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NE WSLETTE ACADEMY OF MODEL AERONAUTICS 815 FlFTEENTH STREET NW WASHINGTON DC 20005 RC AEROBATICS TEAM PROGRAM As mid-November 64 registered intent try qualify Masters Tournament team selection finals paid $10 program entry fee num ber 42 have qualified placing top one-third Master class event least five fliers AMA sanctioned meet Mem bers 1977 US RC Aerobatics Team automatically qualified having paid program entry fee Dave Brown Cincinnati OH Rhett Miller Ill Tallahassee FL Mark Radcliff Newport OH 42 have qualified press time follows although some thc 19 others may also qualify December 31 dead line Wayne Abernathy Hillside MD Donald L Atwood Denvez CO Roderick W Barnes Zanesville OH Sal Battaglia New Rochelle NY Andre Bauchard King Prussia PA Tony Bonetti Emerson NJ Joe Bridi Harbor City CA John Britt Hazelwood MOGeorge Buzel Jr Stamford CT Ron Chidgey Pen sacola FL Charles Danley Baytown TX Denis Donohue Bergenfield NJ Alan C Dupler Millersport OH Tony rackowiak Erie PA William M Furori Commack NY joseph G Gross Altus OK Steve Helms Pensacola FL George Hill An nandale VA Ed Izzo Holliston MA Fd Keck Webster NY Jim Kimbro Oceanside CA Dean Koger Wright-Patterson AFB OH Daniel E Kowallek Kokomo IN Fred Kugel Celina OH W R Lippincott Jr Boyce VA Don Lowe Dayton OH William Macek Bethlehem PA Thomas Moore Forestville MD Michael Mueller Rolling Meadows IL William Ney Wheeling WV Lloyd Nicholson Denver CO Jim Oddino Woodland Hills CA Roy Pinner Waterford Ml C W Reed III Raytown MO Donald Seals Paris IL Pat Shuttleworth Warren IN William E Thomas Bartlesville OK Biuce Underwood Guntersville AL DIRECTORY CONTEST COORDINATORS I Paul L Penney B Oarlotte Dr Andoser MA OlBtO II R Sobrino 87-26 88th St. Woodhanen Queens NY 11421 RC Bryan Sattler 29 Waldorf P1. Schenectady NY 12307 RC Fred Blackburn B Blue Spruce Ln. Commack NY 11725 Ill Ken Reber RD 1 Nazareth PA 18064 lEastI M Weisenbach 4568W 146th St. Cleseland OH 44135 IWessi IV Warren Sanders Jr. 9735 52nd Ane College Pk MD 20741 RC Ed Fitzwater 474 Tudor Or. Crownusille MD 21032 V NC Soaring Donna Dde 7409 Atwood Dr Huntsnille AL 35802 RC Charlene Fields 818 Main St. SW New Ellington SC 29809 FF Wallace Johnson 4112 White Acres Rd Montgomery AL 36106 VI Jim Thomerson 1317 EilewCollinssille IL 62234 RC Ralph White Jr RR 1 Son 324 Neoga IL 62447 VII John Enern 421 Walnut Las Apple Valley MN 55124 IWesti Wes Slack 12851 Payton Detroit MI 48224 lEasti VIII John Deaton 505 Connerce St. Port Worth TX 76102 RC Larry Snanfield 205 Quail Creek Dr Crowley TX 76036 IX Bill Bieda 411 Barker Building Osnelsa NE 68102 RC Tranis McGinnis 8027 W 81st Circle Arnada CO 80005 X Myrtle Coed Rn Boa 19 miner Lake CA 95457 INorthl Lee Polaneky 258 Iris Ate. Goleta CA 93017 ISouthi Prank Games 2241 Noah St Honolulu HI 96816 IHI meensi XI Don Dodd 3406 Bnltidere Ate. SW Seattle WA 98126 RC Don Miller 24715 Sa55mit-Landsburg Ranensdale WA 98051 RC Pylon & Souring RC Pattern other RC CL RC leocept Soaringi Bold Pace Below Indica-les Chairman Contest Board FREE FLIGHT CONTEST BOARD I Henry Struck RFO 2 Hamburg Old Lynre CT 06371 II Carrol Allen2 Arizona R Huntington Sta NY 11746 III Rudy Kluiber 2021 Lakeland Ate. Lakessood OH 44107 IV Joe Boyle Jr 219 Shenandoah Rd. Hampton VA 23361 V Bonny Jenkins 3112 E Raires Rd. Memphis TN 38115 VI Chris Mansuno 8S76 Ginger St John MO 83114 VII Phil Klintworth Jr. 715 Rutgers Rd. Rocinester Ml 48063 VIII Mark Valerius 2302 Pomeran Or. Houston TX 77055 IX Jerald Murphy 2432 Astron Dr Colorado Springs CO 80906 X Joe Norcross215 WSanta Ana No 211A Clonis CA 93612 XI Ernie Lint 16558- 121st Ace. SE RennonWA 98055 CONTROL LINE CONTEST BOARD I George Higgins P0 Ban 482 North Pembroke MA 02358 II Bill Boss 7706 269th St New Hyde Park NY 11040 III Laird Jackson 523 Meadombrook St Danids PA 19087 IV Ron McNally 6118 Bardo Ate Springfield VA 22152 V Dane Hemstruught PO Bon 171 Moecks Corner SC 29461 VI Bob Bsrch 5248W Scool Chicago IL 60641 VII James Snnon 4941 Wisconsin Ate. N New Hope MN 55428 VIII Charles Anasnon 3730 Kiestcnest Dallas TX 75233 IX Mictruel Tallman 3014 Eaclarge Wichita KS 67217 X Pete Brandn 315 S Maria Ace. Redondo Beach CA 90277 XI Dan Rutherford 4705 237th R SE Boshell WA 98011 RADIO CONTROL CONTEST BOARD I Ed Izzo 483 Fiske St Holliston MA 01746 II Joe Friend 62 Joysan Terr. Freehold NJ 07728 Ill Date Brown 8534 Huddleston Cincinnati OH 45236 IV Fred M Gregg 12709 Rcfrwood St. Chester VA 23831 V J Oasis Jr 1813S Lakesnore Dr. Birmingham AL 35216 VI Bob Onderwond 4109 Concord Oaks Dr. SI Louis MO 63128 VII Peter Waters 31219 Kendall Linonia MI 48154 VIII Danid Hyde 2026 Scommass Ln Garland TX 75042 IX Loren Tregellas 3003S Eterett Wichita KS 87217 X Bill Northrop Jr. 621 W 19th St Costa Mesa CA 92627 XI Ralph Brooke 3431 5 194th Seattle WA 98188 SCALE CONTEST BOARD I Richard Sherman 408 Rite Rd Tewksbury MA 01876 II Robert Clemens 95 Shoretray Dr Rochester NY 14612 Ill Edward Wisser 1521 Suwmn St McKeesport PA 15130 IV Bob Karlsuon 2643 Marsh Rd Wilmington DE 19810 V Danid Platt 6540 NW 15th Ft Lauderdale FL 33313 VI Frank Bearty 2608 Pontoon Rd. Granite City IL 62040 VII Claude McCullough Boa 40 Montezuma IA 50171 VIII Johnny Casburn Son 8029 Ft Worth TX 76112 IX Dean Copeland 7817 Sewed St. Omaha NE 68114 X Frank Capat 251 Camino de las P10mw Encininas CA 92024 Xl Earle Moorhead 275S View P1 5 Salem OR 97302 CONTEST BOARD COORDINATOR Don Lindley 420 Tupelo Napertille IL 60540 James E Vanderwalker Clintonville WI David vonLinsowe Linden Ml David G Weitz Jr Henderson NV Ralph White Neoga IL early January finalists will voting hold RC Masters Team Selec tion Tournament among sites have offered World Championships US three-man team being picked planned South Africa probably September October 1979 PROPOSED CHANGES TO CB PROCEDURES NOT ACCEPTED Vot ng n ma ballot Execut ye Council Contest Board chairmen CB coordinator has resulted defeat four proposals reported last month page 84 Briefly proposals three-year rules review cycle requiring amount kind experience proposer shown rules proposal form allow ing Provisional Supplemental rules events held Nats done auto matic upgrade Official status changing date age class determination July 1 January 1 year Craft tissue Mark Westminster MD February 1979 81 Mark Arnold ths Shocer 4Ks kitJ holding set national AMA record 17 min utes 36 seconds FF BGasCat Ill Open August 131978 uses K&B 35 engine GloBee plug 84 RevUp prop Seelig multi-function timer KraftHayes engine mount wingspan increased 70 surfaces doublecovered Aristo NMPRA Championship Race Pylon Racings Tournament Cham pions National Miniature Pylon Racing Association organization made up Pylon Race fliers through out US Canada Mexico organization responsible pro motion betterment Pylon Rac ing Most rules governing events have come NMPRA NMPRA rotates race site year year must some place US weather nice end October year races held Florida year California year Texas back Florida year went Dallas TX October 21-22 weather great qualify race person has finish top 20% NMPRA district means lot hard work determination part qualify 49 entrants signed ready compete dead line came 600 pm October 20 During registration checks made AMA memberships FCC licenses planes safety checked es pecially devises linkage radio installa tion engine mounting control surfaces 82 Model Aviation start races NMPRA Championshipsplane No 1 position already out view No 2 just starting No3 waiting third drop flag Author says workers bent over backwards see flier got fair shake look goes time clock competitors fire up Pylon rules give 90 seconds starting adjusting engines getting position race begin Planes also measured weighed per rules Next came what 1 call hardest part planes judged appear ance Formula best looking planes take off first Following usual practice planes put four dif ferent groups championship award given best plane Out about 90 very beautiful airplanes plane judged best honor went again Ron Schorr tops Nats too Pole Cat planes checked judged pilots went back rooms ready full weekend racing Saturday 845 am first race got underway lot jock eying around lead come win Ron Schorr might considered favorite since won AMA Nats August just could get together what several flameouts BitI Preis early leader ran 0 form few short laps have go around pylons BitI Bill Williamson has going fast year ran few 0s form engine failure hard luck story Charlie Brunner came two planes close race Charlie overturned No 3 pylon know theres much left couple races later mid-air No 1 pylon backup plane made short contest Charlie Being competitor though Charlie will back Ill bet time issue reaches press Charlie probably will getting ready next year past have very few fliers Ohio Indiana Michi gan area have attended Cham pionship Races Well year after years preaching urging finally got some crowd attend [hey did pretty well first time out Art Arro finished 18th Rex Knepper 22nd Wayne Yeager 36th guys planning try qualify attend again 1979 Nearly days end John McDermott Bob Reuther lave Shadel tied first last heats Dave Shadels wing suddenly exploded No pylon thus ending bid lead Saturday evenings banquetwasserved ballroom headquarters motel very nice food very good area NMPRA V-Ps gave brief reports things going dis tricts guest speaker Mike Clark ex-Dallas Cowboy football player Mike son have interest model airplanes Mike spent two days out line official lap counter February 1 979 83 happy triowinner John McDermott center caller Dave Shadel left sponsor Jim Shin ohara pose after John took first 10 heats Plane Little Toni Supertigre power Engines putting out best callers ready launch racers go off after other about one-second intervalsas quickly astheflag can repeatedly dropped 1978 NMPRA CHAMPIONSHIP P1Name 1John McDermott 2Bob Reuther 3Gary Hover 4Ed Allen 5A Mike