 Alabama2358/80/9528/66716188 Legionair3227/599350/85/9501548882004 4358/0/7809/75015299 5212/641360/75/94515871 60/0/06/5005000 36Carrol Moffatt1193/705356/0/77414786 Texas2360/85/96710/83318007 Aquila3168/810347/0/7581567181103 4192/85/6037/58311868 5258/5270/0/05271 6288/80/8009/7 5015500 37William Leathers1206/660358/100/99616558 North Carolina2207/100/66711/91715840 Legionair3196/6940/0/0693868063 4355/95/98011/4/97919595 5325/95/9139130 38Art Sark1209/650311/85/86115116 Florida2354/85/9989/75017043 Paragon3208/654201 /0/4391092762831 4195/90/6215/41710375 5351/80/9369360 39Ed Berton1190/716351 /95/97016853 Florida2358/100/9954/4/3541349837561 Unknown3330/0/7217210 40Stan Pfost1181/751359/90/97617275 Florida2214/70/6176/5001117336417 Paragon3270/95/7977969 ing some combination total 350 points raw Jack got 360190 thats everyone started handshakes Meanwhile Miller getting 358/100 won Round Six also trip Belgium As sun setting scorer noticed Miller taken third less two points thought score tight Rae Fritz called score recount top 10 Thats Miller/Miller scores straightened out results finalized Sidelights site contest Navy Auxiiary Landing Fielda mile square grass best flying fields youll ever see Pensacola club has using 21 years Rae Fritz retired Navy Chief just pleased out come Steve Work AD4 Navy man sta tioned San Diego special thanks Clint Bobe Rick Herrmann did outstand ing jobs tabulating keeping scores posted Works Bird Time Dave Thornburgs design same design Dave used two years ago Denver miss team two points Bird has kitted limited run Steve second achieve LSF Level V mark earned three years ago final note doubt contest finest caliber fliers ever assembled contest well run competitively clean very well flown Besides excellent duration/landing scores speed run out 120 crossed center line azero score Strategies subtle yet bold sake preserving secrets some tactics wont revealed herenot until next summer anyway few unintentional incidents could have provoked protests Instead heads turned challenges made air rule book Thirtysix 40 contestants still final round Work Koplan Miller know earned way Belgium Next July will represent name USA Soaring Lets support January 1979 83 Above Craig Foxgord holding original de sign sailplane Rick Norwoodboth California Foxgord 11th Below Art Sark CL Stan Pfost walk flight line Pfost president NSS Above Discussing what might have Dale Nutter LeMon Payne Bad luck early rounds kept repeating team members both giving final rounds Below Judge Jim Davis winch hauler chose appropriate ly named brand wed have say CL COMBAT TEAM COMMIHEE ANNOUNCED committee responsible dev s ng obtaining approval carrying out pro gram selecting US 1980 Control Line Combat World Championships Team known Combat Team Selection Committee consists representative 11 AMA districts follows Steve Sacco District 478 Main St Norwell MA 02061 Bill Bird II 123 Beechwood Rd Florham Park NJ 07432 Charles Rudner III 3530 Radcliffe Rd Cleveland Hgts OH 44121 Bill Harris IV 11004 Harding Rd Laurel MD 20810 W M Henry V 629 Elysian Fields Nash ville TN 37211 Gary Frost VI 22 Glynn Dr Florissant MO 63031 Paul Smith VII Chairman 323 N Walnut Apt 904 Lansing Ml 48933 George Cleveland VIII 36 Antiqua Kenner LA 70062 Dave Jones IX 666 N Volutsia Wichita KS 67214 Charlie Johnson X 3716 Ingraham St San Diego CA 92109 Chuck Thomas Xl 7711 Easy St Everett WA 98203 Members committee generally recruited Miniature Aircraft Combat Association MACA endorsed respective AMA vice-presidents final step installation committee confirmation members previous program participants obtained mail ballot October POSSIBLE CHANGES TO CB PROCEDURES written AMA Executive Council together Contest Board chairmen CB coordinator process voting mail three proposals revise Contest Board Procedures recent printing document April 1978 issue page 74 Likely re sults vote will printed next month Preceding vote proposals dis tributed Contest Board members re view comment such comments mailed would vote propo sals follows Three-Year Rules Cycle proposal submitted Control Line Racing Advi sory Committee J E Klause chairman change present two-year rules cycle three-year rules cycle three-year cy cle intended increase stability rules also provide years period testing newly enacted rules before commence ment next time period accepting rules-change proposals Proposers Experience proposal also CL Racing Advisory Committee add spaces rules-change propo sal form proposer show number years experience catego ries Indoor FF CL Scale RC show number times proposer has flown and/or directed events past two years Further proposal calls adding fol lowing statement adjacent CD endorse ment space especially important CDs thoroughly analyze implications proposal prior endorsing it' said inclusion information form will help Contest Boards evaluating various proposals before Provisional Supplemental Rule Events Nets Gail E Jacobson College Park GA proposes revise CB Procedures also rule book allow events Provisional Supplemental rules flown National Contest Further proposal provides automatic upgrade Provisional Official events held Nats according such rules notes Provisional Supplemental rules events have held Nats despite pro hibition CB Procedures rule book revisions proposes will legalize present practice Age Class Determination falls under sole jurisdiction Executive Council Contest Board mat ter Council presently considering proposal Joe L Norcross Clovis CA change date age determination clas sification purposes Junior Senior Open July 1 year January 1 year states using present July 1 date results confusion AMA member applicants well officials accept AMA applications fees contests Using January 1 determination date will reduce confusion believes INDOOR WORLD CHAMPS Report Jim Richmond US Team Member 1st Place modelers life little com pare thrill winning World Cham pionship personal standpoint achievement significant cause 10th anniversary 1968 win Rome felt come through time ever going spite short notice British SMAE did usual fine job organizing run ning Championships hat off effort made behalf also outstanding performance result ing first team win UK expedition began panic made mad dash catch charter flight seemed continue varying levels crises excitement until very last day Hot Rod Hulbert made itto Gatwick just time us catch return flight home Just drive through London left side street enough excitement rest hard-working manager Ray Harlan held up very well through did fine job looking after interests addition T-shirts jackets decals travel arrange ments super carrying box get planes processing still found time build optical wingspan checker used precision checking questionable wings during competition also went bat us regarding questionable new un limited steering rule able get jury outlaw sharks tooth hook some installed fronts planes purpose balloon towing plane new location believe ruling avoided controversy could have impaired good spirit competition As turned out British team demon strated outstanding steering capability wit out tooth credit won competition conducted under much better flying conditions endured 1976 weather staying fairly constant mild throughout morning air cool heavy until about 100 PM after flying conditions good rest day US team able get end flying period extended 600 700 PM first day competition provided enough time fly good air Unfor tunately flying stop 600 PM second day because banquet being held evening caused some such self either fly bad morning air lose flights Since already posted good flights previous day afternoon time good air given teammates hopes im proving positions Bud Romak de fending champion fortunate being able fly whenever chose manager Erv Rodemsky put forth tremendous effort came very close capturing second victory third flight 4253 tipped scales Just slight amount bad luck point would have washed out view team flying schedule re quired last day expected see some new innova tions Championships planes pretty much same before Swiss getting some impressive times long Archaeopterix planes Chiub ny Czechoslovakia showed up un usual arc-shaped cabane ship Someone pointed out top four places built planes underweight used ballast make 1 gram Goes show light construction still important Although would have liked bring home Team Championship once again felt second place good showing considering first World Cham pionships other members team British pretty emphatic about holding next Indoor Championships else although great sheds Card ington magnificent site event cant blame wanting someone share burden once Personally Im looking forward return Cardington some day air right flying really great INDOOR WORLD CHAMPS Report Bill Hulbert US Team Member 16th Place participation US Indoor Team certainly culmination years model flyingdating back 1940 Indoor flying has very fascinating particular FAI use Goodyear Air Dock has un doubtedly contributed success other factor Midwest have high ceilings available develop 84 Model Aviation kind flying such Lakehurst Santa Ana opinion Goodyear hangar certainly finest facility available world time After making team last fall spent winter months building preparation fly ing salt mines Romania ie stiff motor sticks reverse flair props etc location changed new building pro gram started six completely tested ships two extra wings 40-mm flight plus number 37s 38s convinced ready new Pirelli rubber looked good abandoned rubber used Team Trials Kennedy Airport set tone whole trip made arrangements special handling two model boxes Cleveland hour half layover Kennedy vanished completely because ramp bag gage problems ended up actually running catch Laker flight just made Fortunately models went through excellent shape Only some minor holes required minimum patching return wings almost totally demolished Glad other way arrived Gatwick early AM very little sleep spent whole day trying arrange transportation getting County Hotel Bedford another whole story arrived couple days before contest stayed couple days afterwards Jean wife spent interesting hours sightseeing England fascinating country much heritage side Saturday test day arrived first glimpse inside Cardington ex cept Richmond Romak before air shed quite different Goodyears sides rising almost straight up yet narrowing very limited space between two top catwalks absolutely necessary fly above catwalks achieve maximum time however side drift often problem ballooning expertise often required Controversy over steering will undoubtedly lead new rules proposals weather generally good during event Sunday being superb day Test day saw flights feeling out air shed motor size propellers What seemed best too different INDOOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS RESULTS PL Name Country1st2nd3rd4th5th6th 1 James Richmond USA 2 Bud Romak reigning W/Champ 3Ron HiggsCanada 4Dieter SiebenmannSwitzerland 5Laurie BarrUK 6Shigeyoshi NonakaJapan 7Jack McGillivrayCanada 8Eduard CiapalaPoland 9RonGreenUK 10Rene ButtiSwitzerland 11Deryl MorleyUK 12Cornelius WoithomNetherlands 13Vilim KmochYugoslavia 14Kurt ViglerW Germany 15Yasutoshi BanbaJapan 16William HulbertUSA 17Eduard ChlubnyCSSR 18Jan DihmPoland 19Takaji MatsuzawaJapan 20Karol RybeckyCSSR 21Harro ErofejeffFinland 22Carlo CotugnoItaly 23 Ryszard Czechowski Poland 24 Ferdinando Migani 25 Leopold Gabrijel 26 Swn-Olav Linden 27 Jiri Kalina 28 Michael Thomas 29 Klaus Nottelmann 30 Daniel Domina 31 Willem Beekmeyer 32 Harri Raullo 33 Germano Masciullo 34 Teodor Strazberger 35 Sven Pontan 36 Werner Wetzel 37 Milan Sitar 38 Timo Forss 39 Edmund Liem 40 Anders Jonsson Italy Yugoslavia Sweden CSSR Canada W Germany USA Netherlands Finland Italy Yugoslavia Sweden W Germany Australia Finland Netherlands Sweden 4149 4055 3516 1305 1103 2833 3545 3443 0640 3437 3045 3120 3038 0838 3433 3439 3331 3258 0014 3223 3032 3415 3106 2701 2607 1618 1148 0643 0518 2314 2811 1555 1624 2215 1624 1429 2141 1736 0047 1324 TEAM RESULTS 1 United Kingdom 2 USA 3 Canada 4 Japan 5 Poland 6 Czechoslovakia 21827 21425 - 21212 21038 20521 19711 3652 4027 3944 3032 3723 3305 3720 3815 2928 2852 3257 3620 3340 3012 3537 2628 3540 3055 3540 1039 2940 0800 2759 0148 3328 2400 2947 2632 1922 1129 2644 2352 2303 0042 1539 2648 2426 2047 1907 1908 4253 1343 0918 3723 2454 4036 1139 3344 3717 3806 3458 3705 3429 Disq 2348 3417 Disq 0906 3303 3059 3347 3313 1618 3254 3003 3115 3207 3033 3037 2922 2408 3127 2731 2510 2739 2232 2542 1840 3116 2858 3057 0824 1513 2711 2542 1259 2238 243 1 3100 3302 2409 2938 2501 3310 2252 3144 3117 2934 3225 2947 1942 2859 3117 2050 3140 2712 2843 1400 1913 2550 2656 2304 2504 2328 0519 2705 2002 1456 3151 1437 3232 3634 1228 3619 3458 3918 2703 2541 1247 2631 3603 3023 3149 3222 0615 3009 3321 3010 1007 1152 0845 3134 3116 2415 1140 2551 2519 2818 2130 2247 2255 1627 2348 3322 3645 3730 0113 2555 3434 3406 1036 3323 3322 3501 2347 3438 2241 3049 1215 0020 2836 3140 2909 2941 2600 3129 2953 2709 0931 2316 2115 2528 0646 1936 7 Yugoslavia 8 Italy 9 West Germany 10 Netherlands 11 Finland 12 Sweden 13 Switzerland 14 Australia Best 2 8442 8122 7629 7453 7357 7341 7339 7313 7302 7154 7128 7121 7045 7032 7000 6917 6911 6715 6657 6544 6528 6514 6453 6453 6445 6428 6256 6244 6050 6026 5848 5631 5514 5443 5235 5216 5205 4937 4930 3748 18933 18521 183 38 17139 17136 15411 14607 5205 configurations used Goodyears hang ar 37-mm flight concluded busy flying day things looked good Unfortunately own flying activities such almost impossible spend time visiting other fliers ob serving models regret however Team Championship paramount everything else secondary flying same design flew Team Trials using 21 prop variable 32 pitch loop 17 x 054 new Pirelli rubber found necessary use heavier motor Monday because cooler conditions first official flight Sunday cal culated safe flight topped out just under top catwalk never trouble 34 39 flight Richmond Romak put up great flights obvious conditions improving first flight used 1940 turns se cond 2080 model climbed perfectly exactly centered within 5 top looked great however consternation did cruise down 25 mm am sure 38 39 mm possible ever loosened wire caused excessive wash-in left tip did explain after 12 15 flights Goodyear Cardington wing cant third flight made using different plane higher pitch prop enough power Monday significantly cooler put three flights top heavier motor resultant faster RPM Almost top flights made Sunday times attest quite disappointed felt could win lot ifs left behind Car dington British flew well should have won particularly outstanding effort Richmond clearly class field Romak flying individ ual since reigning World Cham pion following closely behind banquet fitting climax World Championships toasts much good cheer also provided oppor tunity socialize some unable meet during really strenuous flying conditions found out very quickly flying representative country certainly far different doing own thing dividual such trying make team discovered also team member others very graciously contributed materials other assistance expectation anything return except best effort am indebted Ray Harlan others help Finally am indebted AMA op portunity represent country COMBAT WC RESULTS mistake team results Combat World Championships reported Decem ber issue page 82 third round team results end contest follows 1st England 2nd West Ger Belgium France 5th USA Cana da Italy 8th Ireland Holland 10th Australia 11th Sweden 12th Mexico Brazil 14th Switzerland January 1979 85 1979 US Free Flight World Championships Team members L-R Nordic A-2 Bob lsaacson Lee Hines Jim Wilson Power Ijoug Ual breath Roger Simpson Carl Bogart Wakefield Rubber Walt Ghio Bob Piserchio Bob White Except Bogart California means strenuous process involving local Qualifications Regional Semi-Finals lots haggling over sites procedures last Finals aspirants positions USA teams have sifted sorted winnowed distilled until nine re main what teams have Taft CA site Finals se lect 1979 USA World Championships teams Wakefield Rubber A-2 Towline Glider FAI Power event held September 2-4 Chosen US team members following Wakefield Rubber Walt Ghio Stockton CA Bob Piserchio San Diego CA Bob White Los Angeles CA Nordic A-2 Bob lsaacson Los Angeles CA Jim Wilson Los Angeles CA Lee Hines Los Angeles CA FAI Power Carl Bogart Manassas VA Roger Simpson Sacramento CA Doug Gaibreath Davis CA protest lodged concerning A-2 results AMA President Clemens has accepted Jury recommendation results remain unchanged assump tion principle behind Jury deci sion applied consistently throughout event Some Finals recent years have disasters because poor weather poor local geography combination two Taft ideal siteperhaps best USand weather early September usually excellent rain unheard During first two days three-day meet weather mild side typical 97 degrees F mid-afternoon no strong winds Models seldom drifted over quarter mile Thermals regular mild no Taft trash-lifters between first two rounds Labor Day started drizzle remained between drizzle light rain rest day strangely neither modelers nor models seemed mind too much Ther mal activity decreased bit sort weather have home FAI competition flying done rounds contestant required make flight within specified time period maxis normally 3 minutes flights lasting longer 3 minutes scored 3 minutes Fuse clockwork devices rigged make models descend quickly after making max name game make maxes possible Model specificationsweight wing area etcare such severely limit performance Power model engine runs limited 7 se conds Wakefield rubber motors limited weight 16 oz example still air such thing best A-2 Nordic gliders can barely make 3-minute flights Power Wakefield models 4 minutes thermal activity doesnt mean much What goes up must come down thermals going up air between thermals coming down Find thermal dont max So thermal detection real game Methods include sensing changes 86 Model Aviation Left A qUalified welcome sign greeted Visitors Middle Willard Smitz team member 1975 1977 flew both Nordic Wakefield used mini-trail bike retrieval did others Right Frank Paulinwho made first flight Finals uses special transit track model Device gives compass bearing Wind strong enough make retrieval problem knew experience prepared air temperature speed direction eyes skin mylar streamers attached tops 20-ft poles bubble machines cat tail fluff thrown air air-tempera ture measuring instruments can react within second some equipped stripchart recorders best another model circling overhead World Champs survive seven regular rounds described above maxes go flyoffs maxes successive flyoff flights increase 1 -mm increments Flyoffs occur late day thermal activity has decreased isnt long before winner decided format Finals pick US teams made tough three days started flight before dawn 4minute max made within 15-minute time period intended simulate World Champs flyoff rounds followed day five rounds normal 3-minute maxes made within specified 1-hour bracket totals 18 flights altogether about enough check out technical psy chological factors affect persons poten tial winning World Champs An tougher program would better perhaps impractical Rounding up 30 36 timekeepers shortly after 6 am wasnt easy atfirst some ad justments made couldnt get through processing line fore starting gun worked itself out Power first round day half contestants launched within min ute after round opened Towline glider fliers started towing too very start round modern circle-tow techniques can tow almost indefinitely look ing suitable thermal activity before releas ing glider towline Needless say 33 guys running over place line crossings aplenty Fortunately vertually no wind during first rounds fliers could run off both direc tions starting line reduced problem bit January1979 87 Marc Nagasawa age 20 has flying Nor dics three years third Models trick towhooks own de sign Beautiful workmanship tidy equipment Nordic fliers line up receive towline winches timekeepers start round Tense moments Sick jokes unnecessary fussing hardware ease tension Bob lsaacson hooks up towline protected drizzle hand-held mobile tent Final scores Nordic close lsaacson topped field Left Bob Hatschek likes light tails short noses Aluminum-tube fuselage houses own version circle-zoom towhook invented Rwsians Right Jim Wilson got spot team using V-dihedral model meet C C 0 0 LI 0 p 1 aaaaamaaaaaoaamaOaoaaa-o O0O0JO0S00J0-- omOooaoOosoOOa a -3 2 m 00 ammamama 1 222 2222222222 000000000ca0O0 2 ammmaammama 22 C I- cm.aoma Oaaaaoaaaaa aO0O0M0c00O000OS0.c0O00S00O00O0Co 00M0s0 000OMO 000 oM0MMOJcQ~000000 000000000000 OOOMmMcc 0200000000000 . am aOOO aoa--c--M00000 ma 000O00aOaO00c000000~M 0400000 OaOOOQ MMWa0000 004 00MM ft OWo S 0 U w 0 o ow S cc P jo MM 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c 0 g ~2 o 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 out looked like wet noodle airplane Taft plastic tent stakes used anchor winding stooge broke winding model model demolished managed bend borrowed stooge too fortunately out fatal results once started stretch out motor winding torquemeter situated between geared winder motor disassembled itself torquemeter just little stronger waited break motor fully stretched would have meant third de stroyed model winners have hard luck Carl Bogart destroyed two new Power models practice posted two perfect scores meet using models year half old day before contest started Doug Gaibreath wiped out best models wore out two brand new engines bad fuel Bob Whites model stalled way ground flight out-of-kilter wing went unnoticed wouldnt tell story Chris Matsuno merely excellent free flighter superb modeler long-term record shows tell merely example what can happen frequently does happen competition among best best start twelfth round Chris tied first perfect score thermal model damaged repaired test flight would necessary ensure nothing out whack getting late Chris elected fly still air model slow climbing machine long motor run easily does over 4 minutes thermal-free air So didnt need thermals feltall needed neutral airno uppers no downers Chris launched soon evident air poor side neutral model landed minute short 3 minute max model dam aged taken time test flight thermal model chosen correct moment launch usual skill care might well have national hero instead also-ran Id writing hard-luck story about some other superb modeler Watching Chris fly lesson time-andmotion analysis isnt much wasted muscle twitch Everything hasa proper place goes back finish es winding winder goes its assigned spot winding stooge number turns gets written down little book toolbox lid toolbox gets closed Only does start looking suitable air launch model easy write hard-luck stories about guys almost made first place Its harder write about two maxed outWalt Ghio Wakefield Carl Bogart Powersimply because flew ordinarylooking models ordinary-looking way made maxing look easy Bogarts two models 11/2 years old two newer models became instantaneously worn out pre-contest practice Both simple slab-sided affairs No rakish pylonsor trick wingtips Almost Power models have sheet-covered wings automatic incidencechanging mechanisms stabilizer rudder quite few have gadget starts timer instant model re leased wont mention Carls models have things engines stock Ros sis mounted Oliver pans docile ther mal model sports 9% Cherney airfoil 27% stabilizer having thickness ratio 75% four-minute model features 71A% wing thickness 21% stab 5% thick has vari able rib spacingclosely spaced center widely spaced toward tips Nothing unusual about models except perhaps ability make 18 straight maxes Walt Ghios new RL-1 Wakefield model considerably stretched compared ear lier Flux Span flat increased 59 66 fuselage length 48 52 motor tube 18 24 earlier rather popular chem-milled aluminum alloy motor tube has abandoned partially because Walt never totally happy partly because good ones no longer readily avail able partly because has developed motor tube likes much better con sists inner layer epoxy-impregnated DuPont Kevlar cloth layer 1/16 balsa grain running fore-and-aft outer layer thin epoxy-impregnated fiber glass sticking together done epoxy Both models feature highly cam bered Gard-7510 airfoil two turbulators newer has double-tapered planform totally covered 1/32 sheet Most modelers nowadays wind mo tors prop disconnected blastproof aluminum tube stuffed fuselage Quite ritual involved getting rubber wound model assembled ready flight Walt has tried thatincluding winding prop hub attached rubber motor prop blades removed has reverted old-fashioned system winding protective tube inserted fuselage prop attached motor small detachable shield pro tects prop shield turns out too small has plenty identical prop blades fuselage itself blast-proof January1979 89 Above Chris Matsunos pro-flight procedures classic time-and-motion analysisnot wasted motion Includes stretching rubber motor near limit holding 30 sec stretching again winding Below Carl Hermes flew same models used represented US 1963 World Champs Theyre still good shape flew well Right George Xenakis relies heavily recording air-temperature indi cator tell thermals coming ises cat-tail fluff thrown air too Bubble machines also used mark thermals Above Walt Ghio made perfect score Wakenot easy 18 flights Bill Bogart LI holds US record max flights made during day Left Bob White heaves model thermalalmost lost out Carrol Allen cocked wing caused model stall made team anyhow fourth time Whites Vol Libre twin-fin Wake MA plan No 194 Walt demonstrated few times Getting broken half motor out fuselage facilitated having remov able tailboom held place aluminumtube rear motor peg Tailbooms both models simple square-on-edge tapered boxes Sides 1/16 balsa top bottom longerons 3/32square spruce side long erons 3/32-square balsa Nothing un usual about models except perhaps ability make 18 straight maxes cliff-hangers right through last flight start last round 26 seconds separated Gaibreath Kerr Power Gaibreath would need 148 seconds win Kerr maxed Kerr flew first made 180-sec max Galbreath went up air wasnt especially good quite awhile wasnt certain would make watch indicated 148 sec cheers went up group supporters led Crew Chief Head Cheerleader Ken Oliver model landed short max 12 sec onds later administrative aspects Finals superb Opinions concerning site selec tion competition format eligibility par ticipants other such sticky matters got sorted out committee charged getting done voted par ticipants accordance basic system formulated Hardy Brodersen some four years ago Finals participants well formed what going well advance meet predictable processing contestants obtaining sufficient num ber timekeepers would hassle especial ly early-morning rounds deed hassle sensible adjustments made smoothed out fuss Southern California Aero Team SCAT responsible Finals made go made happen deserve thanks admiration bit much made team few hard-working bunch Andy Faykun Finals Administrator Bill Har till Contest Director Joe Norcross Chief Timekeeper Ross Steckel Nordic F 1 Event Director lrv Aker Wakefield FiB Event Di rector Craig Cusick Power FiC Event Di rector Rol Anderson preceded Bob Stalick George Xenakis FAI Committee Chair manplus committee members too numer ous mention Youngest Power flier Bruce Hannah takes break money until adjusting screw came loose thirteenth round Dick Lyons checks out Power model tween flights maxed last nine flights finished sixth place Carl Bogart Power post perfect scoreand the three teams outside California Simple clean models used stock Rossis Tail Bob Mattes model displays usual array gadgetry optimize trim climb transition glide Dave Rounsaville 75 team member changes plug Excelsior newest long line Engine specialist Doc Anderson 1 Dick Swenson ctr help Rol Anderson check out model before dawn first days flying Rol chairman FF Team Selection Comm Tom McLaughlan flew until bitter end helped Jerry Wagner despite cracking shoulder tripped over tent rope darkness Below Roger Simpson second Power Below Doug Joyce seriously lacerated aHis latest wing uses double spars diagon thumb 1st round fiberglass prop butal ribs between covering balsa flew canard 18 flights anyhowfiberglass Cured flutter thin wings
Edition: Model Aviation - 1979/01
Page Numbers: 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90
USA J AEROIdA Miller flu summer First air must cleared what some thought happened Work Koplan busy sewing up respective spots jack Hiner busier trying hold dpwn number three spota position held fourth round As last round ending Jackflew lOof 12 laps dis tance tasks perfect si-minute dur ation task coupled 90-point landing Most scoreboard watchers thought two flights enough nail down wnui IFTEENT NA offered ck ibt passed wo iple flights too nf best fowl nessed started off enis championshii *ying gra durationsaw o fliersn five-minute flights seven score less 85 landing poin perfect 360/100 secondsflandin 1000-point scores LeMon Payne f attempt maintain pace ha lished South Africa Payne pushe culmination program select three-I 1979 World Championships Pensacola Report Photos Dan Steve Work left Terry Skip Miller below reigning W Time sailplane designed Dave vator plane Team Finals Ke ter abor new fa won ing WA e Above Herb Smith original design Invador very clean ship con trolsrudder elevator spoilers flaps 8th Below Lee Renaud R helps Don Edberg get ready launch Aquila Grande Don 3 comuecutive 1000s Rounds 45 Carroll Moffatt above carries Aquila involved mideir collision Doyle Modestos Legionair shown below what looked like max have light breeze take bird downwind too fast pace meager height gain thermal giving Dale brought bird home before could max worse yet breeze caused Esprit land over 100 ters spotand rules brutally state thats zero flight score Only four fliers failed get maxes 12 scored less 85 land ing points Bob Gill Illinois flew Viking II perfect score 360/ 100 1000 points Day ended Distancethe make-you-or-break-you task pastby years rules has 12-lap maximum Further rules allow eight min utes working time 12 laps flown within four minutes Only half 40 fliers flew 10 laps just six maxed out among Steve Work New Mexico Terry Koplan California Kop Ian led end Round Two 3944 points point found out later scoring error 150-some points reversed Skip Miller Colorado Blame Miller Florida Rae Fritz Contest Director terrupted Nutters working time previous day calling measurement allowed RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS Speed tionDistanceRoundTotal P1Name/State/ModelRdSecs/PtsTime/Land/PtsLaps/PtsPointsPoints 1SteveWork1142/958358/50/88718447 NMex temp CA2359/90/97612/100019760 Bird Time3137/993358/90/97819708116857 4357/100/99612/100019956 5145/937358/100/99519335 6358/85/96512/100019650 2Terry Koplan1145/938359/100/99819358 California2359/100/99812/100019978 Viking3136/1000270/100/80818078113093 4353/95/97612/100019760 5170/800359/90/97617760 6357/95/98310/83318160 3Skip Miller1161 /845360/90/97818230 Colorado2360/95/9897%/64616349 Aquila Grande3150/906359/95/99118979111849 4312/100/89812/100018976 5143/951357/95/98219336 6359/100/99812/100019980 4Jack Hiner1152/895340/100/95718513 Illinois2357/85/96112/100019608 Aquila Grande3162/840357/100/99818373110326 4344/90/94612/100019455 5212/641358/95/98416262 6360/90/97810/83318115 5Bill Haga1195/697357/90/97716992 Texas2355/95/9781 0%/89618740 Legionair3166/819359/90/98017996109329 4359/100/100010%/89618958 5156/871359/100/99718696 6356/100/99110/83318240 6Bob Gill1149/913359/95/98718997 Illinois2360/100/10004%/39613958 Viking Mk II3138/986353/85/95619418108572 4357/100/99612/100019950 5166/819359/95/98618062 6358/95/98510/83318180 7Don Cameron1165/824358/85/96317893 Colorado23 57/80/9509/75017000 Aquila3148/919358/90/97818970107250 4359/55/90212/100019019 5170/800353/100/98417847 6355/100/9898/66616551 8Herb Smith1147/925360/100/1 00019252 Colorado2359/100/99812/100019978 Orig Invader3172/791360/95/99317841107236 4271/85/77611/91716926 5164/829357/95/98218118 6356/100/9916h/52015110 9Jack Hamilton1196/694357/100/9931687A Texas2359/75/94311/91718600 Legionair3187/727357/95/98717142107005 4360/95/99111/91719079 5196/693354/95/97616699 6359 /85/9891 0%/89518840 10John Gunsaullus1184/739360/100/1 00017391 Florida2357/100/9939/75017434 Original3174/781354/95/98017620106327 4358/100/99812/100019978 5184/739360/1 00/1 00017391 6355/95/9788/66616440 Dale re-fly duration task allowed balance working time count towards score plane re-positioned previous days spot working time allowed continue buzzer went off Steve Work retrieved Dale re-launched flew 344 made 90-point landing seconds before working time expired replaced zero score 314 points duration task Round Three no perfect scores Bill Johnson New York flew original bird 3581100 Because best round Bill earned 1000 points Only 11 failed score maxes 1 3 landing points under 85 mark Terry Koplan pushed Viking 136 speed followed Work 137 Gill 1 38 thirteens task However Hayes 140 put him back lead end round 5794 two points ahead secondplace Work 53 points ahead third-place Koplan Hiner fifth Skip Miller sev enth440 points behind leader point two contestants dropped out weather consistenthot 90s windwhen anyof six eight knots direction varied north northwest conditions pre RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS SpeedDurationDistance Round Total P1 Name/State/Model Rd Secs/Pts Time/Land/Pts Laps/Pts Points Points 11Craig Foxgord1192/708369/95/98716953 California2359/95/98711/91719036 Unknown3187/727206/85/63513626104814 4341/100/96110/2/87518357 5188/723354/95/97616994 6353/100/98512/100019850 12Ray Hayes1136/1000358/95/98519848 Indiana2353/90/96311/91718797 Osprey 9003140/971344/95/95919299103644 4231/80/6786/50011775 5144/944338/95/94118857 6354/90/9656A/54115060 13Blame Miller1177/768359/90/97617444 Florida2355/95/97810/83318110 Unknown3163/834358/60/91317470103137 4355/45/87110/83317047 5268/507350/100/97814857 6359/95/98710/83318200 14Bob Domer1173/786357/100/99317796 Colorado2359/65/92210/83317550 Legionair3165/824248/65/68315076102717 4356/80/95010%/89618457 5164/829359/75/94317727 6359/85/9867%/64516110 15Tom Williams1142/958360/1 00/1 00019577 Texas2359/100/9987h/60416019 Paramount3155/877344/0/75116285102369 4302/100/8761 0h/85417299 5172/790330/95/92317146 6360/100/100074/60416040 16Don Edberg1150/907355/85/95718632 California2318/0/6916/50011913 Aquila Grande3140/971356/0/77717487101871 4359/100/100012/100020000 5136/1000353/95/97319739 6357/100/9935/41614100 17Dwight Holley1186/731358/85/96316942 Connecticut2354/95/9768/66716427 Maestro3154/883355/100/99318765101659 4355/100/99110/83318246 5149/912357/90/97118844 6357/100/9933/25012434 18Dale Nutter1193/705358/95/98516894 Oklahoma2224/90/31411/91715992 Esprit3201/677354/95/98016569101092 4356/100/99312/100019934 5163/834358/90/97318082 63 59/95/9874A/37513620 19Matt Sheldon1156/872357/90/97218435 Colorado2359/100/99812/100019978 Olympic II3170/800178/0/38911886100754 4359/80/9567/58315397 5180/755358/80/95217077 6267/100/79812/100017980 20William Johnson1165/824357/95/98318069 New York2360/95/98910/83318224 Original3237/574358/1 00/1 00015738100682 4356/0/7767/58313589 5164/829360/100/100018292 6336/100/9488%/72916770 January 1979 81 Above Ray Hayes holds up Osprey 990 original design identification dis tant flagman Below models Dale Nut ter LI Dr Stan Pfost RI head starting point Dave Thornburg Betty Nutter LeMon Payne Nutter Payne 1977 US team members Above Jack Hamilton shows damaged rudder happened during distance task Asks Pruss Did strike bird shed parts Below Bill Haga Legionair rose 13th end Round 2 finish 5th Contest Director Rae Fritz Team Finals tough manage direct author gives Fritz high marks job well done vailed three days Don Edberg California took next duration task lust short perfect 359/ 100 first three-in-a-row 1000-point tasks Only six failed max 10 scored under 85 points landing circle second day competition ended third dayLabor Daywas taken lit erally Rae Fritz crew set fast pace earlythen maintained pace got 21/2 rounds lust before sun went down Distance second half Round Four started day early morning fliers bit skeptical about possibility getting 12 laps Results showed over half fliers logged 10 lapsthe best distance rounds contest end Round Four standings read Work Koplan Hiner Smith Cameron Skip Miller latter three being Colorado Bob Gill managed 4 laps Round Two 21st worked himself up eighth place Steve Work now 7787 points out possible 8000 Jack Hamilton Texas 10th place still within striking distance 7170 points Doyle Modesto Carrol Moffatt both Texas added excitement previous distance task both tried occupy same airspace lap seven Modesto landed Le gionair safely did Moffatt Aquila ever Legionair holding metal spar Aquila strike suffered broken wing spar Carrol set teled no-fix seven laps Dallas Body Fender Shop repaired Le gionairs wing tin 7-Up Gatorade cans Doyle took re-flight logged seven laps Round Five Don Edberg loaded Aquila Grande 22 ounces ballast turned 136 seemed speed barrier meet No turned faster Hayes Koplan gone fast 136 gave Don third 1000-point round row earlier missed landing six laps distance task kept him out top 10 spectacular bit flying Gill decided go broke plunked two pounds lead Viking II Gills technique have seconds counted off him during run base base B right time turn anticipated goes well run elevens Its gutsy ap proach Gill ready wife gave him count boiled through base count five Bob turn RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS Speed tionDistanceRoundTotal P1Name/State/ModelRdSecsIPtsTime/Land /PtsLapslPtsPointsPoints 21Tom Decker1193/705359/95/98716916 New York2358/100/99611/2/95819539 Unknown3200/680302/0/65913394100554 4348/30/82412/100018235 5167/814356/100/99118056 6343/90/9416/50014413 22LeMon Payne10/0360/1 00/1 00010000 Texas2359/90/97612/100019760 Legionair3169/805354/100/9911795999576 4357/95/98510/83318180 5142/957359/100/99719555 6358/100/9965/41614120 23Doyle Modesto121 8/624359/55/90015239 Texas2339/0/73711/91716536 Legionair3207/657360/90/9831639598896 4300/45/75212/100017516 5192/708358/60/89115996 6359/50/88910/83317220 24Phil Harris121 2/642346/100/97016111 California2359/100/99810/83318311 Paragon3193/704358/95/9891693798254 4360/95/99110/83318246 5208/653360/95/98916429 6266/95/7855//43712220 25Chuck Copeland121 3/638356/100/99116298 Alaska2356/90/9704/2/35413237 Grand Esprit3203/670261/90/7661436398006 4355/85/95911h/93818961 5200/680357 /85/96016408 6307/95/87412/1 00018739 26Fritz Bien1181/751352/75/92816796 Massachusetts2357/45/8749/75016239 T Aquila3165/824352/80/9431767597931 4359/85/9679/75017173 5167/814355/90/96717817 6271/100/8065/41612231 27Bob Baugher1185/735360/85/96717025 Pennsylvania2359/90/9767/58315594 Aquila3178/764349/90/9591722696505 4360/90/9809/75017303 521 0/648350/95/96716150 6335/100/9464A/37513200 28Allan Marshall1185/735355/85/95716917 Massachusetts2359/85/9657/58315485 Unknown3161/845308/90/8691713795133 4358/95/9878/66716535 50/0356/80/9479478 6360/100/100011/2/95819580 29Terry Ferentinos1205/663357/70/92815917 Florida2359/55/9008/66715666 Unknown3180/756347/90/9541709794561 4358/75/94312/100019433 5184/739356/100/99117304 6229/0/4985/4169144 30James Truitt1242/562356/50/88314446 Texas2356/70/9261 0%/8961821 9 Original321 2/642350/0/7641405790864 4233/95/7157A/62513395 5202/673278/75/76714406 6351/75/9268%/70816340 horn went off looked like 11-second run making wasnt high-G turn caused left wing fold went about 60 degrees dihedral Gill backed off nursed bird back through course respectable 166 819 points crowd loved Jack Hiner time decided play close vest just cruise speed course preserve third-place slot got too cautious after low upwind turn Jack stretch flight Aquila Grande what seemed like endurance run 212 seconds allowed fourth-place Herb Smith Colorado close gap time duration task ended certain Work Koplan first second places locked up Only third place con test sixth round flown Hiners slim nine-point hold third going bait least three people later proved four pursuit Round Six scheduled flights made faster scores could posted No seemed look far enough down roster see seventh-place guy name Skip Miller doing Wasnt way went Denver two years ago Hiner managed 10 laps distance Smith got six quarter Meanwhile Skip got 12 Smith got 356/1 00 duration paper Jack needed amax no land82 Model Aviation RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS SpeedDurationDistance Round Total P1 Name/State/Model Rd Secs/PtsTime/Land/Pts Laps/Pts PointsPoints 31Austin Leftwich1175/777191/95/62213989 Virginia2358/85/9635A/43814005 Unknown3167/814179/0/3911205290835 4246/70/6887%/64613342 5153/888306/95/87117606 6353/100/98412/100019840 32Bob Gerbin10/0230/95/7067065 California2356/95/98010/83318137 Paragon3160/850358/90/9781828289423 4356/95/98312/100019825 5205/663354/100/98616503 6342/100/9610/09610 33Fred Gregg10/0355/95/9789783 Virginia2346/55/8729/75018217 Viking MI321 4/636298/0/6511286186197 4356/75/9399A/81317514 5201/676355/50/88015570 63 56/55/8934/33312260 34Rick Norwood1193/705357/0/77614807 California20/0/09%/8138125 Javelin II3185/735165/95/5681302885340 4346/95/9618/66716274 5183/743360/85/96717105 6291/100/8509/75016000 35James Davis1235/579295/90/83714157 Alabama2358/80/9528/66716188 Legionair3227/599350/85/9501548882004 4358/0/7809/75015299 5212/641360/75/94515871 60/0/06/5005000 36Carrol Moffatt1193/705356/0/77414786 Texas2360/85/96710/83318007 Aquila3168/810347/0/7581567181103 4192/85/6037/58311868 5258/5270/0/05271 6288/80/8009/7 5015500 37William Leathers1206/660358/100/99616558 North Carolina2207/100/66711/91715840 Legionair3196/6940/0/0693868063 4355/95/98011/4/97919595 5325/95/9139130 38Art Sark1209/650311/85/86115116 Florida2354/85/9989/75017043 Paragon3208/654201 /0/4391092762831 4195/90/6215/41710375 5351/80/9369360 39Ed Berton1190/716351 /95/97016853 Florida2358/100/9954/4/3541349837561 Unknown3330/0/7217210 40Stan Pfost1181/751359/90/97617275 Florida2214/70/6176/5001117336417 Paragon3270/95/7977969 ing some combination total 350 points raw Jack got 360190 thats everyone started handshakes Meanwhile Miller getting 358/100 won Round Six also trip Belgium As sun setting scorer noticed Miller taken third less two points thought score tight Rae Fritz called score recount top 10 Thats Miller/Miller scores straightened out results finalized Sidelights site contest Navy Auxiiary Landing Fielda mile square grass best flying fields youll ever see Pensacola club has using 21 years Rae Fritz retired Navy Chief just pleased out come Steve Work AD4 Navy man sta tioned San Diego special thanks Clint Bobe Rick Herrmann did outstand ing jobs tabulating keeping scores posted Works Bird Time Dave Thornburgs design same design Dave used two years ago Denver miss team two points Bird has kitted limited run Steve second achieve LSF Level V mark earned three years ago final note doubt contest finest caliber fliers ever assembled contest well run competitively clean very well flown Besides excellent duration/landing scores speed run out 120 crossed center line azero score Strategies subtle yet bold sake preserving secrets some tactics wont revealed herenot until next summer anyway few unintentional incidents could have provoked protests Instead heads turned challenges made air rule book Thirtysix 40 contestants still final round Work Koplan Miller know earned way Belgium Next July will represent name USA Soaring Lets support January 1979 83 Above Craig Foxgord holding original de sign sailplane Rick Norwoodboth California Foxgord 11th Below Art Sark CL Stan Pfost walk flight line Pfost president NSS Above Discussing what might have Dale Nutter LeMon Payne Bad luck early rounds kept repeating team members both giving final rounds Below Judge Jim Davis winch hauler chose appropriate ly named brand wed have say CL COMBAT TEAM COMMIHEE ANNOUNCED committee responsible dev s ng obtaining approval carrying out pro gram selecting US 1980 Control Line Combat World Championships Team known Combat Team Selection Committee consists representative 11 AMA districts follows Steve Sacco District 478 Main St Norwell MA 02061 Bill Bird II 123 Beechwood Rd Florham Park NJ 07432 Charles Rudner III 3530 Radcliffe Rd Cleveland Hgts OH 44121 Bill Harris IV 11004 Harding Rd Laurel MD 20810 W M Henry V 629 Elysian Fields Nash ville TN 37211 Gary Frost VI 22 Glynn Dr Florissant MO 63031 Paul Smith VII Chairman 323 N Walnut Apt 904 Lansing Ml 48933 George Cleveland VIII 36 Antiqua Kenner LA 70062 Dave Jones IX 666 N Volutsia Wichita KS 67214 Charlie Johnson X 3716 Ingraham St San Diego CA 92109 Chuck Thomas Xl 7711 Easy St Everett WA 98203 Members committee generally recruited Miniature Aircraft Combat Association MACA endorsed respective AMA vice-presidents final step