Atzei 6A Dave Shadel 7 Tom Castellano 8A Dennis OBrien 9A Clay/Barrett Team 10Bill Preis 11Doug Ruble 12A Bill Hager 13A Cliff Telford 14A Gale Helms 15Mike Helsel 16Charles Monnett 17A Pete Reed 18A Art Arro 19B Bill Williamson 208 Carl Simms 21B George Parks 228 Rex Knepper 23B Bob Wallace 248 David Donat 25B Steve Dentz 26 Tim Edwards 278 Rusty Van Baren 28B Gary Heithald 29B Rick Oliver 308 Gary McPike 31B Jerry Boyce 328 Leonard Ledson 33Greig Simpson 34Mark Harsu 35B Larry Barnes 36B Wayne Yeager 37Ron Schorr 38Jim Kimbro 39Dan Downing 40Fransicso Gonzalez 41Bob Brogdon 42Jeff Bertken 43Glen Sicoste 44Charlie Brunner 45Norm Johnson 46Gail Jacobson 47Omar Lopez 48Dan Kaylor 49Sergio Baamano ATie broken flyoff Airplane/Engine Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/ST LR1A/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/K&B Little Toni/ST Minnow/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/K&B Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/K&B Little Toni/ST Minnow/ST Pole Cat/ST Minnow/K&B Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Midget Mustang/ST Minnow/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Midget Mustang/ST Rickey Rat/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/K&B Little Toni/ST Midget Mustang/K&B Little Toni/ST El Bandido/K&B Minnow/K&B Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/ST Minnow/ST Pole Cat/ST Midget Mustang/K&B Minnow/ST Midget Mustang RACE RESULTS PtsBess Time 401132 391177 371184 361200 341176 341184 321173 311215 311188 311162 311191 291205 291235 291263 281220 271190 251250 251261 231185 231202 231230 231250 231269 221229 221270 211271 191206 191307 181254 181340 171186 171298 161255 151268 141283 141303 131377 121236 10 8 6 3 3 3 3 3 3 0 0 1305 1400 1247 1318 1320 1343 1345 1443 1546 BTie broken best time 84 Model Aviation top five L-R John McDermott 1st Bob Reuther 2nd Gary Hover 3rd Ed Allen 4th Mike Atzei 5th George Parks wife teamed up finish 21stnot bad considering quality competition George perhaps better known QM Left Pilots callers must work teams successful Note concentration faces race progress Right top 20 fliers NMPRA Championships came over US Canada Mexico Altogether 49 vieing top spot timer Mike said really enjoyed weekend NMPRA Races banquet Mike told training discipline goes fore big football game Its much same races won qualify NMPRA Cham pionships discipline sacri fices go being Pylon Racing champion Sunday saw another perfect day temperatures reached 90 degrees could have better day racing competitive some Championship races have lot planes lost fliers aiming same groove putting out super effort race somehow few mis haps best races con test between Tom Casteliano Clay-Barrett team planes actually touched paint under Toms wing slight mid-air no dam age otherwise Tom Casteliano won race after crowd specta tors stood up applauded seen fine example good close race John McDermott Bob Reuther remained tied until ninth round Bob got edged out close race Ed Allen dropping Bob point down John managed hang finished perfect score 10 rounds John also fast time forthis race 1132 Ties broken either flyoffs best time previous heats flyoff between Mike Atzei Dave Shadel fifth Mike won Dave failed start Dennis OBrien edged out Clay-Barrett team flyoff 8th 9th authorBill Hager man aged come out top three-way flyoff Cliff Telford Gale Helms 12th 13th 14th Pete Reed edged out Art Arro flyoff 17th 18th short pause final points computation came awards pre sentation NMPRA supplied awards silver wine coolers through fifth sil ver dishes 6th through 20th plus best finish fast timeKits sever al manufacturers Pylon Race field also awarded biggest sur prise cash accompanied trophies$30000 first $20000 second $15000 third fourth $10000 fifth $10000 fast time quite shock hadnt expecting prize money came anonymous donor think know donorthanks race has come long way since its inception 1973 racing im proving year Lets hope trend continues NMPRA growing ganization proper care promotion will continue reach new heights opinion Formula racers easiest best flying planes RC Try youll like closing comment lifted Ed Rankin Contest Directors AMA Nats NMPRA Cham pionships should experienced CDs also experienced Pylon fliers Ten-four Thanks Dallas RC Club Ed Rankin workers fine contest February 1979 85 Art Arro right authors son Rob Hager carrying Arts Little Toni back pits after flight Rob often caller fliers area speaks well abilities eventual winner John McDermottright makes some last-minute adjustmentshelped Len Ledson win permits no mistakes size Hanno Prettners winning Dalotel DM-165 vivid photo right held Hanno father Hans behind fuselage has 2500 sq wing area weighs 21 lbs uses 11 servos own design retracts Above Hanno checking glow plug two Webra 61s powering model Gears barely visible photo below link two en gines 20-11 prop two-to-one reduction Prettner designed own dutch engine quit other still would keep plane airborne Flew very slow stable consistent 45-50 mph attitudes Hannos first place year won him $15000 Dave Browns Zlin Z-50-L touching down smallest plane event 870 sq wing area won second place $7000 FIFTH TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS o0 / o L1 op I0 1~\ III LQ i- 0 / 0 0 8 00 aerobatic schedule flown 1978 T0C shown Aresti notation left graphic form familiar modelers right Below Judges recorders during qualifying flight Qualifying flights before five judges 10 judges being used finals Judges drawn both modeling fullicale fields including several nationalities Report Photos Dave Lane years Tournament Champi ons outstanding thanks no small part sponsors--Circus Circus Ho tel Casino Model Airplane News just five years have seen event evolve FAI RC Aerobatic Pat tern through progression com plicated maneuvers including special Scale event last year years sophisticated Aresti routine semi-scale 85% replicas full-scale aerobatic aircraft popular planes Zlin Z-50-L Zlin 526-AS Spinks Akromaster next Other air craft modeled Kraft Super Fli Laser 200 Stephens Acro Chipmunk Cap 20 L Cap 10 Cranfield A-i Hiper bipe Sportmaster 150 Skybolt Dalotel DM-165 Hanno Prettner won TOC fifth time total score 5061 points Dave Brown second 47215 Ivan Kristensen third 47125 Dean Koger fourth 4669 Wolfgang Matt fifth 4623 points Wolfgang flew four final rounds intermittent radio still finished 438 points off pace takes some kind concen tration February 1979 87 ---xx ED I \ Ivan Kristensen beautiful Cap 1Oa two-place aerobatic trainer elliptical surfaces smooth flying plane looked great air cop third place $5000 Right Wolfgang Matt Liechtenstein fifth caught explaining some finer points Zlin Z-50-L Matt radio problems week Zlins prototype Topp kits W Germany years pattern consisted following 20 maneuvers 1 One loop inside snaproll top ioop 2 Hammerhead turn-around maneu ver 3 Slow roll 4 One-half Cuban eight 1 out side snaprolls turn-around maneu ver 5 Square inside loop 6 Immelmann turn turn-around ma neuver 7 Inside snaproll 45-degree down line 8 Hammerhead 112 roll down line turn-around maneuver 9 Outside loop inverted flight 10 Wind correction maneuver turn around maneuver 11 Wind correction maneuver turn around maneuver 12 Four-point roll 13 1/2 reverse Cuban eight l/l snaprolls 45-degree upline turn around maneuver 14 Slow roll 45-degree upline 15 1-turn spin turn-around maneu ver 16 Eight-point roll 17 Hump turn-around turn-around maneuver 18 Rolling 360-degree turn circle 19 1/2 Cuban eight turn-around ma neuver 20 Verticalroll pattern fun watch joy judge competitors commended doing excellent job flying limited time practice TOC pilots learn new routine also design PL 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Hanno Prettner Dave Brown Ivan Kristensen Dean Koger Wolfgang Man Gunter Hoppe Steve Helms Richard Brand Phil Kraft Giichi Naruke Mark Radcliff Fred Kugel Jeff Tracy Don Lowe Bruno Giezendanner lsao Matsui Don Weitz Ron Chidgey Tony Bonetti Denis Donohue Benito Bertolani Harald Neckar Norm Cassella Ed Keck John Brink Ralph Brooke John Lockwood Joe Bridi Country Austria USA Canada USA Liechtenstein W Germany USA Rhodesia USA Japan USA USA Australia USA Switzerland Japan USA USA USA USA Italy W Germany USA USA So Africa USA USA USA 50610 47215 47125 46690 46230 22105 21935 21905 21900 21890 21750 21745 21725 21555 21190 21185 21160 21035 21035 20855 20390 19850 18455 17779 17645 17545 16735 15415 $15000 $7000 $5000 $4000 $3000 $2000 $1500 $1300 $1000 $900 $800 $700 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 Dalotel DM-165 Zlin Z-50 Cap 10 Laser 200 Zlin Z-50-L Cranfield A-i Spinks Akromaster Zlin Z-526 Super Fli Chipmunk Super Fli Spinks Akromaster Cap 20 L Zlin 526AS ZIin 50-L Zlin 50-L Spinks Akromaster Spinks Akromaster Super Fli Stephens Acro Zlin 526-AFS Zlin 50-L Skybolt Spinks Akromaster Stephens Acro Hiperbipe Sportmaster 150 Spinks Akromaster 88 Model Aviation Dean Koger 4th place very nice Laser 2001200 sq 12 lbs. alibalsa plywood construction fiberglass cowl Webra 91 reduction belt drive Laser 200 modified Stephens Acro Leo Loudenslager made modifications won World Championships Photo right shows bit Koger puts plane together big wing held place four 6-32 machine screws TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONSRESULTS/MODEL DATA PilotPoints PrizeAircraftEngine Webra 61 0S90 FSR Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 YS 12 Webra 91 Webra 91 Quadra Webra 91 Webra 91 0S90 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 OPS Webra 91 Webra 91 0S90 Webra 91 Quadra Webra 91 0S90 build new aircraft competition Most aircraft between 800 1200 square inches wing area Hanno Prettners Dalotel 2500 square inches 9-foot wingspan weighed 21 pounds maximum weight allowed 22 pounds Hanno used two Webra 6 ls clutches driving two-to-one reduction-geared center shaft 20-1 