installation committee confirmation members previous program participants obtained mail ballot October POSSIBLE CHANGES TO CB PROCEDURES written AMA Executive Council together Contest Board chairmen CB coordinator process voting mail three proposals revise Contest Board Procedures recent printing document April 1978 issue page 74 Likely re sults vote will printed next month Preceding vote proposals dis tributed Contest Board members re view comment such comments mailed would vote propo sals follows Three-Year Rules Cycle proposal submitted Control Line Racing Advi sory Committee J E Klause chairman change present two-year rules cycle three-year rules cycle three-year cy cle intended increase stability rules also provide years period testing newly enacted rules before commence ment next time period accepting rules-change proposals Proposers Experience proposal also CL Racing Advisory Committee add spaces rules-change propo sal form proposer show number years experience catego ries Indoor FF CL Scale RC show number times proposer has flown and/or directed events past two years Further proposal calls adding fol lowing statement adjacent CD endorse ment space especially important CDs thoroughly analyze implications proposal prior endorsing it' said inclusion information form will help Contest Boards evaluating various proposals before Provisional Supplemental Rule Events Nets Gail E Jacobson College Park GA proposes revise CB Procedures also rule book allow events Provisional Supplemental rules flown National Contest Further proposal provides automatic upgrade Provisional Official events held Nats according such rules notes Provisional Supplemental rules events have held Nats despite pro hibition CB Procedures rule book revisions proposes will legalize present practice Age Class Determination falls under sole jurisdiction Executive Council Contest Board mat ter Council presently considering proposal Joe L Norcross Clovis CA change date age determination clas sification purposes Junior Senior Open July 1 year January 1 year states using present July 1 date results confusion AMA member applicants well officials accept AMA applications fees contests Using January 1 determination date will reduce confusion believes INDOOR WORLD CHAMPS Report Jim Richmond US Team Member 1st Place modelers life little com pare thrill winning World Cham pionship personal standpoint achievement significant cause 10th anniversary 1968 win Rome felt come through time ever going spite short notice British SMAE did usual fine job organizing run ning Championships hat off effort made behalf also outstanding performance result ing first team win UK expedition began panic made mad dash catch charter flight seemed continue varying levels crises excitement until very last day Hot Rod Hulbert made itto Gatwick just time us catch return flight home Just drive through London left side street enough excitement rest hard-working manager Ray Harlan held up very well through did fine job looking after interests addition T-shirts jackets decals travel arrange ments super carrying box get planes processing still found time build optical wingspan checker used precision checking questionable wings during competition also went bat us regarding questionable new un limited steering rule able get jury outlaw sharks tooth hook some installed fronts planes purpose balloon towing plane new location believe ruling avoided controversy could have impaired good spirit competition As turned out British team demon strated outstanding steering capability wit out tooth credit won competition conducted under much better flying conditions endured 1976 weather staying fairly constant mild throughout morning air cool heavy until about 100 PM after flying conditions good rest day US team able get end flying period extended 600 700 PM first day competition provided enough time fly good air Unfor tunately flying stop 600 PM second day because banquet being held evening caused some such self either fly bad morning air lose flights Since already posted good flights previous day afternoon time good air given teammates hopes im proving positions Bud Romak de fending champion fortunate being able fly whenever chose manager Erv Rodemsky put forth tremendous effort came very close capturing second victory third flight 4253 tipped scales Just slight amount bad luck point would have washed out view team flying schedule re quired last day expected see some new innova tions Championships planes pretty much same before Swiss getting some impressive times long Archaeopterix planes Chiub ny Czechoslovakia showed up un usual arc-shaped cabane ship Someone pointed out top four places built planes underweight used ballast make 1 gram Goes show light construction still important Although would have liked bring home Team Championship once again felt second place good showing considering first World Cham pionships other members team British pretty emphatic about holding next Indoor Championships else although great sheds Card ington magnificent site event cant blame wanting someone share burden once Personally Im looking forward return Cardington some day air right flying really great INDOOR WORLD CHAMPS Report Bill Hulbert US Team Member 16th Place participation US Indoor Team certainly culmination years model flyingdating back 1940 Indoor flying has very fascinating particular FAI use Goodyear Air Dock has un doubtedly contributed success other factor Midwest have high ceilings available develop 84 Model Aviation kind flying such Lakehurst Santa Ana opinion Goodyear hangar certainly finest facility available world time After making team last fall spent winter months building preparation fly ing salt mines Romania ie stiff motor sticks reverse flair props etc location changed new building pro gram started six completely tested ships two extra wings 40-mm flight plus number 37s 38s convinced ready new Pirelli rubber looked good abandoned rubber used Team Trials Kennedy Airport set tone whole trip made arrangements special handling two model boxes Cleveland hour half layover Kennedy vanished completely because ramp bag gage problems ended up actually running catch Laker flight just made Fortunately models went through excellent shape Only some minor holes required minimum patching return wings almost totally demolished Glad other way arrived Gatwick early AM very little sleep spent whole day trying arrange transportation getting County Hotel Bedford another whole story arrived couple days before contest stayed couple days afterwards Jean wife spent interesting hours sightseeing England fascinating country much heritage side Saturday test day arrived first glimpse inside Cardington ex cept Richmond Romak before air shed quite different Goodyears sides rising almost straight up yet narrowing very limited space between two top catwalks absolutely necessary fly above catwalks achieve maximum time however side drift often problem ballooning expertise often required Controversy over steering will undoubtedly lead new rules proposals weather generally good during event Sunday being superb day Test day saw flights feeling out air shed motor size propellers What seemed best too different INDOOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS RESULTS PL Name Country1st2nd3rd4th5th6th 1 James Richmond USA 2 Bud Romak reigning W/Champ 3Ron HiggsCanada 4Dieter SiebenmannSwitzerland 5Laurie BarrUK 6Shigeyoshi NonakaJapan 7Jack McGillivrayCanada 8Eduard CiapalaPoland 9RonGreenUK 10Rene ButtiSwitzerland 11Deryl MorleyUK 12Cornelius WoithomNetherlands 13Vilim KmochYugoslavia 14Kurt ViglerW Germany 15Yasutoshi BanbaJapan 16William HulbertUSA 17Eduard ChlubnyCSSR 18Jan DihmPoland 19Takaji MatsuzawaJapan 20Karol RybeckyCSSR 21Harro ErofejeffFinland 22Carlo CotugnoItaly 23 Ryszard Czechowski Poland 24 Ferdinando Migani 25 Leopold Gabrijel 26 Swn-Olav Linden 27 Jiri Kalina 28 Michael Thomas 29 Klaus Nottelmann 30 Daniel Domina 31 Willem Beekmeyer 32 Harri Raullo 33 Germano Masciullo 34 Teodor Strazberger 35 Sven Pontan 36 Werner Wetzel 37 Milan Sitar 38 Timo Forss 39 Edmund Liem 40 Anders Jonsson Italy Yugoslavia Sweden CSSR Canada W Germany USA Netherlands Finland Italy Yugoslavia Sweden W Germany Australia Finland Netherlands Sweden 4149 4055 3516 1305 1103 2833 3545 3443 0640 3437 3045 3120 3038 0838 3433 3439 3331 3258 0014 3223 3032 3415 3106 2701 2607 1618 1148 0643 0518 2314 2811 1555 1624 2215 1624 1429 2141 1736 0047 1324 TEAM RESULTS 1 United Kingdom 2 USA 3 Canada 4 Japan 5 Poland 6 Czechoslovakia 21827 21425 - 21212 21038 20521 19711 3652 4027 3944 3032 3723 3305 3720 3815 2928 2852 3257 3620 3340 3012 3537 2628 3540 3055 3540 1039 2940 0800 2759 0148 3328 2400 2947 2632 1922 1129 2644 2352 2303 0042 1539 2648 2426 2047 1907 1908 4253 1343 0918 3723 2454 4036 1139 3344 3717 3806 3458 3705 3429 Disq 2348 3417 Disq 0906 3303 3059 3347 3313 1618 3254 3003 3115 3207 3033 3037 2922 2408 3127 2731 2510 2739 2232 2542 1840 3116 2858 3057 0824 1513 2711 2542 1259 2238 243 1 3100 3302 2409 2938 2501 3310 2252 3144 3117 2934 3225 2947 1942 2859 3117 2050 3140 2712 2843 1400 1913 2550 2656 2304 2504 2328 0519 2705 2002 1456 3151 1437 3232 3634 1228 3619 3458 3918 2703 2541 1247 2631 3603 3023 3149 3222 0615 3009 3321 3010 1007 1152 0845 3134 3116 2415 1140 2551 2519 2818 2130 2247 2255 1627 2348 3322 3645 3730 0113 2555 3434 3406 1036 3323 3322 3501 2347 3438 2241 3049 1215 0020 2836 3140 2909 2941 2600 3129 2953 2709 0931 2316 2115 2528 0646 1936 7 Yugoslavia 8 Italy 9 West Germany 10 Netherlands 11 Finland 12 Sweden 13 Switzerland 14 Australia Best 2 8442 8122 7629 7453 7357 7341 7339 7313 7302 7154 7128 7121 7045 7032 7000 6917 6911 6715 6657 6544 6528 6514 6453 6453 6445 6428 6256 6244 6050 6026 5848 5631 5514 5443 5235 5216 5205 4937 4930 3748 18933 18521 183 38 17139 17136 15411 14607 5205 configurations used Goodyears hang ar 37-mm flight concluded busy flying day things looked good Unfortunately own flying activities such almost impossible spend time visiting other fliers ob serving models regret however Team Championship paramount everything else secondary flying same design flew Team Trials using 21 prop variable 32 pitch loop 17 x 054 new Pirelli rubber found necessary use heavier motor Monday because cooler conditions first official flight Sunday cal culated safe flight topped out just under top catwalk never trouble 34 39 flight Richmond Romak put up great flights obvious conditions improving first flight used 1940 turns se cond 2080 model climbed perfectly exactly centered within 5 top looked great however consternation did cruise down 25 mm am sure 38 39 mm possible ever loosened wire caused excessive wash-in left tip did explain after 12 15 flights Goodyear Cardington wing cant third flight made using different plane higher pitch prop enough power Monday significantly cooler put three flights top heavier motor resultant faster RPM Almost top flights made Sunday times attest quite disappointed felt could win lot ifs left behind Car dington British flew well should have won particularly outstanding effort Richmond clearly class field Romak flying individ ual since reigning World Cham pion following closely behind banquet fitting climax World Championships toasts much good cheer also provided oppor tunity socialize some unable meet during really strenuous flying conditions found out very quickly flying representative country certainly far different doing own thing dividual such trying make team discovered also team member others very graciously contributed materials other assistance expectation anything return except best effort am indebted Ray Harlan others help Finally am indebted AMA op portunity represent country COMBAT WC RESULTS mistake team results Combat World Championships reported Decem ber issue page 82 third round team results end contest follows 1st England 2nd West Ger Belgium France 5th USA Cana da Italy 8th Ireland Holland 10th Australia 11th Sweden 12th Mexico Brazil 14th Switzerland January 1979 85 1979 US Free Flight World Championships Team members L-R Nordic A-2 Bob lsaacson Lee Hines Jim Wilson Power Ijoug Ual breath Roger Simpson Carl Bogart Wakefield Rubber Walt Ghio Bob Piserchio Bob White Except Bogart California means strenuous process involving local Qualifications Regional Semi-Finals lots haggling over sites procedures last Finals aspirants positions USA teams have sifted sorted winnowed distilled until nine re main what teams have Taft CA site Finals se lect 1979 USA World Championships teams Wakefield Rubber A-2 Towline Glider FAI Power event held September 2-4 Chosen US team members following Wakefield Rubber Walt Ghio Stockton CA Bob Piserchio San Diego CA Bob White Los Angeles CA Nordic A-2 Bob lsaacson Los Angeles CA Jim Wilson Los Angeles CA Lee Hines Los Angeles CA FAI Power Carl Bogart Manassas VA Roger Simpson Sacramento CA Doug Gaibreath Davis CA protest lodged concerning A-2 results AMA President Clemens has accepted Jury recommendation results remain unchanged assump tion principle behind Jury deci sion applied consistently throughout event Some Finals recent years have disasters because poor weather poor local geography combination two Taft ideal siteperhaps best USand weather early September usually excellent rain unheard During first two days three-day meet weather mild side typical 97 degrees F mid-afternoon no strong winds Models seldom drifted over quarter mile Thermals regular mild no Taft trash-lifters between first two rounds Labor Day started drizzle remained between drizzle light rain rest day strangely neither modelers nor models seemed mind too much Ther mal activity decreased bit sort weather have home FAI competition flying done rounds contestant required make flight within specified time period maxis normally 3 minutes flights lasting longer 3 minutes scored 3 minutes Fuse clockwork devices rigged make models descend quickly after making max name game make maxes possible Model specificationsweight wing area etcare such severely limit performance Power model engine runs limited 7 se conds Wakefield rubber motors limited weight 16 oz example still air such thing best A-2 Nordic gliders can barely make 3-minute flights Power Wakefield models 4 minutes thermal activity doesnt mean much What goes up must come down thermals going up air between thermals coming down Find thermal dont max So thermal detection real game Methods include sensing changes 86 Model Aviation Left A qUalified welcome sign greeted Visitors Middle Willard Smitz team member 1975 1977 flew both Nordic Wakefield used mini-trail bike retrieval did others Right Frank Paulinwho made first flight Finals uses special transit track model Device gives compass bearing Wind strong enough make retrieval problem knew experience prepared air temperature speed direction eyes skin mylar streamers attached tops 20-ft poles bubble machines cat tail fluff thrown air air-tempera ture measuring instruments can react within second some equipped stripchart recorders best another model circling overhead World Champs survive seven regular rounds described above maxes go flyoffs maxes successive flyoff flights increase 1 -mm increments Flyoffs occur late day thermal activity has decreased isnt long before winner decided format Finals pick US teams made tough three days started flight before dawn 4minute max made within 15-minute time period intended simulate World Champs flyoff rounds followed day five rounds normal 3-minute maxes made within specified 1-hour bracket totals 18 flights altogether about enough check out technical psy chological factors affect persons poten tial winning World Champs An tougher program would better perhaps impractical Rounding up 30 36 timekeepers shortly after 6 am wasnt easy atfirst some ad justments made couldnt get through processing line fore starting gun worked itself out Power first round day half contestants launched within min ute after round opened Towline glider fliers started towing too very start round modern circle-tow techniques can tow almost indefinitely look ing suitable thermal activity before releas ing glider towline Needless say 33 guys running over place line crossings aplenty Fortunately vertually no wind during first rounds fliers could run off both direc tions starting line reduced problem bit January1979 87 Marc Nagasawa age 20 has flying Nor dics three years third Models trick towhooks own de sign Beautiful workmanship tidy equipment Nordic fliers line up receive towline winches timekeepers start round Tense moments Sick jokes unnecessary fussing hardware ease tension Bob lsaacson hooks up towline protected drizzle hand-held mobile tent Final scores Nordic close lsaacson topped field Left Bob Hatschek likes light tails short noses Aluminum-tube fuselage houses own version circle-zoom towhook invented Rwsians Right Jim Wilson got spot team using V-dihedral model meet C C 0 0 LI 0 p 1 aaaaamaaaaaoaamaOaoaaa-o O0O0JO0S00J0-- omOooaoOosoOOa a -3 2 m 00 ammamama 1 222 2222222222 000000000ca0O0 2 ammmaammama 22 C I- cm.aoma Oaaaaoaaaaa aO0O0M0c00O000OS0.c0O00S00O00O0Co 00M0s0 000OMO 000 oM0MMOJcQ~000000 000000000000 OOOMmMcc 0200000000000 . am aOOO aoa--c--M00000 ma 000O00aOaO00c000000~M 0400000 OaOOOQ MMWa0000 004 00MM ft OWo S 0 U w 0 o ow S cc P jo MM 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c 0 g ~2 o 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 out looked like wet noodle airplane Taft plastic tent stakes used anchor winding stooge broke winding model model demolished managed bend borrowed stooge too fortunately out fatal results once started stretch out motor winding torquemeter situated between geared winder motor disassembled itself torquemeter just little stronger waited break motor fully stretched would have meant third de stroyed model winners have hard luck Carl Bogart destroyed two new Power models practice posted two perfect scores meet using models year half old day before contest started Doug Gaibreath wiped out best models wore out two brand new engines bad fuel Bob Whites model stalled way ground flight out-of-kilter wing went unnoticed wouldnt tell story Chris Matsuno merely excellent free flighter superb modeler long-term record shows tell merely example what can happen frequently does happen competition among best best start twelfth round Chris tied first perfect score thermal model damaged repaired test flight would necessary ensure nothing out whack getting late Chris elected fly still air model slow climbing machine long motor run easily does over 4 minutes thermal-free air So didnt need thermals feltall needed neutral airno uppers no downers Chris launched soon evident air poor side neutral model landed minute short 3 minute max model dam aged taken time test flight thermal model chosen correct moment launch usual skill care might well have national hero instead also-ran Id writing hard-luck story about some other superb modeler Watching Chris fly lesson time-andmotion analysis isnt much wasted muscle twitch Everything hasa proper place goes back finish es winding winder goes its assigned spot winding stooge number turns gets written down little book toolbox lid toolbox gets closed Only does start looking suitable air launch model easy write hard-luck stories about guys almost made first place Its harder write about two maxed outWalt Ghio Wakefield Carl Bogart Powersimply because flew ordinarylooking models ordinary-looking way made maxing look easy Bogarts two models 11/2 years old two newer models became instantaneously worn out pre-contest practice Both simple slab-sided affairs No rakish pylonsor trick wingtips Almost Power models have sheet-covered wings automatic incidencechanging mechanisms stabilizer rudder quite few have gadget starts timer instant model re leased wont mention Carls models have things engines stock Ros sis mounted Oliver pans docile ther mal model sports 9% Cherney airfoil 27% stabilizer having thickness ratio 75% four-minute model features 71A% wing thickness 21% stab 5% thick has vari able rib spacingclosely spaced center widely spaced toward tips Nothing unusual about models except perhaps ability make 18 straight maxes Walt Ghios new RL-1 Wakefield model considerably stretched compared ear lier Flux Span flat increased 59 66 fuselage length 48 52 motor tube 18 24 earlier rather popular chem-milled aluminum alloy motor tube has abandoned partially because Walt never totally happy partly because good ones no longer readily avail able partly because has developed motor tube likes much better con sists inner layer epoxy-impregnated DuPont Kevlar cloth layer 1/16 balsa grain running fore-and-aft outer layer thin epoxy-impregnated fiber glass sticking together done epoxy Both models feature highly cam bered Gard-7510 airfoil two turbulators newer has double-tapered planform totally covered 1/32 sheet Most modelers nowadays wind mo tors prop disconnected blastproof aluminum tube stuffed fuselage Quite ritual involved getting rubber wound model assembled ready flight Walt has tried thatincluding winding prop hub attached rubber motor prop blades removed has reverted old-fashioned system winding protective tube inserted fuselage prop attached motor small detachable shield pro tects prop shield turns out too small has plenty identical prop blades fuselage itself blast-proof January1979 89 Above Chris Matsunos pro-flight procedures classic time-and-motion analysisnot wasted motion Includes stretching rubber motor near limit holding 30 sec stretching again winding Below Carl Hermes flew same models used represented US 1963 World Champs Theyre still good shape flew well Right George Xenakis relies heavily recording air-temperature indi cator tell thermals coming ises cat-tail fluff thrown air too Bubble machines also used mark thermals Above Walt Ghio made perfect score Wakenot easy 18 flights Bill Bogart LI holds US record max flights made during day Left Bob White heaves model thermalalmost lost out Carrol Allen cocked wing caused model stall made team anyhow fourth time Whites Vol Libre twin-fin Wake MA plan No 194 Walt demonstrated few times Getting broken half motor out fuselage facilitated having remov able tailboom held place aluminumtube rear motor peg Tailbooms both models simple square-on-edge tapered boxes Sides 1/16 balsa top bottom longerons 3/32square spruce side long erons 3/32-square balsa Nothing un usual about models except perhaps ability make 18 straight maxes cliff-hangers right through last flight start last round 26 seconds separated Gaibreath Kerr Power Gaibreath would need 148 seconds win Kerr maxed Kerr flew first made 180-sec max Galbreath went up air wasnt especially good quite awhile wasnt certain would make watch indicated 148 sec cheers went up group supporters led Crew Chief Head Cheerleader Ken Oliver model landed short max 12 sec onds later administrative aspects Finals superb Opinions concerning site selec tion competition format eligibility par ticipants other such sticky matters got sorted out committee charged getting done voted par ticipants accordance basic system formulated Hardy Brodersen some four years ago Finals participants well formed what going well advance meet predictable processing contestants obtaining sufficient num ber timekeepers would hassle especial ly early-morning rounds deed hassle sensible adjustments made smoothed out fuss Southern California Aero Team SCAT responsible Finals made go made happen deserve thanks admiration bit much made team few hard-working bunch Andy Faykun Finals Administrator Bill Har till Contest Director Joe Norcross Chief Timekeeper Ross Steckel Nordic F 1 Event Director lrv Aker Wakefield FiB Event Di rector Craig Cusick Power FiC Event Di rector Rol Anderson preceded Bob Stalick George Xenakis FAI Committee Chair manplus committee members too numer ous mention Youngest Power flier Bruce Hannah takes break money until adjusting screw came loose thirteenth round Dick Lyons checks out Power model tween flights maxed last nine flights finished sixth place Carl Bogart Power post perfect scoreand the three teams outside California Simple clean models used stock Rossis Tail Bob Mattes model displays usual array gadgetry optimize trim climb transition glide Dave Rounsaville 75 team member changes plug Excelsior newest long line Engine specialist Doc Anderson 1 Dick Swenson ctr help Rol Anderson check out model before dawn first days flying Rol chairman FF Team Selection Comm Tom McLaughlan flew until bitter end helped Jerry Wagner despite cracking shoulder tripped over tent rope darkness Below Roger Simpson second Power Below Doug Joyce seriously lacerated aHis latest wing uses double spars diagon thumb 1st round fiberglass prop butal ribs between covering balsa flew canard 18 flights anyhowfiberglass Cured flutter thin wings
Edition: Model Aviation - 1979/01
Page Numbers: 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90
USA J AEROIdA Miller flu summer First air must cleared what some thought happened Work Koplan busy sewing up respective spots jack Hiner busier trying hold dpwn number three spota position held fourth round As last round ending Jackflew lOof 12 laps dis tance tasks perfect si-minute dur ation task coupled 90-point landing Most scoreboard watchers thought two flights enough nail down wnui IFTEENT NA offered ck ibt passed wo iple flights too nf best fowl nessed started off enis championshii *ying gra durationsaw o fliersn five-minute flights seven score less 85 landing poin perfect 360/100 secondsflandin 1000-point scores LeMon Payne f attempt maintain pace ha lished South Africa Payne pushe culmination program select three-I 1979 World Championships Pensacola Report Photos Dan Steve Work left Terry Skip Miller below reigning W Time sailplane designed Dave vator plane Team Finals Ke ter abor new fa won ing WA e Above Herb Smith original design Invador very clean ship con trolsrudder elevator spoilers flaps 8th Below Lee Renaud R helps Don Edberg get ready launch Aquila Grande Don 3 comuecutive 1000s Rounds 45 Carroll Moffatt above carries Aquila involved mideir collision Doyle Modestos Legionair shown below what looked like max have light breeze take bird downwind too fast pace meager height gain thermal giving Dale brought bird home before could max worse yet breeze caused Esprit land over 100 ters spotand rules brutally state thats zero flight score Only four fliers failed get maxes 12 scored less 85 land ing points Bob Gill Illinois flew Viking II perfect score 360/ 100 1000 points Day ended Distancethe make-you-or-break-you task pastby years rules has 12-lap maximum Further rules allow eight min utes working time 12 laps flown within four minutes Only half 40 fliers flew 10 laps just six maxed out among Steve Work New Mexico Terry Koplan California Kop Ian led end Round Two 3944 points point found out later scoring error 150-some points reversed Skip Miller Colorado Blame Miller Florida Rae Fritz Contest Director terrupted Nutters working time previous day calling measurement allowed RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS Speed tionDistanceRoundTotal P1Name/State/ModelRdSecs/PtsTime/Land/PtsLaps/PtsPointsPoints 1SteveWork1142/958358/50/88718447 NMex temp CA2359/90/97612/100019760 Bird Time3137/993358/90/97819708116857 4357/100/99612/100019956 5145/937358/100/99519335 6358/85/96512/100019650 2Terry Koplan1145/938359/100/99819358 California2359/100/99812/100019978 Viking3136/1000270/100/80818078113093 4353/95/97612/100019760 5170/800359/90/97617760 6357/95/98310/83318160 3Skip Miller1161 /845360/90/97818230 Colorado2360/95/9897%/64616349 Aquila Grande3150/906359/95/99118979111849 4312/100/89812/100018976 5143/951357/95/98219336 6359/100/99812/100019980 4Jack Hiner1152/895340/100/95718513 Illinois2357/85/96112/100019608 Aquila Grande3162/840357/100/99818373110326 4344/90/94612/100019455 5212/641358/95/98416262 6360/90/97810/83318115 5Bill Haga1195/697357/90/97716992 Texas2355/95/9781 0%/89618740 Legionair3166/819359/90/98017996109329 4359/100/100010%/89618958 5156/871359/100/99718696 6356/100/99110/83318240 6Bob Gill1149/913359/95/98718997 Illinois2360/100/10004%/39613958 Viking Mk II3138/986353/85/95619418108572 4357/100/99612/100019950 5166/819359/95/98618062 6358/95/98510/83318180 7Don Cameron1165/824358/85/96317893 Colorado23 57/80/9509/75017000 Aquila3148/919358/90/97818970107250 4359/55/90212/100019019 5170/800353/100/98417847 6355/100/9898/66616551 8Herb Smith1147/925360/100/1 00019252 Colorado2359/100/99812/100019978 Orig Invader3172/791360/95/99317841107236 4271/85/77611/91716926 5164/829357/95/98218118 6356/100/9916h/52015110 9Jack Hamilton1196/694357/100/9931687A Texas2359/75/94311/91718600 Legionair3187/727357/95/98717142107005 4360/95/99111/91719079 5196/693354/95/97616699 6359 /85/9891 0%/89518840 10John Gunsaullus1184/739360/100/1 00017391 Florida2357/100/9939/75017434 Original3174/781354/95/98017620106327 4358/100/99812/100019978 5184/739360/1 00/1 00017391 6355/95/9788/66616440 Dale re-fly duration task allowed balance working time count towards score plane re-positioned previous days spot working time allowed continue buzzer went off Steve Work retrieved Dale re-launched flew 344 made 90-point landing seconds before working time expired replaced zero score 314 points duration task Round Three no perfect scores Bill Johnson New York flew original bird 3581100 Because best round Bill earned 1000 points Only 11 failed score maxes 1 3 landing points under 85 mark Terry Koplan pushed Viking 136 speed followed Work 137 Gill 1 38 thirteens task However Hayes 140 put him back lead end round 5794 two points ahead secondplace Work 53 points ahead third-place Koplan Hiner fifth Skip Miller sev enth440 points behind leader point two contestants dropped out weather consistenthot 90s windwhen anyof six eight knots direction varied north northwest conditions pre RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS SpeedDurationDistance Round Total P1 Name/State/Model Rd Secs/Pts Time/Land/Pts Laps/Pts Points Points 11Craig Foxgord1192/708369/95/98716953 California2359/95/98711/91719036 Unknown3187/727206/85/63513626104814 4341/100/96110/2/87518357 5188/723354/95/97616994 6353/100/98512/100019850 12Ray Hayes1136/1000358/95/98519848 Indiana2353/90/96311/91718797 Osprey 9003140/971344/95/95919299103644 4231/80/6786/50011775 5144/944338/95/94118857 6354/90/9656A/54115060 13Blame Miller1177/768359/90/97617444 Florida2355/95/97810/83318110 Unknown3163/834358/60/91317470103137 4355/45/87110/83317047 5268/507350/100/97814857 6359/95/98710/83318200 14Bob Domer1173/786357/100/99317796 Colorado2359/65/92210/83317550 Legionair3165/824248/65/68315076102717 4356/80/95010%/89618457 5164/829359/75/94317727 6359/85/9867%/64516110 15Tom Williams1142/958360/1 00/1 00019577 Texas2359/100/9987h/60416019 Paramount3155/877344/0/75116285102369 4302/100/8761 0h/85417299 5172/790330/95/92317146 6360/100/100074/60416040 16Don Edberg1150/907355/85/95718632 California2318/0/6916/50011913 Aquila Grande3140/971356/0/77717487101871 4359/100/100012/100020000 5136/1000353/95/97319739 6357/100/9935/41614100 17Dwight Holley1186/731358/85/96316942 Connecticut2354/95/9768/66716427 Maestro3154/883355/100/99318765101659 4355/100/99110/83318246 5149/912357/90/97118844 6357/100/9933/25012434 18Dale Nutter1193/705358/95/98516894 Oklahoma2224/90/31411/91715992 Esprit3201/677354/95/98016569101092 4356/100/99312/100019934 5163/834358/90/97318082 63 59/95/9874A/37513620 19Matt Sheldon1156/872357/90/97218435 Colorado2359/100/99812/100019978 Olympic II3170/800178/0/38911886100754 4359/80/9567/58315397 5180/755358/80/95217077 6267/100/79812/100017980 20William Johnson1165/824357/95/98318069 New York2360/95/98910/83318224 Original3237/574358/1 00/1 00015738100682 4356/0/7767/58313589 5164/829360/100/100018292 6336/100/9488%/72916770 January 1979 81 Above Ray Hayes holds up Osprey 990 original design identification dis tant flagman Below models Dale Nut ter LI Dr Stan Pfost RI head starting point Dave Thornburg Betty Nutter LeMon Payne Nutter Payne 1977 US team members Above Jack Hamilton shows damaged rudder happened during distance task Asks Pruss Did strike bird shed parts Below Bill Haga Legionair rose 13th end Round 2 finish 5th Contest Director Rae Fritz Team Finals tough manage direct author gives Fritz high marks job well done vailed three days Don Edberg California took next duration task lust short perfect 359/ 100 first three-in-a-row 1000-point tasks Only six failed max 10 scored under 85 points landing circle second day competition ended third dayLabor Daywas taken lit erally Rae Fritz crew set fast pace earlythen maintained pace got 21/2 rounds lust before sun went down Distance second half Round Four started day early morning fliers bit skeptical about possibility getting 12 laps Results showed over half fliers logged 10 lapsthe best distance rounds contest end Round Four standings read Work Koplan Hiner Smith Cameron Skip Miller latter three being Colorado Bob Gill managed 4 laps Round Two 21st worked himself up eighth place Steve Work now 7787 points out possible 8000 Jack Hamilton Texas 10th place still within striking distance 7170 points Doyle Modesto Carrol Moffatt both Texas added excitement previous distance task both tried occupy same airspace lap seven Modesto landed Le gionair safely did Moffatt Aquila ever Legionair holding metal spar Aquila strike suffered broken wing spar Carrol set teled no-fix seven laps Dallas Body Fender Shop repaired Le gionairs wing tin 7-Up Gatorade cans Doyle took re-flight logged seven laps Round Five Don Edberg loaded Aquila Grande 22 ounces ballast turned 136 seemed speed barrier meet No turned faster Hayes Koplan gone fast 136 gave Don third 1000-point round row earlier missed landing six laps distance task kept him out top 10 spectacular bit flying Gill decided go broke plunked two pounds lead Viking II Gills technique have seconds counted off him during run base base B right time turn anticipated goes well run elevens Its gutsy ap proach Gill ready wife gave him count boiled through base count five Bob turn RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS Speed tionDistanceRoundTotal P1Name/State/ModelRdSecsIPtsTime/Land /PtsLapslPtsPointsPoints 21Tom Decker1193/705359/95/98716916 New York2358/100/99611/2/95819539 Unknown3200/680302/0/65913394100554 4348/30/82412/100018235 5167/814356/100/99118056 6343/90/9416/50014413 22LeMon Payne10/0360/1 00/1 00010000 Texas2359/90/97612/100019760 Legionair3169/805354/100/9911795999576 4357/95/98510/83318180 5142/957359/100/99719555 6358/100/9965/41614120 23Doyle Modesto121 8/624359/55/90015239 Texas2339/0/73711/91716536 Legionair3207/657360/90/9831639598896 4300/45/75212/100017516 5192/708358/60/89115996 6359/50/88910/83317220 24Phil Harris121 2/642346/100/97016111 California2359/100/99810/83318311 Paragon3193/704358/95/9891693798254 4360/95/99110/83318246 5208/653360/95/98916429 6266/95/7855//43712220 25Chuck Copeland121 3/638356/100/99116298 Alaska2356/90/9704/2/35413237 Grand Esprit3203/670261/90/7661436398006 4355/85/95911h/93818961 5200/680357 /85/96016408 6307/95/87412/1 00018739 26Fritz Bien1181/751352/75/92816796 Massachusetts2357/45/8749/75016239 T Aquila3165/824352/80/9431767597931 4359/85/9679/75017173 5167/814355/90/96717817 6271/100/8065/41612231 27Bob Baugher1185/735360/85/96717025 Pennsylvania2359/90/9767/58315594 Aquila3178/764349/90/9591722696505 4360/90/9809/75017303 521 0/648350/95/96716150 6335/100/9464A/37513200 28Allan Marshall1185/735355/85/95716917 Massachusetts2359/85/9657/58315485 Unknown3161/845308/90/8691713795133 4358/95/9878/66716535 50/0356/80/9479478 6360/100/100011/2/95819580 29Terry Ferentinos1205/663357/70/92815917 Florida2359/55/9008/66715666 Unknown3180/756347/90/9541709794561 4358/75/94312/100019433 5184/739356/100/99117304 6229/0/4985/4169144 30James Truitt1242/562356/50/88314446 Texas2356/70/9261 0%/8961821 9 Original321 2/642350/0/7641405790864 4233/95/7157A/62513395 5202/673278/75/76714406 6351/75/9268%/70816340 horn went off looked like 11-second run making wasnt high-G turn caused left wing fold went about 60 degrees dihedral Gill backed off nursed bird back through course respectable 166 819 points crowd loved Jack Hiner time decided play close vest just cruise speed course preserve third-place slot got too cautious after low upwind turn Jack stretch flight Aquila Grande what seemed like endurance run 212 seconds allowed fourth-place Herb Smith Colorado close gap time duration task ended certain Work Koplan first second places locked up Only third place con test sixth round flown Hiners slim nine-point hold third going bait least three people later proved four pursuit Round Six scheduled flights made faster scores could posted No seemed look far enough down roster see seventh-place guy name Skip Miller doing Wasnt way went Denver two years ago Hiner managed 10 laps distance Smith got six quarter Meanwhile Skip got 12 Smith got 356/1 00 duration paper Jack needed amax no land82 Model Aviation RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS SpeedDurationDistance Round Total P1 Name/State/Model Rd Secs/PtsTime/Land/Pts Laps/Pts PointsPoints 31Austin Leftwich1175/777191/95/62213989 Virginia2358/85/9635A/43814005 Unknown3167/814179/0/3911205290835 4246/70/6887%/64613342 5153/888306/95/87117606 6353/100/98412/100019840 32Bob Gerbin10/0230/95/7067065 California2356/95/98010/83318137 Paragon3160/850358/90/9781828289423 4356/95/98312/100019825 5205/663354/100/98616503 6342/100/9610/09610 33Fred Gregg10/0355/95/9789783 Virginia2346/55/8729/75018217 Viking MI321 4/636298/0/6511286186197 4356/75/9399A/81317514 5201/676355/50/88015570 63 56/55/8934/33312260 34Rick Norwood1193/705357/0/77614807 California20/0/09%/8138125 Javelin II3185/735165/95/5681302885340 4346/95/9618/66716274 5183/743360/85/96717105 6291/100/8509/75016000 35James Davis1235/579295/90/83714157 Alabama2358/80/9528/66716188 Legionair3227/599350/85/9501548882004 4358/0/7809/75015299 5212/641360/75/94515871 60/0/06/5005000 36Carrol Moffatt1193/705356/0/77414786 Texas2360/85/96710/83318007 Aquila3168/810347/0/7581567181103 4192/85/6037/58311868 5258/5270/0/05271 6288/80/8009/7 5015500 37William Leathers1206/660358/100/99616558 North Carolina2207/100/66711/91715840 Legionair3196/6940/0/0693868063 4355/95/98011/4/97919595 5325/95/9139130 38Art Sark1209/650311/85/86115116 Florida2354/85/9989/75017043 Paragon3208/654201 /0/4391092762831 4195/90/6215/41710375 5351/80/9369360 39Ed Berton1190/716351 /95/97016853 Florida2358/100/9954/4/3541349837561 Unknown3330/0/7217210 40Stan Pfost1181/751359/90/97617275 Florida2214/70/6176/5001117336417 Paragon3270/95/7977969 ing some combination total 350 points raw Jack got 360190 thats everyone started handshakes Meanwhile Miller getting 358/100 won Round Six also trip Belgium As sun setting scorer noticed Miller taken third less two points thought score tight Rae Fritz called score recount top 10 Thats Miller/Miller scores straightened out results finalized Sidelights site contest Navy Auxiiary Landing Fielda mile square grass best flying fields youll ever see Pensacola club has using 21 years Rae Fritz retired Navy Chief just pleased out come Steve Work AD4 Navy man sta tioned San Diego special thanks Clint Bobe Rick Herrmann did outstand ing jobs tabulating keeping scores posted Works Bird Time Dave Thornburgs design same design Dave used two years ago Denver miss team two points Bird has kitted limited run Steve second achieve LSF Level V mark earned three years ago final note doubt contest finest caliber fliers ever assembled contest well run competitively clean very well flown Besides excellent duration/landing scores speed run out 120 crossed center line azero score Strategies subtle yet bold sake preserving secrets some tactics wont revealed herenot until next summer anyway few unintentional incidents could have provoked protests Instead heads turned challenges made air rule book Thirtysix 40 contestants still final round Work Koplan Miller know earned way Belgium Next July will represent name USA Soaring Lets support January 1979 83 Above Craig Foxgord holding original de sign sailplane Rick Norwoodboth California Foxgord 11th Below Art Sark CL Stan Pfost walk flight line Pfost president NSS Above Discussing what might have Dale Nutter LeMon Payne Bad luck early rounds kept repeating team members both giving final rounds Below Judge Jim Davis winch hauler chose appropriate ly named brand wed have say CL COMBAT TEAM COMMIHEE ANNOUNCED committee responsible dev s ng obtaining approval carrying out pro gram selecting US 1980 Control Line Combat World Championships Team known Combat Team Selection Committee consists representative 11 AMA districts follows Steve Sacco District 478 Main St Norwell MA 02061 Bill Bird II 123 Beechwood Rd Florham Park NJ 07432 Charles Rudner III 3530 Radcliffe Rd Cleveland Hgts OH 44121 Bill Harris IV 11004 Harding Rd Laurel MD 20810 W M Henry V 629 Elysian Fields Nash ville TN 37211 Gary Frost VI 22 Glynn Dr Florissant MO 63031 Paul Smith VII Chairman 323 N Walnut Apt 904 Lansing Ml 48933 George Cleveland VIII 36 Antiqua Kenner LA 70062 Dave Jones IX 666 N Volutsia Wichita KS 67214 Charlie Johnson X 3716 Ingraham St San Diego CA 92109 Chuck Thomas Xl 7711 Easy St Everett WA 98203 Members committee generally recruited Miniature Aircraft Combat Association MACA endorsed respective AMA vice-presidents final step installation committee confirmation members previous program participants obtained mail ballot October POSSIBLE CHANGES TO CB PROCEDURES written AMA Executive Council together Contest Board chairmen CB coordinator process voting mail three proposals revise Contest Board Procedures recent printing document April 1978 issue page 74 Likely re sults vote will printed next month Preceding vote proposals dis tributed Contest Board members re view comment such comments mailed would vote propo sals follows Three-Year Rules Cycle proposal submitted Control Line Racing Advi sory Committee J E Klause chairman change present two-year rules cycle three-year rules cycle three-year cy cle intended increase stability rules also provide years period testing newly enacted rules before commence ment next time period accepting rules-change proposals Proposers Experience proposal also CL Racing Advisory Committee add spaces rules-change propo sal form proposer show number years experience catego ries Indoor FF CL Scale RC show number times proposer has flown and/or directed events past two years Further proposal calls adding fol lowing statement adjacent CD endorse ment space especially important CDs thoroughly analyze implications proposal prior endorsing it' said inclusion information form will help Contest Boards evaluating various proposals before Provisional Supplemental Rule Events Nets Gail E Jacobson College Park GA proposes revise CB Procedures also rule book allow events Provisional Supplemental rules flown National Contest Further proposal provides automatic upgrade Provisional Official events held Nats according such rules notes Provisional Supplemental rules events have held Nats despite pro hibition CB Procedures rule book revisions proposes will legalize present practice Age Class Determination falls under sole jurisdiction Executive Council Contest Board mat ter Council presently considering proposal Joe L Norcross Clovis CA change date age determination clas sification purposes Junior Senior Open July 1 year January 1 year states using present July 1 date results confusion AMA member applicants well officials accept AMA applications fees contests Using January 1 determination date will reduce confusion believes INDOOR WORLD CHAMPS Report Jim Richmond US Team Member 1st Place modelers life little com pare thrill winning World Cham pionship personal standpoint achievement significant cause 10th anniversary 1968 win Rome felt come through time ever going spite short notice British SMAE did usual fine job organizing run ning Championships hat off effort made behalf also outstanding performance result ing first team win UK expedition began panic made mad dash catch charter flight seemed continue varying levels crises excitement until very last day Hot Rod Hulbert made itto Gatwick just time us catch return flight home Just drive through London left side street enough excitement rest hard-working manager Ray Harlan held up very well through did fine job looking after interests addition T-shirts jackets decals travel arrange ments super carrying box get planes processing still found time build optical wingspan checker used precision checking questionable wings during competition also went bat us regarding questionable new un limited steering rule able get jury outlaw sharks tooth hook some installed fronts planes purpose balloon towing plane new location believe ruling avoided controversy could have impaired good spirit competition As turned out British team demon strated outstanding steering capability wit out tooth credit won competition conducted under much better flying conditions endured 1976 weather staying fairly constant mild throughout morning air cool heavy until about 100 PM after flying conditions good rest day US team able get end flying period extended 600 700 PM first day competition provided enough time fly good air Unfor tunately flying stop 600 PM second day because banquet being held evening caused some such self either fly bad morning air lose flights Since already posted good flights previous day afternoon time good air given teammates hopes im proving positions Bud Romak de fending champion fortunate being able fly whenever chose manager Erv Rodemsky put forth tremendous effort came very close capturing second victory third flight 4253 tipped scales Just slight amount bad luck point would have washed out view team flying schedule re quired last day expected see some new innova tions Championships planes pretty much same before Swiss getting some impressive times long Archaeopterix planes Chiub ny Czechoslovakia showed up un usual arc-shaped cabane ship Someone pointed out top four places built planes underweight used ballast make 1 gram Goes show light construction still important Although would have liked bring home Team Championship once again felt second place good showing considering first World Cham pionships other members team British pretty emphatic about holding next Indoor Championships else although great sheds Card ington magnificent site event cant blame wanting someone share burden once Personally Im looking forward return Cardington some day air right flying really great INDOOR WORLD CHAMPS Report Bill Hulbert US Team Member 16th Place participation US Indoor Team certainly culmination years model flyingdating back 1940 Indoor flying has very fascinating particular FAI use Goodyear Air Dock has un doubtedly contributed success other factor Midwest have high ceilings available develop 84 Model Aviation kind flying such Lakehurst Santa Ana opinion Goodyear hangar certainly finest facility available world time After making team last fall spent winter months building preparation fly ing salt mines Romania ie stiff motor sticks reverse flair props etc location changed new building pro gram started six completely tested ships two extra wings 40-mm flight plus number 37s 38s convinced ready new Pirelli rubber looked good abandoned rubber used Team Trials Kennedy Airport set tone whole trip made arrangements special handling two model boxes Cleveland hour half layover Kennedy vanished completely because ramp bag gage problems ended up actually running catch Laker flight just made Fortunately models went through excellent shape Only some minor holes required minimum patching return wings almost totally demolished Glad other way arrived Gatwick early AM very little sleep spent whole day trying arrange transportation getting County Hotel Bedford another whole story arrived couple days before contest stayed couple days afterwards Jean wife spent interesting hours sightseeing England fascinating country much heritage side Saturday test day arrived first glimpse inside Cardington ex cept Richmond Romak before air shed quite different Goodyears sides rising almost straight up yet narrowing very limited space between two top catwalks absolutely necessary fly above catwalks achieve maximum time however side drift often problem ballooning expertise often required Controversy over steering will undoubtedly lead new rules proposals weather generally good during event Sunday being superb day Test day saw flights feeling out air shed motor size propellers What seemed best too different INDOOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS RESULTS PL Name Country1st2nd3rd4th5th6th 1 James Richmond USA 2 Bud Romak reigning W/Champ 3Ron HiggsCanada 4Dieter SiebenmannSwitzerland 5Laurie BarrUK 6Shigeyoshi NonakaJapan 7Jack McGillivrayCanada 8Eduard CiapalaPoland 9RonGreenUK 10Rene ButtiSwitzerland 11Deryl MorleyUK 12Cornelius WoithomNetherlands 13Vilim KmochYugoslavia 14Kurt ViglerW Germany 15Yasutoshi BanbaJapan 16William HulbertUSA 17Eduard ChlubnyCSSR 18Jan DihmPoland 19Takaji MatsuzawaJapan 20Karol RybeckyCSSR 21Harro ErofejeffFinland 22Carlo CotugnoItaly 23 Ryszard Czechowski Poland 24 Ferdinando Migani 25 Leopold Gabrijel 26 Swn-Olav Linden 27 Jiri Kalina 28 Michael Thomas 29 Klaus Nottelmann 30 Daniel Domina 31 Willem Beekmeyer 32 Harri Raullo 33 Germano Masciullo 34 Teodor Strazberger 35 Sven Pontan 36 Werner Wetzel 37 Milan Sitar 38 Timo Forss 39 Edmund Liem 40 Anders Jonsson Italy Yugoslavia Sweden CSSR Canada W Germany USA Netherlands Finland Italy Yugoslavia Sweden W Germany Australia Finland Netherlands Sweden 4149 4055 3516 1305 1103 2833 3545 3443 0640 3437 3045 3120 3038 0838 3433 3439 3331 3258 0014 3223 3032 3415 3106 2701 2607 1618 1148 0643 0518 2314 2811 1555 1624 2215 1624 1429 2141 1736 0047 1324 TEAM RESULTS 1 United Kingdom 2 USA 3 Canada 4 Japan 5 Poland 6 Czechoslovakia 21827 21425 - 21212 21038 20521 19711 3652 4027 3944 3032 3723 3305 3720 3815 2928 2852 3257 3620 3340 3012 3537 2628 3540 3055 3540 1039 2940 0800 2759 0148 3328 2400 2947 2632 1922 1129 2644 2352 2303 0042 1539 2648 2426 2047 1907 1908 4253 1343 0918 3723 2454 4036 1139 3344 3717 3806 3458 3705 3429 Disq 2348 3417 Disq 0906 3303 3059 3347 3313 1618 3254 3003 3115 3207 3033 3037 2922 2408 3127 2731 2510 2739 2232 2542 1840 3116 2858 3057 0824 1513 2711 2542 1259 2238 243 1 3100 3302 2409 2938 2501 3310 2252 3144 3117 2934 3225 2947 1942 2859 3117 2050 3140 2712 2843 1400 1913 2550 2656 2304 2504 2328 0519 2705 2002 1456 3151 1437 3232 3634 1228 3619 3458 3918 2703 2541 1247 2631 3603 3023 3149 3222 0615 3009 3321 3010 1007 1152 0845 3134 3116 2415 1140 2551 2519 2818 2130 2247 2255 1627 2348 3322 3645 3730 0113 2555 3434 3406 1036 3323 3322 3501 2347 3438 2241 3049 1215 0020 2836 3140 2909 2941 2600 3129 2953 2709 0931 2316 2115 2528 0646 1936 7 Yugoslavia 8 Italy 9 West Germany 10 Netherlands 11 Finland 12 Sweden 13 Switzerland 14 Australia Best 2 8442 8122 7629 7453 7357 7341 7339 7313 7302 7154 7128 7121 7045 7032 7000 6917 6911 6715 6657 6544 6528 6514 6453 6453 6445 6428 6256 6244 6050 6026 5848 5631 5514 5443 5235 5216 5205 4937 4930 3748 18933 18521 183 38 17139 17136 15411 14607 5205 configurations used Goodyears hang ar 37-mm flight concluded busy flying day things looked good Unfortunately own flying activities such almost impossible spend time visiting other fliers ob serving models regret however Team Championship paramount everything else secondary flying same design flew Team Trials using 21 prop variable 32 pitch loop 17 x 054 new Pirelli rubber found necessary use heavier motor Monday because cooler conditions first official flight Sunday cal culated safe flight topped out just under top catwalk never trouble 34 39 flight Richmond Romak put up great flights obvious conditions improving first flight used 1940 turns se cond 2080 model climbed perfectly exactly centered within 5 top looked great however consternation did cruise down 25 mm am sure 38 39 mm possible ever loosened wire caused excessive wash-in left tip did explain after 12 15 flights Goodyear Cardington wing cant third flight made using different plane higher pitch prop enough power Monday significantly cooler put three flights top heavier motor resultant faster RPM Almost top flights made Sunday times attest quite disappointed felt could win lot ifs left behind Car dington British flew well should have won particularly outstanding effort Richmond clearly class field Romak flying individ ual since reigning World Cham pion following closely behind banquet fitting climax World Championships toasts much good cheer also provided oppor tunity socialize some unable meet during really strenuous flying conditions found out very quickly flying representative country certainly far different doing own thing dividual such trying make team discovered also team member others very graciously contributed materials other assistance expectation anything return except best effort am indebted Ray Harlan others help Finally am indebted AMA op portunity represent country COMBAT WC RESULTS mistake team results Combat World Championships reported Decem ber issue page 82 third round team results end contest follows 1st England 2nd West Ger Belgium France 5th USA Cana da Italy 8th Ireland Holland 10th Australia 11th Sweden 12th Mexico Brazil 14th Switzerland January 1979 85 1979 US Free Flight World Championships Team members L-R Nordic A-2 Bob lsaacson Lee Hines Jim Wilson Power Ijoug Ual breath Roger Simpson Carl Bogart Wakefield Rubber Walt Ghio Bob Piserchio Bob White Except Bogart California means strenuous process involving local Qualifications Regional Semi-Finals lots haggling over sites procedures last Finals aspirants positions USA teams have sifted sorted winnowed distilled until nine re main what teams have Taft CA site Finals se lect 1979 USA World Championships teams Wakefield Rubber A-2 Towline Glider FAI Power event held September 2-4 Chosen US team members following Wakefield Rubber Walt Ghio Stockton CA Bob Piserchio San Diego CA Bob White Los Angeles CA Nordic A-2 Bob lsaacson Los Angeles CA Jim Wilson Los Angeles CA Lee Hines Los Angeles CA FAI Power Carl Bogart Manassas VA Roger Simpson Sacramento CA Doug Gaibreath Davis CA protest lodged concerning A-2 results AMA President Clemens has accepted Jury recommendation results remain unchanged assump tion principle behind Jury deci sion applied consistently throughout event Some Finals recent years have disasters because poor weather poor local geography combination two Taft ideal siteperhaps best USand weather early September usually excellent rain unheard During first two days three-day meet weather mild side typical 97 degrees F mid-afternoon no strong winds Models seldom drifted over quarter mile Thermals regular mild no Taft trash-lifters between first two rounds Labor Day started drizzle remained between drizzle light rain rest day strangely neither modelers nor models seemed mind too much Ther mal activity decreased bit sort weather have home FAI competition flying done rounds contestant required make flight within specified time period maxis normally 3 minutes flights lasting longer 3 minutes scored 3 minutes Fuse clockwork devices rigged make models descend quickly after making max name game make maxes possible Model specificationsweight wing area etcare such severely limit performance Power model engine runs limited 7 se conds Wakefield rubber motors limited weight 16 oz example still air such thing best A-2 Nordic gliders can barely make 3-minute flights Power Wakefield models 4 minutes thermal activity doesnt mean much What goes up must come down thermals going up air between thermals coming down Find thermal dont max So thermal detection real game Methods include sensing changes 86 Model Aviation Left A qUalified welcome sign greeted Visitors Middle Willard Smitz team member 1975 1977 flew both Nordic Wakefield used mini-trail bike retrieval did others Right Frank Paulinwho made first flight Finals uses special transit track model Device gives compass bearing Wind strong enough make retrieval problem knew experience prepared air temperature speed direction eyes skin mylar streamers attached tops 20-ft poles bubble machines cat tail fluff thrown air air-tempera ture measuring instruments can react within second some equipped stripchart recorders best another model circling overhead World Champs survive seven regular rounds described above maxes go flyoffs maxes successive flyoff flights increase 1 -mm increments Flyoffs occur late day thermal activity has decreased isnt long before winner decided format Finals pick US teams made tough three days started flight before dawn 4minute max made within 15-minute time period intended simulate World Champs flyoff rounds followed day five rounds normal 3-minute maxes made within specified 1-hour bracket totals 18 flights altogether about enough check out technical psy chological factors affect persons poten tial winning World Champs An tougher program would better perhaps impractical Rounding up 30 36 timekeepers shortly after 6 am wasnt easy atfirst some ad justments made couldnt get through processing line fore starting gun worked itself out Power first round day half contestants launched within min ute after round opened Towline glider fliers started towing too very start round modern circle-tow techniques can tow almost indefinitely look ing suitable thermal activity before releas ing glider towline Needless say 33 guys running over place line crossings aplenty Fortunately vertually no wind during first rounds fliers could run off both direc tions starting line reduced problem bit January1979 87 Marc Nagasawa age 20 has flying Nor dics three years third Models trick towhooks own de sign Beautiful workmanship tidy equipment Nordic fliers line up receive towline winches timekeepers start round Tense moments Sick jokes unnecessary fussing hardware ease tension Bob lsaacson hooks up towline protected drizzle hand-held mobile tent Final scores Nordic close lsaacson topped field Left Bob Hatschek likes light tails short noses Aluminum-tube fuselage houses own version circle-zoom towhook invented Rwsians Right Jim Wilson got spot team using V-dihedral model meet C C 0 0 LI 0 p 1 aaaaamaaaaaoaamaOaoaaa-o O0O0JO0S00J0-- omOooaoOosoOOa a -3 2 m 00 ammamama 1 222 2222222222 000000000ca0O0 2 ammmaammama 22 C I- cm.aoma Oaaaaoaaaaa aO0O0M0c00O000OS0.c0O00S00O00O0Co 00M0s0 000OMO 000 oM0MMOJcQ~000000 000000000000 OOOMmMcc 0200000000000 . am aOOO aoa--c--M00000 ma 000O00aOaO00c000000~M 0400000 OaOOOQ MMWa0000 004 00MM ft OWo S 0 U w 0 o ow S cc P jo MM 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c 0 g ~2 o 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 out looked like wet noodle airplane Taft plastic tent stakes used anchor winding stooge broke winding model model demolished managed bend borrowed stooge too fortunately out fatal results once started stretch out motor winding torquemeter situated between geared winder motor disassembled itself torquemeter just little stronger waited break motor fully stretched would have meant third de stroyed model winners have hard luck Carl Bogart destroyed two new Power models practice posted two perfect scores meet using models year half old day before contest started Doug Gaibreath wiped out best models wore out two brand new engines bad fuel Bob Whites model stalled way ground flight out-of-kilter wing went unnoticed wouldnt tell story Chris Matsuno merely excellent free flighter superb modeler long-term record shows tell merely example what can happen frequently does happen competition among best best start twelfth round Chris tied first perfect score thermal model damaged repaired test flight would necessary ensure nothing out whack getting late Chris elected fly still air model slow climbing machine long motor run easily does over 4 minutes thermal-free air So didnt need thermals feltall needed neutral airno uppers no downers Chris launched soon evident air poor side neutral model landed minute short 3 minute max model dam aged taken time test flight thermal model chosen correct moment launch usual skill care might well have national hero instead also-ran Id writing hard-luck story about some other superb modeler Watching Chris fly lesson time-andmotion analysis isnt much wasted muscle twitch Everything hasa proper place goes back finish es winding winder goes its assigned spot winding stooge number turns gets written down little book toolbox lid toolbox gets closed Only does start looking suitable air launch model easy write hard-luck stories about guys almost made first place Its harder write about two maxed outWalt Ghio Wakefield Carl Bogart Powersimply because flew ordinarylooking models ordinary-looking way made maxing look easy Bogarts two models 11/2 years old two newer models became instantaneously worn out pre-contest practice Both simple slab-sided affairs No rakish pylonsor trick wingtips Almost Power models have sheet-covered wings automatic incidencechanging mechanisms stabilizer rudder quite few have gadget starts timer instant model re leased wont mention Carls models have things engines stock Ros sis mounted Oliver pans docile ther mal model sports 9% Cherney airfoil 27% stabilizer having thickness ratio 75% four-minute model features 71A% wing thickness 21% stab 5% thick has vari able rib spacingclosely spaced center widely spaced toward tips Nothing unusual about models except perhaps ability make 18 straight maxes Walt Ghios new RL-1 Wakefield model considerably stretched compared ear lier Flux Span flat increased 59 66 fuselage length 48 52 motor tube 18 24 earlier rather popular chem-milled aluminum alloy motor tube has abandoned partially because Walt never totally happy partly because good ones no longer readily avail able partly because has developed motor tube likes much better con sists inner layer epoxy-impregnated DuPont Kevlar cloth layer 1/16 balsa grain running fore-and-aft outer layer thin epoxy-impregnated fiber glass sticking together done epoxy Both models feature highly cam bered Gard-7510 airfoil two turbulators newer has double-tapered planform totally covered 1/32 sheet Most modelers nowadays wind mo tors prop disconnected blastproof aluminum tube stuffed fuselage Quite ritual involved getting rubber wound model assembled ready flight Walt has tried thatincluding winding prop hub attached rubber motor prop blades removed has reverted old-fashioned system winding protective tube inserted fuselage prop attached motor small detachable shield pro tects prop shield turns out too small has plenty identical prop blades fuselage itself blast-proof January1979 89 Above Chris Matsunos pro-flight procedures classic time-and-motion analysisnot wasted motion Includes stretching rubber motor near limit holding 30 sec stretching again winding Below Carl Hermes flew same models used represented US 1963 World Champs Theyre still good shape flew well Right George Xenakis relies heavily recording air-temperature indi cator tell thermals coming ises cat-tail fluff thrown air too Bubble machines also used mark thermals Above Walt Ghio made perfect score Wakenot easy 18 flights Bill Bogart LI holds US record max flights made during day Left Bob White heaves model thermalalmost lost out Carrol Allen cocked wing caused model stall made team anyhow fourth time Whites Vol Libre twin-fin Wake MA plan No 194 Walt demonstrated few times Getting broken half motor out fuselage facilitated having remov able tailboom held place aluminumtube rear motor peg Tailbooms both models simple square-on-edge tapered boxes Sides 1/16 balsa top bottom longerons 3/32square spruce side long erons 3/32-square balsa Nothing un usual about models except perhaps ability make 18 straight maxes cliff-hangers right through last flight start last round 26 seconds separated Gaibreath Kerr Power Gaibreath would need 148 seconds win Kerr maxed Kerr flew first made 180-sec max Galbreath went up air wasnt especially good quite awhile wasnt certain would make watch indicated 148 sec cheers went up group supporters led Crew Chief Head Cheerleader Ken Oliver model landed short max 12 sec onds later administrative aspects Finals superb Opinions concerning site selec tion competition format eligibility par ticipants other such sticky matters got sorted out committee charged getting done voted par ticipants accordance basic system formulated Hardy Brodersen some four years ago Finals participants well formed what going well advance meet predictable processing contestants obtaining sufficient num ber timekeepers would hassle especial ly early-morning rounds deed hassle sensible adjustments made smoothed out fuss Southern California Aero Team SCAT responsible Finals made go made happen deserve thanks admiration bit much made team few hard-working bunch Andy Faykun Finals Administrator Bill Har till Contest Director Joe Norcross Chief Timekeeper Ross Steckel Nordic F 1 Event Director lrv Aker Wakefield FiB Event Di rector Craig Cusick Power FiC Event Di rector Rol Anderson preceded Bob Stalick George Xenakis FAI Committee Chair manplus committee members too numer ous mention Youngest Power flier Bruce Hannah takes break money until adjusting screw came loose thirteenth round Dick Lyons checks out Power model tween flights maxed last nine flights finished sixth place Carl Bogart Power post perfect scoreand the three teams outside California Simple clean models used stock Rossis Tail Bob Mattes model displays usual array gadgetry optimize trim climb transition glide Dave Rounsaville 75 team member changes plug Excelsior newest long line Engine specialist Doc Anderson 1 Dick Swenson ctr help Rol Anderson check out model before dawn first days flying Rol chairman FF Team Selection Comm Tom McLaughlan flew until bitter end helped Jerry Wagner despite cracking shoulder tripped over tent rope darkness Below Roger Simpson second Power Below Doug Joyce seriously lacerated aHis latest wing uses double spars diagon thumb 1st round fiberglass prop butal ribs between covering balsa flew canard 18 flights anyhowfiberglass Cured flutter thin wings
Edition: Model Aviation - 1979/01
Page Numbers: 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90
USA J AEROIdA Miller flu summer First air must cleared what some thought happened Work Koplan busy sewing up respective spots jack Hiner busier trying hold dpwn number three spota position held fourth round As last round ending Jackflew lOof 12 laps dis tance tasks perfect si-minute dur ation task coupled 90-point landing Most scoreboard watchers thought two flights enough nail down wnui IFTEENT NA offered ck ibt passed wo iple flights too nf best fowl nessed started off enis championshii *ying gra durationsaw o fliersn five-minute flights seven score less 85 landing poin perfect 360/100 secondsflandin 1000-point scores LeMon Payne f attempt maintain pace ha lished South Africa Payne pushe culmination program select three-I 1979 World Championships Pensacola Report Photos Dan Steve Work left Terry Skip Miller below reigning W Time sailplane designed Dave vator plane Team Finals Ke ter abor new fa won ing WA e Above Herb Smith original design Invador very clean ship con trolsrudder elevator spoilers flaps 8th Below Lee Renaud R helps Don Edberg get ready launch Aquila Grande Don 3 comuecutive 1000s Rounds 45 Carroll Moffatt above carries Aquila involved mideir collision Doyle Modestos Legionair shown below what looked like max have light breeze take bird downwind too fast pace meager height gain thermal giving Dale brought bird home before could max worse yet breeze caused Esprit land over 100 ters spotand rules brutally state thats zero flight score Only four fliers failed get maxes 12 scored less 85 land ing points Bob Gill Illinois flew Viking II perfect score 360/ 100 1000 points Day ended Distancethe make-you-or-break-you task pastby years rules has 12-lap maximum Further rules allow eight min utes working time 12 laps flown within four minutes Only half 40 fliers flew 10 laps just six maxed out among Steve Work New Mexico Terry Koplan California Kop Ian led end Round Two 3944 points point found out later scoring error 150-some points reversed Skip Miller Colorado Blame Miller Florida Rae Fritz Contest Director terrupted Nutters working time previous day calling measurement allowed RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS Speed tionDistanceRoundTotal P1Name/State/ModelRdSecs/PtsTime/Land/PtsLaps/PtsPointsPoints 1SteveWork1142/958358/50/88718447 NMex temp CA2359/90/97612/100019760 Bird Time3137/993358/90/97819708116857 4357/100/99612/100019956 5145/937358/100/99519335 6358/85/96512/100019650 2Terry Koplan1145/938359/100/99819358 California2359/100/99812/100019978 Viking3136/1000270/100/80818078113093 4353/95/97612/100019760 5170/800359/90/97617760 6357/95/98310/83318160 3Skip Miller1161 /845360/90/97818230 Colorado2360/95/9897%/64616349 Aquila Grande3150/906359/95/99118979111849 4312/100/89812/100018976 5143/951357/95/98219336 6359/100/99812/100019980 4Jack Hiner1152/895340/100/95718513 Illinois2357/85/96112/100019608 Aquila Grande3162/840357/100/99818373110326 4344/90/94612/100019455 5212/641358/95/98416262 6360/90/97810/83318115 5Bill Haga1195/697357/90/97716992 Texas2355/95/9781 0%/89618740 Legionair3166/819359/90/98017996109329 4359/100/100010%/89618958 5156/871359/100/99718696 6356/100/99110/83318240 6Bob Gill1149/913359/95/98718997 Illinois2360/100/10004%/39613958 Viking Mk II3138/986353/85/95619418108572 4357/100/99612/100019950 5166/819359/95/98618062 6358/95/98510/83318180 7Don Cameron1165/824358/85/96317893 Colorado23 57/80/9509/75017000 Aquila3148/919358/90/97818970107250 4359/55/90212/100019019 5170/800353/100/98417847 6355/100/9898/66616551 8Herb Smith1147/925360/100/1 00019252 Colorado2359/100/99812/100019978 Orig Invader3172/791360/95/99317841107236 4271/85/77611/91716926 5164/829357/95/98218118 6356/100/9916h/52015110 9Jack Hamilton1196/694357/100/9931687A Texas2359/75/94311/91718600 Legionair3187/727357/95/98717142107005 4360/95/99111/91719079 5196/693354/95/97616699 6359 /85/9891 0%/89518840 10John Gunsaullus1184/739360/100/1 00017391 Florida2357/100/9939/75017434 Original3174/781354/95/98017620106327 4358/100/99812/100019978 5184/739360/1 00/1 00017391 6355/95/9788/66616440 Dale re-fly duration task allowed balance working time count towards score plane re-positioned previous days spot working time allowed continue buzzer went off Steve Work retrieved Dale re-launched flew 344 made 90-point landing seconds before working time expired replaced zero score 314 points duration task Round Three no perfect scores Bill Johnson New York flew original bird 3581100 Because best round Bill earned 1000 points Only 11 failed score maxes 1 3 landing points under 85 mark Terry Koplan pushed Viking 136 speed followed Work 137 Gill 1 38 thirteens task However Hayes 140 put him back lead end round 5794 two points ahead secondplace Work 53 points ahead third-place Koplan Hiner fifth Skip Miller sev enth440 points behind leader point two contestants dropped out weather consistenthot 90s windwhen anyof six eight knots direction varied north northwest conditions pre RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS SpeedDurationDistance Round Total P1 Name/State/Model Rd Secs/Pts Time/Land/Pts Laps/Pts Points Points 11Craig Foxgord1192/708369/95/98716953 California2359/95/98711/91719036 Unknown3187/727206/85/63513626104814 4341/100/96110/2/87518357 5188/723354/95/97616994 6353/100/98512/100019850 12Ray Hayes1136/1000358/95/98519848 Indiana2353/90/96311/91718797 Osprey 9003140/971344/95/95919299103644 4231/80/6786/50011775 5144/944338/95/94118857 6354/90/9656A/54115060 13Blame Miller1177/768359/90/97617444 Florida2355/95/97810/83318110 Unknown3163/834358/60/91317470103137 4355/45/87110/83317047 5268/507350/100/97814857 6359/95/98710/83318200 14Bob Domer1173/786357/100/99317796 Colorado2359/65/92210/83317550 Legionair3165/824248/65/68315076102717 4356/80/95010%/89618457 5164/829359/75/94317727 6359/85/9867%/64516110 15Tom Williams1142/958360/1 00/1 00019577 Texas2359/100/9987h/60416019 Paramount3155/877344/0/75116285102369 4302/100/8761 0h/85417299 5172/790330/95/92317146 6360/100/100074/60416040 16Don Edberg1150/907355/85/95718632 California2318/0/6916/50011913 Aquila Grande3140/971356/0/77717487101871 4359/100/100012/100020000 5136/1000353/95/97319739 6357/100/9935/41614100 17Dwight Holley1186/731358/85/96316942 Connecticut2354/95/9768/66716427 Maestro3154/883355/100/99318765101659 4355/100/99110/83318246 5149/912357/90/97118844 6357/100/9933/25012434 18Dale Nutter1193/705358/95/98516894 Oklahoma2224/90/31411/91715992 Esprit3201/677354/95/98016569101092 4356/100/99312/100019934 5163/834358/90/97318082 63 59/95/9874A/37513620 19Matt Sheldon1156/872357/90/97218435 Colorado2359/100/99812/100019978 Olympic II3170/800178/0/38911886100754 4359/80/9567/58315397 5180/755358/80/95217077 6267/100/79812/100017980 20William Johnson1165/824357/95/98318069 New York2360/95/98910/83318224 Original3237/574358/1 00/1 00015738100682 4356/0/7767/58313589 5164/829360/100/100018292 6336/100/9488%/72916770 January 1979 81 Above Ray Hayes holds up Osprey 990 original design identification dis tant flagman Below models Dale Nut ter LI Dr Stan Pfost RI head starting point Dave Thornburg Betty Nutter LeMon Payne Nutter Payne 1977 US team members Above Jack Hamilton shows damaged rudder happened during distance task Asks Pruss Did strike bird shed parts Below Bill Haga Legionair rose 13th end Round 2 finish 5th Contest Director Rae Fritz Team Finals tough manage direct author gives Fritz high marks job well done vailed three days Don Edberg California took next duration task lust short perfect 359/ 100 first three-in-a-row 1000-point tasks Only six failed max 10 scored under 85 points landing circle second day competition ended third dayLabor Daywas taken lit erally Rae Fritz crew set fast pace earlythen maintained pace got 21/2 rounds lust before sun went down Distance second half Round Four started day early morning fliers bit skeptical about possibility getting 12 laps Results showed over half fliers logged 10 lapsthe best distance rounds contest end Round Four standings read Work Koplan Hiner Smith Cameron Skip Miller latter three being Colorado Bob Gill managed 4 laps Round Two 21st worked himself up eighth place Steve Work now 7787 points out possible 8000 Jack Hamilton Texas 10th place still within striking distance 7170 points Doyle Modesto Carrol Moffatt both Texas added excitement previous distance task both tried occupy same airspace lap seven Modesto landed Le gionair safely did Moffatt Aquila ever Legionair holding metal spar Aquila strike suffered broken wing spar Carrol set teled no-fix seven laps Dallas Body Fender Shop repaired Le gionairs wing tin 7-Up Gatorade cans Doyle took re-flight logged seven laps Round Five Don Edberg loaded Aquila Grande 22 ounces ballast turned 136 seemed speed barrier meet No turned faster Hayes Koplan gone fast 136 gave Don third 1000-point round row earlier missed landing six laps distance task kept him out top 10 spectacular bit flying Gill decided go broke plunked two pounds lead Viking II Gills technique have seconds counted off him during run base base B right time turn anticipated goes well run elevens Its gutsy ap proach Gill ready wife gave him count boiled through base count five Bob turn RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS Speed tionDistanceRoundTotal P1Name/State/ModelRdSecsIPtsTime/Land /PtsLapslPtsPointsPoints 21Tom Decker1193/705359/95/98716916 New York2358/100/99611/2/95819539 Unknown3200/680302/0/65913394100554 4348/30/82412/100018235 5167/814356/100/99118056 6343/90/9416/50014413 22LeMon Payne10/0360/1 00/1 00010000 Texas2359/90/97612/100019760 Legionair3169/805354/100/9911795999576 4357/95/98510/83318180 5142/957359/100/99719555 6358/100/9965/41614120 23Doyle Modesto121 8/624359/55/90015239 Texas2339/0/73711/91716536 Legionair3207/657360/90/9831639598896 4300/45/75212/100017516 5192/708358/60/89115996 6359/50/88910/83317220 24Phil Harris121 2/642346/100/97016111 California2359/100/99810/83318311 Paragon3193/704358/95/9891693798254 4360/95/99110/83318246 5208/653360/95/98916429 6266/95/7855//43712220 25Chuck Copeland121 3/638356/100/99116298 Alaska2356/90/9704/2/35413237 Grand Esprit3203/670261/90/7661436398006 4355/85/95911h/93818961 5200/680357 /85/96016408 6307/95/87412/1 00018739 26Fritz Bien1181/751352/75/92816796 Massachusetts2357/45/8749/75016239 T Aquila3165/824352/80/9431767597931 4359/85/9679/75017173 5167/814355/90/96717817 6271/100/8065/41612231 27Bob Baugher1185/735360/85/96717025 Pennsylvania2359/90/9767/58315594 Aquila3178/764349/90/9591722696505 4360/90/9809/75017303 521 0/648350/95/96716150 6335/100/9464A/37513200 28Allan Marshall1185/735355/85/95716917 Massachusetts2359/85/9657/58315485 Unknown3161/845308/90/8691713795133 4358/95/9878/66716535 50/0356/80/9479478 6360/100/100011/2/95819580 29Terry Ferentinos1205/663357/70/92815917 Florida2359/55/9008/66715666 Unknown3180/756347/90/9541709794561 4358/75/94312/100019433 5184/739356/100/99117304 6229/0/4985/4169144 30James Truitt1242/562356/50/88314446 Texas2356/70/9261 0%/8961821 9 Original321 2/642350/0/7641405790864 4233/95/7157A/62513395 5202/673278/75/76714406 6351/75/9268%/70816340 horn went off looked like 11-second run making wasnt high-G turn caused left wing fold went about 60 degrees dihedral Gill backed off nursed bird back through course respectable 166 819 points crowd loved Jack Hiner time decided play close vest just cruise speed course preserve third-place slot got too cautious after low upwind turn Jack stretch flight Aquila Grande what seemed like endurance run 212 seconds allowed fourth-place Herb Smith Colorado close gap time duration task ended certain Work Koplan first second places locked up Only third place con test sixth round flown Hiners slim nine-point hold third going bait least three people later proved four pursuit Round Six scheduled flights made faster scores could posted No seemed look far enough down roster see seventh-place guy name Skip Miller doing Wasnt way went Denver two years ago Hiner managed 10 laps distance Smith got six quarter Meanwhile Skip got 12 Smith got 356/1 00 duration paper Jack needed amax no land82 Model Aviation RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS SpeedDurationDistance Round Total P1 Name/State/Model Rd Secs/PtsTime/Land/Pts Laps/Pts PointsPoints 31Austin Leftwich1175/777191/95/62213989 Virginia2358/85/9635A/43814005 Unknown3167/814179/0/3911205290835 4246/70/6887%/64613342 5153/888306/95/87117606 6353/100/98412/100019840 32Bob Gerbin10/0230/95/7067065 California2356/95/98010/83318137 Paragon3160/850358/90/9781828289423 4356/95/98312/100019825 5205/663354/100/98616503 6342/100/9610/09610 33Fred Gregg10/0355/95/9789783 Virginia2346/55/8729/75018217 Viking MI321 4/636298/0/6511286186197 4356/75/9399A/81317514 5201/676355/50/88015570 63 56/55/8934/33312260 34Rick Norwood1193/705357/0/77614807 California20/0/09%/8138125 Javelin II3185/735165/95/5681302885340 4346/95/9618/66716274 5183/743360/85/96717105 6291/100/8509/75016000 35James Davis1235/579295/90/83714157 Alabama2358/80/9528/66716188 Legionair3227/599350/85/9501548882004 4358/0/7809/75015299 5212/641360/75/94515871 60/0/06/5005000 36Carrol Moffatt1193/705356/0/77414786 Texas2360/85/96710/83318007 Aquila3168/810347/0/7581567181103 4192/85/6037/58311868 5258/5270/0/05271 6288/80/8009/7 5015500 37William Leathers1206/660358/100/99616558 North Carolina2207/100/66711/91715840 Legionair3196/6940/0/0693868063 4355/95/98011/4/97919595 5325/95/9139130 38Art Sark1209/650311/85/86115116 Florida2354/85/9989/75017043 Paragon3208/654201 /0/4391092762831 4195/90/6215/41710375 5351/80/9369360 39Ed Berton1190/716351 /95/97016853 Florida2358/100/9954/4/3541349837561 Unknown3330/0/7217210 40Stan Pfost1181/751359/90/97617275 Florida2214/70/6176/5001117336417 Paragon3270/95/7977969 ing some combination total 350 points raw Jack got 360190 thats everyone started handshakes Meanwhile Miller getting 358/100 won Round Six also trip Belgium As sun setting scorer noticed Miller taken third less two points thought score tight Rae Fritz called score recount top 10 Thats Miller/Miller scores straightened out results finalized Sidelights site contest Navy Auxiiary Landing Fielda mile square grass best flying fields youll ever see Pensacola club has using 21 years Rae Fritz retired Navy Chief just pleased out come Steve Work AD4 Navy man sta tioned San Diego special thanks Clint Bobe Rick Herrmann did outstand ing jobs tabulating keeping scores posted Works Bird Time Dave Thornburgs design same design Dave used two years ago Denver miss team two points Bird has kitted limited run Steve second achieve LSF Level V mark earned three years ago final note doubt contest finest caliber fliers ever assembled contest well run competitively clean very well flown Besides excellent duration/landing scores speed run out 120 crossed center line azero score Strategies subtle yet bold sake preserving secrets some tactics wont revealed herenot until next summer anyway few unintentional incidents could have provoked protests Instead heads turned challenges made air rule book Thirtysix 40 contestants still final round Work Koplan Miller know earned way Belgium Next July will represent name USA Soaring Lets support January 1979 83 Above Craig Foxgord holding original de sign sailplane Rick Norwoodboth California Foxgord 11th Below Art Sark CL Stan Pfost walk flight line Pfost president NSS Above Discussing what might have Dale Nutter LeMon Payne Bad luck early rounds kept repeating team members both giving final rounds Below Judge Jim Davis winch hauler chose appropriate ly named brand wed have say CL COMBAT TEAM COMMIHEE ANNOUNCED committee responsible dev s ng obtaining approval carrying out pro gram selecting US 1980 Control Line Combat World Championships Team known Combat Team Selection Committee consists representative 11 AMA districts follows Steve Sacco District 478 Main St Norwell MA 02061 Bill Bird II 123 Beechwood Rd Florham Park NJ 07432 Charles Rudner III 3530 Radcliffe Rd Cleveland Hgts OH 44121 Bill Harris IV 11004 Harding Rd Laurel MD 20810 W M Henry V 629 Elysian Fields Nash ville TN 37211 Gary Frost VI 22 Glynn Dr Florissant MO 63031 Paul Smith VII Chairman 323 N Walnut Apt 904 Lansing Ml 48933 George Cleveland VIII 36 Antiqua Kenner LA 70062 Dave Jones IX 666 N Volutsia Wichita KS 67214 Charlie Johnson X 3716 Ingraham St San Diego CA 92109 Chuck Thomas Xl 7711 Easy St Everett WA 98203 Members committee generally recruited Miniature Aircraft Combat Association MACA endorsed respective AMA vice-presidents final step installation committee confirmation members previous program participants obtained mail ballot October POSSIBLE CHANGES TO CB PROCEDURES written AMA Executive Council together Contest Board chairmen CB coordinator process voting mail three proposals revise Contest Board Procedures recent printing document April 1978 issue page 74 Likely re sults vote will printed next month Preceding vote proposals dis tributed Contest Board members re view comment such comments mailed would vote propo sals follows Three-Year Rules Cycle proposal submitted Control Line Racing Advi sory Committee J E Klause chairman change present two-year rules cycle three-year rules cycle three-year cy cle intended increase stability rules also provide years period testing newly enacted rules before commence ment next time period accepting rules-change proposals Proposers Experience proposal also CL Racing Advisory Committee add spaces rules-change propo sal form proposer show number years experience catego ries Indoor FF CL Scale RC show number times proposer has flown and/or directed events past two years Further proposal calls adding fol lowing statement adjacent CD endorse ment space especially important CDs thoroughly analyze implications proposal prior endorsing it' said inclusion information form will help Contest Boards evaluating various proposals before Provisional Supplemental Rule Events Nets Gail E Jacobson College Park GA proposes revise CB Procedures also rule book allow events Provisional Supplemental rules flown National Contest Further proposal provides automatic upgrade Provisional Official events held Nats according such rules notes Provisional Supplemental rules events have held Nats despite pro hibition CB Procedures rule book revisions proposes will legalize present practice Age Class Determination falls under sole jurisdiction Executive Council Contest Board mat ter Council presently considering proposal Joe L Norcross Clovis CA change date age determination clas sification purposes Junior Senior Open July 1 year January 1 year states using present July 1 date results confusion AMA member applicants well officials accept AMA applications fees contests Using January 1 determination date will reduce confusion believes INDOOR WORLD CHAMPS Report Jim Richmond US Team Member 1st Place modelers life little com pare thrill winning World Cham pionship personal standpoint achievement significant cause 10th anniversary 1968 win Rome felt come through time ever going spite short notice British SMAE did usual fine job organizing run ning Championships hat off effort made behalf also outstanding performance result ing first team win UK expedition began panic made mad dash catch charter flight seemed continue varying levels crises excitement until very last day Hot Rod Hulbert made itto Gatwick just time us catch return flight home Just drive through London left side street enough excitement rest hard-working manager Ray Harlan held up very well through did fine job looking after interests addition T-shirts jackets decals travel arrange ments super carrying box get planes processing still found time build optical wingspan checker used precision checking questionable wings during competition also went bat us regarding questionable new un limited steering rule able get jury outlaw sharks tooth hook some installed fronts planes purpose balloon towing plane new location believe ruling avoided controversy could have impaired good spirit competition As turned out British team demon strated outstanding steering capability wit out tooth credit won competition conducted under much better flying conditions endured 1976 weather staying fairly constant mild throughout morning air cool heavy until about 100 PM after flying conditions good rest day US team able get end flying period extended 600 700 PM first day competition provided enough time fly good air Unfor tunately flying stop 600 PM second day because banquet being held evening caused some such self either fly bad morning air lose flights Since already posted good flights previous day afternoon time good air given teammates hopes im proving positions Bud Romak de fending champion fortunate being able fly whenever chose manager Erv Rodemsky put forth tremendous effort came very close capturing second victory third flight 4253 tipped scales Just slight amount bad luck point would have washed out view team flying schedule re quired last day expected see some new innova tions Championships planes pretty much same before Swiss getting some impressive times long Archaeopterix planes Chiub ny Czechoslovakia showed up un usual arc-shaped cabane ship Someone pointed out top four places built planes underweight used ballast make 1 gram Goes show light construction still important Although would have liked bring home Team Championship once again felt second place good showing considering first World Cham pionships other members team British pretty emphatic about holding next Indoor Championships else although great sheds Card ington magnificent site event cant blame wanting someone share burden once Personally Im looking forward return Cardington some day air right flying really great INDOOR WORLD CHAMPS Report Bill Hulbert US Team Member 16th Place participation US Indoor Team certainly culmination years model flyingdating back 1940 Indoor flying has very fascinating particular FAI use Goodyear Air Dock has un doubtedly contributed success other factor Midwest have high ceilings available develop 84 Model Aviation kind flying such Lakehurst Santa Ana opinion Goodyear hangar certainly finest facility available world time After making team last fall spent winter months building preparation fly ing salt mines Romania ie stiff motor sticks reverse flair props etc location changed new building pro gram started six completely tested ships two extra wings 40-mm flight plus number 37s 38s convinced ready new Pirelli rubber looked good abandoned rubber used Team Trials Kennedy Airport set tone whole trip made arrangements special handling two model boxes Cleveland hour half layover Kennedy vanished completely because ramp bag gage problems ended up actually running catch Laker flight just made Fortunately models went through excellent shape Only some minor holes required minimum patching return wings almost totally demolished Glad other way arrived Gatwick early AM very little sleep spent whole day trying arrange transportation getting County Hotel Bedford another whole story arrived couple days before contest stayed couple days afterwards Jean wife spent interesting hours sightseeing England fascinating country much heritage side Saturday test day arrived first glimpse inside Cardington ex cept Richmond Romak before air shed quite different Goodyears sides rising almost straight up yet narrowing very limited space between two top catwalks absolutely necessary fly above catwalks achieve maximum time however side drift often problem ballooning expertise often required Controversy over steering will undoubtedly lead new rules proposals weather generally good during event Sunday