1 prop Hannos aircraft flew between 40 50 mph attitude rudder elevator two servos servo aileron servo landing gear throttle servo servo mixture control Thats 11 servos Dave Brown flew own design Zlin Z-50-L smallest ship 870 square inches Daves airplane all-balsa foam wing tail cores drawback Zlin Z-50-Ls color scheme silver red trim silver really disappears overcast sky background during fi nals sky clear silver hard see Daves Zlin fastest ships meet Ivan Kristensen flew Cap 10 two-place side-by-side aerobatic trainer competition aircraft Ivans bird flew very nice looked very good air its elliptical wing planform Cap 10 built-up construction similar full-scale aircraft Dean Kogers Laser 200 typical designs has flying FAI Pattern has built-up fuselage tail group foam wing cores Dean really advantage contest has flying 1000 square inch pattern bird last three years familiar flying characteristics large model Wolfgang Matts bird Zlin Z-50-L prototype Topp kit fuse lage fiberglass foam wing tail cores wing 950 square inches Wolfgang built Laser 200 contest lost third flight cause faulty battery pack also scratch-built Zlin Z-50-L lost first flight because radio February 1979 89 Left Gunter 1-loppe Cranfield A-i British design aero batics fixed gear Looks bit like P-51 belly radiator Uses epoxy/glass fuselage foam wing tail Above Top scale points special award went Denis Donohue modified Stephens Acro Like used Webra 91 engine Ralph Brookes Hiperbipe Has Quadra engine all-balsa open structure covered Monokote Richard Brand Rhodesia two entered Zlin 526s Webra 91 power Giichi Narukes all-balsa dope Chipmunk powered new VS 120 engine produced Japan Left Fuselage Jeff Tracys Quadra-powered Cap 20 L Note stub spars wing panels slip overheld place machine screws through bottom wing leading edge Right lsao Matsui waiting turn Zlin Z-50-L all-balsa finished dopelooks like glass Left Ron Chidgey flew Spinks Akromaster designed Ed Keck original demonstrated 1977 TOC Right Bruno Giezendanner taxiing out takeoff like Matt flew prototype Topp kit Zlin Z-50-L has 950 sq wing area Above The crash caused mal functioning radio John Brinks Stephens Ac ro stalled about six feet above ground broke half impact doesnt look bad picture probably total washout Fortunately John backup low Clown pilot Gunter Hoppes Cranfield A-i especially appropriate event problems wasnt Wolfgangs year exactly though still finished fifth seemed everyone ex ception two contestants crashed before contest fli ers using either back-up ships borrowed airplanes Tony Bonetti flying very nice Pitts 5-1 until crashed couple weeks before contest Phil Kraft loaned Tony back-up Super Fli competiton Thats sportsmanship judging panel year included seven modelers five full-scale aero batic pilots and/or judges full-scale judges Art Scholl Chipmunk fame LaMar Stern Skybolt fame Jim Roberts Laser 200 pilot Gordon Price Canadian champion Gerry Zim merrnan top US aerobatic judge model judges Bill Johnson USA fifth time TOC Bob Upton USA fifth time TOC Warren Hitchcox Canada Canadian World Championship Team Geoff Franklin England judged 1977 World Championships Dennis Hunt Rhodesia Masahiro Kato Ja pan Dave Lane USA fifth time TOC judging very consistent throughout tournament fullscale judges commented fact wished full-scale judging could consistent model judg ing seems judges full-scale aerobatics meets leave something desired mentioned model ing judges TOC minimum 12 years judging experience apiece would glad judge full-scale aerobatics major difference judging Aresti pattern versus FAI pattern cannot take eyes off airplane during Aresti routine Everything plane does judged FAI worry about turn arounds can relax during time TOC judge assistant recorded scores maneuverthe same done full-scale aerobatics closing would like say judges opinion TOC Aresti schedule way FAI Pattern should go makes much inter esting event both fliers spectators believe would see spectators new pattern because aircraft remain front flier time also eliminates spot landing contest see much pattern flying present hope able judge next TOC can hardly wait see what sponsors will come up future top years event special thank appropriate Jerry Nelson Contest Director Doc Edwards Chief Judge gether sponsors made con test outstanding concerned 90 Model 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NE WSLETTE ACADEMY OF MODEL AERONAUTICS 815 FlFTEENTH STREET NW WASHINGTON DC 20005 RC AEROBATICS TEAM PROGRAM As mid-November 64 registered intent try qualify Masters Tournament team selection finals paid $10 program entry fee num ber 42 have qualified placing top one-third Master class event least five fliers AMA sanctioned meet Mem bers 1977 US RC Aerobatics Team automatically qualified having paid program entry fee Dave Brown Cincinnati OH Rhett Miller Ill Tallahassee FL Mark Radcliff Newport OH 42 have qualified press time follows although some thc 19 others may also qualify December 31 dead line Wayne Abernathy Hillside MD Donald L Atwood Denvez CO Roderick W Barnes Zanesville OH Sal Battaglia New Rochelle NY Andre Bauchard King Prussia PA Tony Bonetti Emerson NJ Joe Bridi Harbor City CA John Britt Hazelwood MOGeorge Buzel Jr Stamford CT Ron Chidgey Pen sacola FL Charles Danley Baytown TX Denis Donohue Bergenfield NJ Alan C Dupler Millersport OH Tony rackowiak Erie PA William M Furori Commack NY joseph G Gross Altus OK Steve Helms Pensacola FL George Hill An nandale VA Ed Izzo Holliston MA Fd Keck Webster NY Jim Kimbro Oceanside CA Dean Koger Wright-Patterson AFB OH Daniel E Kowallek Kokomo IN Fred Kugel Celina OH W R Lippincott Jr Boyce VA Don Lowe Dayton OH William Macek Bethlehem PA Thomas Moore Forestville MD Michael Mueller Rolling Meadows IL William Ney Wheeling WV Lloyd Nicholson Denver CO Jim Oddino Woodland Hills CA Roy Pinner Waterford Ml C W Reed III Raytown MO Donald Seals Paris IL Pat Shuttleworth Warren IN William E Thomas Bartlesville OK Biuce Underwood Guntersville AL DIRECTORY CONTEST COORDINATORS I Paul L Penney B Oarlotte Dr Andoser MA OlBtO II R Sobrino 87-26 88th St. Woodhanen Queens NY 11421 RC Bryan Sattler 29 Waldorf P1. Schenectady NY 12307 RC Fred Blackburn B Blue Spruce Ln. Commack NY 11725 Ill Ken Reber RD 1 Nazareth PA 18064 lEastI M Weisenbach 4568W 146th St. Cleseland OH 44135 IWessi IV Warren Sanders Jr. 9735 52nd Ane College Pk MD 20741 RC Ed Fitzwater 474 Tudor Or. Crownusille MD 21032 V NC Soaring Donna Dde 7409 Atwood Dr Huntsnille AL 35802 RC Charlene Fields 818 Main St. SW New Ellington SC 29809 FF Wallace Johnson 4112 White Acres Rd Montgomery AL 36106 VI Jim Thomerson 1317 EilewCollinssille IL 62234 RC Ralph White Jr RR 1 Son 324 Neoga IL 62447 VII John Enern 421 Walnut Las Apple Valley MN 55124 IWesti Wes Slack 12851 Payton Detroit MI 48224 lEasti VIII John Deaton 505 Connerce St. Port Worth TX 76102 RC Larry Snanfield 205 Quail Creek Dr Crowley TX 76036 IX Bill Bieda 411 Barker Building Osnelsa NE 68102 RC Tranis McGinnis 8027 W 81st Circle Arnada CO 80005 X Myrtle Coed Rn Boa 19 miner Lake CA 95457 INorthl Lee Polaneky 258 Iris Ate. Goleta CA 93017 ISouthi Prank Games 2241 Noah St Honolulu HI 96816 IHI meensi XI Don Dodd 3406 Bnltidere Ate. SW Seattle WA 98126 RC Don Miller 24715 Sa55mit-Landsburg Ranensdale WA 98051 RC Pylon & Souring RC Pattern other RC CL RC leocept Soaringi Bold Pace Below Indica-les Chairman Contest Board FREE FLIGHT CONTEST BOARD I Henry Struck RFO 2 Hamburg Old Lynre CT 06371 II Carrol Allen2 Arizona R Huntington Sta NY 11746 III Rudy Kluiber 2021 Lakeland Ate. Lakessood OH 44107 IV Joe Boyle Jr 219 Shenandoah Rd. Hampton VA 23361 V Bonny Jenkins 3112 E Raires Rd. Memphis TN 38115 VI Chris Mansuno 8S76 Ginger St John MO 83114 VII Phil Klintworth Jr. 715 Rutgers Rd. Rocinester Ml 48063 VIII Mark Valerius 2302 Pomeran Or. Houston TX 77055 IX Jerald Murphy 2432 Astron Dr Colorado Springs CO 80906 X Joe Norcross215 WSanta Ana No 211A Clonis CA 93612 XI Ernie Lint 16558- 121st Ace. SE RennonWA 98055 CONTROL LINE CONTEST BOARD I George Higgins P0 Ban 482 North Pembroke MA 02358 II Bill Boss 7706 269th St New Hyde Park NY 11040 III Laird Jackson 523 Meadombrook St Danids PA 19087 IV Ron McNally 6118 Bardo Ate Springfield VA 22152 V Dane Hemstruught PO Bon 171 Moecks Corner SC 29461 VI Bob Bsrch 5248W Scool Chicago IL 60641 VII James Snnon 4941 Wisconsin Ate. N New Hope MN 55428 VIII Charles Anasnon 3730 Kiestcnest Dallas TX 75233 IX Mictruel Tallman 3014 Eaclarge Wichita KS 67217 X Pete Brandn 315 S Maria Ace. Redondo Beach CA 90277 XI Dan Rutherford 4705 237th R SE Boshell WA 98011 RADIO CONTROL CONTEST BOARD I Ed Izzo 483 Fiske St Holliston MA 01746 II Joe Friend 62 Joysan Terr. Freehold NJ 07728 Ill Date Brown 8534 Huddleston Cincinnati OH 45236 IV Fred M Gregg 12709 Rcfrwood St. Chester VA 23831 V J Oasis Jr 1813S Lakesnore Dr. Birmingham AL 35216 VI Bob Onderwond 4109 Concord Oaks Dr. SI Louis MO 63128 VII Peter Waters 31219 Kendall Linonia MI 48154 VIII Danid Hyde 2026 Scommass Ln Garland TX 75042 IX Loren Tregellas 3003S Eterett Wichita KS 87217 X Bill Northrop Jr. 621 W 19th St Costa Mesa CA 92627 XI Ralph Brooke 3431 5 194th Seattle WA 98188 SCALE CONTEST BOARD I Richard Sherman 408 Rite Rd Tewksbury MA 01876 II Robert Clemens 95 Shoretray Dr Rochester NY 14612 Ill Edward Wisser 1521 Suwmn St McKeesport PA 15130 IV Bob Karlsuon 2643 Marsh Rd Wilmington DE 19810 V Danid Platt 6540 NW 15th Ft Lauderdale FL 33313 VI Frank Bearty 2608 Pontoon Rd. Granite City IL 62040 VII Claude McCullough Boa 40 Montezuma IA 50171 VIII Johnny Casburn Son 8029 Ft Worth TX 76112 IX Dean Copeland 7817 Sewed St. Omaha NE 68114 X Frank Capat 251 Camino de las P10mw Encininas CA 92024 Xl Earle Moorhead 275S View P1 5 Salem OR 97302 CONTEST BOARD COORDINATOR Don Lindley 420 Tupelo Napertille IL 60540 James E Vanderwalker Clintonville WI David vonLinsowe Linden Ml David G Weitz Jr