being superb day Test day saw flights feeling out air shed motor size propellers What seemed best too different INDOOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS RESULTS PL Name Country1st2nd3rd4th5th6th 1 James Richmond USA 2 Bud Romak reigning W/Champ 3Ron HiggsCanada 4Dieter SiebenmannSwitzerland 5Laurie BarrUK 6Shigeyoshi NonakaJapan 7Jack McGillivrayCanada 8Eduard CiapalaPoland 9RonGreenUK 10Rene ButtiSwitzerland 11Deryl MorleyUK 12Cornelius WoithomNetherlands 13Vilim KmochYugoslavia 14Kurt ViglerW Germany 15Yasutoshi BanbaJapan 16William HulbertUSA 17Eduard ChlubnyCSSR 18Jan DihmPoland 19Takaji MatsuzawaJapan 20Karol RybeckyCSSR 21Harro ErofejeffFinland 22Carlo CotugnoItaly 23 Ryszard Czechowski Poland 24 Ferdinando Migani 25 Leopold Gabrijel 26 Swn-Olav Linden 27 Jiri Kalina 28 Michael Thomas 29 Klaus Nottelmann 30 Daniel Domina 31 Willem Beekmeyer 32 Harri Raullo 33 Germano Masciullo 34 Teodor Strazberger 35 Sven Pontan 36 Werner Wetzel 37 Milan Sitar 38 Timo Forss 39 Edmund Liem 40 Anders Jonsson Italy Yugoslavia Sweden CSSR Canada W Germany USA Netherlands Finland Italy Yugoslavia Sweden W Germany Australia Finland Netherlands Sweden 4149 4055 3516 1305 1103 2833 3545 3443 0640 3437 3045 3120 3038 0838 3433 3439 3331 3258 0014 3223 3032 3415 3106 2701 2607 1618 1148 0643 0518 2314 2811 1555 1624 2215 1624 1429 2141 1736 0047 1324 TEAM RESULTS 1 United Kingdom 2 USA 3 Canada 4 Japan 5 Poland 6 Czechoslovakia 21827 21425 - 21212 21038 20521 19711 3652 4027 3944 3032 3723 3305 3720 3815 2928 2852 3257 3620 3340 3012 3537 2628 3540 3055 3540 1039 2940 0800 2759 0148 3328 2400 2947 2632 1922 1129 2644 2352 2303 0042 1539 2648 2426 2047 1907 1908 4253 1343 0918 3723 2454 4036 1139 3344 3717 3806 3458 3705 3429 Disq 2348 3417 Disq 0906 3303 3059 3347 3313 1618 3254 3003 3115 3207 3033 3037 2922 2408 3127 2731 2510 2739 2232 2542 1840 3116 2858 3057 0824 1513 2711 2542 1259 2238 243 1 3100 3302 2409 2938 2501 3310 2252 3144 3117 2934 3225 2947 1942 2859 3117 2050 3140 2712 2843 1400 1913 2550 2656 2304 2504 2328 0519 2705 2002 1456 3151 1437 3232 3634 1228 3619 3458 3918 2703 2541 1247 2631 3603 3023 3149 3222 0615 3009 3321 3010 1007 1152 0845 3134 3116 2415 1140 2551 2519 2818 2130 2247 2255 1627 2348 3322 3645 3730 0113 2555 3434 3406 1036 3323 3322 3501 2347 3438 2241 3049 1215 0020 2836 3140 2909 2941 2600 3129 2953 2709 0931 2316 2115 2528 0646 1936 7 Yugoslavia 8 Italy 9 West Germany 10 Netherlands 11 Finland 12 Sweden 13 Switzerland 14 Australia Best 2 8442 8122 7629 7453 7357 7341 7339 7313 7302 7154 7128 7121 7045 7032 7000 6917 6911 6715 6657 6544 6528 6514 6453 6453 6445 6428 6256 6244 6050 6026 5848 5631 5514 5443 5235 5216 5205 4937 4930 3748 18933 18521 183 38 17139 17136 15411 14607 5205 configurations used Goodyears hang ar 37-mm flight concluded busy flying day things looked good Unfortunately own flying activities such almost impossible spend time visiting other fliers ob serving models regret however Team Championship paramount everything else secondary flying same design flew Team Trials using 21 prop variable 32 pitch loop 17 x 054 new Pirelli rubber found necessary use heavier motor Monday because cooler conditions first official flight Sunday cal culated safe flight topped out just under top catwalk never trouble 34 39 flight Richmond Romak put up great flights obvious conditions improving first flight used 1940 turns se cond 2080 model climbed perfectly exactly centered within 5 top looked great however consternation did cruise down 25 mm am sure 38 39 mm possible ever loosened wire caused excessive wash-in left tip did explain after 12 15 flights Goodyear Cardington wing cant third flight made using different plane higher pitch prop enough power Monday significantly cooler put three flights top heavier motor resultant faster RPM Almost top flights made Sunday times attest quite disappointed felt could win lot ifs left behind Car dington British flew well should have won particularly outstanding effort Richmond clearly class field Romak flying individ ual since reigning World Cham pion following closely behind banquet fitting climax World Championships toasts much good cheer also provided oppor tunity socialize some unable meet during really strenuous flying conditions found out very quickly flying representative country certainly far different doing own thing dividual such trying make team discovered also team member others very graciously contributed materials other assistance expectation anything return except best effort am indebted Ray Harlan others help Finally am indebted AMA op portunity represent country COMBAT WC RESULTS mistake team results Combat World Championships reported Decem ber issue page 82 third round team results end contest follows 1st England 2nd West Ger Belgium France 5th USA Cana da Italy 8th Ireland Holland 10th Australia 11th Sweden 12th Mexico Brazil 14th Switzerland January 1979 85 1979 US Free Flight World Championships Team members L-R Nordic A-2 Bob lsaacson Lee Hines Jim Wilson Power Ijoug Ual breath Roger Simpson Carl Bogart Wakefield Rubber Walt Ghio Bob Piserchio Bob White Except Bogart California means strenuous process involving local Qualifications Regional Semi-Finals lots haggling over sites procedures last Finals aspirants positions USA teams have sifted sorted winnowed distilled until nine re main what teams have Taft CA site Finals se lect 1979 USA World Championships teams Wakefield Rubber A-2 Towline Glider FAI Power event held September 2-4 Chosen US team members following Wakefield Rubber Walt Ghio Stockton CA Bob Piserchio San Diego CA Bob White Los Angeles CA Nordic A-2 Bob lsaacson Los Angeles CA Jim Wilson Los Angeles CA Lee Hines Los Angeles CA FAI Power Carl Bogart Manassas VA Roger Simpson Sacramento CA Doug Gaibreath Davis CA protest lodged concerning A-2 results AMA President Clemens has accepted Jury recommendation results remain unchanged assump tion principle behind Jury deci sion applied consistently throughout event Some Finals recent years have disasters because poor weather poor local geography combination two Taft ideal siteperhaps best USand weather early September usually excellent rain unheard During first two days three-day meet weather mild side typical 97 degrees F mid-afternoon no strong winds Models seldom drifted over quarter mile Thermals regular mild no Taft trash-lifters between first two rounds Labor Day started drizzle remained between drizzle light rain rest day strangely neither modelers nor models seemed mind too much Ther mal activity decreased bit sort weather have home FAI competition flying done rounds contestant required make flight within specified time period maxis normally 3 minutes flights lasting longer 3 minutes scored 3 minutes Fuse clockwork devices rigged make models descend quickly after making max name game make maxes possible Model specificationsweight wing area etcare such severely limit performance Power model engine runs limited 7 se conds Wakefield rubber motors limited weight 16 oz example still air such thing best A-2 Nordic gliders can barely make 3-minute flights Power Wakefield models 4 minutes thermal activity doesnt mean much What goes up must come down thermals going up air between thermals coming down Find thermal dont max So thermal detection real game Methods include sensing changes 86 Model Aviation Left A qUalified welcome sign greeted Visitors Middle Willard Smitz team member 1975 1977 flew both Nordic Wakefield used mini-trail bike retrieval did others Right Frank Paulinwho made first flight Finals uses special transit track model Device gives compass bearing Wind strong enough make retrieval problem knew experience prepared air temperature speed direction eyes skin mylar streamers attached tops 20-ft poles bubble machines cat tail fluff thrown air air-tempera ture measuring instruments can react within second some equipped stripchart recorders best another model circling overhead World Champs survive seven regular rounds described above maxes go flyoffs maxes successive flyoff flights increase 1 -mm increments Flyoffs occur late day thermal activity has decreased isnt long before winner decided format Finals pick US teams made tough three days started flight before dawn 4minute max made within 15-minute time period intended simulate World Champs flyoff rounds followed day five rounds normal 3-minute maxes made within specified 1-hour bracket totals 18 flights altogether about enough check out technical psy chological factors affect persons poten tial winning World Champs An tougher program would better perhaps impractical Rounding up 30 36 timekeepers shortly after 6 am wasnt easy atfirst some ad justments made couldnt get through processing line fore starting gun worked itself out Power first round day half contestants launched within min ute after round opened Towline glider fliers started towing too very start round modern circle-tow techniques can tow almost indefinitely look ing suitable thermal activity before releas ing glider towline Needless say 33 guys running over place line crossings aplenty Fortunately vertually no wind during first rounds fliers could run off both direc tions starting line reduced problem bit January1979 87 Marc Nagasawa age 20 has flying Nor dics three years third Models trick towhooks own de sign Beautiful workmanship tidy equipment Nordic fliers line up receive towline winches timekeepers start round Tense moments Sick jokes unnecessary fussing hardware ease tension Bob lsaacson hooks up towline protected drizzle hand-held mobile tent Final scores Nordic close lsaacson topped field Left Bob Hatschek likes light tails short noses Aluminum-tube fuselage houses own version circle-zoom towhook invented Rwsians Right Jim Wilson got spot team using V-dihedral model meet C C 0 0 LI 0 p 1 aaaaamaaaaaoaamaOaoaaa-o O0O0JO0S00J0-- omOooaoOosoOOa a -3 2 m 00 ammamama 1 222 2222222222 000000000ca0O0 2 ammmaammama 22 C I- cm.aoma Oaaaaoaaaaa aO0O0M0c00O000OS0.c0O00S00O00O0Co 00M0s0 000OMO 000 oM0MMOJcQ~000000 000000000000 OOOMmMcc 0200000000000 . am aOOO aoa--c--M00000 ma 000O00aOaO00c000000~M 0400000 OaOOOQ MMWa0000 004 00MM ft OWo S 0 U w 0 o ow S cc P jo MM 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c 0 g ~2 o 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 out looked like wet noodle airplane Taft plastic tent stakes used anchor winding stooge broke winding model model demolished managed bend borrowed stooge too fortunately out fatal results once started stretch out motor winding torquemeter situated between geared winder motor disassembled itself torquemeter just little stronger waited break motor fully stretched would have meant third de stroyed model winners have hard luck Carl Bogart destroyed two new Power models practice posted two perfect scores meet using models year half old day before contest started Doug Gaibreath wiped out best models wore out two brand new engines bad fuel Bob Whites model stalled way ground flight out-of-kilter wing went unnoticed wouldnt tell story Chris Matsuno merely excellent free flighter superb modeler long-term record shows tell merely example what can happen frequently does happen competition among best best start twelfth round Chris tied first perfect score thermal model damaged repaired test flight would necessary ensure nothing out whack getting late Chris elected fly still air model slow climbing machine long motor run easily does over 4 minutes thermal-free air So didnt need thermals feltall needed neutral airno uppers no downers Chris launched soon evident air poor side neutral model landed minute short 3 minute max model dam aged taken time test flight thermal model chosen correct moment launch usual skill care might well have national hero instead also-ran Id writing hard-luck story about some other superb modeler Watching Chris fly lesson time-andmotion analysis isnt much wasted muscle twitch Everything hasa proper place goes back finish es winding winder goes its assigned spot winding stooge number turns gets written down little book toolbox lid toolbox gets closed Only does start looking suitable air launch model easy write hard-luck stories about guys almost made first place Its harder write about two maxed outWalt Ghio Wakefield Carl Bogart Powersimply because flew ordinarylooking models ordinary-looking way made maxing look easy Bogarts two models 11/2 years old two newer models became instantaneously worn out pre-contest practice Both simple slab-sided affairs No rakish pylonsor trick wingtips Almost Power models have sheet-covered wings automatic incidencechanging mechanisms stabilizer rudder quite few have gadget starts timer instant model re leased wont mention Carls models have things engines stock Ros sis mounted Oliver pans docile ther mal model sports 9% Cherney airfoil 27% stabilizer having thickness ratio 75% four-minute model features 71A% wing thickness 21% stab 5% thick has vari able rib spacingclosely spaced center widely spaced toward tips Nothing unusual about models except perhaps ability make 18 straight maxes Walt Ghios new RL-1 Wakefield model considerably stretched compared ear lier Flux Span flat increased 59 66 fuselage length 48 52 motor tube 18 24 earlier rather popular chem-milled aluminum alloy motor tube has abandoned partially because Walt never totally happy partly because good ones no longer readily avail able partly because has developed motor tube likes much better con sists inner layer epoxy-impregnated DuPont Kevlar cloth layer 1/16 balsa grain running fore-and-aft outer layer thin epoxy-impregnated fiber glass sticking together done epoxy Both models feature highly cam bered Gard-7510 airfoil two turbulators newer has double-tapered planform totally covered 1/32 sheet Most modelers nowadays wind mo tors prop disconnected blastproof aluminum tube stuffed fuselage Quite ritual involved getting rubber wound model assembled ready flight Walt has tried thatincluding winding prop hub attached rubber motor prop blades removed has reverted old-fashioned system winding protective tube inserted fuselage prop attached motor small detachable shield pro tects prop shield turns out too small has plenty identical prop blades fuselage itself blast-proof January1979 89 Above Chris Matsunos pro-flight procedures classic time-and-motion analysisnot wasted motion Includes stretching rubber motor near limit holding 30 sec stretching again winding Below Carl Hermes flew same models used represented US 1963 World Champs Theyre still good shape flew well Right George Xenakis relies heavily recording air-temperature indi cator tell thermals coming ises cat-tail fluff thrown air too Bubble machines also used mark thermals Above Walt Ghio made perfect score Wakenot easy 18 flights Bill Bogart LI holds US record max flights made during day Left Bob White heaves model thermalalmost lost out Carrol Allen cocked wing caused model stall made team anyhow fourth time Whites Vol Libre twin-fin Wake MA plan No 194 Walt demonstrated few times Getting broken half motor out fuselage facilitated having remov able tailboom held place aluminumtube rear motor peg Tailbooms both models simple square-on-edge tapered boxes Sides 1/16 balsa top bottom longerons 3/32square spruce side long erons 3/32-square balsa Nothing un usual about models except perhaps ability make 18 straight maxes cliff-hangers right through last flight start last round 26 seconds separated Gaibreath Kerr Power Gaibreath would need 148 seconds win Kerr maxed Kerr flew first made 180-sec max Galbreath went up air wasnt especially good quite awhile wasnt certain would make watch indicated 148 sec cheers went up group supporters led Crew Chief Head Cheerleader Ken Oliver model landed short max 12 sec onds later administrative aspects Finals superb Opinions concerning site selec tion competition format eligibility par ticipants other such sticky matters got sorted out committee charged getting done voted par ticipants accordance basic system formulated Hardy Brodersen some four years ago Finals participants well formed what going well advance meet predictable processing contestants obtaining sufficient num ber timekeepers would hassle especial ly early-morning rounds deed hassle sensible adjustments made smoothed out fuss Southern California Aero Team SCAT responsible Finals made go made happen deserve thanks admiration bit much made team few hard-working bunch Andy Faykun Finals Administrator Bill Har till Contest Director Joe Norcross Chief Timekeeper Ross Steckel Nordic F 1 Event Director lrv Aker Wakefield FiB Event Di rector Craig Cusick Power FiC Event Di rector Rol Anderson preceded Bob Stalick George Xenakis FAI Committee Chair manplus committee members too numer ous mention Youngest Power flier Bruce Hannah takes break money until adjusting screw came loose thirteenth round Dick Lyons checks out Power model tween flights maxed last nine flights finished sixth place Carl Bogart Power post perfect scoreand the three teams outside California Simple clean models used stock Rossis Tail Bob Mattes model displays usual array gadgetry optimize trim climb transition glide Dave Rounsaville 75 team member changes plug Excelsior newest long line Engine specialist Doc Anderson 1 Dick Swenson ctr help Rol Anderson check out model before dawn first days flying Rol chairman FF Team Selection Comm Tom McLaughlan flew until bitter end helped Jerry Wagner despite cracking shoulder tripped over tent rope darkness Below Roger Simpson second Power Below Doug Joyce seriously lacerated aHis latest wing uses double spars diagon thumb 1st round fiberglass prop butal ribs between covering balsa flew canard 18 flights anyhowfiberglass Cured flutter thin wings
Edition: Model Aviation - 1979/01
Page Numbers: 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90
USA J AEROIdA Miller flu summer First air must cleared what some thought happened Work Koplan busy sewing up respective spots jack Hiner busier trying hold dpwn number three spota position held fourth round As last round ending Jackflew lOof 12 laps dis tance tasks perfect si-minute dur ation task coupled 90-point landing Most scoreboard watchers thought two flights enough nail down wnui IFTEENT NA offered ck ibt passed wo iple flights too nf best fowl nessed started off enis championshii *ying gra durationsaw o fliersn five-minute flights seven score less 85 landing poin perfect 360/100 secondsflandin 1000-point scores LeMon Payne f attempt maintain pace ha lished South Africa Payne pushe culmination program select three-I 1979 World Championships Pensacola Report Photos Dan Steve Work left Terry Skip Miller below reigning W Time sailplane designed Dave vator plane Team Finals Ke ter abor new fa won ing WA e Above Herb Smith original design Invador very clean ship con trolsrudder elevator spoilers flaps 8th Below Lee Renaud R helps Don Edberg get ready launch Aquila Grande Don 3 comuecutive 1000s Rounds 45 Carroll Moffatt above carries Aquila involved mideir collision Doyle Modestos Legionair shown below what looked like max have light breeze take bird downwind too fast pace meager height gain thermal giving Dale brought bird home before could max worse yet breeze caused Esprit land over 100 ters spotand rules brutally state thats zero flight score Only four fliers failed get maxes 12 scored less 85 land ing points Bob Gill Illinois flew Viking II perfect score 360/ 100 1000 points Day ended Distancethe make-you-or-break-you task pastby years rules has 12-lap maximum Further rules allow eight min utes working time 12 laps flown within four minutes Only half 40 fliers flew 10 laps just six maxed out among Steve Work New Mexico Terry Koplan California Kop Ian led end Round Two 3944 points point found out later scoring error 150-some points reversed Skip Miller Colorado Blame Miller Florida Rae Fritz Contest Director terrupted Nutters working time previous day calling measurement allowed RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS Speed tionDistanceRoundTotal P1Name/State/ModelRdSecs/PtsTime/Land/PtsLaps/PtsPointsPoints 1SteveWork1142/958358/50/88718447 NMex temp CA2359/90/97612/100019760 Bird Time3137/993358/90/97819708116857 4357/100/99612/100019956 5145/937358/100/99519335 6358/85/96512/100019650 2Terry Koplan1145/938359/100/99819358 California2359/100/99812/100019978 Viking3136/1000270/100/80818078113093 4353/95/97612/100019760 5170/800359/90/97617760 6357/95/98310/83318160 3Skip Miller1161 /845360/90/97818230 Colorado2360/95/9897%/64616349 Aquila Grande3150/906359/95/99118979111849 4312/100/89812/100018976 5143/951357/95/98219336 6359/100/99812/100019980 4Jack Hiner1152/895340/100/95718513 Illinois2357/85/96112/100019608 Aquila Grande3162/840357/100/99818373110326 4344/90/94612/100019455 5212/641358/95/98416262 6360/90/97810/83318115 5Bill Haga1195/697357/90/97716992 Texas2355/95/9781 0%/89618740 Legionair3166/819359/90/98017996109329 4359/100/100010%/89618958 5156/871359/100/99718696 6356/100/99110/83318240 6Bob Gill1149/913359/95/98718997 Illinois2360/100/10004%/39613958 Viking Mk II3138/986353/85/95619418108572 4357/100/99612/100019950 5166/819359/95/98618062 6358/95/98510/83318180 7Don Cameron1165/824358/85/96317893 Colorado23 57/80/9509/75017000 Aquila3148/919358/90/97818970107250 4359/55/90212/100019019 5170/800353/100/98417847 6355/100/9898/66616551 8Herb Smith1147/925360/100/1 00019252 Colorado2359/100/99812/100019978 Orig Invader3172/791360/95/99317841107236 4271/85/77611/91716926 5164/829357/95/98218118 6356/100/9916h/52015110 9Jack Hamilton1196/694357/100/9931687A Texas2359/75/94311/91718600 Legionair3187/727357/95/98717142107005 4360/95/99111/91719079 5196/693354/95/97616699 6359 /85/9891 0%/89518840 10John Gunsaullus1184/739360/100/1 00017391 Florida2357/100/9939/75017434 Original3174/781354/95/98017620106327 4358/100/99812/100019978 5184/739360/1 00/1 00017391 6355/95/9788/66616440 Dale re-fly duration task allowed balance working time count towards score plane re-positioned previous days spot working time allowed continue buzzer went off Steve Work retrieved Dale re-launched flew 344 made 90-point landing seconds before working time expired replaced zero score 314 points duration task Round Three no perfect scores Bill Johnson New York flew original bird 3581100 Because best round Bill earned 1000 points Only 11 failed score maxes 1 3 landing points under 85 mark Terry Koplan pushed Viking 136 speed followed Work 137 Gill 1 38 thirteens task However Hayes 140 put him back lead end round 5794 two points ahead secondplace Work 53 points ahead third-place Koplan Hiner fifth Skip Miller sev enth440 points behind leader point two contestants dropped out weather consistenthot 90s windwhen anyof six eight knots direction varied north northwest conditions pre RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS SpeedDurationDistance Round Total P1 Name/State/Model Rd Secs/Pts Time/Land/Pts Laps/Pts Points Points 11Craig Foxgord1192/708369/95/98716953 California2359/95/98711/91719036 Unknown3187/727206/85/63513626104814 4341/100/96110/2/87518357 5188/723354/95/97616994 6353/100/98512/100019850 12Ray Hayes1136/1000358/95/98519848 Indiana2353/90/96311/91718797 Osprey 9003140/971344/95/95919299103644 4231/80/6786/50011775 5144/944338/95/94118857 6354/90/9656A/54115060 13Blame Miller1177/768359/90/97617444 Florida2355/95/97810/83318110 Unknown3163/834358/60/91317470103137 4355/45/87110/83317047 5268/507350/100/97814857 6359/95/98710/83318200 14Bob Domer1173/786357/100/99317796 Colorado2359/65/92210/83317550 Legionair3165/824248/65/68315076102717 4356/80/95010%/89618457 5164/829359/75/94317727 6359/85/9867%/64516110 15Tom Williams1142/958360/1 00/1 00019577 Texas2359/100/9987h/60416019 Paramount3155/877344/0/75116285102369 4302/100/8761 0h/85417299 5172/790330/95/92317146 6360/100/100074/60416040 16Don Edberg1150/907355/85/95718632 California2318/0/6916/50011913 Aquila Grande3140/971356/0/77717487101871 4359/100/100012/100020000 5136/1000353/95/97319739 6357/100/9935/41614100 17Dwight Holley1186/731358/85/96316942 Connecticut2354/95/9768/66716427 Maestro3154/883355/100/99318765101659 4355/100/99110/83318246 5149/912357/90/97118844 6357/100/9933/25012434 18Dale Nutter1193/705358/95/98516894 Oklahoma2224/90/31411/91715992 Esprit3201/677354/95/98016569101092 4356/100/99312/100019934 5163/834358/90/97318082 63 59/95/9874A/37513620 19Matt Sheldon1156/872357/90/97218435 Colorado2359/100/99812/100019978 Olympic II3170/800178/0/38911886100754 4359/80/9567/58315397 5180/755358/80/95217077 6267/100/79812/100017980 20William Johnson1165/824357/95/98318069 New York2360/95/98910/83318224 Original3237/574358/1 00/1 00015738100682 4356/0/7767/58313589 5164/829360/100/100018292 6336/100/9488%/72916770 January 1979 81 Above Ray Hayes holds up Osprey 990 original design identification dis tant flagman Below models Dale Nut ter LI Dr Stan Pfost RI head starting point Dave Thornburg Betty Nutter LeMon Payne Nutter Payne 1977 US team members Above Jack Hamilton shows damaged rudder happened during distance task Asks Pruss Did strike bird shed parts Below Bill Haga Legionair rose 13th end Round 2 finish 5th Contest Director Rae Fritz Team Finals tough manage direct author gives Fritz high marks job well done vailed three days Don Edberg California took next duration task lust short perfect 359/ 100 first three-in-a-row 1000-point tasks Only six failed max 10 scored under 85 points landing circle second day competition ended third dayLabor Daywas taken lit erally Rae Fritz crew set fast pace earlythen maintained pace got 21/2 rounds lust before sun went down Distance second half Round Four started day early morning fliers bit skeptical about possibility getting 12 laps Results showed over half fliers logged 10 lapsthe best distance rounds contest end Round Four standings read Work Koplan Hiner Smith Cameron Skip Miller latter three being Colorado Bob Gill managed 4 laps Round Two 21st worked himself up eighth place Steve Work now 7787 points out possible 8000 Jack Hamilton Texas 10th place still within striking distance 7170 points Doyle Modesto Carrol Moffatt both Texas added excitement previous distance task both tried occupy same airspace lap seven Modesto landed Le gionair safely did Moffatt Aquila ever Legionair holding metal spar Aquila strike suffered broken wing spar Carrol set teled no-fix seven laps Dallas Body Fender Shop repaired Le gionairs wing tin 7-Up Gatorade cans Doyle took re-flight logged seven laps Round Five Don Edberg loaded Aquila Grande 22 ounces ballast turned 136 seemed speed barrier meet No turned faster Hayes Koplan gone fast 136 gave Don third 1000-point round row earlier missed landing six laps distance task kept him out top 10 spectacular bit flying Gill decided go broke plunked two pounds lead Viking II Gills technique have seconds counted off him during run base base B right time turn anticipated goes well run elevens Its gutsy ap proach Gill ready wife gave him count boiled through base count five Bob turn RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS Speed tionDistanceRoundTotal P1Name/State/ModelRdSecsIPtsTime/Land /PtsLapslPtsPointsPoints 21Tom Decker1193/705359/95/98716916 New York2358/100/99611/2/95819539 Unknown3200/680302/0/65913394100554 4348/30/82412/100018235 5167/814356/100/99118056 6343/90/9416/50014413 22LeMon Payne10/0360/1 00/1 00010000 Texas2359/90/97612/100019760 Legionair3169/805354/100/9911795999576 4357/95/98510/83318180 5142/957359/100/99719555 6358/100/9965/41614120 23Doyle Modesto121 8/624359/55/90015239 Texas2339/0/73711/91716536 Legionair3207/657360/90/9831639598896 4300/45/75212/100017516 5192/708358/60/89115996 6359/50/88910/83317220 24Phil Harris121 2/642346/100/97016111 California2359/100/99810/83318311 Paragon3193/704358/95/9891693798254 4360/95/99110/83318246 5208/653360/95/98916429 6266/95/7855//43712220 25Chuck Copeland121 3/638356/100/99116298 Alaska2356/90/9704/2/35413237 Grand Esprit3203/670261/90/7661436398006 4355/85/95911h/93818961 5200/680357 /85/96016408 6307/95/87412/1 00018739 26Fritz Bien1181/751352/75/92816796 Massachusetts2357/45/8749/75016239 T Aquila3165/824352/80/9431767597931 4359/85/9679/75017173 5167/814355/90/96717817 6271/100/8065/41612231 27Bob Baugher1185/735360/85/96717025 Pennsylvania2359/90/9767/58315594 Aquila3178/764349/90/9591722696505 4360/90/9809/75017303 521 0/648350/95/96716150 6335/100/9464A/37513200 28Allan Marshall1185/735355/85/95716917 Massachusetts2359/85/9657/58315485 Unknown3161/845308/90/8691713795133 4358/95/9878/66716535 50/0356/80/9479478 6360/100/100011/2/95819580 29Terry Ferentinos1205/663357/70/92815917 Florida2359/55/9008/66715666 Unknown3180/756347/90/9541709794561 4358/75/94312/100019433 5184/739356/100/99117304 6229/0/4985/4169144 30James Truitt1242/562356/50/88314446 Texas2356/70/9261 0%/8961821 9 Original321 2/642350/0/7641405790864 4233/95/7157A/62513395 5202/673278/75/76714406 6351/75/9268%/70816340 horn went off looked like 11-second run making wasnt high-G turn caused left wing fold went about 60 degrees dihedral Gill backed off nursed bird back through course respectable 166 819 points crowd loved Jack Hiner time decided play close vest just cruise speed course preserve third-place slot got too cautious after low upwind turn Jack stretch flight Aquila Grande what seemed like endurance run 212 seconds allowed fourth-place Herb Smith Colorado close gap time duration task ended certain Work Koplan first second places locked up Only third place con test sixth round flown Hiners slim nine-point hold third going bait least three people later proved four pursuit Round Six scheduled flights made faster scores could posted No seemed look far enough down roster see seventh-place guy name Skip Miller doing Wasnt way went Denver two years ago Hiner managed 10 laps distance Smith got six quarter Meanwhile Skip got 12 Smith got 356/1 00 duration paper Jack needed amax no land82 Model Aviation RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS SpeedDurationDistance Round Total P1 Name/State/Model Rd Secs/PtsTime/Land/Pts Laps/Pts PointsPoints 31Austin Leftwich1175/777191/95/62213989 Virginia2358/85/9635A/43814005 Unknown3167/814179/0/3911205290835 4246/70/6887%/64613342 5153/888306/95/87117606 6353/100/98412/100019840 32Bob Gerbin10/0230/95/7067065 California2356/95/98010/83318137 Paragon3160/850358/90/9781828289423 4356/95/98312/100019825 5205/663354/100/98616503 6342/100/9610/09610 33Fred Gregg10/0355/95/9789783 Virginia2346/55/8729/75018217 Viking MI321 4/636298/0/6511286186197 4356/75/9399A/81317514 5201/676355/50/88015570 63 56/55/8934/33312260 34Rick Norwood1193/705357/0/77614807 California20/0/09%/8138125 Javelin II3185/735165/95/5681302885340 4346/95/9618/66716274 5183/743360/85/96717105 6291/100/8509/75016000 35James Davis1235/579295/90/83714157 Alabama2358/80/9528/66716188 Legionair3227/599350/85/9501548882004 4358/0/7809/75015299 5212/641360/75/94515871 60/0/06/5005000 36Carrol Moffatt1193/705356/0/77414786 Texas2360/85/96710/83318007 Aquila3168/810347/0/7581567181103 4192/85/6037/58311868 5258/5270/0/05271 6288/80/8009/7 5015500 37William Leathers1206/660358/100/99616558 North Carolina2207/100/66711/91715840 Legionair3196/6940/0/0693868063 4355/95/98011/4/97919595 5325/95/9139130 38Art Sark1209/650311/85/86115116 Florida2354/85/9989/75017043 Paragon3208/654201 /0/4391092762831 4195/90/6215/41710375 5351/80/9369360 39Ed Berton1190/716351 /95/97016853 Florida2358/100/9954/4/3541349837561 Unknown3330/0/7217210 40Stan Pfost1181/751359/90/97617275 Florida2214/70/6176/5001117336417 Paragon3270/95/7977969 ing some combination total 350 points raw Jack got 360190 thats everyone started handshakes Meanwhile Miller getting 358/100 won Round Six also trip Belgium As sun setting scorer noticed Miller taken third less two points thought score tight Rae Fritz called score recount top 10 Thats Miller/Miller scores straightened out results finalized Sidelights site contest Navy Auxiiary Landing Fielda mile square grass best flying fields youll ever see Pensacola club has using 21 years Rae Fritz retired Navy Chief just pleased out come Steve Work AD4 Navy man sta tioned San Diego special thanks Clint Bobe Rick Herrmann did outstand ing jobs tabulating keeping scores posted Works Bird Time Dave Thornburgs design same design Dave used two years ago Denver miss team two points Bird has kitted limited run Steve second achieve LSF Level V mark earned three years ago final note doubt contest finest caliber fliers ever assembled contest well run competitively clean very well flown Besides excellent duration/landing scores speed run out 120 crossed center line azero score Strategies subtle yet bold sake preserving secrets some tactics wont revealed herenot until next summer anyway few unintentional incidents could have provoked protests Instead heads turned challenges made air rule book Thirtysix 40 contestants still final round Work Koplan Miller know earned way Belgium Next July will represent name USA Soaring Lets support January 1979 83 Above Craig Foxgord holding original de sign sailplane Rick Norwoodboth California Foxgord 11th Below Art Sark CL Stan Pfost walk flight line Pfost president NSS Above Discussing what might have Dale Nutter LeMon Payne Bad luck early rounds kept repeating team members both giving final rounds Below Judge Jim Davis winch hauler chose appropriate ly named brand wed have say CL COMBAT TEAM COMMIHEE ANNOUNCED committee responsible dev s ng obtaining approval carrying out pro gram selecting US 1980 Control Line Combat World Championships Team known Combat Team Selection Committee consists representative 11 AMA districts follows Steve Sacco District 478 Main St Norwell MA 02061 Bill Bird II 123 Beechwood Rd Florham Park NJ 07432 Charles Rudner III 3530 Radcliffe Rd Cleveland Hgts OH 44121 Bill Harris IV 11004 Harding Rd Laurel MD 20810 W M Henry V 629 Elysian Fields Nash ville TN 37211 Gary Frost VI 22 Glynn Dr Florissant MO 63031 Paul Smith VII Chairman 323 N Walnut Apt 904 Lansing Ml 48933 George Cleveland VIII 36 Antiqua Kenner LA 70062 Dave Jones IX 666 N Volutsia Wichita KS 67214 Charlie Johnson X 3716 Ingraham St San Diego CA 92109 Chuck Thomas Xl 7711 Easy St Everett WA 98203 Members committee generally recruited Miniature Aircraft Combat Association MACA endorsed respective AMA vice-presidents final step installation committee confirmation members previous program participants obtained mail ballot October POSSIBLE CHANGES TO CB PROCEDURES written AMA Executive Council together Contest Board chairmen CB coordinator process voting mail three proposals revise Contest Board Procedures recent printing document April 1978 issue page 74 Likely re sults vote will printed next month Preceding vote proposals dis tributed Contest Board members re view comment such comments mailed would vote propo sals follows Three-Year Rules Cycle proposal submitted Control Line Racing Advi sory Committee J E Klause chairman change present two-year rules cycle three-year rules cycle three-year cy cle intended increase stability rules also provide years period testing newly enacted rules before commence ment next time period accepting rules-change proposals Proposers Experience proposal also CL Racing Advisory Committee add spaces rules-change propo sal form proposer show number years experience catego ries Indoor FF CL Scale RC show number times proposer has flown and/or directed events past two years Further proposal calls adding fol lowing statement adjacent CD endorse ment space especially important CDs thoroughly analyze implications proposal prior endorsing it' said inclusion information form will help Contest Boards evaluating various proposals before Provisional Supplemental Rule Events Nets Gail E Jacobson College Park GA proposes revise CB Procedures also rule book allow events Provisional Supplemental rules flown National Contest Further proposal provides automatic upgrade Provisional Official events held Nats according such rules notes Provisional Supplemental rules events have held Nats despite pro hibition CB Procedures rule book revisions proposes will legalize present practice Age Class Determination falls under sole jurisdiction Executive Council Contest Board mat ter Council presently considering proposal Joe L Norcross Clovis CA change date age determination clas sification purposes Junior Senior Open July 1 year January 1 year states using present July 1 date results confusion AMA member applicants well officials accept AMA applications fees contests Using January 1 determination date will reduce confusion believes INDOOR WORLD CHAMPS Report Jim Richmond US Team Member 1st Place modelers life little com pare thrill winning World Cham pionship personal standpoint achievement significant cause 10th anniversary 1968 win Rome felt come through time ever going spite short notice British SMAE did usual fine job organizing run ning Championships hat off effort made behalf also outstanding performance result ing first team win UK expedition began panic made mad dash catch charter flight seemed continue varying levels crises excitement until very last day Hot Rod Hulbert made itto Gatwick just time us catch return flight home Just drive through London left side street enough excitement rest hard-working manager Ray Harlan held up very well through did fine job looking after interests addition T-shirts jackets decals travel arrange ments super carrying box get planes processing still found time build optical wingspan checker used precision checking questionable wings during competition also went bat us regarding questionable new un limited steering rule able get jury outlaw sharks tooth hook some installed fronts planes purpose balloon towing plane new location believe ruling avoided controversy could have impaired good spirit competition As turned out British team demon strated outstanding steering capability wit out tooth credit won competition conducted under much better flying conditions endured 1976 weather staying fairly constant mild throughout morning air cool heavy until about 100 PM after flying conditions good rest day US team able get end flying period extended 600 700 PM first day competition provided enough time fly good air Unfor tunately flying stop 600 PM second day because banquet being held evening caused some such self either fly bad morning air lose flights Since already posted good flights previous day afternoon time good air given teammates hopes im proving positions Bud Romak de fending champion fortunate being able fly whenever chose manager Erv Rodemsky put forth tremendous effort came very close capturing second victory third flight 4253 tipped scales Just slight amount bad luck point would have washed out view team flying schedule re quired last day expected see some new innova tions Championships planes pretty much same before Swiss getting some impressive times long Archaeopterix planes Chiub ny Czechoslovakia showed up un usual arc-shaped cabane ship Someone pointed out top four places built planes underweight used ballast make 1 gram Goes show light construction still important Although would have liked bring home Team Championship once again felt second place good showing considering first World Cham pionships other members team British pretty emphatic about holding next Indoor Championships else although great sheds Card ington magnificent site event cant blame wanting someone share burden once Personally Im looking forward return Cardington some day air right flying really great INDOOR WORLD CHAMPS Report Bill Hulbert US Team Member 16th Place participation US Indoor Team certainly culmination years model flyingdating back 1940 Indoor flying has very fascinating particular FAI use Goodyear Air Dock has un doubtedly contributed success other factor Midwest have high ceilings available develop 84 Model Aviation kind flying such Lakehurst Santa Ana opinion Goodyear hangar certainly finest facility available world time After making team last fall spent winter months building preparation fly ing salt mines Romania ie stiff motor sticks reverse flair props etc location changed new building pro gram started six completely tested ships two extra wings 40-mm flight plus number 37s 38s convinced ready new Pirelli rubber looked good abandoned rubber used Team Trials Kennedy Airport set tone whole trip made arrangements special handling two model boxes Cleveland hour half layover Kennedy vanished completely because ramp bag gage problems ended up actually running catch Laker flight just made Fortunately models went through excellent shape Only some minor holes required minimum patching return wings almost totally demolished Glad other way arrived Gatwick early AM very little sleep spent whole day trying arrange transportation getting County Hotel Bedford another whole story arrived couple days before contest stayed couple days afterwards Jean wife spent interesting hours sightseeing England fascinating country much heritage side Saturday test day arrived first glimpse inside Cardington ex cept Richmond Romak before air shed quite different Goodyears sides rising almost straight up yet narrowing very limited space between two top catwalks absolutely necessary fly above catwalks achieve maximum time however side drift often problem ballooning expertise often required Controversy over steering will undoubtedly lead new rules proposals weather generally good during event Sunday being superb day Test day saw flights feeling out air shed motor size propellers What seemed best too different INDOOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS RESULTS PL Name Country1st2nd3rd4th5th6th 1 James Richmond USA 2 Bud Romak reigning W/Champ 3Ron HiggsCanada 4Dieter SiebenmannSwitzerland 5Laurie BarrUK 6Shigeyoshi NonakaJapan 7Jack McGillivrayCanada 8Eduard CiapalaPoland 9RonGreenUK 10Rene ButtiSwitzerland 11Deryl MorleyUK 12Cornelius WoithomNetherlands 13Vilim KmochYugoslavia 14Kurt ViglerW Germany 15Yasutoshi BanbaJapan 16William HulbertUSA 17Eduard ChlubnyCSSR 18Jan DihmPoland 19Takaji MatsuzawaJapan 20Karol RybeckyCSSR 21Harro ErofejeffFinland 22Carlo CotugnoItaly 23 Ryszard Czechowski Poland 24 Ferdinando Migani 25 Leopold Gabrijel 26 Swn-Olav Linden 27 Jiri Kalina 28 Michael Thomas 29 Klaus Nottelmann 30 Daniel Domina 31 Willem Beekmeyer 32 Harri Raullo 33 Germano Masciullo 34 Teodor Strazberger 35 Sven Pontan 36 Werner Wetzel 37 Milan Sitar 38 Timo Forss 39 Edmund Liem 40 Anders Jonsson Italy Yugoslavia Sweden CSSR Canada W Germany USA Netherlands Finland Italy Yugoslavia Sweden W Germany Australia Finland Netherlands Sweden 4149 4055 3516 1305 1103 2833 3545 3443 0640 3437 3045 3120 3038 0838 3433 3439 3331 3258 0014 3223 3032 3415 3106 2701 2607 1618 1148 0643 0518 2314 2811 1555 1624 2215 1624 1429 2141 1736 0047 1324 TEAM RESULTS 1 United Kingdom 2 USA 3 Canada 4 Japan 5 Poland 6 Czechoslovakia 21827 21425 - 21212 21038 20521 19711 3652 4027 3944 3032 3723 3305 3720 3815 2928 2852 3257 3620 3340 3012 3537 2628 3540 3055 3540 1039 2940 0800 2759 0148 3328 2400 2947 2632 1922 1129 2644 2352 2303 0042 1539 2648 2426 2047 1907 1908 4253 1343 0918 3723 2454 4036 1139 3344 3717 3806 3458 3705 3429 Disq 2348 3417 Disq 0906 3303 3059 3347 3313 1618 3254 3003 3115 3207 3033 3037 2922 2408 3127 2731 2510 2739 2232 2542 1840 3116 2858 3057 0824 1513 2711 2542 1259 2238 243 1 3100 3302 2409 2938 2501 3310 2252 3144 3117 2934 3225 2947 1942 2859 3117 2050 3140 2712 2843 1400 1913 2550 2656 2304 2504 2328 0519 2705 2002 1456 3151 1437 3232 3634 1228 3619 3458 3918 2703 2541 1247 2631 3603 3023 3149 3222 0615 3009 3321 3010 1007 1152 0845 3134 3116 2415 1140 2551 2519 2818 2130 2247 2255 1627 2348 3322 3645 3730 0113 2555 3434 3406 1036 3323 3322 3501 2347 3438 2241 3049 1215 0020 2836 3140 2909 2941 2600 3129 2953 2709 0931 2316 2115 2528 0646 1936 7 Yugoslavia 8 Italy 9 West Germany 10 Netherlands 11 Finland 12 Sweden 13 Switzerland 14 Australia Best 2 8442 8122 7629 7453 7357 7341 7339 7313 7302 7154 7128 7121 7045 7032 7000 6917 6911 6715 6657 6544 6528 6514 6453 6453 6445 6428 6256 6244 6050 6026 5848 5631 5514 5443 5235 5216 5205 4937 4930 3748 18933 18521 183 38 17139 17136 15411 14607 5205 configurations used Goodyears hang ar 37-mm flight concluded busy flying day things looked good Unfortunately own flying activities such almost impossible spend time visiting other fliers ob serving models regret however Team Championship paramount everything else secondary flying same design flew Team Trials using 21 prop variable 32 pitch loop 17 x 054 new Pirelli rubber found necessary use heavier motor Monday because cooler conditions first official flight Sunday cal culated safe flight topped out just under top catwalk never trouble 34 39 flight Richmond Romak put up great flights obvious conditions improving first flight used 1940 turns se cond 2080 model climbed perfectly exactly centered within 5 top looked great however consternation did cruise down 25 mm am sure 38 