Henderson NV Ralph White Neoga IL early January finalists will voting hold RC Masters Team Selec tion Tournament among sites have offered World Championships US three-man team being picked planned South Africa probably September October 1979 PROPOSED CHANGES TO CB PROCEDURES NOT ACCEPTED Vot ng n ma ballot Execut ye Council Contest Board chairmen CB coordinator has resulted defeat four proposals reported last month page 84 Briefly proposals three-year rules review cycle requiring amount kind experience proposer shown rules proposal form allow ing Provisional Supplemental rules events held Nats done auto matic upgrade Official status changing date age class determination July 1 January 1 year Craft tissue Mark Westminster MD February 1979 81 Mark Arnold ths Shocer 4Ks kitJ holding set national AMA record 17 min utes 36 seconds FF BGasCat Ill Open August 131978 uses K&B 35 engine GloBee plug 84 RevUp prop Seelig multi-function timer KraftHayes engine mount wingspan increased 70 surfaces doublecovered Aristo NMPRA Championship Race Pylon Racings Tournament Cham pions National Miniature Pylon Racing Association organization made up Pylon Race fliers through out US Canada Mexico organization responsible pro motion betterment Pylon Rac ing Most rules governing events have come NMPRA NMPRA rotates race site year year must some place US weather nice end October year races held Florida year California year Texas back Florida year went Dallas TX October 21-22 weather great qualify race person has finish top 20% NMPRA district means lot hard work determination part qualify 49 entrants signed ready compete dead line came 600 pm October 20 During registration checks made AMA memberships FCC licenses planes safety checked es pecially devises linkage radio installa tion engine mounting control surfaces 82 Model Aviation start races NMPRA Championshipsplane No 1 position already out view No 2 just starting No3 waiting third drop flag Author says workers bent over backwards see flier got fair shake look goes time clock competitors fire up Pylon rules give 90 seconds starting adjusting engines getting position race begin Planes also measured weighed per rules Next came what 1 call hardest part planes judged appear ance Formula best looking planes take off first Following usual practice planes put four dif ferent groups championship award given best plane Out about 90 very beautiful airplanes plane judged best honor went again Ron Schorr tops Nats too Pole Cat planes checked judged pilots went back rooms ready full weekend racing Saturday 845 am first race got underway lot jock eying around lead come win Ron Schorr might considered favorite since won AMA Nats August just could get together what several flameouts BitI Preis early leader ran 0 form few short laps have go around pylons BitI Bill Williamson has going fast year ran few 0s form engine failure hard luck story Charlie Brunner came two planes close race Charlie overturned No 3 pylon know theres much left couple races later mid-air No 1 pylon backup plane made short contest Charlie Being competitor though Charlie will back Ill bet time issue reaches press Charlie probably will getting ready next year past have very few fliers Ohio Indiana Michi gan area have attended Cham pionship Races Well year after years preaching urging finally got some crowd attend [hey did pretty well first time out Art Arro finished 18th Rex Knepper 22nd Wayne Yeager 36th guys planning try qualify attend again 1979 Nearly days end John McDermott Bob Reuther lave Shadel tied first last heats Dave Shadels wing suddenly exploded No pylon thus ending bid lead Saturday evenings banquetwasserved ballroom headquarters motel very nice food very good area NMPRA V-Ps gave brief reports things going dis tricts guest speaker Mike Clark ex-Dallas Cowboy football player Mike son have interest model airplanes Mike spent two days out line official lap counter February 1 979 83 happy triowinner John McDermott center caller Dave Shadel left sponsor Jim Shin ohara pose after John took first 10 heats Plane Little Toni Supertigre power Engines putting out best callers ready launch racers go off after other about one-second intervalsas quickly astheflag can repeatedly dropped 1978 NMPRA CHAMPIONSHIP P1Name 1John McDermott 2Bob Reuther 3Gary Hover 4Ed Allen 5A Mike Atzei 6A Dave Shadel 7 Tom Castellano 8A Dennis OBrien 9A Clay/Barrett Team 10Bill Preis 11Doug Ruble 12A Bill Hager 13A Cliff Telford 14A Gale Helms 15Mike Helsel 16Charles Monnett 17A Pete Reed 18A Art Arro 19B Bill Williamson 208 Carl Simms 21B George Parks 228 Rex Knepper 23B Bob Wallace 248 David Donat 25B Steve Dentz 26 Tim Edwards 278 Rusty Van Baren 28B Gary Heithald 29B Rick Oliver 308 Gary McPike 31B Jerry Boyce 328 Leonard Ledson 33Greig Simpson 34Mark Harsu 35B Larry Barnes 36B Wayne Yeager 37Ron Schorr 38Jim Kimbro 39Dan Downing 40Fransicso Gonzalez 41Bob Brogdon 42Jeff Bertken 43Glen Sicoste 44Charlie Brunner 45Norm Johnson 46Gail Jacobson 47Omar Lopez 48Dan Kaylor 49Sergio Baamano ATie broken flyoff Airplane/Engine Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/ST LR1A/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/K&B Little Toni/ST Minnow/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/K&B Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/K&B Little Toni/ST Minnow/ST Pole Cat/ST Minnow/K&B Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Midget Mustang/ST Minnow/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Midget Mustang/ST Rickey Rat/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/K&B Little Toni/ST Midget Mustang/K&B Little Toni/ST El Bandido/K&B Minnow/K&B Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/ST Minnow/ST Pole Cat/ST Midget Mustang/K&B Minnow/ST Midget Mustang RACE RESULTS PtsBess Time 401132 391177 371184 361200 341176 341184 321173 311215 311188 311162 311191 291205 291235 291263 281220 271190 251250 251261 231185 231202 231230 231250 231269 221229 221270 211271 191206 191307 181254 181340 171186 171298 161255 151268 141283 141303 131377 121236 10 8 6 3 3 3 3 3 3 0 0 1305 1400 1247 1318 1320 1343 1345 1443 1546 BTie broken best time 84 Model Aviation top five L-R John McDermott 1st Bob Reuther 2nd Gary Hover 3rd Ed Allen 4th Mike Atzei 5th George Parks wife teamed up finish 21stnot bad considering quality competition George perhaps better known QM Left Pilots callers must work teams successful Note concentration faces race progress Right top 20 fliers NMPRA Championships came over US Canada Mexico Altogether 49 vieing top spot timer Mike said really enjoyed weekend NMPRA Races banquet Mike told training discipline goes fore big football game Its much same races won qualify NMPRA Cham pionships discipline sacri fices go being Pylon Racing champion Sunday saw another perfect day temperatures reached 90 degrees could have better day racing competitive some Championship races have lot planes lost fliers aiming same groove putting out super effort race somehow few mis haps best races con test between Tom Casteliano Clay-Barrett team planes actually touched paint under Toms wing slight mid-air no dam age otherwise Tom Casteliano won race after crowd specta tors stood up applauded seen fine example good close race John McDermott Bob Reuther remained tied until ninth round Bob got edged out close race Ed Allen dropping Bob point down John managed hang finished perfect score 10 rounds John also fast time forthis race 1132 Ties broken either flyoffs best time previous heats flyoff between Mike Atzei Dave Shadel fifth Mike won Dave failed start Dennis OBrien edged out Clay-Barrett team flyoff 8th 9th authorBill Hager man aged come out top three-way flyoff Cliff Telford Gale Helms 12th 13th 14th Pete Reed edged out Art Arro flyoff 17th 18th short pause final points computation came awards pre sentation NMPRA supplied awards silver wine coolers through fifth sil ver dishes 6th through 20th plus best finish fast timeKits sever al manufacturers Pylon Race field also awarded biggest sur prise cash accompanied trophies$30000 first $20000 second $15000 third fourth $10000 fifth $10000 fast time quite shock hadnt expecting prize money came anonymous donor think know donorthanks race has come long way since its inception 1973 racing im proving year Lets hope trend continues NMPRA growing ganization proper care promotion will continue reach new heights opinion Formula racers easiest best flying planes RC Try youll like closing comment lifted Ed Rankin Contest Directors AMA Nats NMPRA Cham pionships should experienced CDs also experienced Pylon fliers Ten-four Thanks Dallas RC Club Ed Rankin workers fine contest February 1979 85 Art Arro right authors son Rob Hager carrying Arts Little Toni back pits after flight Rob often caller fliers area speaks well abilities eventual winner John McDermottright makes some last-minute adjustmentshelped Len Ledson win permits no mistakes size Hanno Prettners winning Dalotel DM-165 vivid photo right held Hanno father Hans behind fuselage has 2500 sq wing area weighs 21 lbs uses 11 servos own design retracts Above Hanno checking glow plug two Webra 61s powering model Gears barely visible photo below link two en gines 20-11 prop two-to-one reduction Prettner designed own dutch engine quit other still would keep plane airborne Flew very slow stable consistent 45-50 mph attitudes Hannos first place year won him $15000 Dave Browns Zlin Z-50-L touching down smallest plane event 870 sq wing area won second place $7000 FIFTH TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS o0 / o L1 op I0 1~\ III LQ i- 0 / 0 0 8 00 aerobatic schedule flown 1978 T0C shown Aresti notation left graphic form familiar modelers right Below Judges recorders during qualifying flight Qualifying flights before five judges 10 judges being used finals Judges drawn both modeling fullicale fields including several