39 mm possible ever loosened wire caused excessive wash-in left tip did explain after 12 15 flights Goodyear Cardington wing cant third flight made using different plane higher pitch prop enough power Monday significantly cooler put three flights top heavier motor resultant faster RPM Almost top flights made Sunday times attest quite disappointed felt could win lot ifs left behind Car dington British flew well should have won particularly outstanding effort Richmond clearly class field Romak flying individ ual since reigning World Cham pion following closely behind banquet fitting climax World Championships toasts much good cheer also provided oppor tunity socialize some unable meet during really strenuous flying conditions found out very quickly flying representative country certainly far different doing own thing dividual such trying make team discovered also team member others very graciously contributed materials other assistance expectation anything return except best effort am indebted Ray Harlan others help Finally am indebted AMA op portunity represent country COMBAT WC RESULTS mistake team results Combat World Championships reported Decem ber issue page 82 third round team results end contest follows 1st England 2nd West Ger Belgium France 5th USA Cana da Italy 8th Ireland Holland 10th Australia 11th Sweden 12th Mexico Brazil 14th Switzerland January 1979 85 1979 US Free Flight World Championships Team members L-R Nordic A-2 Bob lsaacson Lee Hines Jim Wilson Power Ijoug Ual breath Roger Simpson Carl Bogart Wakefield Rubber Walt Ghio Bob Piserchio Bob White Except Bogart California means strenuous process involving local Qualifications Regional Semi-Finals lots haggling over sites procedures last Finals aspirants positions USA teams have sifted sorted winnowed distilled until nine re main what teams have Taft CA site Finals se lect 1979 USA World Championships teams Wakefield Rubber A-2 Towline Glider FAI Power event held September 2-4 Chosen US team members following Wakefield Rubber Walt Ghio Stockton CA Bob Piserchio San Diego CA Bob White Los Angeles CA Nordic A-2 Bob lsaacson Los Angeles CA Jim Wilson Los Angeles CA Lee Hines Los Angeles CA FAI Power Carl Bogart Manassas VA Roger Simpson Sacramento CA Doug Gaibreath Davis CA protest lodged concerning A-2 results AMA President Clemens has accepted Jury recommendation results remain unchanged assump tion principle behind Jury deci sion applied consistently throughout event Some Finals recent years have disasters because poor weather poor local geography combination two Taft ideal siteperhaps best USand weather early September usually excellent rain unheard During first two days three-day meet weather mild side typical 97 degrees F mid-afternoon no strong winds Models seldom drifted over quarter mile Thermals regular mild no Taft trash-lifters between first two rounds Labor Day started drizzle remained between drizzle light rain rest day strangely neither modelers nor models seemed mind too much Ther mal activity decreased bit sort weather have home FAI competition flying done rounds contestant required make flight within specified time period maxis normally 3 minutes flights lasting longer 3 minutes scored 3 minutes Fuse clockwork devices rigged make models descend quickly after making max name game make maxes possible Model specificationsweight wing area etcare such severely limit performance Power model engine runs limited 7 se conds Wakefield rubber motors limited weight 16 oz example still air such thing best A-2 Nordic gliders can barely make 3-minute flights Power Wakefield models 4 minutes thermal activity doesnt mean much What goes up must come down thermals going up air between thermals coming down Find thermal dont max So thermal detection real game Methods include sensing changes 86 Model Aviation Left A qUalified welcome sign greeted Visitors Middle Willard Smitz team member 1975 1977 flew both Nordic Wakefield used mini-trail bike retrieval did others Right Frank Paulinwho made first flight Finals uses special transit track model Device gives compass bearing Wind strong enough make retrieval problem knew experience prepared air temperature speed direction eyes skin mylar streamers attached tops 20-ft poles bubble machines cat tail fluff thrown air air-tempera ture measuring instruments can react within second some equipped stripchart recorders best another model circling overhead World Champs survive seven regular rounds described above maxes go flyoffs maxes successive flyoff flights increase 1 -mm increments Flyoffs occur late day thermal activity has decreased isnt long before winner decided format Finals pick US teams made tough three days started flight before dawn 4minute max made within 15-minute time period intended simulate World Champs flyoff rounds followed day five rounds normal 3-minute maxes made within specified 1-hour bracket totals 18 flights altogether about enough check out technical psy chological factors affect persons poten tial winning World Champs An tougher program would better perhaps impractical Rounding up 30 36 timekeepers shortly after 6 am wasnt easy atfirst some ad justments made couldnt get through processing line fore starting gun worked itself out Power first round day half contestants launched within min ute after round opened Towline glider fliers started towing too very start round modern circle-tow techniques can tow almost indefinitely look ing suitable thermal activity before releas ing glider towline Needless say 33 guys running over place line crossings aplenty Fortunately vertually no wind during first rounds fliers could run off both direc tions starting line reduced problem bit January1979 87 Marc Nagasawa age 20 has flying Nor dics three years third Models trick towhooks own de sign Beautiful workmanship tidy equipment Nordic fliers line up receive towline winches timekeepers start round Tense moments Sick jokes unnecessary fussing hardware ease tension Bob lsaacson hooks up towline protected drizzle hand-held mobile tent Final scores Nordic close lsaacson topped field Left Bob Hatschek likes light tails short noses Aluminum-tube fuselage houses own version circle-zoom towhook invented Rwsians Right Jim Wilson got spot team using V-dihedral model meet C C 0 0 LI 0 p 1 aaaaamaaaaaoaamaOaoaaa-o O0O0JO0S00J0-- omOooaoOosoOOa a -3 2 m 00 ammamama 1 222 2222222222 000000000ca0O0 2 ammmaammama 22 C I- cm.aoma Oaaaaoaaaaa aO0O0M0c00O000OS0.c0O00S00O00O0Co 00M0s0 000OMO 000 oM0MMOJcQ~000000 000000000000 OOOMmMcc 0200000000000 . am aOOO aoa--c--M00000 ma 000O00aOaO00c000000~M 0400000 OaOOOQ MMWa0000 004 00MM ft OWo S 0 U w 0 o ow S cc P jo MM 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c 0 g ~2 o 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 out looked like wet noodle airplane Taft plastic tent stakes used anchor winding stooge broke winding model model demolished managed bend borrowed stooge too fortunately out fatal results once started stretch out motor winding torquemeter situated between geared winder motor disassembled itself torquemeter just little stronger waited break motor fully stretched would have meant third de stroyed model winners have hard luck Carl Bogart destroyed two new Power models practice posted two perfect scores meet using models year half old day before contest started Doug Gaibreath wiped out best models wore out two brand new engines bad fuel Bob Whites model stalled way ground flight out-of-kilter wing went unnoticed wouldnt tell story Chris Matsuno merely excellent free flighter superb modeler long-term record shows tell merely example what can happen frequently does happen competition among best best start twelfth round Chris tied first perfect score thermal model damaged repaired test flight would necessary ensure nothing out whack getting late Chris elected fly still air model slow climbing machine long motor run easily does over 4 minutes thermal-free air So didnt need thermals feltall needed neutral airno uppers no downers Chris launched soon evident air poor side neutral model landed minute short 3 minute max model dam aged taken time test flight thermal model chosen correct moment launch usual skill care might well have national hero instead also-ran Id writing hard-luck story about some other superb modeler Watching Chris fly lesson time-andmotion analysis isnt much wasted muscle twitch Everything hasa proper place goes back finish es winding winder goes its assigned spot winding stooge number turns gets written down little book toolbox lid toolbox gets closed Only does start looking suitable air launch model easy write hard-luck stories about guys almost made first place Its harder write about two maxed outWalt Ghio Wakefield Carl Bogart Powersimply because flew ordinarylooking models ordinary-looking way made maxing look easy Bogarts two models 11/2 years old two newer models became instantaneously worn out pre-contest practice Both simple slab-sided affairs No rakish pylonsor trick wingtips Almost Power models have sheet-covered wings automatic incidencechanging mechanisms stabilizer rudder quite few have gadget starts timer instant model re leased wont mention Carls models have things engines stock Ros sis mounted Oliver pans docile ther mal model sports 9% Cherney airfoil 27% stabilizer having thickness ratio 75% four-minute model features 71A% wing thickness 21% stab 5% thick has vari able rib spacingclosely spaced center widely spaced toward tips Nothing unusual about models except perhaps ability make 18 straight maxes Walt Ghios new RL-1 Wakefield model considerably stretched compared ear lier Flux Span flat increased 59 66 fuselage length 48 52 motor tube 18 24 earlier rather popular chem-milled aluminum alloy motor tube has abandoned partially because Walt never totally happy partly because good ones no longer readily avail able partly because has developed motor tube likes much better con sists inner layer epoxy-impregnated DuPont Kevlar cloth layer 1/16 balsa grain running fore-and-aft outer layer thin epoxy-impregnated fiber glass sticking together done epoxy Both models feature highly cam bered Gard-7510 airfoil two turbulators newer has double-tapered planform totally covered 1/32 sheet Most modelers nowadays wind mo tors prop disconnected blastproof aluminum tube stuffed fuselage Quite ritual involved getting rubber wound model assembled ready flight Walt has tried thatincluding winding prop hub attached rubber motor prop blades removed has reverted old-fashioned system winding protective tube inserted fuselage prop attached motor small detachable shield pro tects prop shield turns out too small has plenty identical prop blades fuselage itself blast-proof January1979 89 Above Chris Matsunos pro-flight procedures classic time-and-motion analysisnot wasted motion Includes stretching rubber motor near limit holding 30 sec stretching again winding Below Carl Hermes flew same models used represented US 1963 World Champs Theyre still good shape flew well Right George Xenakis relies heavily recording air-temperature indi cator tell thermals coming ises cat-tail fluff thrown air too Bubble machines also used mark thermals Above Walt Ghio made perfect score Wakenot easy 18 flights Bill Bogart LI holds US record max flights made during day Left Bob White heaves model thermalalmost lost out Carrol Allen cocked wing caused model stall made team anyhow fourth time Whites Vol Libre twin-fin Wake MA plan No 194 Walt demonstrated few times Getting broken half motor out fuselage facilitated having remov able tailboom held place aluminumtube rear motor peg Tailbooms both models simple square-on-edge tapered boxes Sides 1/16 balsa top bottom longerons 3/32square spruce side long erons 3/32-square balsa Nothing un usual about models except perhaps ability make 18 straight maxes cliff-hangers right through last flight start last round 26 seconds separated Gaibreath Kerr Power Gaibreath would need 148 seconds win Kerr maxed Kerr flew first made 180-sec max Galbreath went up air wasnt especially good quite awhile wasnt certain would make watch indicated 148 sec cheers went up group supporters led Crew Chief Head Cheerleader Ken Oliver model landed short max 12 sec onds later administrative aspects Finals superb Opinions concerning site selec tion competition format eligibility par ticipants other such sticky matters got sorted out committee charged getting done voted par ticipants accordance basic system formulated Hardy Brodersen some four years ago Finals participants well formed what going well advance meet predictable processing contestants obtaining sufficient num ber timekeepers would hassle especial ly early-morning rounds deed hassle sensible adjustments made smoothed out fuss Southern California Aero Team SCAT responsible Finals made go made happen deserve thanks admiration bit much made team few hard-working bunch Andy Faykun Finals Administrator Bill Har till Contest Director Joe Norcross Chief Timekeeper Ross Steckel Nordic F 1 Event Director lrv Aker Wakefield FiB Event Di rector Craig Cusick Power FiC Event Di rector Rol Anderson preceded Bob Stalick George Xenakis FAI Committee Chair manplus committee members too numer ous mention Youngest Power flier Bruce Hannah takes break money until adjusting screw came loose thirteenth round Dick Lyons checks out Power model tween flights maxed last nine flights finished sixth place Carl Bogart Power post perfect scoreand the three teams outside California Simple clean models used stock Rossis Tail Bob Mattes model displays usual array gadgetry optimize trim climb transition glide Dave Rounsaville 75 team member changes plug Excelsior newest long line Engine specialist Doc Anderson 1 Dick Swenson ctr help Rol Anderson check out model before dawn first days flying Rol chairman FF Team Selection Comm Tom McLaughlan flew until bitter end helped Jerry Wagner despite cracking shoulder tripped over tent rope darkness Below Roger Simpson second Power Below Doug Joyce seriously lacerated aHis latest wing uses double spars diagon thumb 1st round fiberglass prop butal ribs between covering balsa flew canard 18 flights anyhowfiberglass Cured flutter thin wings
Edition: Model Aviation - 1979/01
Page Numbers: 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90
USA J AEROIdA Miller flu summer First air must cleared what some thought happened Work Koplan busy sewing up respective spots jack Hiner busier trying hold dpwn number three spota position held fourth round As last round ending Jackflew lOof 12 laps dis tance tasks perfect si-minute dur ation task coupled 90-point landing Most scoreboard watchers thought two flights enough nail down wnui IFTEENT NA offered ck ibt passed wo iple flights too nf best fowl nessed started off enis championshii *ying gra durationsaw o fliersn five-minute flights seven score less 85 landing poin perfect 360/100 secondsflandin 1000-point scores LeMon Payne f attempt maintain pace ha lished South Africa Payne pushe culmination program select three-I 1979 World Championships Pensacola Report Photos Dan Steve Work left Terry Skip Miller below reigning W Time sailplane designed Dave vator plane Team Finals Ke ter abor new fa won ing WA e Above Herb Smith original design Invador very clean ship con trolsrudder elevator spoilers flaps 8th Below Lee Renaud R helps Don Edberg get ready launch Aquila Grande Don 3 comuecutive 1000s Rounds 45 Carroll Moffatt above carries Aquila involved mideir collision Doyle Modestos Legionair shown below what looked like max have light breeze take bird downwind too fast pace meager height gain thermal giving Dale brought bird home before could max worse yet breeze caused Esprit land over 100 ters spotand rules brutally state thats zero flight score Only four fliers failed get maxes 12 scored less 85 land ing points Bob Gill Illinois flew Viking II perfect score 360/ 100 1000 points Day ended Distancethe make-you-or-break-you task pastby years rules has 12-lap maximum Further rules allow eight min utes working time 12 laps flown within four minutes Only half 40 fliers flew 10 laps just six maxed out among Steve Work New Mexico Terry Koplan California Kop Ian led end Round Two 3944 points point found out later scoring error 150-some points reversed Skip Miller Colorado Blame Miller Florida Rae Fritz Contest Director terrupted Nutters working time previous day calling measurement allowed RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS Speed tionDistanceRoundTotal P1Name/State/ModelRdSecs/PtsTime/Land/PtsLaps/PtsPointsPoints 1SteveWork1142/958358/50/88718447 NMex temp CA2359/90/97612/100019760 Bird Time3137/993358/90/97819708116857 4357/100/99612/100019956 5145/937358/100/99519335 6358/85/96512/100019650 2Terry Koplan1145/938359/100/99819358 California2359/100/99812/100019978 Viking3136/1000270/100/80818078113093 4353/95/97612/100019760 5170/800359/90/97617760 6357/95/98310/83318160 3Skip Miller1161 /845360/90/97818230 Colorado2360/95/9897%/64616349 Aquila Grande3150/906359/95/99118979111849 4312/100/89812/100018976 5143/951357/95/98219336 6359/100/99812/100019980 4Jack Hiner1152/895340/100/95718513 Illinois2357/85/96112/100019608 Aquila Grande3162/840357/100/99818373110326 4344/90/94612/100019455 5212/641358/95/98416262 6360/90/97810/83318115 5Bill Haga1195/697357/90/97716992 Texas2355/95/9781 0%/89618740 Legionair3166/819359/90/98017996109329 4359/100/100010%/89618958 5156/871359/100/99718696 6356/100/99110/83318240 6Bob Gill1149/913359/95/98718997 Illinois2360/100/10004%/39613958 Viking Mk II3138/986353/85/95619418108572 4357/100/99612/100019950 5166/819359/95/98618062 6358/95/98510/83318180 7Don Cameron1165/824358/85/96317893 Colorado23 57/80/9509/75017000 Aquila3148/919358/90/97818970107250 4359/55/90212/100019019 5170/800353/100/98417847 6355/100/9898/66616551 8Herb Smith1147/925360/100/1 00019252 Colorado2359/100/99812/100019978 Orig Invader3172/791360/95/99317841107236 4271/85/77611/91716926 5164/829357/95/98218118 6356/100/9916h/52015110 9Jack Hamilton1196/694357/100/9931687A Texas2359/75/94311/91718600 Legionair3187/727357/95/98717142107005 4360/95/99111/91719079 5196/693354/95/97616699 6359 /85/9891 0%/89518840 10John Gunsaullus1184/739360/100/1 00017391 Florida2357/100/9939/75017434 Original3174/781354/95/98017620106327 4358/100/99812/100019978 5184/739360/1 00/1 00017391 6355/95/9788/66616440 Dale re-fly duration task allowed balance working time count towards score plane re-positioned previous days spot working time allowed continue buzzer went off Steve Work retrieved Dale re-launched flew 344 made 90-point landing seconds before working time expired replaced zero score 314 points duration task Round Three no perfect scores Bill Johnson New York flew original bird 3581100 Because best round Bill earned 1000 points Only 11 failed score maxes 1 3 landing points under 85 mark Terry Koplan pushed Viking 136 speed followed Work 137 Gill 1 38 thirteens task However Hayes 140 put him back lead end round 5794 two points ahead secondplace Work 53 points ahead third-place Koplan Hiner fifth Skip Miller sev enth440 points behind leader point two contestants dropped out weather consistenthot 90s windwhen anyof six eight knots direction varied north northwest conditions pre RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS SpeedDurationDistance Round Total P1 Name/State/Model Rd Secs/Pts Time/Land/Pts Laps/Pts Points Points 11Craig Foxgord1192/708369/95/98716953 California2359/95/98711/91719036 Unknown3187/727206/85/63513626104814 4341/100/96110/2/87518357 5188/723354/95/97616994 6353/100/98512/100019850 12Ray Hayes1136/1000358/95/98519848 Indiana2353/90/96311/91718797 Osprey 9003140/971344/95/95919299103644 4231/80/6786/50011775 5144/944338/95/94118857 6354/90/9656A/54115060 13Blame Miller1177/768359/90/97617444 Florida2355/95/97810/83318110 Unknown3163/834358/60/91317470103137 4355/45/87110/83317047 5268/507350/100/97814857 6359/95/98710/83318200 14Bob Domer1173/786357/100/99317796 Colorado2359/65/92210/83317550 Legionair3165/824248/65/68315076102717 4356/80/95010%/89618457 5164/829359/75/94317727 6359/85/9867%/64516110 15Tom Williams1142/958360/1 00/1 00019577 Texas2359/100/9987h/60416019 Paramount3155/877344/0/75116285102369 4302/100/8761 0h/85417299 5172/790330/95/92317146 6360/100/100074/60416040 16Don Edberg1150/907355/85/95718632 California2318/0/6916/50011913 Aquila Grande3140/971356/0/77717487101871 4359/100/100012/100020000 5136/1000353/95/97319739 6357/100/9935/41614100 17Dwight Holley1186/731358/85/96316942 Connecticut2354/95/9768/66716427 Maestro3154/883355/100/99318765101659 4355/100/99110/83318246 5149/912357/90/97118844 6357/100/9933/25012434 18Dale Nutter1193/705358/95/98516894 Oklahoma2224/90/31411/91715992 Esprit3201/677354/95/98016569101092 4356/100/99312/100019934 5163/834358/90/97318082 63 59/95/9874A/37513620 19Matt Sheldon1156/872357/90/97218435 Colorado2359/100/99812/100019978 Olympic II3170/800178/0/38911886100754 4359/80/9567/58315397 5180/755358/80/95217077 6267/100/79812/100017980 20William Johnson1165/824357/95/98318069 New York2360/95/98910/83318224 Original3237/574358/1 00/1 00015738100682 4356/0/7767/58313589 5164/829360/100/100018292 6336/100/9488%/72916770 January 1979 81 Above Ray Hayes holds up Osprey 990 original design identification dis tant flagman Below models Dale Nut ter LI Dr Stan Pfost RI head starting point Dave Thornburg Betty Nutter LeMon Payne Nutter Payne 1977 US team members Above Jack Hamilton shows damaged rudder happened during distance task Asks Pruss Did strike bird shed parts Below Bill Haga Legionair rose 13th end Round 2 finish 5th Contest Director Rae Fritz Team Finals tough manage direct author gives Fritz high marks job well done vailed three days Don Edberg California took next duration task lust short perfect 359/ 100 first three-in-a-row 1000-point tasks Only six failed max 10 scored under 85 points landing circle second day competition ended third dayLabor Daywas taken lit erally Rae Fritz crew set fast pace earlythen maintained pace got 21/2 rounds lust before sun went down Distance second half Round Four started day early morning fliers bit skeptical about possibility getting 12 laps Results showed over half fliers logged 10 lapsthe best distance rounds contest end Round Four standings read Work Koplan Hiner Smith Cameron Skip Miller latter three being Colorado Bob Gill managed 4 laps Round Two 21st worked himself up eighth place Steve Work now 7787 points out possible 8000 Jack Hamilton Texas 10th place still within striking distance 7170 points Doyle Modesto Carrol Moffatt both Texas added excitement previous distance task both tried occupy same airspace lap seven Modesto landed Le gionair safely did Moffatt Aquila ever Legionair holding metal spar Aquila strike suffered broken wing spar Carrol set teled no-fix seven laps Dallas Body Fender Shop repaired Le gionairs wing tin 7-Up Gatorade cans Doyle took re-flight logged seven laps Round Five Don Edberg loaded Aquila Grande 22 ounces ballast turned 136 seemed speed barrier meet No turned faster Hayes Koplan gone fast 136 gave Don third 1000-point round row earlier missed landing six laps distance task kept him out top 10 spectacular bit flying Gill decided go broke plunked two pounds lead Viking II Gills technique have seconds counted off him during run base base B right time turn anticipated goes well run elevens Its gutsy ap proach Gill ready wife gave him count boiled through base count five Bob turn RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS Speed tionDistanceRoundTotal P1Name/State/ModelRdSecsIPtsTime/Land /PtsLapslPtsPointsPoints 21Tom Decker1193/705359/95/98716916 New York2358/100/99611/2/95819539 Unknown3200/680302/0/65913394100554 4348/30/82412/100018235 5167/814356/100/99118056 6343/90/9416/50014413 22LeMon Payne10/0360/1 00/1 00010000 Texas2359/90/97612/100019760 Legionair3169/805354/100/9911795999576 4357/95/98510/83318180 5142/957359/100/99719555 6358/100/9965/41614120 23Doyle Modesto121 8/624359/55/90015239 Texas2339/0/73711/91716536 Legionair3207/657360/90/9831639598896 4300/45/75212/100017516 5192/708358/60/89115996 6359/50/88910/83317220 24Phil Harris121 2/642346/100/97016111 California2359/100/99810/83318311 Paragon3193/704358/95/9891693798254 4360/95/99110/83318246 5208/653360/95/98916429 6266/95/7855//43712220 25Chuck Copeland121 3/638356/100/99116298 Alaska2356/90/9704/2/35413237 Grand Esprit3203/670261/90/7661436398006 4355/85/95911h/93818961 5200/680357 /85/96016408 6307/95/87412/1 00018739 26Fritz Bien1181/751352/75/92816796 Massachusetts2357/45/8749/75016239 T Aquila3165/824352/80/9431767597931 4359/85/9679/75017173 5167/814355/90/96717817 6271/100/8065/41612231 27Bob Baugher1185/735360/85/96717025 Pennsylvania2359/90/9767/58315594 Aquila3178/764349/90/9591722696505 4360/90/9809/75017303 521 0/648350/95/96716150 6335/100/9464A/37513200 28Allan Marshall1185/735355/85/95716917 Massachusetts2359/85/9657/58315485 Unknown3161/845308/90/8691713795133 4358/95/9878/66716535 50/0356/80/9479478 6360/100/100011/2/95819580 29Terry Ferentinos1205/663357/70/92815917 Florida2359/55/9008/66715666 Unknown3180/756347/90/9541709794561 4358/75/94312/100019433 5184/739356/100/99117304 6229/0/4985/4169144 30James Truitt1242/562356/50/88314446 Texas2356/70/9261 0%/8961821 9 Original321 2/642350/0/7641405790864 4233/95/7157A/62513395 5202/673278/75/76714406 6351/75/9268%/70816340 horn went off looked like 11-second run making wasnt high-G turn caused left wing fold went about 60 degrees dihedral Gill backed off nursed bird back through course respectable 166 819 points crowd loved Jack Hiner time decided play close vest just cruise speed course preserve third-place slot got too cautious after low upwind turn Jack stretch flight Aquila Grande what seemed like endurance run 212 seconds allowed fourth-place Herb Smith Colorado close gap time duration task ended certain Work Koplan first second places locked up Only third place con test sixth round flown Hiners slim nine-point hold third going bait least three people later proved four pursuit Round Six scheduled flights made faster scores could posted No seemed look far enough down roster see seventh-place guy name Skip Miller doing Wasnt way went Denver two years ago Hiner managed 10 laps distance Smith got six quarter Meanwhile Skip got 12 Smith got 356/1 00 duration paper Jack needed amax no land82 Model Aviation RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS SpeedDurationDistance Round Total P1 Name/State/Model Rd Secs/PtsTime/Land/Pts Laps/Pts PointsPoints 31Austin Leftwich1175/777191/95/62213989 Virginia2358/85/9635A/43814005 Unknown3167/814179/0/3911205290835 4246/70/6887%/64613342 5153/888306/95/87117606 6353/100/98412/100019840 32Bob Gerbin10/0230/95/7067065 California2356/95/98010/83318137 Paragon3160/850358/90/9781828289423 4356/95/98312/100019825 5205/663354/100/98616503 6342/100/9610/09610 33Fred Gregg10/0355/95/9789783 Virginia2346/55/8729/75018217 Viking MI321 4/636298/0/6511286186197 4356/75/9399A/81317514 5201/676355/50/88015570 63 56/55/8934/33312260 34Rick Norwood1193/705357/0/77614807 California20/0/09%/8138125 Javelin II3185/735165/95/5681302885340 4346/95/9618/66716274 5183/743360/85/96717105 6291/100/8509/75016000 35James Davis1235/579295/90/83714157 Alabama2358/80/9528/66716188 Legionair3227/599350/85/9501548882004 4358/0/7809/75015299 5212/641360/75/94515871 60/0/06/5005000 36Carrol Moffatt1193/705356/0/77414786 Texas2360/85/96710/83318007 Aquila3168/810347/0/7581567181103 4192/85/6037/58311868 5258/5270/0/05271 6288/80/8009/7 5015500 37William Leathers1206/660358/100/99616558 North Carolina2207/100/66711/91715840 Legionair3196/6940/0/0693868063 4355/95/98011/4/97919595 5325/95/9139130 38Art Sark1209/650311/85/86115116 Florida2354/85/9989/75017043 Paragon3208/654201 /0/4391092762831 4195/90/6215/41710375 5351/80/9369360 39Ed Berton1190/716351 /95/97016853 Florida2358/100/9954/4/3541349837561 Unknown3330/0/7217210 40Stan Pfost1181/751359/90/97617275 Florida2214/70/6176/5001117336417 Paragon3270/95/7977969 ing some combination total 350 points raw Jack got 360190 thats everyone started handshakes Meanwhile Miller getting 358/100 won Round Six also trip Belgium As sun setting scorer noticed Miller taken third less two points thought score tight Rae Fritz called score recount top 10 Thats Miller/Miller scores straightened out results finalized Sidelights site contest Navy Auxiiary Landing Fielda mile square grass best flying fields youll ever see Pensacola club has using 21 years Rae Fritz retired Navy Chief just pleased out come Steve Work AD4 Navy man sta tioned San Diego special thanks Clint Bobe Rick Herrmann did outstand ing jobs tabulating keeping scores posted Works Bird Time Dave Thornburgs design same design Dave used two years ago Denver miss team two points Bird has kitted limited run Steve second achieve LSF Level V mark earned three years ago final note doubt contest finest caliber fliers ever assembled contest well run competitively clean very well flown Besides excellent duration/landing scores speed run out 120 crossed center line azero score Strategies subtle yet bold sake preserving secrets some tactics wont revealed herenot until next summer anyway few unintentional incidents could have provoked protests Instead heads turned challenges made air rule book Thirtysix 40 contestants still final round Work Koplan Miller know earned way Belgium Next July will represent name USA Soaring Lets support January 1979 83 Above Craig Foxgord holding original de sign sailplane Rick Norwoodboth California Foxgord 11th Below Art Sark CL Stan Pfost walk flight line Pfost president NSS Above Discussing what might have Dale Nutter LeMon Payne Bad luck early rounds kept repeating team members both giving final rounds Below Judge Jim Davis winch hauler chose appropriate ly named brand wed have say CL COMBAT TEAM COMMIHEE ANNOUNCED committee responsible dev s ng obtaining approval carrying out pro gram selecting US 1980 Control Line Combat World Championships Team known Combat Team Selection Committee consists representative 11 AMA districts follows Steve Sacco District 478 Main St Norwell MA 02061 Bill Bird II 123 Beechwood Rd Florham Park NJ 07432 Charles Rudner III 3530 Radcliffe Rd Cleveland Hgts OH 44121 Bill Harris IV 11004 Harding Rd Laurel MD 20810 W M Henry V 629 Elysian Fields Nash ville TN 37211 Gary Frost VI 22 Glynn Dr Florissant MO 63031 Paul Smith VII Chairman 323 N Walnut Apt 904 Lansing Ml 48933 George Cleveland VIII 36 Antiqua Kenner LA 70062 Dave Jones IX 666 N Volutsia Wichita KS 67214 Charlie Johnson X 3716 Ingraham St San Diego CA 92109 Chuck Thomas Xl 7711 Easy St Everett WA 98203 Members committee generally recruited Miniature Aircraft Combat Association MACA endorsed respective AMA vice-presidents final step installation committee confirmation members previous program participants obtained mail ballot October POSSIBLE CHANGES TO CB PROCEDURES written AMA Executive Council together Contest Board chairmen CB coordinator process voting mail three proposals revise Contest Board Procedures recent printing document April 1978 issue page 74 Likely re sults vote will printed next month Preceding vote proposals dis tributed Contest Board members re view comment such comments mailed would vote propo sals follows Three-Year Rules Cycle proposal submitted Control Line Racing Advi sory Committee J E Klause chairman change present two-year rules cycle three-year rules cycle three-year cy cle intended increase stability rules also provide years period testing newly enacted rules before commence ment next time period accepting rules-change proposals Proposers Experience proposal also CL Racing Advisory Committee add spaces rules-change propo sal form proposer show number years experience catego ries Indoor FF CL Scale RC show number times proposer has flown and/or directed events past two years Further proposal calls adding fol lowing statement adjacent CD endorse ment space especially important CDs thoroughly analyze implications proposal prior endorsing it' said inclusion information form will help Contest Boards evaluating various proposals before Provisional Supplemental Rule Events Nets Gail E Jacobson College Park GA proposes revise CB Procedures also rule book allow events Provisional Supplemental rules flown National Contest Further proposal provides automatic upgrade Provisional Official events held Nats according such rules notes Provisional Supplemental rules events have held Nats despite pro hibition CB Procedures rule book revisions proposes will legalize present practice Age Class Determination falls under sole jurisdiction Executive Council Contest Board mat ter Council presently considering proposal Joe L Norcross Clovis CA change date age determination clas sification purposes Junior Senior Open July 1 year January 1 year states using present July 1 date results confusion AMA member applicants well officials accept AMA applications fees contests Using January 1 determination date will reduce confusion believes INDOOR WORLD CHAMPS Report Jim Richmond US Team Member 1st Place modelers life little com pare thrill winning World Cham pionship personal standpoint achievement significant cause 10th anniversary 1968 win Rome felt come through time ever going spite short notice British SMAE did usual fine job organizing run ning Championships hat off effort made behalf also outstanding performance result ing first team win UK expedition began panic made mad dash catch charter flight seemed continue varying levels crises excitement until very last day Hot Rod Hulbert made itto Gatwick just time us catch return flight home Just drive through London left side street enough excitement rest hard-working manager Ray Harlan held up very well through did fine job looking after interests addition T-shirts jackets decals travel arrange ments super carrying box get planes processing still found time build optical wingspan checker used precision checking questionable wings during competition also went bat us regarding questionable new un limited steering rule able get jury outlaw sharks tooth hook some installed fronts planes purpose balloon towing plane new location believe ruling avoided controversy could have impaired good spirit competition As turned out British team demon strated outstanding steering capability wit out tooth credit won competition conducted under much better flying conditions endured 1976 weather staying fairly constant mild throughout morning air cool heavy until about 100 PM after flying conditions good rest day US team able get end flying period extended 600 700 PM first day competition provided enough time fly good air Unfor tunately flying stop 600 PM second day because banquet being held evening caused some such self either fly bad morning air lose flights Since already posted good flights previous day afternoon time good air given teammates hopes im proving positions Bud Romak de fending champion fortunate being able fly whenever chose manager Erv Rodemsky put forth tremendous effort came very close capturing second victory third flight 4253 tipped scales Just slight amount bad luck point would have washed out view team flying schedule re quired last day expected see some new innova tions Championships planes pretty much same before Swiss getting some impressive times long Archaeopterix planes Chiub ny Czechoslovakia showed up un usual arc-shaped cabane ship Someone pointed out top four places built planes underweight used ballast make 1 gram Goes show light construction still important Although would have liked bring home Team Championship once again felt second place good showing considering first World Cham pionships other members team British pretty emphatic about holding next Indoor Championships else although great sheds Card ington magnificent site event cant blame wanting someone share burden once Personally Im looking forward return Cardington some day air right flying really great INDOOR WORLD CHAMPS Report Bill Hulbert US Team Member 16th Place participation US Indoor Team certainly culmination years model flyingdating back 1940 Indoor flying has very fascinating particular FAI use Goodyear Air Dock has un doubtedly contributed success other factor Midwest have high ceilings available develop 84 Model Aviation kind flying such Lakehurst Santa Ana opinion Goodyear hangar certainly finest facility available world time After making team last fall spent winter months building preparation fly ing salt mines Romania ie stiff motor sticks reverse flair props etc location changed new building pro gram started six completely tested ships two extra wings 40-mm flight plus number 37s 38s convinced ready new Pirelli rubber looked good abandoned rubber used Team Trials Kennedy Airport set tone whole trip made arrangements special handling two model boxes Cleveland hour half layover Kennedy vanished completely because ramp bag gage problems ended up actually running catch Laker flight just made Fortunately models went through excellent shape Only some minor holes required minimum patching return wings almost totally demolished Glad other way arrived Gatwick early AM very little sleep spent whole day trying arrange transportation getting County Hotel Bedford another whole story arrived couple days before contest stayed couple days afterwards Jean wife spent interesting hours sightseeing England fascinating country much heritage side Saturday test day arrived first glimpse inside Cardington ex cept Richmond Romak before air shed quite different Goodyears sides rising almost straight up yet narrowing very limited space between two top catwalks absolutely necessary fly above catwalks achieve maximum time however side drift often problem ballooning expertise often required Controversy over steering will undoubtedly lead new rules proposals weather generally good during event Sunday being superb day Test day saw flights feeling out air shed motor size propellers What seemed best too different INDOOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS RESULTS PL Name Country1st2nd3rd4th5th6th 1 James Richmond USA 2 Bud Romak reigning W/Champ 3Ron HiggsCanada 4Dieter SiebenmannSwitzerland 5Laurie BarrUK 6Shigeyoshi NonakaJapan 7Jack McGillivrayCanada 8Eduard CiapalaPoland 9RonGreenUK 10Rene ButtiSwitzerland 11Deryl MorleyUK 12Cornelius WoithomNetherlands 13Vilim KmochYugoslavia 14Kurt ViglerW Germany 15Yasutoshi BanbaJapan 16William HulbertUSA 17Eduard ChlubnyCSSR 18Jan DihmPoland 19Takaji MatsuzawaJapan 20Karol RybeckyCSSR 21Harro ErofejeffFinland 22Carlo CotugnoItaly 23 Ryszard Czechowski Poland 24 Ferdinando Migani 25 Leopold Gabrijel 26 Swn-Olav Linden 27 Jiri Kalina 28 Michael Thomas 29 Klaus Nottelmann 30 Daniel Domina 31 Willem Beekmeyer 32 Harri Raullo 33 Germano Masciullo 34 Teodor Strazberger 35 Sven Pontan 36 Werner Wetzel 37 Milan Sitar 38 Timo Forss 39 Edmund Liem 40 Anders Jonsson Italy Yugoslavia Sweden CSSR Canada W Germany USA Netherlands Finland Italy Yugoslavia Sweden W Germany Australia Finland Netherlands Sweden 4149 4055 3516 1305 1103 2833 3545 3443 0640 3437 3045 3120 3038 0838 3433 3439 3331 3258 0014 3223 3032 3415 3106 2701 2607 1618 1148 0643 0518 2314 2811 1555 1624 2215 1624 1429 2141 1736 0047 1324 TEAM RESULTS 1 United Kingdom 2 USA 3 Canada 4 Japan 5 Poland 6 Czechoslovakia 21827 21425 - 21212 21038 20521 19711 3652 4027 3944 3032 3723 3305 3720 3815 2928 2852 3257 3620 3340 3012 3537 2628 3540 3055 3540 1039 2940 0800 2759 0148 3328 2400 2947 2632 1922 1129 2644 2352 2303 0042 1539 2648 2426 2047 1907 1908 4253 1343 0918 3723 2454 4036 1139 3344 3717 3806 3458 3705 3429 Disq 2348 3417 Disq 0906 3303 3059 3347 3313 1618 3254 3003 3115 3207 3033 3037 2922 2408 3127 2731 2510 2739 2232 2542 1840 3116 2858 3057 0824 1513 2711 2542 1259 2238 243 1 3100 3302 2409 2938 2501 3310 2252 3144 3117 2934 3225 2947 1942 2859 3117 2050 3140 2712 2843 1400 1913 2550 2656 2304 2504 2328 0519 2705 2002 1456 3151 1437 3232 3634 1228 3619 3458 3918 2703 2541 1247 2631 3603 3023 3149 3222 0615 3009 3321 3010 1007 1152 0845 3134 3116 2415 1140 2551 2519 2818 2130 2247 2255 1627 2348 3322 3645 3730 0113 2555 3434 3406 1036 3323 3322 3501 2347 3438 2241 3049 1215 0020 2836 3140 2909 2941 2600 3129 2953 2709 0931 2316 2115 2528 0646 1936 7 Yugoslavia 8 Italy 9 West Germany 10 Netherlands 11 Finland 12 Sweden 13 Switzerland 14 Australia Best 2 8442 8122 7629 7453 7357 7341 7339 7313 7302 7154 7128 7121 7045 7032 7000 6917 6911 6715 6657 6544 6528 6514 6453 6453 6445 6428 6256 6244 6050 6026 5848 5631 5514 5443 5235 5216 5205 4937 4930 3748 18933 18521 183 38 17139 17136 15411 14607 5205 configurations used Goodyears hang ar 37-mm flight concluded busy flying day things looked good Unfortunately own flying activities such almost impossible spend time visiting other fliers ob serving models regret however Team Championship paramount everything else secondary flying same design flew Team Trials using 21 prop variable 32 pitch loop 17 x 054 new Pirelli rubber found necessary use heavier motor Monday because cooler conditions first official flight Sunday cal culated safe flight topped out just under top catwalk never trouble 34 39 flight Richmond Romak put up great flights obvious conditions improving first flight used 1940 turns se cond 2080 model climbed perfectly exactly centered within 5 top looked great however consternation did cruise down 25 mm am sure 38 39 mm possible ever loosened wire caused excessive wash-in left tip did explain after 12 15 flights Goodyear Cardington wing cant third flight made using different plane higher pitch prop enough power Monday significantly cooler put three flights top heavier motor resultant faster RPM Almost top flights made Sunday times attest quite disappointed felt could win lot ifs left behind Car dington British flew well should have won particularly outstanding effort Richmond clearly class field Romak flying individ ual since reigning World Cham pion following closely behind banquet fitting climax World Championships toasts much good cheer also provided oppor tunity socialize some unable meet during really strenuous flying conditions found out very quickly flying representative country certainly far different doing own thing dividual such trying make team discovered also team member others very graciously contributed materials other assistance expectation anything return except best effort am indebted Ray Harlan others help Finally am indebted AMA op portunity represent country COMBAT WC RESULTS mistake team results Combat World Championships reported Decem ber issue page 82 third round team results end contest follows 1st England 2nd West Ger Belgium France 5th USA Cana da Italy 8th Ireland Holland 10th Australia 11th Sweden 12th Mexico Brazil 14th Switzerland January 1979 85 1979 US Free Flight World Championships Team members L-R Nordic A-2 Bob lsaacson Lee Hines Jim Wilson Power Ijoug Ual breath Roger Simpson Carl Bogart Wakefield Rubber Walt Ghio Bob Piserchio Bob White Except Bogart California means strenuous process involving local Qualifications Regional Semi-Finals lots haggling over sites procedures last Finals aspirants positions USA teams have sifted sorted winnowed distilled until nine re main what teams have Taft CA site Finals se lect 1979 USA World Championships teams Wakefield Rubber A-2 Towline Glider FAI Power event held September 2-4 Chosen US team members following Wakefield Rubber Walt Ghio Stockton CA Bob Piserchio San Diego CA Bob White Los Angeles CA Nordic A-2 Bob lsaacson Los Angeles CA Jim Wilson Los Angeles CA Lee Hines Los Angeles CA FAI Power Carl Bogart Manassas VA Roger Simpson Sacramento CA Doug Gaibreath Davis CA protest lodged concerning A-2 results AMA President Clemens has accepted Jury recommendation results remain unchanged assump tion principle behind Jury deci sion applied consistently throughout event Some Finals recent years have disasters because poor weather poor local geography combination two Taft ideal siteperhaps best USand weather early September usually excellent rain unheard During first two days three-day meet weather mild side typical 97 degrees F mid-afternoon no strong winds Models seldom drifted over quarter mile Thermals regular mild no Taft trash-lifters between first two rounds Labor Day started drizzle remained between drizzle light rain rest day strangely neither modelers nor models seemed mind too much Ther mal activity decreased bit sort weather have home FAI competition flying done rounds contestant required make flight within specified time period maxis normally 3 minutes flights lasting longer 3 minutes scored 3 minutes Fuse clockwork devices rigged make models descend quickly after making max name game make maxes possible Model specificationsweight wing area etcare such severely limit performance Power model engine runs limited 7 se conds Wakefield rubber motors limited weight 16 oz example still air such thing best A-2 Nordic