nationalities Report Photos Dave Lane years Tournament Champi ons outstanding thanks no small part sponsors--Circus Circus Ho tel Casino Model Airplane News just five years have seen event evolve FAI RC Aerobatic Pat tern through progression com plicated maneuvers including special Scale event last year years sophisticated Aresti routine semi-scale 85% replicas full-scale aerobatic aircraft popular planes Zlin Z-50-L Zlin 526-AS Spinks Akromaster next Other air craft modeled Kraft Super Fli Laser 200 Stephens Acro Chipmunk Cap 20 L Cap 10 Cranfield A-i Hiper bipe Sportmaster 150 Skybolt Dalotel DM-165 Hanno Prettner won TOC fifth time total score 5061 points Dave Brown second 47215 Ivan Kristensen third 47125 Dean Koger fourth 4669 Wolfgang Matt fifth 4623 points Wolfgang flew four final rounds intermittent radio still finished 438 points off pace takes some kind concen tration February 1979 87 ---xx ED I \ Ivan Kristensen beautiful Cap 1Oa two-place aerobatic trainer elliptical surfaces smooth flying plane looked great air cop third place $5000 Right Wolfgang Matt Liechtenstein fifth caught explaining some finer points Zlin Z-50-L Matt radio problems week Zlins prototype Topp kits W Germany years pattern consisted following 20 maneuvers 1 One loop inside snaproll top ioop 2 Hammerhead turn-around maneu ver 3 Slow roll 4 One-half Cuban eight 1 out side snaprolls turn-around maneu ver 5 Square inside loop 6 Immelmann turn turn-around ma neuver 7 Inside snaproll 45-degree down line 8 Hammerhead 112 roll down line turn-around maneuver 9 Outside loop inverted flight 10 Wind correction maneuver turn around maneuver 11 Wind correction maneuver turn around maneuver 12 Four-point roll 13 1/2 reverse Cuban eight l/l snaprolls 45-degree upline turn around maneuver 14 Slow roll 45-degree upline 15 1-turn spin turn-around maneu ver 16 Eight-point roll 17 Hump turn-around turn-around maneuver 18 Rolling 360-degree turn circle 19 1/2 Cuban eight turn-around ma neuver 20 Verticalroll pattern fun watch joy judge competitors commended doing excellent job flying limited time practice TOC pilots learn new routine also design PL 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Hanno Prettner Dave Brown Ivan Kristensen Dean Koger Wolfgang Man Gunter Hoppe Steve Helms Richard Brand Phil Kraft Giichi Naruke Mark Radcliff Fred Kugel Jeff Tracy Don Lowe Bruno Giezendanner lsao Matsui Don Weitz Ron Chidgey Tony Bonetti Denis Donohue Benito Bertolani Harald Neckar Norm Cassella Ed Keck John Brink Ralph Brooke John Lockwood Joe Bridi Country Austria USA Canada USA Liechtenstein W Germany USA Rhodesia USA Japan USA USA Australia USA Switzerland Japan USA USA USA USA Italy W Germany USA USA So Africa USA USA USA 50610 47215 47125 46690 46230 22105 21935 21905 21900 21890 21750 21745 21725 21555 21190 21185 21160 21035 21035 20855 20390 19850 18455 17779 17645 17545 16735 15415 $15000 $7000 $5000 $4000 $3000 $2000 $1500 $1300 $1000 $900 $800 $700 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 Dalotel DM-165 Zlin Z-50 Cap 10 Laser 200 Zlin Z-50-L Cranfield A-i Spinks Akromaster Zlin Z-526 Super Fli Chipmunk Super Fli Spinks Akromaster Cap 20 L Zlin 526AS ZIin 50-L Zlin 50-L Spinks Akromaster Spinks Akromaster Super Fli Stephens Acro Zlin 526-AFS Zlin 50-L Skybolt Spinks Akromaster Stephens Acro Hiperbipe Sportmaster 150 Spinks Akromaster 88 Model Aviation Dean Koger 4th place very nice Laser 2001200 sq 12 lbs. alibalsa plywood construction fiberglass cowl Webra 91 reduction belt drive Laser 200 modified Stephens Acro Leo Loudenslager made modifications won World Championships Photo right shows bit Koger puts plane together big wing held place four 6-32 machine screws TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONSRESULTS/MODEL DATA PilotPoints PrizeAircraftEngine Webra 61 0S90 FSR Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 YS 12 Webra 91 Webra 91 Quadra Webra 91 Webra 91 0S90 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 OPS Webra 91 Webra 91 0S90 Webra 91 Quadra Webra 91 0S90 build new aircraft competition Most aircraft between 800 1200 square inches wing area Hanno Prettners Dalotel 2500 square inches 9-foot wingspan weighed 21 pounds maximum weight allowed 22 pounds Hanno used two Webra 6 ls clutches driving two-to-one reduction-geared center shaft 20-1 1 prop Hannos aircraft flew between 40 50 mph attitude rudder elevator two servos servo aileron servo landing gear throttle servo servo mixture control Thats 11 servos Dave Brown flew own design Zlin Z-50-L smallest ship 870 square inches Daves airplane all-balsa foam wing tail cores drawback Zlin Z-50-Ls color scheme silver red trim silver really disappears overcast sky background during fi nals sky clear silver hard see Daves Zlin fastest ships meet Ivan Kristensen flew Cap 10 two-place side-by-side aerobatic trainer competition aircraft Ivans bird flew very nice looked very good air its elliptical wing planform Cap 10 built-up construction similar full-scale aircraft Dean Kogers Laser 200 typical designs has flying FAI Pattern has built-up fuselage tail group foam wing cores Dean really advantage contest has flying 1000 square inch pattern bird last three years familiar flying characteristics large model Wolfgang Matts bird Zlin Z-50-L prototype Topp kit fuse lage fiberglass foam wing tail cores wing 950 square inches Wolfgang built Laser 200 contest lost third flight cause faulty battery pack also scratch-built Zlin Z-50-L lost first flight because radio February 1979 89 Left Gunter 1-loppe Cranfield A-i British design aero batics fixed gear Looks bit like P-51 belly radiator Uses epoxy/glass fuselage foam wing tail Above Top scale points special award went Denis Donohue modified Stephens Acro Like used Webra 91 engine Ralph Brookes Hiperbipe Has Quadra engine all-balsa open structure covered Monokote Richard Brand Rhodesia two entered Zlin 526s Webra 91 power Giichi Narukes all-balsa dope Chipmunk powered new VS 120 engine produced Japan Left Fuselage Jeff Tracys Quadra-powered Cap 20 L Note stub spars wing panels slip overheld place machine screws through bottom wing leading edge Right lsao Matsui waiting turn Zlin Z-50-L all-balsa finished dopelooks like glass Left Ron Chidgey flew Spinks Akromaster designed Ed Keck original demonstrated 1977 TOC Right Bruno Giezendanner taxiing out takeoff like Matt flew prototype Topp kit Zlin Z-50-L has 950 sq wing area Above The crash caused mal functioning radio John Brinks Stephens Ac ro stalled about six feet above ground broke half impact doesnt look bad picture probably total washout Fortunately John backup low Clown pilot Gunter Hoppes Cranfield A-i especially appropriate event problems wasnt Wolfgangs year exactly though still finished fifth seemed everyone ex ception two contestants crashed before contest fli ers using either back-up ships borrowed airplanes Tony Bonetti flying very nice Pitts 5-1 until crashed couple weeks before contest Phil Kraft loaned Tony back-up Super Fli competiton Thats sportsmanship judging panel year included seven modelers five full-scale aero batic pilots and/or judges full-scale judges Art Scholl Chipmunk fame LaMar Stern Skybolt fame Jim Roberts Laser 200 pilot Gordon Price Canadian champion Gerry Zim merrnan top US aerobatic judge model judges Bill Johnson USA fifth time TOC Bob Upton USA fifth time TOC Warren Hitchcox Canada Canadian World Championship Team Geoff Franklin England judged 1977 World Championships Dennis Hunt Rhodesia Masahiro Kato Ja pan Dave Lane USA fifth time TOC judging very consistent throughout tournament fullscale judges commented fact wished full-scale judging could consistent model judg ing seems judges full-scale aerobatics meets leave something desired mentioned model ing judges TOC minimum 12 years judging experience apiece would glad judge full-scale aerobatics major difference judging Aresti pattern versus FAI pattern cannot take eyes off airplane during Aresti routine Everything plane does judged FAI worry about turn arounds can relax during time TOC judge assistant recorded scores maneuverthe same done full-scale aerobatics closing would like say judges opinion TOC Aresti schedule way FAI Pattern should go makes much inter esting event both fliers spectators believe would see spectators new pattern because aircraft remain front flier time also eliminates spot landing contest see much pattern flying present hope able judge next TOC can hardly wait see what sponsors will come up future top years event special thank appropriate Jerry Nelson Contest Director Doc Edwards Chief Judge gether sponsors made con test outstanding concerned 90 Model 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NE WSLETTE ACADEMY OF MODEL AERONAUTICS 815 FlFTEENTH STREET NW WASHINGTON DC 20005 RC AEROBATICS TEAM PROGRAM As mid-November 64 registered intent try qualify Masters Tournament team selection finals paid $10 program entry fee num ber 42 have qualified placing top one-third Master class event least five fliers AMA sanctioned meet Mem bers 1977 US RC Aerobatics Team automatically qualified having paid program entry fee Dave Brown Cincinnati OH Rhett Miller Ill Tallahassee FL Mark Radcliff Newport OH 42 have qualified press time follows although some thc 19 others may also qualify December 31 dead line Wayne Abernathy Hillside MD Donald L Atwood Denvez CO Roderick W Barnes Zanesville OH Sal Battaglia New Rochelle NY Andre Bauchard King Prussia PA Tony Bonetti Emerson NJ Joe Bridi Harbor City CA John Britt Hazelwood MOGeorge Buzel Jr Stamford CT Ron Chidgey Pen sacola FL Charles Danley Baytown TX Denis Donohue Bergenfield NJ Alan C Dupler Millersport OH Tony rackowiak Erie PA William M Furori Commack NY joseph G Gross Altus OK Steve Helms Pensacola FL George Hill An nandale VA Ed Izzo Holliston MA Fd Keck Webster NY Jim Kimbro Oceanside CA Dean Koger Wright-Patterson AFB OH