gliders can barely make 3-minute flights Power Wakefield models 4 minutes thermal activity doesnt mean much What goes up must come down thermals going up air between thermals coming down Find thermal dont max So thermal detection real game Methods include sensing changes 86 Model Aviation Left A qUalified welcome sign greeted Visitors Middle Willard Smitz team member 1975 1977 flew both Nordic Wakefield used mini-trail bike retrieval did others Right Frank Paulinwho made first flight Finals uses special transit track model Device gives compass bearing Wind strong enough make retrieval problem knew experience prepared air temperature speed direction eyes skin mylar streamers attached tops 20-ft poles bubble machines cat tail fluff thrown air air-tempera ture measuring instruments can react within second some equipped stripchart recorders best another model circling overhead World Champs survive seven regular rounds described above maxes go flyoffs maxes successive flyoff flights increase 1 -mm increments Flyoffs occur late day thermal activity has decreased isnt long before winner decided format Finals pick US teams made tough three days started flight before dawn 4minute max made within 15-minute time period intended simulate World Champs flyoff rounds followed day five rounds normal 3-minute maxes made within specified 1-hour bracket totals 18 flights altogether about enough check out technical psy chological factors affect persons poten tial winning World Champs An tougher program would better perhaps impractical Rounding up 30 36 timekeepers shortly after 6 am wasnt easy atfirst some ad justments made couldnt get through processing line fore starting gun worked itself out Power first round day half contestants launched within min ute after round opened Towline glider fliers started towing too very start round modern circle-tow techniques can tow almost indefinitely look ing suitable thermal activity before releas ing glider towline Needless say 33 guys running over place line crossings aplenty Fortunately vertually no wind during first rounds fliers could run off both direc tions starting line reduced problem bit January1979 87 Marc Nagasawa age 20 has flying Nor dics three years third Models trick towhooks own de sign Beautiful workmanship tidy equipment Nordic fliers line up receive towline winches timekeepers start round Tense moments Sick jokes unnecessary fussing hardware ease tension Bob lsaacson hooks up towline protected drizzle hand-held mobile tent Final scores Nordic close lsaacson topped field Left Bob Hatschek likes light tails short noses Aluminum-tube fuselage houses own version circle-zoom towhook invented Rwsians Right Jim Wilson got spot team using V-dihedral model meet C C 0 0 LI 0 p 1 aaaaamaaaaaoaamaOaoaaa-o O0O0JO0S00J0-- omOooaoOosoOOa a -3 2 m 00 ammamama 1 222 2222222222 000000000ca0O0 2 ammmaammama 22 C I- cm.aoma Oaaaaoaaaaa aO0O0M0c00O000OS0.c0O00S00O00O0Co 00M0s0 000OMO 000 oM0MMOJcQ~000000 000000000000 OOOMmMcc 0200000000000 . am aOOO aoa--c--M00000 ma 000O00aOaO00c000000~M 0400000 OaOOOQ MMWa0000 004 00MM ft OWo S 0 U w 0 o ow S cc P jo MM 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c 0 g ~2 o 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 out looked like wet noodle airplane Taft plastic tent stakes used anchor winding stooge broke winding model model demolished managed bend borrowed stooge too fortunately out fatal results once started stretch out motor winding torquemeter situated between geared winder motor disassembled itself torquemeter just little stronger waited break motor fully stretched would have meant third de stroyed model winners have hard luck Carl Bogart destroyed two new Power models practice posted two perfect scores meet using models year half old day before contest started Doug Gaibreath wiped out best models wore out two brand new engines bad fuel Bob Whites model stalled way ground flight out-of-kilter wing went unnoticed wouldnt tell story Chris Matsuno merely excellent free flighter superb modeler long-term record shows tell merely example what can happen frequently does happen competition among best best start twelfth round Chris tied first perfect score thermal model damaged repaired test flight would necessary ensure nothing out whack getting late Chris elected fly still air model slow climbing machine long motor run easily does over 4 minutes thermal-free air So didnt need thermals feltall needed neutral airno uppers no downers Chris launched soon evident air poor side neutral model landed minute short 3 minute max model dam aged taken time test flight thermal model chosen correct moment launch usual skill care might well have national hero instead also-ran Id writing hard-luck story about some other superb modeler Watching Chris fly lesson time-andmotion analysis isnt much wasted muscle twitch Everything hasa proper place goes back finish es winding winder goes its assigned spot winding stooge number turns gets written down little book toolbox lid toolbox gets closed Only does start looking suitable air launch model easy write hard-luck stories about guys almost made first place Its harder write about two maxed outWalt Ghio Wakefield Carl Bogart Powersimply because flew ordinarylooking models ordinary-looking way made maxing look easy Bogarts two models 11/2 years old two newer models became instantaneously worn out pre-contest practice Both simple slab-sided affairs No rakish pylonsor trick wingtips Almost Power models have sheet-covered wings automatic incidencechanging mechanisms stabilizer rudder quite few have gadget starts timer instant model re leased wont mention Carls models have things engines stock Ros sis mounted Oliver pans docile ther mal model sports 9% Cherney airfoil 27% stabilizer having thickness ratio 75% four-minute model features 71A% wing thickness 21% stab 5% thick has vari able rib spacingclosely spaced center widely spaced toward tips Nothing unusual about models except perhaps ability make 18 straight maxes Walt Ghios new RL-1 Wakefield model considerably stretched compared ear lier Flux Span flat increased 59 66 fuselage length 48 52 motor tube 18 24 earlier rather popular chem-milled aluminum alloy motor tube has abandoned partially because Walt never totally happy partly because good ones no longer readily avail able partly because has developed motor tube likes much better con sists inner layer epoxy-impregnated DuPont Kevlar cloth layer 1/16 balsa grain running fore-and-aft outer layer thin epoxy-impregnated fiber glass sticking together done epoxy Both models feature highly cam bered Gard-7510 airfoil two turbulators newer has double-tapered planform totally covered 1/32 sheet Most modelers nowadays wind mo tors prop disconnected blastproof aluminum tube stuffed fuselage Quite ritual involved getting rubber wound model assembled ready flight Walt has tried thatincluding winding prop hub attached rubber motor prop blades removed has reverted old-fashioned system winding protective tube inserted fuselage prop attached motor small detachable shield pro tects prop shield turns out too small has plenty identical prop blades fuselage itself blast-proof January1979 89 Above Chris Matsunos pro-flight procedures classic time-and-motion analysisnot wasted motion Includes stretching rubber motor near limit holding 30 sec stretching again winding Below Carl Hermes flew same models used represented US 1963 World Champs Theyre still good shape flew well Right George Xenakis relies heavily recording air-temperature indi cator tell thermals coming ises cat-tail fluff thrown air too Bubble machines also used mark thermals Above Walt Ghio made perfect score Wakenot easy 18 flights Bill Bogart LI holds US record max flights made during day Left Bob White heaves model thermalalmost lost out Carrol Allen cocked wing caused model stall made team anyhow fourth time Whites Vol Libre twin-fin Wake MA plan No 194 Walt demonstrated few times Getting broken half motor out fuselage facilitated having remov able tailboom held place aluminumtube rear motor peg Tailbooms both models simple square-on-edge tapered boxes Sides 1/16 balsa top bottom longerons 3/32square spruce side long erons 3/32-square balsa Nothing un usual about models except perhaps ability make 18 straight maxes cliff-hangers right through last flight start last round 26 seconds separated Gaibreath Kerr Power Gaibreath would need 148 seconds win Kerr maxed Kerr flew first made 180-sec max Galbreath went up air wasnt especially good quite awhile wasnt certain would make watch indicated 148 sec cheers went up group supporters led Crew Chief Head Cheerleader Ken Oliver model landed short max 12 sec onds later administrative aspects Finals superb Opinions concerning site selec tion competition format eligibility par ticipants other such sticky matters got sorted out committee charged getting done voted par ticipants accordance basic system formulated Hardy Brodersen some four years ago Finals participants well formed what going well advance meet predictable processing contestants obtaining sufficient num ber timekeepers would hassle especial ly early-morning rounds deed hassle sensible adjustments made smoothed out fuss Southern California Aero Team SCAT responsible Finals made go made happen deserve thanks admiration bit much made team few hard-working bunch Andy Faykun Finals Administrator Bill Har till Contest Director Joe Norcross Chief Timekeeper Ross Steckel Nordic F 1 Event Director lrv Aker Wakefield FiB Event Di rector Craig Cusick Power FiC Event Di rector Rol Anderson preceded Bob Stalick George Xenakis FAI Committee Chair manplus committee members too numer ous mention Youngest Power flier Bruce Hannah takes break money until adjusting screw came loose thirteenth round Dick Lyons checks out Power model tween flights maxed last nine flights finished sixth place Carl Bogart Power post perfect scoreand the three teams outside California Simple clean models used stock Rossis Tail Bob Mattes model displays usual array gadgetry optimize trim climb transition glide Dave Rounsaville 75 team member changes plug Excelsior newest long line Engine specialist Doc Anderson 1 Dick Swenson ctr help Rol Anderson check out model before dawn first days flying Rol chairman FF Team Selection Comm Tom McLaughlan flew until bitter end helped Jerry Wagner despite cracking shoulder tripped over tent rope darkness Below Roger Simpson second Power Below Doug Joyce seriously lacerated aHis latest wing uses double spars diagon thumb 1st round fiberglass prop butal ribs between covering balsa flew canard 18 flights anyhowfiberglass Cured flutter thin wings
Edition: Model Aviation - 1979/01
Page Numbers: 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90
USA J AEROIdA Miller flu summer First air must cleared what some thought happened Work Koplan busy sewing up respective spots jack Hiner busier trying hold dpwn number three spota position held fourth round As last round ending Jackflew lOof 12 laps dis tance tasks perfect si-minute dur ation task coupled 90-point landing Most scoreboard watchers thought two flights enough nail down wnui IFTEENT NA offered ck ibt passed wo iple flights too nf best fowl nessed started off enis championshii *ying gra durationsaw o fliersn five-minute flights seven score less 85 landing poin perfect 360/100 secondsflandin 1000-point scores LeMon Payne f attempt maintain pace ha lished South Africa Payne pushe culmination program select three-I 1979 World Championships Pensacola Report Photos Dan Steve Work left Terry Skip Miller below reigning W Time sailplane designed Dave vator plane Team Finals Ke ter abor new fa won ing WA e Above Herb Smith original design Invador very clean ship con trolsrudder elevator spoilers flaps 8th Below Lee Renaud R helps Don Edberg get ready launch Aquila Grande Don 3 comuecutive 1000s Rounds 45 Carroll Moffatt above carries Aquila involved mideir collision Doyle Modestos Legionair shown below what looked like max have light breeze take bird downwind too fast pace meager height gain thermal giving Dale brought bird home before could max worse yet breeze caused Esprit land over 100 ters spotand rules brutally state thats zero flight score Only four fliers failed get maxes 12 scored less 85 land ing points Bob Gill Illinois flew Viking II perfect score 360/ 100 1000 points Day ended Distancethe make-you-or-break-you task pastby years rules has 12-lap maximum Further rules allow eight min utes working time 12 laps flown within four minutes Only half 40 fliers flew 10 laps just six maxed out among Steve Work New Mexico Terry Koplan California Kop Ian led end Round Two 3944 points point found out later scoring error 150-some points reversed Skip Miller Colorado Blame Miller Florida Rae Fritz Contest Director terrupted Nutters working time previous day calling measurement allowed RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS Speed tionDistanceRoundTotal P1Name/State/ModelRdSecs/PtsTime/Land/PtsLaps/PtsPointsPoints 1SteveWork1142/958358/50/88718447 NMex temp CA2359/90/97612/100019760 Bird Time3137/993358/90/97819708116857 4357/100/99612/100019956 5145/937358/100/99519335 6358/85/96512/100019650 2Terry Koplan1145/938359/100/99819358 California2359/100/99812/100019978 Viking3136/1000270/100/80818078113093 4353/95/97612/100019760 5170/800359/90/97617760 6357/95/98310/83318160 3Skip Miller1161 /845360/90/97818230 Colorado2360/95/9897%/64616349 Aquila Grande3150/906359/95/99118979111849 4312/100/89812/100018976 5143/951357/95/98219336 6359/100/99812/100019980 4Jack Hiner1152/895340/100/95718513 Illinois2357/85/96112/100019608 Aquila Grande3162/840357/100/99818373110326 4344/90/94612/100019455 5212/641358/95/98416262 6360/90/97810/83318115 5Bill Haga1195/697357/90/97716992 Texas2355/95/9781 0%/89618740 Legionair3166/819359/90/98017996109329 4359/100/100010%/89618958 5156/871359/100/99718696 6356/100/99110/83318240 6Bob Gill1149/913359/95/98718997 Illinois2360/100/10004%/39613958 Viking Mk II3138/986353/85/95619418108572 4357/100/99612/100019950 5166/819359/95/98618062 6358/95/98510/83318180 7Don Cameron1165/824358/85/96317893 Colorado23 57/80/9509/75017000 Aquila3148/919358/90/97818970107250 4359/55/90212/100019019 5170/800353/100/98417847 6355/100/9898/66616551 8Herb Smith1147/925360/100/1 00019252 Colorado2359/100/99812/100019978 Orig Invader3172/791360/95/99317841107236 4271/85/77611/91716926 5164/829357/95/98218118 6356/100/9916h/52015110 9Jack Hamilton1196/694357/100/9931687A Texas2359/75/94311/91718600 Legionair3187/727357/95/98717142107005 4360/95/99111/91719079 5196/693354/95/97616699 6359 /85/9891 0%/89518840 10John Gunsaullus1184/739360/100/1 00017391 Florida2357/100/9939/75017434 Original3174/781354/95/98017620106327 4358/100/99812/100019978 5184/739360/1 00/1 00017391 6355/95/9788/66616440 Dale re-fly duration task allowed balance working time count towards score plane re-positioned previous days spot working time allowed continue buzzer went off Steve Work retrieved Dale re-launched flew 344 made 90-point landing seconds before working time expired replaced zero score 314 points duration task Round Three no perfect scores Bill Johnson New York flew original bird 3581100 Because best round Bill earned 1000 points Only 11 failed score maxes 1 3 landing points under 85 mark Terry Koplan pushed Viking 136 speed followed Work 137 Gill 1 38 thirteens task However Hayes 140 put him back lead end round 5794 two points ahead secondplace Work 53 points ahead third-place Koplan Hiner fifth Skip Miller sev enth440 points behind leader point two contestants dropped out weather consistenthot 90s windwhen anyof six eight knots direction varied north northwest conditions pre RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS SpeedDurationDistance Round Total P1 Name/State/Model Rd Secs/Pts Time/Land/Pts Laps/Pts Points Points 11Craig Foxgord1192/708369/95/98716953 California2359/95/98711/91719036 Unknown3187/727206/85/63513626104814 4341/100/96110/2/87518357 5188/723354/95/97616994 6353/100/98512/100019850 12Ray Hayes1136/1000358/95/98519848 Indiana2353/90/96311/91718797 Osprey 9003140/971344/95/95919299103644 4231/80/6786/50011775 5144/944338/95/94118857 6354/90/9656A/54115060 13Blame Miller1177/768359/90/97617444 Florida2355/95/97810/83318110 Unknown3163/834358/60/91317470103137 4355/45/87110/83317047 5268/507350/100/97814857 6359/95/98710/83318200 14Bob Domer1173/786357/100/99317796 Colorado2359/65/92210/83317550 Legionair3165/824248/65/68315076102717 4356/80/95010%/89618457 5164/829359/75/94317727 6359/85/9867%/64516110 15Tom Williams1142/958360/1 00/1 00019577 Texas2359/100/9987h/60416019 Paramount3155/877344/0/75116285102369 4302/100/8761 0h/85417299 5172/790330/95/92317146 6360/100/100074/60416040 16Don Edberg1150/907355/85/95718632 California2318/0/6916/50011913 Aquila Grande3140/971356/0/77717487101871 4359/100/100012/100020000 5136/1000353/95/97319739 6357/100/9935/41614100 17Dwight Holley1186/731358/85/96316942 Connecticut2354/95/9768/66716427 Maestro3154/883355/100/99318765101659 4355/100/99110/83318246 5149/912357/90/97118844 6357/100/9933/25012434 18Dale Nutter1193/705358/95/98516894 Oklahoma2224/90/31411/91715992 Esprit3201/677354/95/98016569101092 4356/100/99312/100019934 5163/834358/90/97318082 63 59/95/9874A/37513620 19Matt Sheldon1156/872357/90/97218435 Colorado2359/100/99812/100019978 Olympic II3170/800178/0/38911886100754 4359/80/9567/58315397 5180/755358/80/95217077 6267/100/79812/100017980 20William Johnson1165/824357/95/98318069 New York2360/95/98910/83318224 Original3237/574358/1 00/1 00015738100682 4356/0/7767/58313589 5164/829360/100/100018292 6336/100/9488%/72916770 January 1979 81 Above Ray Hayes holds up Osprey 990 original design identification dis tant flagman Below models Dale Nut ter LI Dr Stan Pfost RI head starting point Dave Thornburg Betty Nutter LeMon Payne Nutter Payne 1977 US team members Above Jack Hamilton shows damaged rudder happened during distance task Asks Pruss Did strike bird shed parts Below Bill Haga Legionair rose 13th end Round 2 finish 5th Contest Director Rae Fritz Team Finals tough manage direct author gives Fritz high marks job well done vailed three days Don Edberg California took next duration task lust short perfect 359/ 100 first three-in-a-row 1000-point tasks Only six failed max 10 scored under 85 points landing circle second day competition ended third dayLabor Daywas taken lit erally Rae Fritz crew set fast pace earlythen maintained pace got 21/2 rounds lust before sun went down Distance second half Round Four started day early morning fliers bit skeptical about possibility getting 12 laps Results showed over half fliers logged 10 lapsthe best distance rounds contest end Round Four standings read Work Koplan Hiner Smith Cameron Skip Miller latter three being Colorado Bob Gill managed 4 laps Round Two 21st worked himself up eighth place Steve Work now 7787 points out possible 8000 Jack Hamilton Texas 10th place still within striking distance 7170 points Doyle Modesto Carrol Moffatt both Texas added excitement previous distance task both tried occupy same airspace lap seven Modesto landed Le gionair safely did Moffatt Aquila ever Legionair holding metal spar Aquila strike suffered broken wing spar Carrol set teled no-fix seven laps Dallas Body Fender Shop repaired Le gionairs wing tin 7-Up Gatorade cans Doyle took re-flight logged seven laps Round Five Don Edberg loaded Aquila Grande 22 ounces ballast turned 136 seemed speed barrier meet No turned faster Hayes Koplan gone fast 136 gave Don third 1000-point round row earlier missed landing six laps distance task kept him out top 10 spectacular bit flying Gill decided go broke plunked two pounds lead Viking II Gills technique have seconds counted off him during run base base B right time turn anticipated goes well run elevens Its gutsy ap proach Gill ready wife gave him count boiled through base count five Bob turn RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS Speed tionDistanceRoundTotal P1Name/State/ModelRdSecsIPtsTime/Land /PtsLapslPtsPointsPoints 21Tom Decker1193/705359/95/98716916 New York2358/100/99611/2/95819539 Unknown3200/680302/0/65913394100554 4348/30/82412/100018235 5167/814356/100/99118056 6343/90/9416/50014413 22LeMon Payne10/0360/1 00/1 00010000 Texas2359/90/97612/100019760 Legionair3169/805354/100/9911795999576 4357/95/98510/83318180 5142/957359/100/99719555 6358/100/9965/41614120 23Doyle Modesto121 8/624359/55/90015239 Texas2339/0/73711/91716536 Legionair3207/657360/90/9831639598896 4300/45/75212/100017516 5192/708358/60/89115996 6359/50/88910/83317220 24Phil Harris121 2/642346/100/97016111 California2359/100/99810/83318311 Paragon3193/704358/95/9891693798254 4360/95/99110/83318246 5208/653360/95/98916429 6266/95/7855//43712220 25Chuck Copeland121 3/638356/100/99116298 Alaska2356/90/9704/2/35413237 Grand Esprit3203/670261/90/7661436398006 4355/85/95911h/93818961 5200/680357 /85/96016408 6307/95/87412/1 00018739 26Fritz Bien1181/751352/75/92816796 Massachusetts2357/45/8749/75016239 T Aquila3165/824352/80/9431767597931 4359/85/9679/75017173 5167/814355/90/96717817 6271/100/8065/41612231 27Bob Baugher1185/735360/85/96717025 Pennsylvania2359/90/9767/58315594 Aquila3178/764349/90/9591722696505 4360/90/9809/75017303 521 0/648350/95/96716150 6335/100/9464A/37513200 28Allan Marshall1185/735355/85/95716917 Massachusetts2359/85/9657/58315485 Unknown3161/845308/90/8691713795133 4358/95/9878/66716535 50/0356/80/9479478 6360/100/100011/2/95819580 29Terry Ferentinos1205/663357/70/92815917 Florida2359/55/9008/66715666 Unknown3180/756347/90/9541709794561 4358/75/94312/100019433 5184/739356/100/99117304 6229/0/4985/4169144 30James Truitt1242/562356/50/88314446 Texas2356/70/9261 0%/8961821 9 Original321 2/642350/0/7641405790864 4233/95/7157A/62513395 5202/673278/75/76714406 6351/75/9268%/70816340 horn went off looked like 11-second run making wasnt high-G turn caused left wing fold went about 60 degrees dihedral Gill backed off nursed bird back through course respectable 166 819 points crowd loved Jack Hiner time decided play close vest just cruise speed course preserve third-place slot got too cautious after low upwind turn Jack stretch flight Aquila Grande what seemed like endurance run 212 seconds allowed fourth-place Herb Smith Colorado close gap time duration task ended certain Work Koplan first second places locked up Only third place con test sixth round flown Hiners slim nine-point hold third going bait least three people later proved four pursuit Round Six scheduled flights made faster scores could posted No seemed look far enough down roster see seventh-place guy name Skip Miller doing Wasnt way went Denver two years ago Hiner managed 10 laps distance Smith got six quarter Meanwhile Skip got 12 Smith got 356/1 00 duration paper Jack needed amax no land82 Model Aviation RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS SpeedDurationDistance Round Total P1 Name/State/Model Rd Secs/PtsTime/Land/Pts Laps/Pts PointsPoints 31Austin Leftwich1175/777191/95/62213989 Virginia2358/85/9635A/43814005 Unknown3167/814179/0/3911205290835 4246/70/6887%/64613342 5153/888306/95/87117606 6353/100/98412/100019840 32Bob Gerbin10/0230/95/7067065 California2356/95/98010/83318137 Paragon3160/850358/90/9781828289423 4356/95/98312/100019825 5205/663354/100/98616503 6342/100/9610/09610 33Fred Gregg10/0355/95/9789783 Virginia2346/55/8729/75018217 Viking MI321 4/636298/0/6511286186197 4356/75/9399A/81317514 5201/676355/50/88015570 63 56/55/8934/33312260 34Rick Norwood1193/705357/0/77614807 California20/0/09%/8138125 Javelin II3185/735165/95/5681302885340 4346/95/9618/66716274 5183/743360/85/96717105 6291/100/8509/75016000 35James Davis1235/579295/90/83714157 Alabama2358/80/9528/66716188 Legionair3227/599350/85/9501548882004 4358/0/7809/75015299 5212/641360/75/94515871 60/0/06/5005000 36Carrol Moffatt1193/705356/0/77414786 Texas2360/85/96710/83318007 Aquila3168/810347/0/7581567181103 4192/85/6037/58311868 5258/5270/0/05271 6288/80/8009/7 5015500 37William Leathers1206/660358/100/99616558 North Carolina2207/100/66711/91715840 Legionair3196/6940/0/0693868063 4355/95/98011/4/97919595 5325/95/9139130 38Art Sark1209/650311/85/86115116 Florida2354/85/9989/75017043 Paragon3208/654201 /0/4391092762831 4195/90/6215/41710375 5351/80/9369360 39Ed Berton1190/716351 /95/97016853 Florida2358/100/9954/4/3541349837561 Unknown3330/0/7217210 40Stan Pfost1181/751359/90/97617275 Florida2214/70/6176/5001117336417 Paragon3270/95/7977969 ing some combination total 350 points raw Jack got 360190 thats everyone started handshakes Meanwhile Miller getting 358/100 won Round Six also trip Belgium As sun setting scorer noticed Miller taken third less two points thought score tight Rae Fritz called score recount top 10 Thats Miller/Miller scores straightened out results finalized Sidelights site contest Navy Auxiiary Landing Fielda mile square grass best flying fields youll ever see Pensacola club has using 21 years Rae Fritz retired Navy Chief just pleased out come Steve Work AD4 Navy man sta tioned San Diego special thanks Clint Bobe Rick Herrmann did outstand ing jobs tabulating keeping scores posted Works Bird Time Dave Thornburgs design same design Dave used two years ago Denver miss team two points Bird has kitted limited run Steve second achieve LSF Level V mark earned three years ago final note doubt contest finest caliber fliers ever assembled contest well run competitively clean very well flown Besides excellent duration/landing scores speed run out 120 crossed center line azero score Strategies subtle yet bold sake preserving secrets some tactics wont revealed herenot until next summer anyway few unintentional incidents could have provoked protests Instead heads turned challenges made air rule book Thirtysix 40 contestants still final round Work Koplan Miller know earned way Belgium Next July will represent name USA Soaring Lets support January 1979 83 Above Craig Foxgord holding original de sign sailplane Rick Norwoodboth California Foxgord 11th Below Art Sark CL Stan Pfost walk flight line Pfost president NSS Above Discussing what might have Dale Nutter LeMon Payne Bad luck early rounds kept repeating team members both giving final rounds Below Judge Jim Davis winch hauler chose appropriate ly named brand wed have say CL COMBAT TEAM COMMIHEE ANNOUNCED committee responsible dev s ng obtaining approval carrying out pro gram selecting US 1980 Control Line Combat World Championships Team known Combat Team Selection Committee consists representative 11 AMA districts follows Steve Sacco District 478 Main St Norwell MA 02061 Bill Bird II 123 Beechwood Rd Florham Park NJ 07432 Charles Rudner III 3530 Radcliffe Rd Cleveland Hgts OH 44121 Bill Harris IV 11004 Harding Rd Laurel MD 20810 W M Henry V 629 Elysian Fields Nash ville TN 37211 Gary Frost VI 22 Glynn Dr Florissant MO 63031 Paul Smith VII Chairman 323 N Walnut Apt 904 Lansing Ml 48933 George Cleveland VIII 36 Antiqua Kenner LA 70062 Dave Jones IX 666 N Volutsia Wichita KS 67214 Charlie Johnson X 3716 Ingraham St San Diego CA 92109 Chuck Thomas Xl 7711 Easy St Everett WA 98203 Members committee generally recruited Miniature Aircraft Combat Association MACA endorsed respective AMA vice-presidents final step installation committee confirmation members previous program participants obtained mail ballot October POSSIBLE CHANGES TO CB PROCEDURES written AMA Executive Council together Contest Board chairmen CB coordinator process voting mail three proposals revise Contest Board Procedures recent printing document April 1978 issue page 74 Likely re sults vote will printed next month Preceding vote proposals dis tributed Contest Board members re view comment such comments mailed would vote propo sals follows Three-Year Rules Cycle proposal submitted Control Line Racing Advi sory Committee J E Klause chairman change present two-year rules cycle three-year rules cycle three-year cy cle intended increase stability rules also provide years period testing newly enacted rules before commence ment next time period accepting rules-change proposals Proposers Experience proposal also CL Racing Advisory Committee add spaces rules-change propo sal form proposer show number years experience catego ries Indoor FF CL Scale RC show number times proposer has flown and/or directed events past two years Further proposal calls adding fol lowing statement adjacent CD endorse ment space especially important CDs thoroughly analyze implications proposal prior endorsing it' said inclusion information form will help Contest Boards evaluating various proposals before Provisional Supplemental Rule Events Nets Gail E Jacobson College Park GA proposes revise CB Procedures also rule book allow events Provisional Supplemental rules flown National Contest Further proposal provides automatic upgrade Provisional Official events held Nats according such rules notes Provisional Supplemental rules events have held Nats despite pro hibition CB Procedures rule book revisions proposes will legalize present practice Age Class Determination falls under sole jurisdiction Executive Council Contest Board mat ter Council presently considering proposal Joe L Norcross Clovis CA change date age determination clas sification purposes Junior Senior Open July 1 year January 1 year states using present July 1 date results confusion AMA member applicants well officials accept AMA applications fees contests Using January 1 determination date will reduce confusion believes INDOOR WORLD CHAMPS Report Jim Richmond US Team Member 1st Place modelers life little com pare thrill winning World Cham pionship personal standpoint achievement significant cause 10th anniversary 1968 win Rome felt come through time ever going spite short notice British SMAE did usual fine job organizing run ning Championships hat off effort made behalf also outstanding performance result ing first team win UK expedition began panic made mad dash catch charter flight seemed continue varying levels crises excitement until very last day Hot Rod Hulbert made itto Gatwick just time us catch return flight home Just drive through London left side street enough excitement rest hard-working manager Ray Harlan held up very well through did fine job looking after interests addition T-shirts jackets decals travel arrange ments super carrying box get planes processing still found time build optical wingspan checker used precision checking questionable wings during competition also went bat us regarding questionable new un limited steering rule able get jury outlaw sharks tooth hook some installed fronts planes purpose balloon towing plane new location believe ruling avoided controversy could have impaired good spirit competition As turned out British team demon strated outstanding steering capability wit out tooth credit won competition conducted under much better flying conditions endured 1976 weather staying fairly constant mild throughout morning air cool heavy until about 100 PM after flying conditions good rest day US team able get end flying period extended 600 700 PM first day competition provided enough time fly good air Unfor tunately flying stop 600 PM second day because banquet being held evening caused some such self either fly bad morning air lose flights Since already posted good flights previous day afternoon time good air given teammates hopes im proving positions Bud Romak de fending champion fortunate being able fly whenever chose manager Erv Rodemsky put forth tremendous effort came very close capturing second victory third flight 4253 tipped scales Just slight amount bad luck point would have washed out view team flying schedule re quired last day expected see some new innova tions Championships planes pretty much same before Swiss getting some impressive times long Archaeopterix planes Chiub ny Czechoslovakia showed up un usual arc-shaped cabane ship Someone pointed out top four places built planes underweight used ballast make 1 gram Goes show light construction still important Although would have liked bring home Team Championship once again felt second place good showing considering first World Cham pionships other members team British pretty emphatic about holding next Indoor Championships else although great sheds Card ington magnificent site event cant blame wanting someone share burden once Personally Im looking forward return Cardington some day air right flying really great INDOOR WORLD CHAMPS Report Bill Hulbert US Team Member 16th Place participation US Indoor Team certainly culmination years model flyingdating back 1940 Indoor flying has very fascinating particular FAI use Goodyear Air Dock has un doubtedly contributed success other factor Midwest have high ceilings available develop 84 Model Aviation kind flying such Lakehurst Santa Ana opinion Goodyear hangar certainly finest facility available world time After making team last fall spent winter months building preparation fly ing salt mines Romania ie stiff motor sticks reverse flair props etc location changed new building pro gram started six completely tested ships two extra wings 40-mm flight plus number 37s 38s convinced ready new Pirelli rubber looked good abandoned rubber used Team Trials Kennedy Airport set tone whole trip made arrangements special handling two model boxes Cleveland hour half layover Kennedy vanished completely because ramp bag gage problems ended up actually running catch Laker flight just made Fortunately models went through excellent shape Only some minor holes required minimum patching return wings almost totally demolished Glad other way arrived Gatwick early AM very little sleep spent whole day trying arrange transportation getting County Hotel Bedford another whole story arrived couple days before contest stayed couple days afterwards Jean wife spent interesting hours sightseeing England fascinating country much heritage side Saturday test day arrived first glimpse inside Cardington ex cept Richmond Romak before air shed quite different Goodyears sides rising almost straight up yet narrowing very limited space between two top catwalks absolutely necessary fly above catwalks achieve maximum time however side drift often problem ballooning expertise often required Controversy over steering will undoubtedly lead new rules proposals weather generally good during event Sunday being superb day Test day saw flights feeling out air shed motor size propellers What seemed best too different INDOOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS RESULTS PL Name Country1st2nd3rd4th5th6th 1 James Richmond USA 2 Bud Romak reigning W/Champ 3Ron HiggsCanada 4Dieter SiebenmannSwitzerland 5Laurie BarrUK 6Shigeyoshi NonakaJapan 7Jack McGillivrayCanada 8Eduard CiapalaPoland 9RonGreenUK 10Rene ButtiSwitzerland 11Deryl MorleyUK 12Cornelius WoithomNetherlands 13Vilim KmochYugoslavia 14Kurt ViglerW Germany 15Yasutoshi BanbaJapan 16William HulbertUSA 17Eduard ChlubnyCSSR 18Jan DihmPoland 19Takaji MatsuzawaJapan 20Karol RybeckyCSSR 21Harro ErofejeffFinland 22Carlo CotugnoItaly 23 Ryszard Czechowski Poland 24 Ferdinando Migani 25 Leopold Gabrijel 26 Swn-Olav Linden 27 Jiri Kalina 28 Michael Thomas 29 Klaus Nottelmann 30 Daniel Domina 31 Willem Beekmeyer 32 Harri Raullo 33 Germano Masciullo 34 Teodor Strazberger 35 Sven Pontan 36 Werner Wetzel 37 Milan Sitar 38 Timo Forss 39 Edmund Liem 40 Anders Jonsson Italy Yugoslavia Sweden CSSR Canada W Germany USA Netherlands Finland Italy Yugoslavia Sweden W Germany Australia Finland Netherlands Sweden 4149 4055 3516 1305 1103 2833 3545 3443 0640 3437 3045 3120 3038 0838 3433 3439 3331 3258 0014 3223 3032 3415 3106 2701 2607 1618 1148 0643 0518 2314 2811 1555 1624 2215 1624 1429 2141 1736 0047 1324 TEAM RESULTS 1 United Kingdom 2 USA 3 Canada 4 Japan 5 Poland 6 Czechoslovakia 21827 21425 - 21212 21038 20521 19711 3652 4027 3944 3032 3723 3305 3720 3815 2928 2852 3257 3620 3340 3012 3537 2628 3540 3055 3540 1039 2940 0800 2759 0148 3328 2400 2947 2632 1922 1129 2644 2352 2303 0042 1539 2648 2426 2047 1907 1908 4253 1343 0918 3723 2454 4036 1139 3344 3717 3806 3458 3705 3429 Disq 2348 3417 Disq 0906 3303 3059 3347 3313 1618 3254 3003 3115 3207 3033 3037 2922 2408 3127 2731 2510 2739 2232 2542 1840 3116 2858 3057 0824 1513 2711 2542 1259 2238 243 1 3100 3302 2409 2938 2501 3310 2252 3144 3117 2934 3225 2947 1942 2859 3117 2050 3140 2712 2843 1400 1913 2550 2656 2304 2504 2328 0519 2705 2002 1456 3151 1437 3232 3634 1228 3619 3458 3918 2703 2541 1247 2631 3603 3023 3149 3222 0615 3009 3321 3010 1007 1152 0845 3134 3116 2415 1140 2551 2519 2818 2130 2247 2255 1627 2348 3322 3645 3730 0113 2555 3434 3406 1036 3323 3322 3501 2347 3438 2241 3049 1215 0020 2836 3140 2909 2941 2600 3129 2953 2709 0931 2316 2115 2528 0646 1936 7 Yugoslavia 8 Italy 9 West Germany 10 Netherlands 11 Finland 12 Sweden 13 Switzerland 14 Australia Best 2 8442 8122 7629 7453 7357 7341 7339 7313 7302 7154 7128 7121 7045 7032 7000 6917 6911 6715 6657 6544 6528 6514 6453 6453 6445 6428 6256 6244 6050 6026 5848 5631 5514 5443 5235 5216 5205 4937 4930 3748 18933 18521 183 38 17139 17136 15411 14607 5205 configurations used Goodyears hang ar 37-mm flight concluded busy flying day things looked good Unfortunately own flying activities such almost impossible spend time visiting other fliers ob serving models regret however Team Championship paramount everything else secondary flying same design flew Team Trials using 21 prop variable 32 pitch loop 17 x 054 new Pirelli rubber found necessary use heavier motor Monday because cooler conditions first official flight Sunday cal culated safe flight topped out just under top catwalk never trouble 34 39 flight Richmond Romak put up great flights obvious conditions improving first flight used 1940 turns se cond 2080 model climbed perfectly exactly centered within 5 top looked great however consternation did cruise down 25 mm am sure 38 39 mm possible ever loosened wire caused excessive wash-in left tip did explain after 12 15 flights Goodyear Cardington wing cant third flight made using different plane higher pitch prop enough power Monday significantly cooler put three flights top heavier motor resultant faster RPM Almost top flights made Sunday times attest quite disappointed felt could win lot ifs left behind Car dington British flew well should have won particularly outstanding effort Richmond clearly class field Romak flying individ ual since reigning World Cham pion following closely behind banquet fitting climax World Championships toasts much good cheer also provided oppor tunity socialize some unable meet during really strenuous flying conditions found out very quickly flying representative country certainly far different doing own thing dividual such trying make team discovered also team member others very graciously contributed materials other assistance expectation anything return except best effort am indebted Ray Harlan others help Finally am indebted AMA op portunity represent country COMBAT WC RESULTS mistake team results Combat World Championships reported Decem ber issue page 82 third round team results end contest follows 1st England 2nd West Ger Belgium France 5th USA Cana da Italy 8th Ireland Holland 10th Australia 11th Sweden 12th Mexico Brazil 14th Switzerland January 1979 85 1979 US Free Flight World Championships Team members L-R Nordic A-2 Bob lsaacson Lee Hines Jim Wilson Power Ijoug Ual breath Roger Simpson Carl Bogart Wakefield Rubber Walt Ghio Bob Piserchio Bob White Except Bogart California means strenuous process involving local Qualifications Regional Semi-Finals lots haggling over sites procedures last Finals aspirants positions USA teams have sifted sorted winnowed distilled until nine re main what teams have Taft CA site Finals se lect 1979 USA World Championships teams Wakefield Rubber A-2 Towline Glider FAI Power event held September 2-4 Chosen US team members following Wakefield Rubber Walt Ghio Stockton CA Bob Piserchio San Diego CA Bob White Los Angeles CA Nordic A-2 Bob lsaacson Los Angeles CA Jim Wilson Los Angeles CA Lee Hines Los Angeles CA FAI Power Carl Bogart Manassas VA Roger Simpson Sacramento CA Doug Gaibreath Davis CA protest lodged concerning A-2 results AMA President Clemens has accepted Jury recommendation results remain unchanged assump tion principle behind Jury deci sion applied consistently throughout event Some Finals recent years have disasters because poor weather poor local geography combination two Taft ideal siteperhaps best USand weather early September usually excellent rain unheard During first two days three-day meet weather mild side typical 97 degrees F mid-afternoon no strong winds Models seldom drifted over quarter mile Thermals regular mild no Taft trash-lifters between first two rounds Labor Day started drizzle remained between drizzle light rain rest day strangely neither modelers nor models seemed mind too much Ther mal activity decreased bit sort weather have home FAI competition flying done rounds contestant required make flight within specified time period maxis normally 3 minutes flights lasting longer 3 minutes scored 3 minutes Fuse clockwork devices rigged make models descend quickly after making max name game make maxes possible Model specificationsweight wing area etcare such severely limit performance Power model engine runs limited 7 se conds Wakefield rubber motors limited weight 16 oz example still air such thing best A-2 Nordic gliders can barely make 3-minute flights Power Wakefield models 4 minutes thermal activity doesnt mean much What goes up must come down thermals going up air between thermals coming down Find thermal dont max So thermal detection real game Methods include sensing changes 86 Model Aviation Left A qUalified welcome sign greeted Visitors Middle Willard Smitz team member 1975 1977 flew both Nordic Wakefield used mini-trail bike retrieval did others Right Frank Paulinwho made first flight Finals uses special transit track model Device gives compass bearing Wind strong enough make retrieval problem knew experience prepared air temperature speed direction eyes skin mylar streamers attached tops 20-ft poles bubble machines cat tail fluff thrown air air-tempera ture measuring instruments can react within second some equipped stripchart recorders best another model circling overhead World Champs survive seven regular rounds described above maxes go flyoffs maxes successive flyoff flights increase 1 -mm increments Flyoffs occur late day thermal activity has decreased isnt long before winner decided format Finals pick US teams made tough three days started flight before dawn 4minute max made within 15-minute time period intended simulate World Champs flyoff rounds followed day five rounds normal 3-minute maxes made within specified 1-hour bracket totals 18 flights altogether about enough check out technical psy chological factors affect persons poten tial winning World Champs An tougher program would better perhaps impractical Rounding up 30 36 timekeepers shortly after 6 am wasnt easy atfirst some ad justments made couldnt get through processing line fore starting gun worked itself out Power first round day half contestants launched within min ute after round opened Towline glider fliers started towing too very start round modern circle-tow techniques can tow almost indefinitely look ing suitable thermal activity before releas ing glider towline Needless say 33 guys running over place line crossings aplenty Fortunately vertually no wind during first rounds fliers could run off both direc tions starting line reduced problem bit January1979 87 Marc Nagasawa age 20 has flying Nor dics three years third Models trick towhooks own de sign Beautiful workmanship tidy equipment Nordic fliers line up receive towline winches timekeepers start round Tense moments Sick jokes unnecessary fussing hardware ease tension Bob lsaacson hooks up towline protected drizzle hand-held mobile tent Final scores Nordic close lsaacson topped field Left Bob Hatschek likes light tails short noses Aluminum-tube fuselage houses own version circle-zoom towhook invented Rwsians Right Jim Wilson got spot team using V-dihedral model meet C C 0 0 LI 0 p 1 aaaaamaaaaaoaamaOaoaaa-o O0O0JO0S00J0-- omOooaoOosoOOa a -3 2 m 00 ammamama 1 222 2222222222 000000000ca0O0 2 ammmaammama 22 C I- cm.aoma Oaaaaoaaaaa aO0O0M0c00O000OS0.c0O00S00O00O0Co 00M0s0 000OMO 000 oM0MMOJcQ~000000 000000000000 OOOMmMcc 0200000000000 . am aOOO aoa--c--M00000 ma 000O00aOaO00c000000~M 0400000 OaOOOQ MMWa0000 004 00MM ft OWo S 0 U w 0 o ow S cc P jo MM 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c 0 g ~2 o 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 out looked like wet noodle airplane Taft plastic tent stakes used anchor winding stooge broke winding model model demolished managed bend borrowed stooge too fortunately out fatal results once started stretch out motor winding torquemeter situated between geared winder motor disassembled itself torquemeter just little stronger waited break motor fully stretched would have meant third de stroyed model winners have hard luck Carl Bogart destroyed two new Power models practice posted two perfect scores meet using models year half old day before contest started Doug Gaibreath wiped out best models wore out two brand new engines bad fuel Bob Whites model stalled way ground flight out-of-kilter wing went unnoticed wouldnt tell story Chris Matsuno merely excellent free flighter superb modeler long-term record shows tell merely example what can happen frequently does happen competition among best best start twelfth round Chris tied first perfect score thermal model damaged repaired test flight would necessary ensure nothing out whack getting late Chris elected fly still air model slow climbing machine long motor run easily does over 4 minutes thermal-free air So didnt need thermals feltall needed neutral airno uppers no downers Chris launched soon evident air poor side neutral model landed minute short 3 minute max model dam aged taken time test flight thermal model chosen correct moment launch usual skill care might well have national hero instead also-ran Id writing hard-luck story about some other superb modeler Watching Chris fly lesson time-andmotion analysis isnt much wasted muscle twitch Everything hasa proper place goes back finish es winding winder goes its assigned spot winding stooge number turns gets written down little book toolbox lid toolbox gets closed Only does start looking suitable air launch model easy write hard-luck stories about guys almost made first place Its harder write about two maxed outWalt Ghio Wakefield Carl Bogart Powersimply because flew ordinarylooking models ordinary-looking way made maxing look easy Bogarts two models 11/2 years old two newer models became instantaneously worn out pre-contest practice Both simple slab-sided affairs No rakish pylonsor trick wingtips Almost Power models have sheet-covered wings automatic incidencechanging mechanisms stabilizer rudder quite few have gadget starts timer instant model re leased wont mention Carls models have things engines stock Ros sis mounted Oliver pans docile ther mal model sports 9% Cherney airfoil 27% stabilizer having thickness ratio 75% four-minute model features 71A% wing thickness 21% stab 5% thick has vari able rib spacingclosely spaced center widely spaced toward tips Nothing unusual about models except perhaps ability make 18 straight maxes Walt Ghios new RL-1 Wakefield model considerably stretched compared ear lier Flux Span flat increased 59 66 fuselage length 48 52 motor tube 18 24 earlier rather popular chem-milled aluminum alloy motor tube has abandoned partially because Walt never totally happy partly because good ones no longer readily avail able partly because has developed motor tube likes much better con sists inner layer epoxy-impregnated DuPont Kevlar cloth layer 1/16 balsa grain running fore-and-aft outer layer thin epoxy-impregnated fiber glass sticking together done epoxy Both models feature highly cam bered Gard-7510 airfoil two turbulators newer has double-tapered planform totally covered 1/32 sheet Most modelers nowadays wind mo tors prop disconnected blastproof aluminum tube stuffed fuselage Quite ritual involved getting rubber wound model assembled ready flight Walt has tried thatincluding winding prop hub attached rubber motor prop blades removed has reverted old-fashioned system winding protective tube inserted fuselage prop attached motor small detachable shield pro tects prop shield turns out too small has plenty identical prop blades fuselage itself blast-proof January1979 89 Above Chris Matsunos pro-flight procedures classic time-and-motion analysisnot wasted motion Includes stretching rubber motor near limit holding 30 sec stretching again winding Below Carl Hermes flew same models used represented US 1963 World Champs Theyre still good shape flew well Right George Xenakis relies heavily recording air-temperature indi cator tell thermals coming ises cat-tail fluff thrown air too Bubble machines also used mark thermals Above Walt Ghio made perfect score Wakenot easy 18 flights Bill Bogart LI holds US record max flights made during day Left Bob White heaves model thermalalmost lost out Carrol Allen cocked wing caused model stall made team anyhow fourth time Whites Vol Libre twin-fin Wake MA plan No 194 Walt demonstrated few times Getting broken half motor out fuselage facilitated having remov able tailboom held place aluminumtube rear motor peg Tailbooms both models simple square-on-edge tapered boxes Sides 1/16 balsa top bottom longerons 3/32square spruce side long erons 3/32-square balsa Nothing un usual about models except perhaps ability make 18 straight maxes cliff-hangers right through last flight start last round 26 seconds separated Gaibreath Kerr Power Gaibreath would need 148 seconds win Kerr maxed Kerr flew first made 180-sec max Galbreath went up air wasnt especially good quite awhile wasnt certain would make watch indicated 148 sec cheers went up group supporters led Crew Chief Head Cheerleader Ken Oliver model landed short max 12 sec onds later administrative aspects Finals superb Opinions concerning site selec tion competition format eligibility par ticipants other such sticky matters got sorted out committee charged getting done voted par ticipants accordance basic system formulated Hardy Brodersen some four years ago Finals participants well formed what going well advance meet predictable processing contestants obtaining sufficient num ber timekeepers would hassle especial ly early-morning rounds deed hassle sensible adjustments made smoothed out fuss Southern California Aero Team SCAT responsible Finals made go made happen deserve thanks admiration bit much made team few hard-working bunch Andy Faykun Finals Administrator Bill Har till Contest Director Joe Norcross Chief Timekeeper Ross Steckel Nordic F 1 Event Director lrv Aker Wakefield FiB Event Di rector Craig Cusick Power FiC Event Di rector Rol Anderson preceded Bob Stalick George Xenakis FAI Committee Chair manplus committee members too numer ous mention Youngest Power flier Bruce Hannah takes break money until adjusting screw came loose thirteenth round Dick Lyons checks out Power model tween flights maxed last nine flights finished sixth place Carl Bogart Power post perfect scoreand the three teams outside California Simple clean models used stock Rossis Tail Bob Mattes model displays usual array gadgetry optimize trim climb transition glide Dave Rounsaville 75 team member changes plug Excelsior newest long line Engine specialist Doc Anderson 1 Dick Swenson ctr help Rol Anderson check out model before dawn first days flying Rol chairman FF Team Selection Comm Tom McLaughlan flew until bitter end helped Jerry Wagner despite cracking shoulder tripped over tent rope darkness Below Roger Simpson second Power Below Doug Joyce seriously lacerated aHis latest wing uses double spars diagon thumb 1st round fiberglass prop butal ribs between covering balsa flew canard 18 flights anyhowfiberglass Cured flutter thin wings
Edition: Model Aviation - 1979/01
Page Numbers: 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90
USA J AEROIdA Miller flu summer First air must cleared what some thought happened Work Koplan busy sewing up respective spots jack Hiner busier trying hold dpwn number three spota position held fourth round As last round ending Jackflew lOof 12 laps dis tance tasks perfect si-minute dur ation task coupled 90-point landing Most scoreboard watchers thought two flights enough nail down wnui IFTEENT NA offered ck ibt passed wo iple flights too nf best fowl nessed started off enis championshii *ying gra durationsaw o fliersn five-minute flights seven score less 85 landing poin perfect 360/100 secondsflandin 1000-point scores LeMon Payne f attempt maintain pace ha lished South Africa Payne pushe culmination program select three-I 1979 World Championships Pensacola Report Photos Dan Steve Work left Terry Skip Miller below reigning W Time sailplane designed Dave vator plane Team Finals Ke ter abor new fa won ing WA e Above Herb Smith original design Invador very clean ship con trolsrudder elevator spoilers flaps 8th Below Lee Renaud R helps Don Edberg get ready launch Aquila Grande Don 3 comuecutive 1000s Rounds 45 Carroll Moffatt above carries Aquila involved mideir collision Doyle Modestos Legionair shown below what looked like max have light breeze take bird downwind too fast pace meager height gain thermal giving Dale brought bird home before could max worse yet breeze caused Esprit land over 100 ters spotand rules brutally state thats zero flight score Only four fliers failed get maxes 12 scored less 85 land ing points Bob Gill Illinois flew Viking II perfect score 360/ 100 1000 points Day ended Distancethe make-you-or-break-you task pastby years rules has 12-lap maximum Further rules allow eight min utes working time 12 laps flown within four minutes Only half 40 fliers flew 10 laps just six maxed out among Steve Work New Mexico Terry Koplan California Kop Ian led end Round Two 3944 points point found out later scoring error 150-some points reversed Skip Miller Colorado Blame Miller Florida Rae Fritz Contest Director terrupted Nutters working time previous day calling measurement allowed RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS Speed tionDistanceRoundTotal P1Name/State/ModelRdSecs/PtsTime/Land/PtsLaps/PtsPointsPoints 1SteveWork1142/958358/50/88718447 NMex temp CA2359/90/97612/100019760 Bird Time3137/993358/90/97819708116857 4357/100/99612/100019956 5145/937358/100/99519335 6358/85/96512/100019650 2Terry Koplan1145/938359/100/99819358 California2359/100/99812/100019978 Viking3136/1000270/100/80818078113093 4353/95/97612/100019760 5170/800359/90/97617760 6357/95/98310/83318160 3Skip Miller1161 /845360/90/97818230 Colorado2360/95/9897%/64616349 Aquila Grande3150/906359/95/99118979111849 4312/100/89812/100018976 5143/951357/95/98219336 6359/100/99812/100019980 4Jack Hiner1152/895340/100/95718513 Illinois2357/85/96112/100019608 Aquila Grande3162/840357/100/99818373110326 4344/90/94612/100019455 5212/641358/95/98416262 6360/90/97810/83318115 5Bill Haga1195/697357/90/97716992 Texas2355/95/9781 0%/89618740 Legionair3166/819359/90/98017996109329 4359/100/100010%/89618958 5156/871359/100/99718696 6356/100/99110/83318240 6Bob Gill1149/913359/95/98718997 Illinois2360/100/10004%/39613958 Viking Mk II3138/986353/85/95619418108572 4357/100/99612/100019950 5166/819359/95/98618062 6358/95/98510/83318180 7Don Cameron1165/824358/85/96317893 Colorado23 57/80/9509/75017000 Aquila3148/919358/90/97818970107250 4359/55/90212/100019019 5170/800353/100/98417847 6355/100/9898/66616551 8Herb Smith1147/925360/100/1 00019252 Colorado2359/100/99812/100019978 Orig Invader3172/791360/95/99317841107236 4271/85/77611/91716926 5164/829357/95/98218118 6356/100/9916h/52015110 9Jack Hamilton1196/694357/100/9931687A Texas2359/75/94311/91718600 Legionair3187/727357/95/98717142107005 4360/95/99111/91719079 5196/693354/95/97616699 6359 /85/9891 0%/89518840 10John Gunsaullus1184/739360/100/1 00017391 Florida2357/100/9939/75017434 Original3174/781354/95/98017620106327 4358/100/99812/100019978 5184/739360/1 00/1 00017391 6355/95/9788/66616440 Dale re-fly duration task allowed balance working time count towards score plane re-positioned previous days spot working time allowed continue buzzer went off Steve Work retrieved Dale re-launched flew 344 made 90-point landing seconds before working time expired replaced zero score 314 points duration task Round Three no perfect scores Bill Johnson New York flew original bird 3581100 Because best round Bill earned 1000 points Only 11 failed score maxes 1 3 landing points under 85 mark Terry Koplan pushed Viking 136 speed followed Work 137 Gill 1 38 thirteens task However Hayes 140 put him back lead end round 5794 two points ahead secondplace Work 53 points ahead third-place Koplan Hiner fifth Skip Miller sev enth440 points behind leader point two contestants dropped out weather consistenthot 90s windwhen anyof six eight knots direction varied north northwest conditions pre RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS SpeedDurationDistance Round Total P1 Name/State/Model Rd Secs/Pts Time/Land/Pts Laps/Pts Points Points 11Craig Foxgord1192/708369/95/98716953 California2359/95/98711/91719036 Unknown3187/727206/85/63513626104814 4341/100/96110/2/87518357 5188/723354/95/97616994 6353/100/98512/100019850 12Ray Hayes1136/1000358/95/98519848 Indiana2353/90/96311/91718797 Osprey 9003140/971344/95/95919299103644 4231/80/6786/50011775 5144/944338/95/94118857 6354/90/9656A/54115060 13Blame Miller1177/768359/90/97617444 Florida2355/95/97810/83318110 Unknown3163/834358/60/91317470103137 4355/45/87110/83317047 5268/507350/100/97814857 6359/95/98710/83318200 14Bob Domer1173/786357/100/99317796 Colorado2359/65/92210/83317550 Legionair3165/824248/65/68315076102717 4356/80/95010%/89618457 5164/829359/75/94317727 6359/85/9867%/64516110 15Tom Williams1142/958360/1 00/1 00019577 Texas2359/100/9987h/60416019 Paramount3155/877344/0/75116285102369 4302/100/8761 0h/85417299 5172/790330/95/92317146 6360/100/100074/60416040 16Don Edberg1150/907355/85/95718632 California2318/0/6916/50011913 Aquila Grande3140/971356/0/77717487101871 4359/100/100012/100020000 5136/1000353/95/97319739 6357/100/9935/41614100 17Dwight Holley1186/731358/85/96316942 Connecticut2354/95/9768/66716427 Maestro3154/883355/100/99318765101659 4355/100/99110/83318246 5149/912357/90/97118844 6357/100/9933/25012434 18Dale Nutter1193/705358/95/98516894 Oklahoma2224/90/31411/91715992 Esprit3201/677354/95/98016569101092 4356/100/99312/100019934 5163/834358/90/97318082 63 59/95/9874A/37513620 19Matt Sheldon1156/872357/90/97218435 Colorado2359/100/99812/100019978 Olympic II3170/800178/0/38911886100754 4359/80/9567/58315397 5180/755358/80/95217077 6267/100/79812/100017980 20William Johnson1165/824357/95/98318069 New York2360/95/98910/83318224 Original3237/574358/1 00/1 00015738100682 4356/0/7767/58313589 5164/829360/100/100018292 6336/100/9488%/72916770 January 1979 81 Above Ray Hayes holds up Osprey 990 original design identification dis tant flagman Below models Dale Nut ter LI Dr Stan Pfost RI head starting point Dave Thornburg Betty Nutter LeMon Payne Nutter Payne 1977 US team members Above Jack Hamilton shows damaged rudder happened during distance task Asks Pruss Did strike bird shed parts Below Bill Haga Legionair rose 13th end Round 2 finish 5th Contest Director Rae Fritz Team Finals tough manage direct author gives Fritz high marks job well done vailed three days Don Edberg California took next duration task lust short perfect 359/ 100 first three-in-a-row 1000-point tasks Only six failed max 10 scored under 85 points landing circle second day competition ended third dayLabor Daywas taken lit erally Rae Fritz crew set fast pace earlythen maintained pace got 21/2 rounds lust before sun went down Distance second half Round Four started day early morning fliers bit skeptical about possibility getting 12 laps Results showed over half fliers logged 10 lapsthe best distance rounds contest end Round Four standings read Work Koplan Hiner Smith Cameron Skip Miller latter three being Colorado Bob Gill managed 4 laps Round Two 21st worked himself up eighth place Steve Work now 7787 points out possible 8000 Jack Hamilton Texas 10th place still within striking distance 7170 points Doyle Modesto Carrol Moffatt both Texas added excitement previous distance task both tried occupy same airspace lap seven Modesto landed Le gionair safely did Moffatt Aquila ever Legionair holding metal spar Aquila strike suffered broken wing spar Carrol set teled no-fix seven laps Dallas Body Fender Shop repaired Le gionairs wing tin 7-Up Gatorade cans Doyle took re-flight logged seven laps Round Five Don Edberg loaded Aquila Grande 22 ounces ballast turned 136 seemed speed barrier meet No turned faster Hayes Koplan gone fast 136 gave Don third 1000-point round row earlier missed landing six laps distance task kept him out top 10 spectacular bit flying Gill decided go broke plunked two pounds lead Viking II Gills technique have seconds counted off him during run base base B right time turn anticipated goes well run elevens Its gutsy ap proach Gill ready wife gave him count boiled through base count five Bob turn RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS Speed tionDistanceRoundTotal P1Name/State/ModelRdSecsIPtsTime/Land /PtsLapslPtsPointsPoints 21Tom Decker1193/705359/95/98716916 New York2358/100/99611/2/95819539 Unknown3200/680302/0/65913394100554 4348/30/82412/100018235 5167/814356/100/99118056 6343/90/9416/50014413 22LeMon Payne10/0360/1 00/1 00010000 Texas2359/90/97612/100019760 Legionair3169/805354/100/9911795999576 4357/95/98510/83318180 5142/957359/100/99719555 6358/100/9965/41614120 23Doyle Modesto121 8/624359/55/90015239 Texas2339/0/73711/91716536 Legionair3207/657360/90/9831639598896 4300/45/75212/100017516 5192/708358/60/89115996 6359/50/88910/83317220 24Phil Harris121 2/642346/100/97016111 California2359/100/99810/83318311 Paragon3193/704358/95/9891693798254 4360/95/99110/83318246 5208/653360/95/98916429 6266/95/7855//43712220 25Chuck Copeland121 3/638356/100/99116298 Alaska2356/90/9704/2/35413237 Grand Esprit3203/670261/90/7661436398006 4355/85/95911h/93818961 5200/680357 /85/96016408 6307/95/87412/1 00018739 26Fritz Bien1181/751352/75/92816796 Massachusetts2357/45/8749/75016239 T Aquila3165/824352/80/9431767597931 4359/85/9679/75017173 5167/814355/90/96717817 6271/100/8065/41612231 27Bob Baugher1185/735360/85/96717025 Pennsylvania2359/90/9767/58315594 Aquila3178/764349/90/9591722696505 4360/90/9809/75017303 521 0/648350/95/96716150 6335/100/9464A/37513200 28Allan Marshall1185/735355/85/95716917 Massachusetts2359/85/9657/58315485 Unknown3161/845308/90/8691713795133 4358/95/9878/66716535 50/0356/80/9479478 6360/100/100011/2/95819580 29Terry Ferentinos1205/663357/70/92815917 Florida2359/55/9008/66715666 Unknown3180/756347/90/9541709794561 4358/75/94312/100019433 5184/739356/100/99117304 6229/0/4985/4169144 30James Truitt1242/562356/50/88314446 Texas2356/70/9261 0%/8961821 9 Original321 2/642350/0/7641405790864 4233/95/7157A/62513395 5202/673278/75/76714406 6351/75/9268%/70816340 horn went off looked like 11-second run making wasnt high-G turn caused left wing fold went about 60 degrees dihedral Gill backed off nursed bird back through course respectable 166 819 points crowd loved Jack Hiner time decided play close vest just cruise speed course preserve third-place slot got too cautious after low upwind turn Jack stretch flight Aquila Grande what seemed like endurance run 212 seconds allowed fourth-place Herb Smith Colorado close gap time duration task ended certain Work Koplan first second places locked up Only third place con test sixth round flown Hiners slim nine-point hold third going bait least three people later proved four pursuit Round Six scheduled flights made faster scores could posted No seemed look far enough down roster see seventh-place guy name Skip Miller doing Wasnt way went Denver two years ago Hiner managed 10 laps distance Smith got six quarter Meanwhile Skip got 12 Smith got 356/1 00 duration paper Jack needed amax no land82 Model Aviation RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS SpeedDurationDistance Round Total P1 Name/State/Model Rd Secs/PtsTime/Land/Pts Laps/Pts PointsPoints 31Austin Leftwich1175/777191/95/62213989 Virginia2358/85/9635A/43814005 Unknown3167/814179/0/3911205290835 4246/70/6887%/64613342 5153/888306/95/87117606 6353/100/98412/100019840 32Bob Gerbin10/0230/95/7067065 California2356/95/98010/83318137 Paragon3160/850358/90/9781828289423 4356/95/98312/100019825 5205/663354/100/98616503 6342/100/9610/09610 33Fred Gregg10/0355/95/9789783 Virginia2346/55/8729/75018217 Viking MI321 4/636298/0/6511286186197 4356/75/9399A/81317514 5201/676355/50/88015570 63 56/55/8934/33312260 34Rick Norwood1193/705357/0/77614807 California20/0/09%/8138125 Javelin II3185/735165/95/5681302885340 4346/95/9618/66716274 5183/743360/85/96717105 6291/100/8509/75016000 35James Davis1235/579295/90/83714157 Alabama2358/80/9528/66716188 Legionair3227/599350/85/9501548882004 4358/0/7809/75015299 5212/641360/75/94515871 60/0/06/5005000 36Carrol Moffatt1193/705356/0/77414786 Texas2360/85/96710/83318007 Aquila3168/810347/0/7581567181103 4192/85/6037/58311868 5258/5270/0/05271 6288/80/8009/7 5015500 37William Leathers1206/660358/100/99616558 North Carolina2207/100/66711/91715840 Legionair3196/6940/0/0693868063 4355/95/98011/4/97919595 5325/95/9139130 38Art Sark1209/650311/85/86115116 Florida2354/85/9989/75017043 Paragon3208/654201 /0/4391092762831 4195/90/6215/41710375 5351/80/9369360 39Ed Berton1190/716351 /95/97016853 Florida2358/100/9954/4/3541349837561 Unknown3330/0/7217210 40Stan Pfost1181/751359/90/97617275 Florida2214/70/6176/5001117336417 Paragon3270/95/7977969 ing some combination total 350 points raw Jack got 360190 thats everyone started handshakes Meanwhile Miller getting 358/100 won Round Six also trip Belgium As sun setting scorer noticed Miller taken third less two points thought score tight Rae Fritz called score recount top 10 Thats Miller/Miller scores straightened out results finalized Sidelights site contest Navy Auxiiary Landing Fielda mile square grass best flying fields youll ever see Pensacola club has using 21 years Rae Fritz retired Navy Chief just pleased out come Steve Work AD4 Navy man sta tioned San Diego special thanks Clint Bobe Rick Herrmann did outstand ing jobs tabulating keeping scores posted Works Bird Time Dave Thornburgs design same design Dave used two years ago Denver miss team two points Bird has kitted limited run Steve second achieve LSF Level V mark earned three years ago final note doubt contest finest caliber fliers ever assembled contest well run competitively clean very well flown Besides excellent duration/landing scores speed run out 120 crossed center line azero score Strategies subtle yet bold sake preserving secrets some tactics wont revealed herenot until next summer anyway few unintentional incidents could have provoked protests Instead heads turned challenges made air rule book Thirtysix 40 contestants still final round Work Koplan Miller know earned way Belgium Next July will represent name USA Soaring Lets support January 1979 83 Above Craig Foxgord holding original de sign sailplane Rick Norwoodboth California Foxgord 11th Below Art Sark CL Stan Pfost walk flight line Pfost president NSS Above Discussing what might have Dale Nutter LeMon Payne Bad luck early rounds kept repeating team members both giving final rounds Below Judge Jim Davis winch hauler chose appropriate ly named brand wed have say CL COMBAT TEAM COMMIHEE ANNOUNCED committee responsible dev s ng obtaining approval carrying out pro gram selecting US 1980 Control Line Combat World Championships Team known Combat Team Selection Committee consists representative 11 AMA districts follows Steve Sacco District 478 Main St Norwell MA 02061 Bill Bird II 123 Beechwood Rd Florham Park NJ 07432 Charles Rudner III 3530 Radcliffe Rd Cleveland Hgts OH 44121 Bill Harris IV 11004 Harding Rd Laurel MD 20810 W M Henry V 629 Elysian Fields Nash ville TN 37211 Gary Frost VI 22 Glynn Dr Florissant MO 63031 Paul Smith VII Chairman 323 N Walnut Apt 904 Lansing Ml 48933 George Cleveland VIII 36 Antiqua Kenner LA 70062 Dave Jones IX 666 N Volutsia Wichita KS 67214 Charlie Johnson X 3716 Ingraham St San Diego CA 92109 Chuck Thomas Xl 7711 Easy St Everett WA 98203 Members committee generally recruited Miniature Aircraft Combat Association MACA endorsed respective AMA vice-presidents final step installation committee confirmation members previous program participants obtained mail ballot October POSSIBLE CHANGES TO CB PROCEDURES written AMA Executive Council together Contest Board chairmen CB coordinator process voting mail three proposals revise Contest Board Procedures recent printing document April 1978 issue page 74 Likely re sults vote will printed next month Preceding vote proposals dis tributed Contest Board members re view comment such comments mailed would vote propo sals follows Three-Year Rules Cycle proposal submitted Control Line Racing Advi sory Committee J E Klause chairman change present two-year rules cycle three-year rules cycle three-year cy cle intended increase stability rules also provide years period testing newly enacted rules before commence ment next time period accepting rules-change proposals Proposers Experience proposal also CL Racing Advisory Committee add spaces rules-change propo sal form proposer show number years experience catego ries Indoor FF CL Scale RC show number times proposer has flown and/or directed events past two years Further proposal calls adding fol lowing statement adjacent CD endorse ment space especially important CDs thoroughly analyze implications proposal prior endorsing it' said inclusion information form will help Contest Boards evaluating various proposals before Provisional Supplemental Rule Events Nets Gail E Jacobson College Park GA proposes revise CB Procedures also rule book allow events Provisional Supplemental rules flown National Contest Further proposal provides automatic upgrade Provisional Official events held Nats according such rules notes Provisional Supplemental rules events have held Nats despite pro hibition CB Procedures rule book revisions proposes will legalize present practice Age Class Determination falls under sole jurisdiction Executive Council Contest Board mat ter Council presently considering proposal Joe L Norcross Clovis CA change date age determination clas sification purposes Junior Senior Open July 1 year January 1 year states using present July 1 date results confusion AMA member applicants well officials accept AMA applications fees contests Using January 1 determination date will reduce confusion believes INDOOR WORLD CHAMPS Report Jim Richmond US Team Member 1st Place modelers life little com pare thrill winning World Cham pionship personal standpoint achievement significant cause 10th anniversary 1968 win Rome felt come through time ever going spite short notice British SMAE did usual fine job organizing run ning Championships hat off effort made behalf also outstanding performance result ing first team win UK expedition began panic made mad dash catch charter flight seemed continue varying levels crises excitement until very last day Hot Rod Hulbert made itto Gatwick just time us catch return flight home Just drive through London left side street enough excitement rest hard-working manager Ray Harlan held up very well through did fine job looking after interests addition T-shirts jackets decals travel arrange ments super carrying box get planes processing still found time build optical wingspan checker used precision checking questionable wings during competition also went bat us regarding questionable new un limited steering rule able get jury outlaw sharks tooth hook some installed fronts planes purpose balloon towing plane new location believe ruling avoided controversy could have impaired good spirit competition As turned out British team demon strated outstanding steering capability wit out tooth credit won competition conducted under much better flying conditions endured 1976 weather staying fairly constant mild throughout morning air cool heavy until about 100 PM after flying conditions good rest day US team able get end flying period extended 600 700 PM first day competition provided enough time fly good air Unfor tunately flying stop 600 PM second day because banquet being held evening caused some such self either fly bad morning air lose flights Since already posted good flights previous day afternoon time good air given teammates hopes im proving positions Bud Romak de fending champion fortunate being able fly whenever chose manager Erv Rodemsky put forth tremendous effort came very close capturing second victory third flight 4253 tipped scales Just slight amount bad luck point would have washed out view team flying schedule re quired last day expected see some new innova tions Championships planes pretty much same before Swiss getting some impressive times long Archaeopterix planes Chiub ny Czechoslovakia showed up un usual arc-shaped cabane ship Someone pointed out top four places built planes underweight used ballast make 1 gram Goes show light construction still important Although would have liked bring home Team Championship once again felt second place good showing considering first World Cham pionships other members team British pretty emphatic about holding next Indoor Championships else although great sheds Card ington magnificent site event cant blame wanting someone share burden once Personally Im looking forward return Cardington some day air right flying really great INDOOR WORLD CHAMPS Report Bill Hulbert US Team Member 16th Place participation US Indoor Team certainly culmination years model flyingdating back 1940 Indoor flying has very fascinating particular FAI use Goodyear Air Dock has un doubtedly contributed success other factor Midwest have high ceilings available develop 84 Model Aviation kind flying such Lakehurst Santa Ana opinion Goodyear hangar certainly finest facility available world time After making team last fall spent winter months building preparation fly ing salt mines Romania ie stiff motor sticks reverse flair props etc location changed new building pro gram started six completely tested ships two extra wings 40-mm flight plus number 37s 38s convinced ready new Pirelli rubber looked good abandoned rubber used Team Trials Kennedy Airport set tone whole trip made arrangements special handling two model boxes Cleveland hour half layover Kennedy vanished completely because ramp bag gage problems ended up actually running catch Laker flight just made Fortunately models went through excellent shape Only some minor holes required minimum patching return wings almost totally demolished Glad other way arrived Gatwick early AM very little sleep spent whole day trying arrange transportation getting County Hotel Bedford another whole story arrived couple days before contest stayed couple days afterwards Jean wife spent interesting hours sightseeing England fascinating country much heritage side Saturday test day arrived first glimpse inside Cardington ex cept Richmond Romak before air shed quite different Goodyears sides rising almost straight up yet narrowing very limited space between two top catwalks absolutely necessary fly above catwalks achieve maximum time however side drift often problem ballooning expertise often required Controversy over steering will undoubtedly lead new rules proposals weather generally good during event Sunday being superb day Test day saw flights feeling out air shed motor size propellers What seemed best too different INDOOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS RESULTS PL Name Country1st2nd3rd4th5th6th 1 James Richmond USA 2 Bud Romak reigning W/Champ 3Ron HiggsCanada 4Dieter SiebenmannSwitzerland 5Laurie BarrUK 6Shigeyoshi NonakaJapan 7Jack McGillivrayCanada 8Eduard CiapalaPoland 9RonGreenUK 10Rene ButtiSwitzerland 11Deryl MorleyUK 12Cornelius WoithomNetherlands 13Vilim KmochYugoslavia 14Kurt ViglerW Germany 15Yasutoshi BanbaJapan 16William HulbertUSA 17Eduard ChlubnyCSSR 18Jan DihmPoland 19Takaji MatsuzawaJapan 20Karol RybeckyCSSR 21Harro ErofejeffFinland 22Carlo CotugnoItaly 23 Ryszard Czechowski Poland 24 Ferdinando Migani 25 Leopold Gabrijel 26 Swn-Olav Linden 27 Jiri Kalina 28 Michael Thomas 29 Klaus Nottelmann 30 Daniel Domina 31 Willem Beekmeyer 32 Harri Raullo 33 Germano Masciullo 34 Teodor Strazberger 35 Sven Pontan 36 Werner Wetzel 37 Milan Sitar 38 Timo Forss 39 Edmund Liem 40 Anders Jonsson Italy Yugoslavia Sweden CSSR Canada W Germany USA Netherlands Finland Italy Yugoslavia Sweden W Germany Australia Finland Netherlands Sweden 4149 4055 3516 1305 1103 2833 3545 3443 0640 3437 3045 3120 3038 0838 3433 3439 3331 3258 0014 3223 3032 3415 3106 2701 2607 1618 1148 0643 0518 2314 2811 1555 1624 2215 1624 1429 2141 1736 0047 1324 TEAM RESULTS 1 United Kingdom 2 USA 3 Canada 4 Japan 5 Poland 6 Czechoslovakia 21827 21425 - 21212 21038 20521 19711 3652 4027 3944 3032 3723 3305 3720 3815 2928 2852 3257 3620 3340 3012 3537 2628 3540 3055 3540 1039 2940 0800 2759 0148 3328 2400 2947 2632 1922 1129 2644 2352 2303 0042 1539 2648 2426 2047 1907 1908 4253 1343 0918 3723 2454 4036 1139 3344 3717 3806 3458 3705 3429 Disq 2348 3417 Disq 0906 3303 3059 3347 3313 1618 3254 3003 3115 3207 3033 3037 2922 2408 3127 2731 2510 2739 2232 2542 1840 3116 2858 3057 0824 1513 2711 2542 1259 2238 243 1 3100 3302 2409 2938 2501 3310 2252 3144 3117 2934 3225 2947 1942 2859 3117 2050 3140 2712 2843 1400 1913 2550 2656 2304 2504 2328 0519 2705 2002 1456 3151 1437 3232 3634 1228 3619 3458 3918 2703 2541 1247 2631 3603 3023 3149 3222 0615 3009 3321 3010 1007 1152 0845 3134 3116 2415 1140 2551 2519 2818 2130 2247 2255 1627 2348 3322 3645 3730 0113 2555 3434 3406 1036 3323 3322 3501 2347 3438 2241 3049 1215 0020 2836 3140 2909 2941 2600 3129 2953 2709 0931 2316 2115 2528 0646 1936 7 Yugoslavia 8 Italy 9 West Germany 10 Netherlands 11 Finland 12 Sweden 13 Switzerland 14 Australia Best 2 8442 8122 7629 7453 7357 7341 7339 7313 7302 7154 7128 7121 7045 7032 7000 6917 6911 6715 6657 6544 6528 6514 6453 6453 6445 6428 6256 6244 6050 6026 5848 5631 5514 5443 5235 5216 5205 4937 4930 3748 18933 18521 183 38 17139 17136 15411 14607 5205 configurations used Goodyears hang ar 37-mm flight concluded busy flying day things looked good Unfortunately own flying activities such almost impossible spend time visiting other fliers ob serving models regret however Team Championship paramount everything else secondary flying same design flew Team Trials using 21 prop variable 32 pitch loop 17 x 054 new Pirelli rubber found necessary use heavier motor Monday because cooler conditions first official flight Sunday cal culated safe flight topped out just under top catwalk never trouble 34 39 flight Richmond Romak put up great flights obvious conditions improving first flight used 1940 turns se cond 2080 model climbed perfectly exactly centered within 5 top looked great however consternation did cruise down 25 mm am sure 38 39 mm possible ever loosened wire caused excessive wash-in left tip did explain after 12 15 flights Goodyear Cardington wing cant third flight made using different plane higher pitch prop enough power Monday significantly cooler put three flights top heavier motor resultant faster RPM Almost top flights made Sunday times attest quite disappointed felt could win lot ifs left behind Car dington British flew well should have won particularly outstanding effort Richmond clearly class field Romak flying individ ual since reigning World Cham pion following closely behind banquet fitting climax World Championships toasts much good cheer also provided oppor tunity socialize some unable meet during really strenuous flying conditions found out very quickly flying representative country certainly far different doing own thing dividual such trying make team discovered also team member others very graciously contributed materials other assistance expectation anything return except best effort am indebted Ray Harlan others help Finally am indebted AMA op portunity represent country COMBAT WC RESULTS mistake team results Combat World Championships reported Decem ber issue page 82 third round team results end contest follows 1st England 2nd West Ger Belgium France 5th USA Cana da Italy 8th Ireland Holland 10th Australia 11th Sweden 12th Mexico Brazil 14th Switzerland January 1979 85 1979 US Free Flight World Championships Team members L-R Nordic A-2 Bob lsaacson Lee Hines Jim Wilson Power Ijoug Ual breath Roger Simpson Carl Bogart Wakefield Rubber Walt Ghio Bob Piserchio Bob White Except Bogart California means strenuous process involving local Qualifications Regional Semi-Finals lots haggling over sites procedures last Finals aspirants positions USA teams have sifted sorted winnowed distilled until nine re main what teams have Taft CA site Finals se lect 1979 USA World Championships teams Wakefield Rubber A-2 Towline Glider FAI Power event held September 2-4 Chosen US team members following Wakefield Rubber Walt Ghio Stockton CA Bob Piserchio San Diego CA Bob White Los Angeles CA Nordic A-2 Bob lsaacson Los Angeles CA Jim Wilson Los Angeles CA Lee Hines Los Angeles CA FAI Power Carl Bogart Manassas VA Roger Simpson Sacramento CA Doug Gaibreath Davis CA protest lodged concerning A-2 results AMA President Clemens has accepted Jury recommendation results remain unchanged assump tion principle behind Jury deci sion applied consistently throughout event Some Finals recent years have disasters because poor weather poor local geography combination two Taft ideal siteperhaps best USand weather early September usually excellent rain unheard During first two days three-day meet weather mild side typical 97 degrees F mid-afternoon no strong winds Models seldom drifted over quarter mile Thermals regular mild no Taft trash-lifters between first two rounds Labor Day started drizzle remained between drizzle light rain rest day strangely neither modelers nor models seemed mind too much Ther mal activity decreased bit sort weather have home FAI competition flying done rounds contestant required make flight within specified time period maxis normally 3 minutes flights lasting longer 3 minutes scored 3 minutes Fuse clockwork devices rigged make models descend quickly after making max name game make maxes possible Model specificationsweight wing area etcare such severely limit performance Power model engine runs limited 7 se conds Wakefield rubber motors limited weight 16 oz example still air such thing best A-2 Nordic gliders can barely make 3-minute flights Power Wakefield models 4 minutes thermal activity doesnt mean much What goes up must come down thermals going up air between thermals coming down Find thermal dont max So thermal detection real game Methods include sensing changes 86 Model Aviation Left A qUalified welcome sign greeted Visitors Middle Willard Smitz team member 1975 1977 flew both Nordic Wakefield used mini-trail bike retrieval did others Right Frank Paulinwho made first flight Finals uses special transit track model Device gives compass bearing Wind strong enough make retrieval problem knew experience prepared air temperature speed direction eyes skin mylar streamers attached tops 20-ft poles bubble machines cat tail fluff thrown air air-tempera ture measuring instruments can react within second some equipped stripchart recorders best another model circling overhead World Champs survive seven regular rounds described above maxes go flyoffs maxes successive flyoff flights increase 1 -mm increments Flyoffs occur late day thermal activity has decreased isnt long before winner decided format Finals pick US teams made tough three days started flight before dawn 4minute max made within 15-minute time period intended simulate World Champs flyoff rounds followed day five rounds normal 3-minute maxes made within specified 1-hour bracket totals 18 flights altogether about enough check out technical psy chological factors affect persons poten tial winning World Champs An tougher program would better perhaps impractical Rounding up 30 36 timekeepers shortly after 6 am wasnt easy atfirst some ad justments made couldnt get through processing line fore starting gun worked itself out Power first round day half contestants launched within min ute after round opened Towline glider fliers started towing too very start round modern circle-tow techniques can tow almost indefinitely look ing suitable thermal activity before releas ing glider towline Needless say 33 guys running over place line crossings aplenty Fortunately vertually no wind during first rounds fliers could run off both direc tions starting line reduced problem bit January1979 87 Marc Nagasawa age 20 has flying Nor dics three years third Models trick towhooks own de sign Beautiful workmanship tidy equipment Nordic fliers line up receive towline winches timekeepers start round Tense moments Sick jokes unnecessary fussing hardware ease tension Bob lsaacson hooks up towline protected drizzle hand-held mobile tent Final scores Nordic close lsaacson topped field Left Bob Hatschek likes light tails short noses Aluminum-tube fuselage houses own version circle-zoom towhook invented Rwsians Right Jim Wilson got spot team using V-dihedral model meet C C 0 0 LI 0 p 1 aaaaamaaaaaoaamaOaoaaa-o O0O0JO0S00J0-- omOooaoOosoOOa a -3 2 m 00 ammamama 1 222 2222222222 000000000ca0O0 2 ammmaammama 22 C I- cm.aoma Oaaaaoaaaaa aO0O0M0c00O000OS0.c0O00S00O00O0Co 00M0s0 000OMO 000 oM0MMOJcQ~000000 000000000000 OOOMmMcc 0200000000000 . am aOOO aoa--c--M00000 ma 000O00aOaO00c000000~M 0400000 OaOOOQ MMWa0000 004 00MM ft OWo S 0 U w 0 o ow S cc P jo MM 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c 0 g ~2 o 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 out looked like wet noodle airplane Taft plastic tent stakes used anchor winding stooge broke winding model model demolished managed bend borrowed stooge too fortunately out fatal results once started stretch out motor winding torquemeter situated between geared winder motor disassembled itself torquemeter just little stronger waited break motor fully stretched would have meant third de stroyed model winners have hard luck Carl Bogart destroyed two new Power models practice posted two perfect scores meet using models year half old day before contest started Doug Gaibreath wiped out best models wore out two brand new engines bad fuel Bob Whites model stalled way ground flight out-of-kilter wing went unnoticed wouldnt tell story Chris Matsuno merely excellent free flighter superb modeler long-term record shows tell merely example what can happen frequently does happen competition among best best start twelfth round Chris tied first perfect score thermal model damaged repaired test flight would necessary ensure nothing out whack getting late Chris elected fly still air model slow climbing machine long motor run easily does over 4 minutes thermal-free air So didnt need thermals feltall needed neutral airno uppers no downers Chris launched soon evident air poor side neutral model landed minute short 3 minute max model dam aged taken time test flight thermal model chosen correct moment launch usual skill care might well have national hero instead also-ran Id writing hard-luck story about some other superb modeler Watching Chris fly lesson time-andmotion analysis isnt much wasted muscle twitch Everything hasa proper place goes back finish es winding winder goes its assigned spot winding stooge number turns gets written down little book toolbox lid toolbox gets closed Only does start looking suitable air launch model easy write hard-luck stories about guys almost made first place Its harder write about two maxed outWalt Ghio Wakefield Carl Bogart Powersimply because flew ordinarylooking models ordinary-looking way made maxing look easy Bogarts two models 11/2 years old two newer models became instantaneously worn out pre-contest practice Both simple slab-sided affairs No rakish pylonsor trick wingtips Almost Power models have sheet-covered wings automatic incidencechanging mechanisms stabilizer rudder quite few have gadget starts timer instant model re leased wont mention Carls models have things engines stock Ros sis mounted Oliver pans docile ther mal model sports 9% Cherney airfoil 27% stabilizer having thickness ratio 75% four-minute model features 71A% wing thickness 21% stab 5% thick has vari able rib spacingclosely spaced center widely spaced toward tips Nothing unusual about models except perhaps ability make 18 straight maxes Walt Ghios new RL-1 Wakefield model considerably stretched compared ear lier Flux Span flat increased 59 66 fuselage length 48 52 motor tube 18 24 earlier rather popular chem-milled aluminum alloy motor tube has abandoned partially because Walt never totally happy partly because good ones no longer readily avail able partly because has developed motor tube likes much better con sists inner layer epoxy-impregnated DuPont Kevlar cloth layer 1/16 balsa grain running fore-and-aft outer layer thin epoxy-impregnated fiber glass sticking together done epoxy Both models feature highly cam bered Gard-7510 airfoil two turbulators newer has double-tapered planform totally covered 1/32 sheet Most modelers nowadays wind mo tors prop disconnected blastproof aluminum tube stuffed fuselage Quite ritual involved getting rubber wound model assembled ready flight Walt has tried thatincluding winding prop hub attached rubber motor prop blades removed has reverted old-fashioned system winding protective tube inserted fuselage prop attached motor small detachable shield pro tects prop shield turns out too small has plenty identical prop blades fuselage itself blast-proof January1979 89 Above Chris Matsunos pro-flight procedures classic time-and-motion analysisnot wasted motion Includes stretching rubber motor near limit holding 30 sec stretching again winding Below Carl Hermes flew same models used represented US 1963 World Champs Theyre still good shape flew well Right George Xenakis relies heavily recording air-temperature indi cator tell thermals coming ises cat-tail fluff thrown air too Bubble machines also used mark thermals Above Walt Ghio made perfect score Wakenot easy 18 flights Bill Bogart LI holds US record max flights made during day Left Bob White heaves model thermalalmost lost out Carrol Allen cocked wing caused model stall made team anyhow fourth time Whites Vol Libre twin-fin Wake MA plan No 194 Walt demonstrated few times Getting broken half motor out fuselage facilitated having remov able tailboom held place aluminumtube rear motor peg Tailbooms both models simple square-on-edge tapered boxes Sides 1/16 balsa top bottom longerons 3/32square spruce side long erons 3/32-square balsa Nothing un usual about models except perhaps ability make 18 straight maxes cliff-hangers right through last flight start last round 26 seconds separated Gaibreath Kerr Power Gaibreath would need 148 seconds win Kerr maxed Kerr flew first made 180-sec max Galbreath went up air wasnt especially good quite awhile wasnt certain would make watch indicated 148 sec cheers went up group supporters led Crew Chief Head Cheerleader Ken Oliver model landed short max 12 sec onds later administrative aspects Finals superb Opinions concerning site selec tion competition format eligibility par ticipants other such sticky matters got sorted out committee charged getting done voted par ticipants accordance basic system formulated Hardy Brodersen some four years ago Finals participants well formed what going well advance meet predictable processing contestants obtaining sufficient num ber timekeepers would hassle especial ly early-morning rounds deed hassle sensible adjustments made smoothed out fuss Southern California Aero Team SCAT responsible Finals made go made happen deserve thanks admiration bit much made team few hard-working bunch Andy Faykun Finals Administrator Bill Har till Contest Director Joe Norcross Chief Timekeeper Ross Steckel Nordic F 1 Event Director lrv Aker Wakefield FiB Event Di rector Craig Cusick Power FiC Event Di rector Rol Anderson preceded Bob Stalick George Xenakis FAI Committee Chair manplus committee members too numer ous mention Youngest Power flier Bruce Hannah takes break money until adjusting screw came loose thirteenth round Dick Lyons checks out Power model tween flights maxed last nine flights finished sixth place Carl Bogart Power post perfect scoreand the three teams outside California Simple clean models used stock Rossis Tail Bob Mattes model displays usual array gadgetry optimize trim climb transition glide Dave Rounsaville 75 team member changes plug Excelsior newest long line Engine specialist Doc Anderson 1 Dick Swenson ctr help Rol Anderson check out model before dawn first days flying Rol chairman FF Team Selection Comm Tom McLaughlan flew until bitter end helped Jerry Wagner despite cracking shoulder tripped over tent rope darkness Below Roger Simpson second Power Below Doug Joyce seriously lacerated aHis latest wing uses double spars diagon thumb 1st round fiberglass prop butal ribs between covering balsa flew canard 18 flights anyhowfiberglass Cured flutter thin wings