Daniel E Kowallek Kokomo IN Fred Kugel Celina OH W R Lippincott Jr Boyce VA Don Lowe Dayton OH William Macek Bethlehem PA Thomas Moore Forestville MD Michael Mueller Rolling Meadows IL William Ney Wheeling WV Lloyd Nicholson Denver CO Jim Oddino Woodland Hills CA Roy Pinner Waterford Ml C W Reed III Raytown MO Donald Seals Paris IL Pat Shuttleworth Warren IN William E Thomas Bartlesville OK Biuce Underwood Guntersville AL DIRECTORY CONTEST COORDINATORS I Paul L Penney B Oarlotte Dr Andoser MA OlBtO II R Sobrino 87-26 88th St. Woodhanen Queens NY 11421 RC Bryan Sattler 29 Waldorf P1. Schenectady NY 12307 RC Fred Blackburn B Blue Spruce Ln. Commack NY 11725 Ill Ken Reber RD 1 Nazareth PA 18064 lEastI M Weisenbach 4568W 146th St. Cleseland OH 44135 IWessi IV Warren Sanders Jr. 9735 52nd Ane College Pk MD 20741 RC Ed Fitzwater 474 Tudor Or. Crownusille MD 21032 V NC Soaring Donna Dde 7409 Atwood Dr Huntsnille AL 35802 RC Charlene Fields 818 Main St. SW New Ellington SC 29809 FF Wallace Johnson 4112 White Acres Rd Montgomery AL 36106 VI Jim Thomerson 1317 EilewCollinssille IL 62234 RC Ralph White Jr RR 1 Son 324 Neoga IL 62447 VII John Enern 421 Walnut Las Apple Valley MN 55124 IWesti Wes Slack 12851 Payton Detroit MI 48224 lEasti VIII John Deaton 505 Connerce St. Port Worth TX 76102 RC Larry Snanfield 205 Quail Creek Dr Crowley TX 76036 IX Bill Bieda 411 Barker Building Osnelsa NE 68102 RC Tranis McGinnis 8027 W 81st Circle Arnada CO 80005 X Myrtle Coed Rn Boa 19 miner Lake CA 95457 INorthl Lee Polaneky 258 Iris Ate. Goleta CA 93017 ISouthi Prank Games 2241 Noah St Honolulu HI 96816 IHI meensi XI Don Dodd 3406 Bnltidere Ate. SW Seattle WA 98126 RC Don Miller 24715 Sa55mit-Landsburg Ranensdale WA 98051 RC Pylon & Souring RC Pattern other RC CL RC leocept Soaringi Bold Pace Below Indica-les Chairman Contest Board FREE FLIGHT CONTEST BOARD I Henry Struck RFO 2 Hamburg Old Lynre CT 06371 II Carrol Allen2 Arizona R Huntington Sta NY 11746 III Rudy Kluiber 2021 Lakeland Ate. Lakessood OH 44107 IV Joe Boyle Jr 219 Shenandoah Rd. Hampton VA 23361 V Bonny Jenkins 3112 E Raires Rd. Memphis TN 38115 VI Chris Mansuno 8S76 Ginger St John MO 83114 VII Phil Klintworth Jr. 715 Rutgers Rd. Rocinester Ml 48063 VIII Mark Valerius 2302 Pomeran Or. Houston TX 77055 IX Jerald Murphy 2432 Astron Dr Colorado Springs CO 80906 X Joe Norcross215 WSanta Ana No 211A Clonis CA 93612 XI Ernie Lint 16558- 121st Ace. SE RennonWA 98055 CONTROL LINE CONTEST BOARD I George Higgins P0 Ban 482 North Pembroke MA 02358 II Bill Boss 7706 269th St New Hyde Park NY 11040 III Laird Jackson 523 Meadombrook St Danids PA 19087 IV Ron McNally 6118 Bardo Ate Springfield VA 22152 V Dane Hemstruught PO Bon 171 Moecks Corner SC 29461 VI Bob Bsrch 5248W Scool Chicago IL 60641 VII James Snnon 4941 Wisconsin Ate. N New Hope MN 55428 VIII Charles Anasnon 3730 Kiestcnest Dallas TX 75233 IX Mictruel Tallman 3014 Eaclarge Wichita KS 67217 X Pete Brandn 315 S Maria Ace. Redondo Beach CA 90277 XI Dan Rutherford 4705 237th R SE Boshell WA 98011 RADIO CONTROL CONTEST BOARD I Ed Izzo 483 Fiske St Holliston MA 01746 II Joe Friend 62 Joysan Terr. Freehold NJ 07728 Ill Date Brown 8534 Huddleston Cincinnati OH 45236 IV Fred M Gregg 12709 Rcfrwood St. Chester VA 23831 V J Oasis Jr 1813S Lakesnore Dr. Birmingham AL 35216 VI Bob Onderwond 4109 Concord Oaks Dr. SI Louis MO 63128 VII Peter Waters 31219 Kendall Linonia MI 48154 VIII Danid Hyde 2026 Scommass Ln Garland TX 75042 IX Loren Tregellas 3003S Eterett Wichita KS 87217 X Bill Northrop Jr. 621 W 19th St Costa Mesa CA 92627 XI Ralph Brooke 3431 5 194th Seattle WA 98188 SCALE CONTEST BOARD I Richard Sherman 408 Rite Rd Tewksbury MA 01876 II Robert Clemens 95 Shoretray Dr Rochester NY 14612 Ill Edward Wisser 1521 Suwmn St McKeesport PA 15130 IV Bob Karlsuon 2643 Marsh Rd Wilmington DE 19810 V Danid Platt 6540 NW 15th Ft Lauderdale FL 33313 VI Frank Bearty 2608 Pontoon Rd. Granite City IL 62040 VII Claude McCullough Boa 40 Montezuma IA 50171 VIII Johnny Casburn Son 8029 Ft Worth TX 76112 IX Dean Copeland 7817 Sewed St. Omaha NE 68114 X Frank Capat 251 Camino de las P10mw Encininas CA 92024 Xl Earle Moorhead 275S View P1 5 Salem OR 97302 CONTEST BOARD COORDINATOR Don Lindley 420 Tupelo Napertille IL 60540 James E Vanderwalker Clintonville WI David vonLinsowe Linden Ml David G Weitz Jr Henderson NV Ralph White Neoga IL early January finalists will voting hold RC Masters Team Selec tion Tournament among sites have offered World Championships US three-man team being picked planned South Africa probably September October 1979 PROPOSED CHANGES TO CB PROCEDURES NOT ACCEPTED Vot ng n ma ballot Execut ye Council Contest Board chairmen CB coordinator has resulted defeat four proposals reported last month page 84 Briefly proposals three-year rules review cycle requiring amount kind experience proposer shown rules proposal form allow ing Provisional Supplemental rules events held Nats done auto matic upgrade Official status changing date age class determination July 1 January 1 year Craft tissue Mark Westminster MD February 1979 81 Mark Arnold ths Shocer 4Ks kitJ holding set national AMA record 17 min utes 36 seconds FF BGasCat Ill Open August 131978 uses K&B 35 engine GloBee plug 84 RevUp prop Seelig multi-function timer KraftHayes engine mount wingspan increased 70 surfaces doublecovered Aristo NMPRA Championship Race Pylon Racings Tournament Cham pions National Miniature Pylon Racing Association organization made up Pylon Race fliers through out US Canada Mexico organization responsible pro motion betterment Pylon Rac ing Most rules governing events have come NMPRA NMPRA rotates race site year year must some place US weather nice end October year races held Florida year California year Texas back Florida year went Dallas TX October 21-22 weather great qualify race person has finish top 20% NMPRA district means lot hard work determination part qualify 49 entrants signed ready compete dead line came 600 pm October 20 During registration checks made AMA memberships FCC licenses planes safety checked es pecially devises linkage radio installa tion engine mounting control surfaces 82 Model Aviation start races NMPRA Championshipsplane No 1 position already out view No 2 just starting No3 waiting third drop flag Author says workers bent over backwards see flier got fair shake look goes time clock competitors fire up Pylon rules give 90 seconds starting adjusting engines getting position race begin Planes also measured weighed per rules Next came what 1 call hardest part planes judged appear ance Formula best looking planes take off first Following usual practice planes put four dif ferent groups championship award given best plane Out about 90 very beautiful airplanes plane judged best honor went again Ron Schorr tops Nats too Pole Cat planes checked judged pilots went back rooms ready full weekend racing Saturday 845 am first race got underway lot jock eying around lead come win Ron Schorr might considered favorite since won AMA Nats August just could get together what several flameouts BitI Preis early leader ran 0 form few short laps have go around pylons BitI Bill Williamson has going fast year ran few 0s form engine failure hard luck story Charlie Brunner came two planes close race Charlie overturned No 3 pylon know theres much left couple races later mid-air No 1 pylon backup plane made short contest Charlie Being competitor though Charlie will back Ill bet time issue reaches press Charlie probably will getting ready next year past have very few fliers Ohio Indiana Michi gan area have attended Cham pionship Races Well year after years preaching urging finally got some crowd attend [hey did pretty well first time out Art Arro finished 18th Rex Knepper 22nd Wayne Yeager 36th guys planning try qualify attend again 1979 Nearly days end John McDermott Bob Reuther lave Shadel tied first last heats Dave Shadels wing suddenly exploded No pylon thus ending bid lead Saturday evenings banquetwasserved ballroom headquarters motel very nice food very good area NMPRA V-Ps gave brief reports things going dis tricts guest speaker Mike Clark ex-Dallas Cowboy football player Mike son have interest model airplanes Mike spent two days out line official lap counter February 1 979 83 happy triowinner John McDermott center caller Dave Shadel left sponsor Jim Shin ohara pose after John took first 10 heats Plane Little Toni Supertigre power Engines putting out best callers ready launch racers go off after other about one-second intervalsas quickly astheflag can repeatedly dropped 1978 NMPRA CHAMPIONSHIP P1Name 1John McDermott 2Bob Reuther 3Gary Hover 4Ed Allen 5A Mike Atzei 6A Dave Shadel 7 Tom Castellano 8A Dennis OBrien 9A Clay/Barrett Team 10Bill Preis 11Doug Ruble 12A Bill Hager 13A Cliff Telford 14A Gale Helms 15Mike Helsel 16Charles Monnett 17A Pete Reed 18A Art Arro 19B Bill Williamson 208 Carl Simms 21B George Parks 228 Rex Knepper 23B Bob Wallace 248 David Donat 25B Steve Dentz 26 Tim Edwards 278 Rusty Van Baren 28B Gary Heithald 29B Rick Oliver 308 Gary McPike 31B Jerry Boyce 328 Leonard Ledson 33Greig Simpson 34Mark Harsu 35B Larry Barnes 36B Wayne Yeager 37Ron Schorr 38Jim Kimbro 39Dan Downing 40Fransicso Gonzalez 41Bob Brogdon 42Jeff Bertken 43Glen Sicoste 44Charlie Brunner 45Norm Johnson 46Gail Jacobson 47Omar Lopez 48Dan Kaylor 49Sergio Baamano ATie broken flyoff Airplane/Engine Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/ST LR1A/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/K&B Little Toni/ST Minnow/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/K&B Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/K&B Little Toni/ST Minnow/ST Pole Cat/ST Minnow/K&B Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Midget Mustang/ST Minnow/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Midget Mustang/ST Rickey Rat/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/K&B Little Toni/ST Midget Mustang/K&B Little Toni/ST El Bandido/K&B Minnow/K&B Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/ST Minnow/ST Pole Cat/ST Midget Mustang/K&B Minnow/ST Midget Mustang RACE RESULTS PtsBess Time 401132 391177 371184 361200 341176 341184 321173 311215 311188 311162 311191 291205 291235 291263 281220 271190 251250 251261 231185 231202 231230 231250 231269 221229 221270 211271 191206 191307 181254 181340 171186 171298 161255 151268 141283 141303 131377 121236 10 8 6 3 3 3 3 3 3 0 0 1305 1400 1247 1318 1320 1343 1345 1443 1546 BTie broken best time 84 Model Aviation top five L-R John McDermott 1st Bob Reuther 2nd Gary Hover 3rd Ed Allen 4th Mike Atzei 5th George Parks wife teamed up finish 21stnot bad considering quality competition George perhaps better known QM Left Pilots callers must work teams successful Note concentration faces race progress Right top 20 fliers NMPRA Championships came over US Canada Mexico Altogether 49 vieing top spot timer Mike said really enjoyed weekend NMPRA Races banquet Mike told training discipline goes fore big football game Its much same races won qualify NMPRA Cham pionships discipline sacri fices go being Pylon Racing champion Sunday saw another perfect day temperatures reached 90 degrees could have better day racing competitive some Championship races have lot planes lost fliers aiming same groove putting out super effort race somehow few mis haps best races con test between Tom Casteliano Clay-Barrett team planes actually touched paint under Toms wing slight mid-air no dam age otherwise Tom Casteliano won race after crowd specta tors stood up applauded seen fine example good close race John McDermott Bob Reuther remained tied until ninth round Bob got edged out close race Ed Allen dropping Bob point down John managed hang finished perfect score 10 rounds John also fast time forthis race 1132 Ties broken either flyoffs best time previous heats flyoff between Mike Atzei Dave Shadel fifth Mike won Dave failed start Dennis OBrien edged out Clay-Barrett team flyoff 8th 9th authorBill Hager man aged come out top three-way flyoff Cliff Telford Gale Helms 12th 13th 14th Pete Reed edged out Art Arro flyoff 17th 18th short pause final points computation came awards pre sentation NMPRA supplied awards silver wine coolers through fifth sil ver dishes 6th through 20th plus best finish fast timeKits sever al manufacturers Pylon Race field also awarded biggest sur prise cash accompanied trophies$30000 first $20000 second $15000 third fourth $10000 fifth $10000 fast time quite shock hadnt expecting prize money came anonymous donor think know donorthanks race has come long way since its inception 1973 racing im proving year Lets hope trend continues NMPRA growing ganization proper care promotion will continue reach new heights opinion Formula racers easiest best flying planes RC Try youll like closing comment lifted Ed Rankin Contest Directors AMA Nats NMPRA Cham pionships should experienced CDs also experienced Pylon fliers Ten-four Thanks Dallas RC Club Ed Rankin workers fine contest February 1979 85 Art Arro right authors son Rob Hager carrying Arts Little Toni back pits after flight Rob often caller fliers area speaks well abilities eventual winner John McDermottright makes some last-minute adjustmentshelped Len Ledson win permits no mistakes size Hanno Prettners winning Dalotel DM-165 vivid photo right held Hanno father Hans behind fuselage has 2500 sq wing area weighs 21 lbs uses 11 servos own design retracts Above Hanno checking glow plug two Webra 61s powering model Gears barely visible photo below link two en gines 20-11 prop two-to-one reduction Prettner designed own dutch engine quit other still would keep plane airborne Flew very slow stable consistent 45-50 mph attitudes Hannos first place year won him $15000 Dave Browns Zlin Z-50-L touching down smallest plane event 870 sq wing area won second place $7000 FIFTH TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS o0 / o L1 op I0 1~\ III LQ i- 0 / 0 0 8 00 aerobatic schedule flown 1978 T0C shown Aresti notation left graphic form familiar modelers right Below Judges recorders during qualifying flight Qualifying flights before five judges 10 judges being used finals Judges drawn both modeling fullicale fields including several nationalities Report Photos Dave Lane years Tournament Champi ons outstanding thanks no small part sponsors--Circus Circus Ho tel Casino Model Airplane News just five years have seen event evolve FAI RC Aerobatic Pat tern through progression com plicated maneuvers including special Scale event last year years sophisticated Aresti routine semi-scale 85% replicas full-scale aerobatic aircraft popular planes Zlin Z-50-L Zlin 526-AS Spinks Akromaster next Other air craft modeled Kraft Super Fli Laser 200 Stephens Acro Chipmunk Cap 20 L Cap 10 Cranfield A-i Hiper bipe Sportmaster 150 Skybolt Dalotel DM-165 Hanno Prettner won TOC fifth time total score 5061 points Dave Brown second 47215 Ivan Kristensen third 47125 Dean Koger fourth 4669 Wolfgang Matt fifth 4623 points Wolfgang flew four final rounds intermittent radio still finished 438 points off pace takes some kind concen tration February 1979 87 ---xx ED I \ Ivan Kristensen beautiful Cap 1Oa two-place aerobatic trainer elliptical surfaces smooth flying plane looked great air cop third place $5000 Right Wolfgang Matt Liechtenstein fifth caught explaining some finer points Zlin Z-50-L Matt radio problems week Zlins prototype Topp kits W Germany years pattern consisted following 20 maneuvers 1 One loop inside snaproll top ioop 2 Hammerhead turn-around maneu ver 3 Slow roll 4 One-half Cuban eight 1 out side snaprolls turn-around maneu ver 5 Square inside loop 6 Immelmann turn turn-around ma neuver 7 Inside snaproll 45-degree down line 8 Hammerhead 112 roll down line turn-around maneuver 9 Outside loop inverted flight 10 Wind correction maneuver turn around maneuver 11 Wind correction maneuver turn around maneuver 12 Four-point roll 13 1/2 reverse Cuban eight l/l snaprolls 45-degree upline turn around maneuver 14 Slow roll 45-degree upline 15 1-turn spin turn-around maneu ver 16 Eight-point roll 17 Hump turn-around turn-around maneuver 18 Rolling 360-degree turn circle 19 1/2 Cuban eight turn-around ma neuver 20 Verticalroll pattern fun watch joy judge competitors commended doing excellent job flying limited time practice TOC pilots learn new routine also design PL 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Hanno Prettner Dave Brown Ivan Kristensen Dean Koger Wolfgang Man Gunter Hoppe Steve Helms Richard Brand Phil Kraft Giichi Naruke Mark Radcliff Fred Kugel Jeff Tracy Don Lowe Bruno Giezendanner lsao Matsui Don Weitz Ron Chidgey Tony Bonetti Denis Donohue Benito Bertolani Harald Neckar Norm Cassella Ed Keck John Brink Ralph Brooke John Lockwood Joe Bridi Country Austria USA Canada USA Liechtenstein W Germany USA Rhodesia USA Japan USA USA Australia USA Switzerland Japan USA USA USA USA Italy W Germany USA USA So Africa USA USA USA 50610 47215 47125 46690 46230 22105 21935 21905 21900 21890 21750 21745 21725 21555 21190 21185 21160 21035 21035 20855 20390 19850 18455 17779 17645 17545 16735 15415 $15000 $7000 $5000 $4000 $3000 $2000 $1500 $1300 $1000 $900 $800 $700 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 Dalotel DM-165 Zlin Z-50 Cap 10 Laser 200 Zlin Z-50-L Cranfield A-i Spinks Akromaster Zlin Z-526 Super Fli Chipmunk Super Fli Spinks Akromaster Cap 20 L Zlin 526AS ZIin 50-L Zlin 50-L Spinks Akromaster Spinks Akromaster Super Fli Stephens Acro Zlin 526-AFS Zlin 50-L Skybolt Spinks Akromaster Stephens Acro Hiperbipe Sportmaster 150 Spinks Akromaster 88 Model Aviation Dean Koger 4th place very nice Laser 2001200 sq 12 lbs. alibalsa plywood construction fiberglass cowl Webra 91 reduction belt drive Laser 200 modified Stephens Acro Leo Loudenslager made modifications won World Championships Photo right shows bit Koger puts plane together big wing held place four 6-32 machine screws TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONSRESULTS/MODEL DATA PilotPoints PrizeAircraftEngine Webra 61 0S90 FSR Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 YS 12 Webra 91 Webra 91 Quadra Webra 91 Webra 91 0S90 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 OPS Webra 91 Webra 91 0S90 Webra 91 Quadra Webra 91 0S90 build new aircraft competition Most aircraft between 800 1200 square inches wing area Hanno Prettners Dalotel 2500 square inches 9-foot wingspan weighed 21 pounds maximum weight allowed 22 pounds Hanno used two Webra 6 ls clutches driving two-to-one reduction-geared center shaft 20-1 1 prop Hannos aircraft flew between 40 50 mph attitude rudder elevator two servos servo aileron servo landing gear throttle servo servo mixture control Thats 11 servos Dave Brown flew own design Zlin Z-50-L smallest ship 870 square inches Daves airplane all-balsa foam wing tail cores drawback Zlin Z-50-Ls color scheme silver red trim silver really disappears overcast sky background during fi nals sky clear silver hard see Daves Zlin fastest ships meet Ivan Kristensen flew Cap 10 two-place side-by-side aerobatic trainer competition aircraft Ivans bird flew very nice looked very good air its elliptical wing planform Cap 10 built-up construction similar full-scale aircraft Dean Kogers Laser 200 typical designs has flying FAI Pattern has built-up fuselage tail group foam wing cores Dean really advantage contest has flying 1000 square inch pattern bird last three years familiar flying characteristics large model Wolfgang Matts bird Zlin Z-50-L prototype Topp kit fuse lage fiberglass foam wing tail cores wing 950 square inches Wolfgang built Laser 200 contest lost third flight cause faulty battery pack also scratch-built Zlin Z-50-L lost first flight because radio February 1979 89 Left Gunter 1-loppe Cranfield A-i British design