Edition: Model Aviation - 1979/01
Page Numbers: 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90
USA J AEROIdA Miller flu summer First air must cleared what some thought happened Work Koplan busy sewing up respective spots jack Hiner busier trying hold dpwn number three spota position held fourth round As last round ending Jackflew lOof 12 laps dis tance tasks perfect si-minute dur ation task coupled 90-point landing Most scoreboard watchers thought two flights enough nail down wnui IFTEENT NA offered ck ibt passed wo iple flights too nf best fowl nessed started off enis championshii *ying gra durationsaw o fliersn five-minute flights seven score less 85 landing poin perfect 360/100 secondsflandin 1000-point scores LeMon Payne f attempt maintain pace ha lished South Africa Payne pushe culmination program select three-I 1979 World Championships Pensacola Report Photos Dan Steve Work left Terry Skip Miller below reigning W Time sailplane designed Dave vator plane Team Finals Ke ter abor new fa won ing WA e Above Herb Smith original design Invador very clean ship con trolsrudder elevator spoilers flaps 8th Below Lee Renaud R helps Don Edberg get ready launch Aquila Grande Don 3 comuecutive 1000s Rounds 45 Carroll Moffatt above carries Aquila involved mideir collision Doyle Modestos Legionair shown below what looked like max have light breeze take bird downwind too fast pace meager height gain thermal giving Dale brought bird home before could max worse yet breeze caused Esprit land over 100 ters spotand rules brutally state thats zero flight score Only four fliers failed get maxes 12 scored less 85 land ing points Bob Gill Illinois flew Viking II perfect score 360/ 100 1000 points Day ended Distancethe make-you-or-break-you task pastby years rules has 12-lap maximum Further rules allow eight min utes working time 12 laps flown within four minutes Only half 40 fliers flew 10 laps just six maxed out among Steve Work New Mexico Terry Koplan California Kop Ian led end Round Two 3944 points point found out later scoring error 150-some points reversed Skip Miller Colorado Blame Miller Florida Rae Fritz Contest Director terrupted Nutters working time previous day calling measurement allowed RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS Speed tionDistanceRoundTotal P1Name/State/ModelRdSecs/PtsTime/Land/PtsLaps/PtsPointsPoints 1SteveWork1142/958358/50/88718447 NMex temp CA2359/90/97612/100019760 Bird Time3137/993358/90/97819708116857 4357/100/99612/100019956 5145/937358/100/99519335 6358/85/96512/100019650 2Terry Koplan1145/938359/100/99819358 California2359/100/99812/100019978 Viking3136/1000270/100/80818078113093 4353/95/97612/100019760 5170/800359/90/97617760 6357/95/98310/83318160 3Skip Miller1161 /845360/90/97818230 Colorado2360/95/9897%/64616349 Aquila Grande3150/906359/95/99118979111849 4312/100/89812/100018976 5143/951357/95/98219336 6359/100/99812/100019980 4Jack Hiner1152/895340/100/95718513 Illinois2357/85/96112/100019608 Aquila Grande3162/840357/100/99818373110326 4344/90/94612/100019455 5212/641358/95/98416262 6360/90/97810/83318115 5Bill Haga1195/697357/90/97716992 Texas2355/95/9781 0%/89618740 Legionair3166/819359/90/98017996109329 4359/100/100010%/89618958 5156/871359/100/99718696 6356/100/99110/83318240 6Bob Gill1149/913359/95/98718997 Illinois2360/100/10004%/39613958 Viking Mk II3138/986353/85/95619418108572 4357/100/99612/100019950 5166/819359/95/98618062 6358/95/98510/83318180 7Don Cameron1165/824358/85/96317893 Colorado23 57/80/9509/75017000 Aquila3148/919358/90/97818970107250 4359/55/90212/100019019 5170/800353/100/98417847 6355/100/9898/66616551 8Herb Smith1147/925360/100/1 00019252 Colorado2359/100/99812/100019978 Orig Invader3172/791360/95/99317841107236 4271/85/77611/91716926 5164/829357/95/98218118 6356/100/9916h/52015110 9Jack Hamilton1196/694357/100/9931687A Texas2359/75/94311/91718600 Legionair3187/727357/95/98717142107005 4360/95/99111/91719079 5196/693354/95/97616699 6359 /85/9891 0%/89518840 10John Gunsaullus1184/739360/100/1 00017391 Florida2357/100/9939/75017434 Original3174/781354/95/98017620106327 4358/100/99812/100019978 5184/739360/1 00/1 00017391 6355/95/9788/66616440 Dale re-fly duration task allowed balance working time count towards score plane re-positioned previous days spot working time allowed continue buzzer went off Steve Work retrieved Dale re-launched flew 344 made 90-point landing seconds before working time expired replaced zero score 314 points duration task Round Three no perfect scores Bill Johnson New York flew original bird 3581100 Because best round Bill earned 1000 points Only 11 failed score maxes 1 3 landing points under 85 mark Terry Koplan pushed Viking 136 speed followed Work 137 Gill 1 38 thirteens task However Hayes 140 put him back lead end round 5794 two points ahead secondplace Work 53 points ahead third-place Koplan Hiner fifth Skip Miller sev enth440 points behind leader point two contestants dropped out weather consistenthot 90s windwhen anyof six eight knots direction varied north northwest conditions pre RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS SpeedDurationDistance Round Total P1 Name/State/Model Rd Secs/Pts Time/Land/Pts Laps/Pts Points Points 11Craig Foxgord1192/708369/95/98716953 California2359/95/98711/91719036 Unknown3187/727206/85/63513626104814 4341/100/96110/2/87518357 5188/723354/95/97616994 6353/100/98512/100019850 12Ray Hayes1136/1000358/95/98519848 Indiana2353/90/96311/91718797 Osprey 9003140/971344/95/95919299103644 4231/80/6786/50011775 5144/944338/95/94118857 6354/90/9656A/54115060 13Blame Miller1177/768359/90/97617444 Florida2355/95/97810/83318110 Unknown3163/834358/60/91317470103137 4355/45/87110/83317047 5268/507350/100/97814857 6359/95/98710/83318200 14Bob Domer1173/786357/100/99317796 Colorado2359/65/92210/83317550 Legionair3165/824248/65/68315076102717 4356/80/95010%/89618457 5164/829359/75/94317727 6359/85/9867%/64516110 15Tom Williams1142/958360/1 00/1 00019577 Texas2359/100/9987h/60416019 Paramount3155/877344/0/75116285102369 4302/100/8761 0h/85417299 5172/790330/95/92317146 6360/100/100074/60416040 16Don Edberg1150/907355/85/95718632 California2318/0/6916/50011913 Aquila Grande3140/971356/0/77717487101871 4359/100/100012/100020000 5136/1000353/95/97319739 6357/100/9935/41614100 17Dwight Holley1186/731358/85/96316942 Connecticut2354/95/9768/66716427 Maestro3154/883355/100/99318765101659 4355/100/99110/83318246 5149/912357/90/97118844 6357/100/9933/25012434 18Dale Nutter1193/705358/95/98516894 Oklahoma2224/90/31411/91715992 Esprit3201/677354/95/98016569101092 4356/100/99312/100019934 5163/834358/90/97318082 63 59/95/9874A/37513620 19Matt Sheldon1156/872357/90/97218435 Colorado2359/100/99812/100019978 Olympic II3170/800178/0/38911886100754 4359/80/9567/58315397 5180/755358/80/95217077 6267/100/79812/100017980 20William Johnson1165/824357/95/98318069 New York2360/95/98910/83318224 Original3237/574358/1 00/1 00015738100682 4356/0/7767/58313589 5164/829360/100/100018292 6336/100/9488%/72916770 January 1979 81 Above Ray Hayes holds up Osprey 990 original design identification dis tant flagman Below models Dale Nut ter LI Dr Stan Pfost RI head starting point Dave Thornburg Betty Nutter LeMon Payne Nutter Payne 1977 US team members Above Jack Hamilton shows damaged rudder happened during distance task Asks Pruss Did strike bird shed parts Below Bill Haga Legionair rose 13th end Round 2 finish 5th Contest Director Rae Fritz Team Finals tough manage direct author gives Fritz high marks job well done vailed three days Don Edberg California took next duration task lust short perfect 359/ 100 first three-in-a-row 1000-point tasks Only six failed max 10 scored under 85 points landing circle second day competition ended third dayLabor Daywas taken lit erally Rae Fritz crew set fast pace earlythen maintained pace got 21/2 rounds lust before sun went down Distance second half Round Four started day early morning fliers bit skeptical about possibility getting 12 laps Results showed over half fliers logged 10 lapsthe best distance rounds contest end Round Four standings read Work Koplan Hiner Smith Cameron Skip Miller latter three being Colorado Bob Gill managed 4 laps Round Two 21st worked himself up eighth place Steve Work now 7787 points out possible 8000 Jack Hamilton Texas 10th place still within striking distance 7170 points Doyle Modesto Carrol Moffatt both Texas added excitement previous distance task both tried occupy same airspace lap seven Modesto landed Le gionair safely did Moffatt Aquila ever Legionair holding metal spar Aquila strike suffered broken wing spar Carrol set teled no-fix seven laps Dallas Body Fender Shop repaired Le gionairs wing tin 7-Up Gatorade cans Doyle took re-flight logged seven laps Round Five Don Edberg loaded Aquila Grande 22 ounces ballast turned 136 seemed speed barrier meet No turned faster Hayes Koplan gone fast 136 gave Don third 1000-point round row earlier missed landing six laps distance task kept him out top 10 spectacular bit flying Gill decided go broke plunked two pounds lead Viking II Gills technique have seconds counted off him during run base base B right time turn anticipated goes well run elevens Its gutsy ap proach Gill ready wife gave him count boiled through base count five Bob turn RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS Speed tionDistanceRoundTotal P1Name/State/ModelRdSecsIPtsTime/Land /PtsLapslPtsPointsPoints 21Tom Decker1193/705359/95/98716916 New York2358/100/99611/2/95819539 Unknown3200/680302/0/65913394100554 4348/30/82412/100018235 5167/814356/100/99118056 6343/90/9416/50014413 22LeMon Payne10/0360/1 00/1 00010000 Texas2359/90/97612/100019760 Legionair3169/805354/100/9911795999576 4357/95/98510/83318180 5142/957359/100/99719555 6358/100/9965/41614120 23Doyle Modesto121 8/624359/55/90015239 Texas2339/0/73711/91716536 Legionair3207/657360/90/9831639598896 4300/45/75212/100017516 5192/708358/60/89115996 6359/50/88910/83317220 24Phil Harris121 2/642346/100/97016111 California2359/100/99810/83318311 Paragon3193/704358/95/9891693798254 4360/95/99110/83318246 5208/653360/95/98916429 6266/95/7855//43712220 25Chuck Copeland121 3/638356/100/99116298 Alaska2356/90/9704/2/35413237 Grand Esprit3203/670261/90/7661436398006 4355/85/95911h/93818961 5200/680357 /85/96016408 6307/95/87412/1 00018739 26Fritz Bien1181/751352/75/92816796 Massachusetts2357/45/8749/75016239 T Aquila3165/824352/80/9431767597931 4359/85/9679/75017173 5167/814355/90/96717817 6271/100/8065/41612231 27Bob Baugher1185/735360/85/96717025 Pennsylvania2359/90/9767/58315594 Aquila3178/764349/90/9591722696505 4360/90/9809/75017303 521 0/648350/95/96716150 6335/100/9464A/37513200 28Allan Marshall1185/735355/85/95716917 Massachusetts2359/85/9657/58315485 Unknown3161/845308/90/8691713795133 4358/95/9878/66716535 50/0356/80/9479478 6360/100/100011/2/95819580 29Terry Ferentinos1205/663357/70/92815917 Florida2359/55/9008/66715666 Unknown3180/756347/90/9541709794561 4358/75/94312/100019433 5184/739356/100/99117304 6229/0/4985/4169144 30James Truitt1242/562356/50/88314446 Texas2356/70/9261 0%/8961821 9 Original321 2/642350/0/7641405790864 4233/95/7157A/62513395 5202/673278/75/76714406 6351/75/9268%/70816340 horn went off looked like 11-second run making wasnt high-G turn caused left wing fold went about 60 degrees dihedral Gill backed off nursed bird back through course respectable 166 819 points crowd loved Jack Hiner time decided play close vest just cruise speed course preserve third-place slot got too cautious after low upwind turn Jack stretch flight Aquila Grande what seemed like endurance run 212 seconds allowed fourth-place Herb Smith Colorado close gap time duration task ended certain Work Koplan first second places locked up Only third place con test sixth round flown Hiners slim nine-point hold third going bait least three people later proved four pursuit Round Six scheduled flights made faster scores could posted No seemed look far enough down roster see seventh-place guy name Skip Miller doing Wasnt way went Denver two years ago Hiner managed 10 laps distance Smith got six quarter Meanwhile Skip got 12 Smith got 356/1 00 duration paper Jack needed amax no land82 Model Aviation RC SOARING TEAM FINALS RESULTS SpeedDurationDistance Round Total P1 Name/State/Model Rd Secs/PtsTime/Land/Pts Laps/Pts PointsPoints 31Austin Leftwich1175/777191/95/62213989 Virginia2358/85/9635A/43814005 Unknown3167/814179/0/3911205290835 4246/70/6887%/64613342 5153/888306/95/87117606 6353/100/98412/100019840 32Bob Gerbin10/0230/95/7067065 California2356/95/98010/83318137 Paragon3160/850358/90/9781828289423 4356/95/98312/100019825 5205/663354/100/98616503 6342/100/9610/09610 33Fred Gregg10/0355/95/9789783 Virginia2346/55/8729/75018217 Viking MI321 4/636298/0/6511286186197 4356/75/9399A/81317514 5201/676355/50/88015570 63 56/55/8934/33312260 34Rick Norwood1193/705357/0/77614807 California20/0/09%/8138125 Javelin II3185/735165/95/5681302885340 4346/95/9618/66716274 5183/743360/85/96717105 6291/100/8509/75016000 35James Davis1235/579295/90/83714157 Alabama2358/80/9528/66716188 Legionair3227/599350/85/9501548882004 4358/0/7809/75015299 5212/641360/75/94515871 60/0/06/5005000 36Carrol Moffatt1193/705356/0/77414786 Texas2360/85/96710/83318007 Aquila3168/810347/0/7581567181103 4192/85/6037/58311868 5258/5270/0/05271 6288/80/8009/7 5015500 37William Leathers1206/660358/100/99616558 North Carolina2207/100/66711/91715840 Legionair3196/6940/0/0693868063 4355/95/98011/4/97919595 5325/95/9139130 38Art Sark1209/650311/85/86115116 Florida2354/85/9989/75017043 Paragon3208/654201 /0/4391092762831 4195/90/6215/41710375 5351/80/9369360 39Ed Berton1190/716351 /95/97016853 Florida2358/100/9954/4/3541349837561 Unknown3330/0/7217210 40Stan Pfost1181/751359/90/97617275 Florida2214/70/6176/5001117336417 Paragon3270/95/7977969 ing some combination total 350 points raw Jack got 360190 thats everyone started handshakes Meanwhile Miller getting 358/100 won Round Six also trip Belgium As sun setting scorer noticed Miller taken third less two points thought score tight Rae Fritz called score recount top 10 Thats Miller/Miller scores straightened out results finalized Sidelights site contest Navy Auxiiary Landing Fielda mile square grass best flying fields youll ever see Pensacola club has using 21 years Rae Fritz retired Navy Chief just pleased out come Steve Work AD4 Navy man sta tioned San Diego special thanks Clint Bobe Rick Herrmann did outstand ing jobs tabulating keeping scores posted Works Bird Time Dave Thornburgs design same design Dave used two years ago Denver miss team two points Bird has kitted limited run Steve second achieve LSF Level V mark earned three years ago final note doubt contest finest caliber fliers ever assembled contest well run competitively clean very well flown Besides excellent duration/landing scores speed run out 120 crossed center line azero score Strategies subtle yet bold sake preserving secrets some tactics wont revealed herenot until next summer anyway few unintentional incidents could have provoked protests Instead heads turned challenges made air rule book Thirtysix 40 contestants still final round Work Koplan Miller know earned way Belgium Next July will represent name USA Soaring Lets support January 1979 83 Above Craig Foxgord holding original de sign sailplane Rick Norwoodboth California Foxgord 11th Below Art Sark CL Stan Pfost walk flight line Pfost president NSS Above Discussing what might have Dale Nutter LeMon Payne Bad luck early rounds kept repeating team members both giving final rounds Below Judge Jim Davis winch hauler chose appropriate ly named brand wed have say CL COMBAT TEAM COMMIHEE ANNOUNCED committee responsible dev s ng obtaining approval carrying out pro gram selecting US 1980 Control Line Combat World Championships Team known Combat Team Selection Committee consists representative 11 AMA districts follows Steve Sacco District 478 Main St Norwell MA 02061 Bill Bird II 123 Beechwood Rd Florham Park NJ 07432 Charles Rudner III 3530 Radcliffe Rd Cleveland Hgts OH 44121 Bill Harris IV 11004 Harding Rd Laurel MD 20810 W M Henry V 629 Elysian Fields Nash ville TN 37211 Gary Frost VI 22 Glynn Dr Florissant MO 63031 Paul Smith VII Chairman 323 N Walnut Apt 904 Lansing Ml 48933 George Cleveland VIII 36 Antiqua Kenner LA 70062 Dave Jones IX 666 N Volutsia Wichita KS 67214 Charlie Johnson X 3716 Ingraham St San Diego CA 92109 Chuck Thomas Xl 7711 Easy St Everett WA 98203 Members committee generally recruited Miniature Aircraft Combat Association MACA endorsed respective AMA vice-presidents final step installation committee confirmation members previous program participants obtained mail ballot October POSSIBLE CHANGES TO CB PROCEDURES written AMA Executive Council together Contest Board chairmen CB coordinator process voting mail three proposals revise Contest Board Procedures recent printing document April 1978 issue page 74 Likely re sults vote will printed next month Preceding vote proposals dis tributed Contest Board members re view comment such comments mailed would vote propo sals follows Three-Year Rules Cycle proposal submitted Control Line Racing Advi sory Committee J E Klause chairman change present two-year rules cycle three-year rules cycle three-year cy cle intended increase stability rules also provide years period testing newly enacted rules before commence ment next time period accepting rules-change proposals Proposers Experience proposal also CL Racing Advisory Committee add spaces rules-change propo sal form proposer show number years experience catego ries Indoor FF CL Scale RC show number times proposer has flown and/or directed events past two years Further proposal calls adding fol lowing statement adjacent CD endorse ment space especially important CDs thoroughly analyze implications proposal prior endorsing it' said inclusion information form will help Contest Boards evaluating various proposals before Provisional Supplemental Rule Events Nets Gail E Jacobson College Park GA proposes revise CB Procedures also rule book allow events Provisional Supplemental rules flown National Contest Further proposal provides automatic upgrade Provisional Official events held Nats according such rules notes Provisional Supplemental rules events have held Nats despite pro hibition CB Procedures rule book revisions proposes will legalize present practice Age Class Determination falls under sole jurisdiction Executive Council Contest Board mat ter Council presently considering proposal Joe L Norcross Clovis CA change date age determination clas sification purposes Junior Senior Open July 1 year January 1 year states using present July 1 date results confusion AMA member applicants well officials accept AMA applications fees contests Using January 1 determination date will reduce confusion believes INDOOR WORLD CHAMPS Report Jim Richmond US Team Member 1st Place modelers life little com pare thrill winning World Cham pionship personal standpoint achievement significant cause 10th anniversary 1968 win Rome felt come through time ever going spite short notice British SMAE did usual fine job organizing run ning Championships hat off effort made behalf also outstanding performance result ing first team win UK expedition began panic made mad dash catch charter flight seemed continue varying levels crises excitement until very last day Hot Rod Hulbert made itto Gatwick just time us catch return flight home Just drive through London left side street enough excitement rest hard-working manager Ray Harlan held up very well through did fine job looking after interests addition T-shirts jackets decals travel arrange ments super carrying box get planes processing still found time build optical wingspan checker used precision checking questionable wings during competition also went bat us regarding questionable new un limited steering rule able get jury outlaw sharks tooth hook some installed fronts planes purpose balloon towing plane new location believe ruling avoided controversy could have impaired good spirit competition As turned out British team demon strated outstanding steering capability wit out tooth credit won competition conducted under much better flying conditions endured 1976 weather staying fairly constant mild throughout morning air cool heavy until about 100 PM after flying conditions good rest day US team able get end flying period extended 600 700 PM first day competition provided enough time fly good air Unfor tunately flying stop 600 PM second day because banquet being held evening caused some such self either fly bad morning air lose flights Since already posted good flights previous day afternoon time good air given teammates hopes im proving positions Bud Romak de fending champion fortunate being able fly whenever chose manager Erv Rodemsky put forth tremendous effort came very close capturing second victory third flight 4253 tipped scales Just slight amount bad luck point would have washed out view team flying schedule re quired last day expected see some new innova tions Championships planes pretty much same before Swiss getting some impressive times long Archaeopterix planes Chiub ny Czechoslovakia showed up un usual arc-shaped cabane ship Someone pointed out top four places built planes underweight used ballast make 1 gram Goes show light construction still important Although would have liked bring home Team Championship once again felt second place good showing considering first World Cham pionships other members team British pretty emphatic about holding next Indoor Championships else although great sheds Card ington magnificent site event cant blame wanting someone share burden once Personally Im looking forward return Cardington some day air right flying really great INDOOR WORLD CHAMPS Report Bill Hulbert US Team Member 16th Place participation US Indoor Team certainly culmination years model flyingdating back 1940 Indoor flying has very fascinating particular FAI use Goodyear Air Dock has un doubtedly contributed success other factor Midwest have high ceilings available develop 84 Model Aviation kind flying such Lakehurst Santa Ana opinion Goodyear hangar certainly finest facility available world time After making team last fall spent winter months building preparation fly ing salt mines Romania ie stiff motor sticks reverse flair props etc location changed new building pro gram started six completely tested ships two extra wings 40-mm flight plus number 37s 38s convinced ready new Pirelli rubber looked good abandoned rubber used Team Trials Kennedy Airport set tone whole trip made arrangements special handling two model boxes Cleveland hour half layover Kennedy vanished completely because ramp bag gage problems ended up actually running catch Laker flight just made Fortunately models went through excellent shape Only some minor holes required minimum patching return wings almost totally demolished Glad other way arrived Gatwick early AM very little sleep spent whole day trying arrange transportation getting County Hotel Bedford another whole story arrived couple days before contest stayed couple days afterwards Jean wife spent interesting hours sightseeing England fascinating country much heritage side Saturday test day arrived first glimpse inside Cardington ex cept Richmond Romak before air shed quite different Goodyears sides rising almost straight up yet narrowing very limited space between two top catwalks absolutely necessary fly above catwalks achieve maximum time however side drift often problem ballooning expertise often required Controversy over steering will undoubtedly lead new rules proposals weather generally good during event Sunday being superb day Test day saw flights feeling out air shed motor size propellers What seemed best too different INDOOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS RESULTS PL Name Country1st2nd3rd4th5th6th 1 James Richmond USA 2 Bud Romak reigning W/Champ 3Ron HiggsCanada 4Dieter SiebenmannSwitzerland 5Laurie BarrUK 6Shigeyoshi NonakaJapan 7Jack McGillivrayCanada 8Eduard CiapalaPoland 9RonGreenUK 10Rene ButtiSwitzerland 11Deryl MorleyUK 12Cornelius WoithomNetherlands 13Vilim KmochYugoslavia 14Kurt ViglerW Germany 15Yasutoshi BanbaJapan 16William HulbertUSA 17Eduard ChlubnyCSSR 18Jan DihmPoland 19Takaji MatsuzawaJapan 20Karol RybeckyCSSR 21Harro ErofejeffFinland 22Carlo CotugnoItaly 23 Ryszard Czechowski Poland 24 Ferdinando Migani 25 Leopold Gabrijel 26 Swn-Olav Linden 27 Jiri Kalina 28 Michael Thomas 29 Klaus Nottelmann 30 Daniel Domina 31 Willem Beekmeyer 32 Harri Raullo 33 Germano Masciullo 34 Teodor Strazberger 35 Sven Pontan 36 Werner Wetzel 37 Milan Sitar 38 Timo Forss 39 Edmund Liem 40 Anders Jonsson Italy Yugoslavia Sweden CSSR Canada W Germany USA Netherlands Finland Italy Yugoslavia Sweden W Germany Australia Finland Netherlands Sweden 4149 4055 3516 1305 1103 2833 3545 3443 0640 3437 3045 3120 3038 0838 3433 3439 3331 3258 0014 3223 3032 3415 3106 2701 2607 1618 1148 0643 0518 2314 2811 1555 1624 2215 1624 1429 2141 1736 0047 1324 TEAM RESULTS 1 United Kingdom 2 USA 3 Canada 4 Japan 5 Poland 6 Czechoslovakia 21827 21425 - 21212 21038 20521 19711 3652 4027 3944 3032 3723 3305 3720 3815 2928 2852 3257 3620 3340 3012 3537 2628 3540 3055 3540 1039 2940 0800 2759 0148 3328 2400 2947 2632 1922 1129 2644 2352 2303 0042 1539 2648 2426 2047 1907 1908 4253 1343 0918 3723 2454 4036 1139 3344 3717 3806 3458 3705 3429 Disq 2348 3417 Disq 0906 3303 3059 3347 3313 1618 3254 3003 3115 3207 3033 3037 2922 2408 3127 2731 2510 2739 2232 2542 1840 3116 2858 3057 0824 1513 2711 2542 1259 2238 243 1 3100 3302 2409 2938 2501 3310 2252 3144 3117 2934 3225 2947 1942 2859 3117 2050 3140 2712 2843 1400 1913 2550 2656 2304 2504 2328 0519 2705 2002 1456 3151 1437 3232 3634 1228 3619 3458 3918 2703 2541 1247 2631 3603 3023 3149 3222 0615 3009 3321 3010 1007 1152 0845 3134 3116 2415 1140 2551 2519 2818 2130 2247 2255 1627 2348 3322 3645 3730 0113 2555 3434 3406 1036 3323 3322 3501 2347 3438 2241 3049 1215 0020 2836 3140 2909 2941 2600 3129 2953 2709 0931 2316 2115 2528 0646 1936 7 Yugoslavia 8 Italy 9 West Germany 10 Netherlands 11 Finland 12 Sweden 13 Switzerland 14 Australia Best 2 8442 8122 7629 7453 7357 7341 7339 7313 7302 7154 7128 7121 7045 7032 7000 6917 6911 6715 6657 6544 6528 6514 6453 6453 6445 6428 6256 6244 6050 6026 5848 5631 5514 5443 5235 5216 5205 4937 4930 3748 18933 18521 183 38 17139 17136 15411 14607 5205 configurations used Goodyears hang ar 37-mm flight concluded busy flying day things looked good Unfortunately own flying activities such almost impossible spend time visiting other fliers ob serving models regret however Team Championship paramount everything else secondary flying same design flew Team Trials using 21 prop variable 32 pitch loop 17 x 054 new Pirelli rubber found necessary use heavier motor Monday because cooler conditions first official flight Sunday cal culated safe flight topped out just under top catwalk never trouble 34 39 flight Richmond Romak put up great flights obvious conditions improving first flight used 1940 turns se cond 2080 model climbed perfectly exactly centered within 5 top looked great however consternation did cruise down 25 mm am sure 38 39 mm possible ever loosened wire caused excessive wash-in left tip did explain after 12 15 flights Goodyear Cardington wing cant third flight made using different plane higher pitch prop enough power Monday significantly cooler put three flights top heavier motor resultant faster RPM Almost top flights made Sunday times attest quite disappointed felt could win lot ifs left behind Car dington British flew well should have won particularly outstanding effort Richmond clearly class field Romak flying individ ual since reigning World Cham pion following closely behind banquet fitting climax World Championships toasts much good cheer also provided oppor tunity socialize some unable meet during really strenuous flying conditions found out very quickly flying representative country certainly far different doing own thing dividual such trying make team discovered also team member others very graciously contributed materials other assistance expectation anything return except best effort am indebted Ray Harlan others help Finally am indebted AMA op portunity represent country COMBAT WC RESULTS mistake team results Combat World Championships reported Decem ber issue page 82 third round team results end contest follows 1st England 2nd West Ger Belgium France 5th USA Cana da Italy 8th Ireland Holland 10th Australia 11th Sweden 12th Mexico Brazil 14th Switzerland January 1979 85 1979 US Free Flight World Championships Team members L-R Nordic A-2 Bob lsaacson Lee Hines Jim Wilson Power Ijoug Ual breath Roger Simpson Carl Bogart Wakefield Rubber Walt Ghio Bob Piserchio Bob White Except Bogart California means strenuous process involving local Qualifications Regional Semi-Finals lots haggling over sites procedures last Finals aspirants positions USA teams have sifted sorted winnowed distilled until nine re main what teams have Taft CA site Finals se lect 1979 USA World Championships teams Wakefield Rubber A-2 Towline Glider FAI Power event held September 2-4 Chosen US team members following Wakefield Rubber Walt Ghio Stockton CA Bob Piserchio San Diego CA Bob White Los Angeles CA Nordic A-2 Bob lsaacson Los Angeles CA Jim Wilson Los Angeles CA Lee Hines Los Angeles CA FAI Power Carl Bogart Manassas VA Roger Simpson Sacramento CA Doug Gaibreath Davis CA protest lodged concerning A-2 results AMA President Clemens has accepted Jury recommendation results remain unchanged assump tion principle behind Jury deci sion applied consistently throughout event Some Finals recent years have disasters because poor weather poor local geography combination two Taft ideal siteperhaps best USand weather early September usually excellent rain unheard During first two days three-day meet weather mild side typical 97 degrees F mid-afternoon no strong winds Models seldom drifted over quarter mile Thermals regular mild no Taft trash-lifters between first two rounds Labor Day started drizzle remained between drizzle light rain rest day strangely neither modelers nor models seemed mind too much Ther mal activity decreased bit sort weather have home FAI competition flying done rounds contestant required make flight within specified time period maxis normally 3 minutes flights lasting longer 3 minutes scored 3 minutes Fuse clockwork devices rigged make models descend quickly after making max name game make maxes possible Model specificationsweight wing area etcare such severely limit performance Power model engine runs limited 7 se conds Wakefield rubber motors limited weight 16 oz example still air such thing best A-2 Nordic gliders can barely make 3-minute flights Power Wakefield models 4 minutes thermal activity doesnt mean much What goes up must come down thermals going up air between thermals coming down Find thermal dont max So thermal detection real game Methods include sensing changes 86 Model Aviation Left A qUalified welcome sign greeted Visitors Middle Willard Smitz team member 1975 1977 flew both Nordic Wakefield used mini-trail bike retrieval did others Right Frank Paulinwho made first flight Finals uses special transit track model Device gives compass bearing Wind strong enough make retrieval problem knew experience prepared air temperature speed direction eyes skin mylar streamers attached tops 20-ft poles bubble machines cat tail fluff thrown air air-tempera ture measuring instruments can react within second some equipped stripchart recorders best another model circling overhead World Champs survive seven regular rounds described above maxes go flyoffs maxes successive flyoff flights increase 1 -mm increments Flyoffs occur late day thermal activity has decreased isnt long before winner decided format Finals pick US teams made tough three days started flight before dawn 4minute max made within 15-minute time period intended simulate World Champs flyoff rounds followed day five rounds normal 3-minute maxes made within specified 1-hour bracket totals 18 flights altogether about enough check out technical psy chological factors affect persons poten tial winning World Champs An tougher program would better perhaps impractical Rounding up 30 36 timekeepers shortly after 6 am wasnt easy atfirst some ad justments made couldnt get through processing line fore starting gun worked itself out Power first round day half contestants launched within min ute after round opened Towline glider fliers started towing too very start round modern circle-tow techniques can tow almost indefinitely look ing suitable thermal activity before releas ing glider towline Needless say 33 guys running over place line crossings aplenty Fortunately vertually no wind during first rounds fliers could run off both direc tions starting line reduced problem bit January1979 87 Marc Nagasawa age 20 has flying Nor dics three years third Models trick towhooks own de sign Beautiful workmanship tidy equipment Nordic fliers line up receive towline winches timekeepers start round Tense moments Sick jokes unnecessary fussing hardware ease tension Bob lsaacson hooks up towline protected drizzle hand-held mobile tent Final scores Nordic close lsaacson topped field Left Bob Hatschek likes light tails short noses Aluminum-tube fuselage houses own version circle-zoom towhook invented Rwsians Right Jim Wilson got spot team using V-dihedral model meet C C 0 0 LI 0 p 1 aaaaamaaaaaoaamaOaoaaa-o O0O0JO0S00J0-- omOooaoOosoOOa a -3 2 m 00 ammamama 1 222 2222222222 000000000ca0O0 2 ammmaammama 22 C I- cm.aoma Oaaaaoaaaaa aO0O0M0c00O000OS0.c0O00S00O00O0Co 00M0s0 000OMO 000 oM0MMOJcQ~000000 000000000000 OOOMmMcc 0200000000000 . am aOOO aoa--c--M00000 ma 000O00aOaO00c000000~M 0400000 OaOOOQ MMWa0000 004 00MM ft OWo S 0 U w 0 o ow S cc P jo MM 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c 0 g ~2 o 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 out looked like wet noodle airplane Taft plastic tent stakes used anchor winding stooge broke winding model model demolished managed bend borrowed stooge too fortunately out fatal results once started stretch out motor winding torquemeter situated between geared winder motor disassembled itself torquemeter just little stronger waited break motor fully stretched would have meant third de stroyed model winners have hard luck Carl Bogart destroyed two new Power models practice posted two perfect scores meet using models year half old day before contest started Doug Gaibreath wiped out best models wore out two brand new engines bad fuel Bob Whites model stalled way ground flight out-of-kilter wing went unnoticed wouldnt tell story Chris Matsuno merely excellent free flighter superb modeler long-term record shows tell merely example what can happen frequently does happen competition among best best start twelfth round Chris tied first perfect score thermal model damaged repaired test flight would necessary ensure nothing out whack getting late Chris elected fly still air model slow climbing machine long motor run easily does over 4 minutes thermal-free air So didnt need thermals feltall needed neutral airno uppers no downers Chris launched soon evident air poor side neutral model landed minute short 3 minute max model dam aged taken time test flight thermal model chosen correct moment launch usual skill care might well have national hero instead also-ran Id writing hard-luck story about some other superb modeler Watching Chris fly lesson time-andmotion analysis isnt much wasted muscle twitch Everything hasa proper place goes back finish es winding winder goes its assigned spot winding stooge number turns gets written down little book toolbox lid toolbox gets closed Only does start looking suitable air launch model easy write hard-luck stories about guys almost made first place Its harder write about two maxed outWalt Ghio Wakefield Carl Bogart Powersimply because flew ordinarylooking models ordinary-looking way made maxing look easy Bogarts two models 11/2 years old two newer models became instantaneously worn out pre-contest practice Both simple slab-sided affairs No rakish pylonsor trick wingtips Almost Power models have sheet-covered wings automatic incidencechanging mechanisms stabilizer rudder quite few have gadget starts timer instant model re leased wont mention Carls models have things engines stock Ros sis mounted Oliver pans docile ther mal model sports 9% Cherney airfoil 27% stabilizer having thickness ratio 75% four-minute model features 71A% wing thickness 21% stab 5% thick has vari able rib spacingclosely spaced center widely spaced toward tips Nothing unusual about models except perhaps ability make 18 straight maxes Walt Ghios new RL-1 Wakefield model considerably stretched compared ear lier Flux Span flat increased 59 66 fuselage length 48 52 motor tube 18 24 earlier rather popular chem-milled aluminum alloy motor tube has abandoned partially because Walt never totally happy partly because good ones no longer readily avail able partly because has developed motor tube likes much better con sists inner layer epoxy-impregnated DuPont Kevlar cloth layer 1/16 balsa grain running fore-and-aft outer layer thin epoxy-impregnated fiber glass sticking together done epoxy Both models feature highly cam bered Gard-7510 airfoil two turbulators newer has double-tapered planform totally covered 1/32 sheet Most modelers nowadays wind mo tors prop disconnected blastproof aluminum tube stuffed fuselage Quite ritual involved getting rubber wound model assembled ready flight Walt has tried thatincluding winding prop hub attached rubber motor prop blades removed has reverted old-fashioned system winding protective tube inserted fuselage prop attached motor small detachable shield pro tects prop shield turns out too small has plenty identical prop blades fuselage itself blast-proof January1979 89 Above Chris Matsunos pro-flight procedures classic time-and-motion analysisnot wasted motion Includes stretching rubber motor near limit holding 30 sec stretching again winding Below Carl Hermes flew same models used represented US 1963 World Champs Theyre still good shape flew well Right George Xenakis relies heavily recording air-temperature indi cator tell thermals coming ises cat-tail fluff thrown air too Bubble machines also used mark thermals Above Walt Ghio made perfect score Wakenot easy 18 flights Bill Bogart LI holds US record max flights made during day Left Bob White heaves model thermalalmost lost out Carrol Allen cocked wing caused model stall made team anyhow fourth time Whites Vol Libre twin-fin Wake MA plan No 194 Walt demonstrated few times Getting broken half motor out fuselage facilitated having remov able tailboom held place aluminumtube rear motor peg Tailbooms both models simple square-on-edge tapered boxes Sides 1/16 balsa top bottom longerons 3/32square spruce side long erons 3/32-square balsa Nothing un usual about models except perhaps ability make 18 straight maxes cliff-hangers right through last flight start last round 26 seconds separated Gaibreath Kerr Power Gaibreath would need 148 seconds win Kerr maxed Kerr flew first made 180-sec max Galbreath went up air wasnt especially good quite awhile wasnt certain would make watch indicated 148 sec cheers went up group supporters led Crew Chief Head Cheerleader Ken Oliver model landed short max 12 sec onds later administrative aspects Finals superb Opinions concerning site selec tion competition format eligibility par ticipants other such sticky matters got sorted out committee charged getting done voted par ticipants accordance basic system formulated Hardy Brodersen some four years ago Finals participants well formed what going well advance meet predictable processing contestants obtaining sufficient num ber timekeepers would hassle especial ly early-morning rounds deed hassle sensible adjustments made smoothed out fuss Southern California Aero Team SCAT responsible Finals made go made happen deserve thanks admiration bit much made team few hard-working bunch Andy Faykun Finals Administrator Bill Har till Contest Director Joe Norcross Chief Timekeeper Ross Steckel Nordic F 1 Event Director lrv Aker Wakefield FiB Event Di rector Craig Cusick Power FiC Event Di rector Rol Anderson preceded Bob Stalick George Xenakis FAI Committee Chair manplus committee members too numer ous mention Youngest Power flier Bruce Hannah takes break money until adjusting screw came loose thirteenth round Dick Lyons checks out Power model tween flights maxed last nine flights finished sixth place Carl Bogart Power post perfect scoreand the three teams outside California Simple clean models used stock Rossis Tail Bob Mattes model displays usual array gadgetry optimize trim climb transition glide Dave Rounsaville 75 team member changes plug Excelsior newest long line Engine specialist Doc Anderson 1 Dick Swenson ctr help Rol Anderson check out model before dawn first days flying Rol chairman FF Team Selection Comm Tom McLaughlan flew until bitter end helped Jerry Wagner despite cracking shoulder tripped over tent rope darkness Below Roger Simpson second Power Below Doug Joyce seriously lacerated aHis latest wing uses double spars diagon thumb 1st round fiberglass prop butal ribs between covering balsa flew canard 18 flights anyhowfiberglass Cured flutter thin wings