aero batics fixed gear Looks bit like P-51 belly radiator Uses epoxy/glass fuselage foam wing tail Above Top scale points special award went Denis Donohue modified Stephens Acro Like used Webra 91 engine Ralph Brookes Hiperbipe Has Quadra engine all-balsa open structure covered Monokote Richard Brand Rhodesia two entered Zlin 526s Webra 91 power Giichi Narukes all-balsa dope Chipmunk powered new VS 120 engine produced Japan Left Fuselage Jeff Tracys Quadra-powered Cap 20 L Note stub spars wing panels slip overheld place machine screws through bottom wing leading edge Right lsao Matsui waiting turn Zlin Z-50-L all-balsa finished dopelooks like glass Left Ron Chidgey flew Spinks Akromaster designed Ed Keck original demonstrated 1977 TOC Right Bruno Giezendanner taxiing out takeoff like Matt flew prototype Topp kit Zlin Z-50-L has 950 sq wing area Above The crash caused mal functioning radio John Brinks Stephens Ac ro stalled about six feet above ground broke half impact doesnt look bad picture probably total washout Fortunately John backup low Clown pilot Gunter Hoppes Cranfield A-i especially appropriate event problems wasnt Wolfgangs year exactly though still finished fifth seemed everyone ex ception two contestants crashed before contest fli ers using either back-up ships borrowed airplanes Tony Bonetti flying very nice Pitts 5-1 until crashed couple weeks before contest Phil Kraft loaned Tony back-up Super Fli competiton Thats sportsmanship judging panel year included seven modelers five full-scale aero batic pilots and/or judges full-scale judges Art Scholl Chipmunk fame LaMar Stern Skybolt fame Jim Roberts Laser 200 pilot Gordon Price Canadian champion Gerry Zim merrnan top US aerobatic judge model judges Bill Johnson USA fifth time TOC Bob Upton USA fifth time TOC Warren Hitchcox Canada Canadian World Championship Team Geoff Franklin England judged 1977 World Championships Dennis Hunt Rhodesia Masahiro Kato Ja pan Dave Lane USA fifth time TOC judging very consistent throughout tournament fullscale judges commented fact wished full-scale judging could consistent model judg ing seems judges full-scale aerobatics meets leave something desired mentioned model ing judges TOC minimum 12 years judging experience apiece would glad judge full-scale aerobatics major difference judging Aresti pattern versus FAI pattern cannot take eyes off airplane during Aresti routine Everything plane does judged FAI worry about turn arounds can relax during time TOC judge assistant recorded scores maneuverthe same done full-scale aerobatics closing would like say judges opinion TOC Aresti schedule way FAI Pattern should go makes much inter esting event both fliers spectators believe would see spectators new pattern because aircraft remain front flier time also eliminates spot landing contest see much pattern flying present hope able judge next TOC can hardly wait see what sponsors will come up future top years event special thank appropriate Jerry Nelson Contest Director Doc Edwards Chief Judge gether sponsors made con test outstanding concerned 90 Model 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NE WSLETTE ACADEMY OF MODEL AERONAUTICS 815 FlFTEENTH STREET NW WASHINGTON DC 20005 RC AEROBATICS TEAM PROGRAM As mid-November 64 registered intent try qualify Masters Tournament team selection finals paid $10 program entry fee num ber 42 have qualified placing top one-third Master class event least five fliers AMA sanctioned meet Mem bers 1977 US RC Aerobatics Team automatically qualified having paid program entry fee Dave Brown Cincinnati OH Rhett Miller Ill Tallahassee FL Mark Radcliff Newport OH 42 have qualified press time follows although some thc 19 others may also qualify December 31 dead line Wayne Abernathy Hillside MD Donald L Atwood Denvez CO Roderick W Barnes Zanesville OH Sal Battaglia New Rochelle NY Andre Bauchard King Prussia PA Tony Bonetti Emerson NJ Joe Bridi Harbor City CA John Britt Hazelwood MOGeorge Buzel Jr Stamford CT Ron Chidgey Pen sacola FL Charles Danley Baytown TX Denis Donohue Bergenfield NJ Alan C Dupler Millersport OH Tony rackowiak Erie PA William M Furori Commack NY joseph G Gross Altus OK Steve Helms Pensacola FL George Hill An nandale VA Ed Izzo Holliston MA Fd Keck Webster NY Jim Kimbro Oceanside CA Dean Koger Wright-Patterson AFB OH Daniel E Kowallek Kokomo IN Fred Kugel Celina OH W R Lippincott Jr Boyce VA Don Lowe Dayton OH William Macek Bethlehem PA Thomas Moore Forestville MD Michael Mueller Rolling Meadows IL William Ney Wheeling WV Lloyd Nicholson Denver CO Jim Oddino Woodland Hills CA Roy Pinner Waterford Ml C W Reed III Raytown MO Donald Seals Paris IL Pat Shuttleworth Warren IN William E Thomas Bartlesville OK Biuce Underwood Guntersville AL DIRECTORY CONTEST COORDINATORS I Paul L Penney B Oarlotte Dr Andoser MA OlBtO II R Sobrino 87-26 88th St. Woodhanen Queens NY 11421 RC Bryan Sattler 29 Waldorf P1. Schenectady NY 12307 RC Fred Blackburn B Blue Spruce Ln. Commack NY 11725 Ill Ken Reber RD 1 Nazareth PA 18064 lEastI M Weisenbach 4568W 146th St. Cleseland OH 44135 IWessi IV Warren Sanders Jr. 9735 52nd Ane College Pk MD 20741 RC Ed Fitzwater 474 Tudor Or. Crownusille MD 21032 V NC Soaring Donna Dde 7409 Atwood Dr Huntsnille AL 35802 RC Charlene Fields 818 Main St. SW New Ellington SC 29809 FF Wallace Johnson 4112 White Acres Rd Montgomery AL 36106 VI Jim Thomerson 1317 EilewCollinssille IL 62234 RC Ralph White Jr RR 1 Son 324 Neoga IL 62447 VII John Enern 421 Walnut Las Apple Valley MN 55124 IWesti Wes Slack 12851 Payton Detroit MI 48224 lEasti VIII John Deaton 505 Connerce St. Port Worth TX 76102 RC Larry Snanfield 205 Quail Creek Dr Crowley TX 76036 IX Bill Bieda 411 Barker Building Osnelsa NE 68102 RC Tranis McGinnis 8027 W 81st Circle Arnada CO 80005 X Myrtle Coed Rn Boa 19 miner Lake CA 95457 INorthl Lee Polaneky 258 Iris Ate. Goleta CA 93017 ISouthi Prank Games 2241 Noah St Honolulu HI 96816 IHI meensi XI Don Dodd 3406 Bnltidere Ate. SW Seattle WA 98126 RC Don Miller 24715 Sa55mit-Landsburg Ranensdale WA 98051 RC Pylon & Souring RC Pattern other RC CL RC leocept Soaringi Bold Pace Below Indica-les Chairman Contest Board FREE FLIGHT CONTEST BOARD I Henry Struck RFO 2 Hamburg Old Lynre CT 06371 II Carrol Allen2 Arizona R Huntington Sta NY 11746 III Rudy Kluiber 2021 Lakeland Ate. Lakessood OH 44107 IV Joe Boyle Jr 219 Shenandoah Rd. Hampton VA 23361 V Bonny Jenkins 3112 E Raires Rd. Memphis TN 38115 VI Chris Mansuno 8S76 Ginger St John MO 83114 VII Phil Klintworth Jr. 715 Rutgers Rd. Rocinester Ml 48063 VIII Mark Valerius 2302 Pomeran Or. Houston TX 77055 IX Jerald Murphy 2432 Astron Dr Colorado Springs CO 80906 X Joe Norcross215 WSanta Ana No 211A Clonis CA 93612 XI Ernie Lint 16558- 121st Ace. SE RennonWA 98055 CONTROL LINE CONTEST BOARD I George Higgins P0 Ban 482 North Pembroke MA 02358 II Bill Boss 7706 269th St New Hyde Park NY 11040 III Laird Jackson 523 Meadombrook St Danids PA 19087 IV Ron McNally 6118 Bardo Ate Springfield VA 22152 V Dane Hemstruught PO Bon 171 Moecks Corner SC 29461 VI Bob Bsrch 5248W Scool Chicago IL 60641 VII James Snnon 4941 Wisconsin Ate. N New Hope MN 55428 VIII Charles Anasnon 3730 Kiestcnest Dallas TX 75233 IX Mictruel Tallman 3014 Eaclarge Wichita KS 67217 X Pete Brandn 315 S Maria Ace. Redondo Beach CA 90277 XI Dan Rutherford 4705 237th R SE Boshell WA 98011 RADIO CONTROL CONTEST BOARD I Ed Izzo 483 Fiske St Holliston MA 01746 II Joe Friend 62 Joysan Terr. Freehold NJ 07728 Ill Date Brown 8534 Huddleston Cincinnati OH 45236 IV Fred M Gregg 12709 Rcfrwood St. Chester VA 23831 V J Oasis Jr 1813S Lakesnore Dr. Birmingham AL 35216 VI Bob Onderwond 4109 Concord Oaks Dr. SI Louis MO 63128 VII Peter Waters 31219 Kendall Linonia MI 48154 VIII Danid Hyde 2026 Scommass Ln Garland TX 75042 IX Loren Tregellas 3003S Eterett Wichita KS 87217 X Bill Northrop Jr. 621 W 19th St Costa Mesa CA 92627 XI Ralph Brooke 3431 5 194th Seattle WA 98188 SCALE CONTEST BOARD I Richard Sherman 408 Rite Rd Tewksbury MA 01876 II Robert Clemens 95 Shoretray Dr Rochester NY 14612 Ill Edward Wisser 1521 Suwmn St McKeesport PA 15130 IV Bob Karlsuon 2643 Marsh Rd Wilmington DE 19810 V Danid Platt 6540 NW 15th Ft Lauderdale FL 33313 VI Frank Bearty 2608 Pontoon Rd. Granite City IL 62040 VII Claude McCullough Boa 40 Montezuma IA 50171 VIII Johnny Casburn Son 8029 Ft Worth TX 76112 IX Dean Copeland 7817 Sewed St. Omaha NE 68114 X Frank Capat 251 Camino de las P10mw Encininas CA 92024 Xl Earle Moorhead 275S View P1 5 Salem OR 97302 CONTEST BOARD COORDINATOR Don Lindley 420 Tupelo Napertille IL 60540 James E Vanderwalker Clintonville WI David vonLinsowe Linden Ml David G Weitz Jr Henderson NV Ralph White Neoga IL early January finalists will voting hold RC Masters Team Selec tion Tournament among sites have offered World Championships US three-man team being picked planned South Africa probably September October 1979 PROPOSED CHANGES TO CB PROCEDURES NOT ACCEPTED Vot ng n ma ballot Execut ye Council Contest Board chairmen CB coordinator has resulted defeat four proposals reported last month page 84 Briefly proposals three-year rules review cycle requiring amount kind experience proposer shown rules proposal form allow ing Provisional Supplemental rules events held Nats done auto matic upgrade Official status changing date age class determination July 1 January 1 year Craft tissue Mark Westminster MD February 1979 81 Mark Arnold ths Shocer 4Ks kitJ holding set national AMA record 17 min utes 36 seconds FF BGasCat Ill Open August 131978 uses K&B 35 engine GloBee plug 84 RevUp prop Seelig multi-function timer KraftHayes engine mount wingspan increased 70 surfaces doublecovered Aristo NMPRA Championship Race Pylon Racings Tournament Cham pions National Miniature Pylon Racing Association organization made up Pylon Race fliers through out US Canada Mexico organization responsible pro motion betterment Pylon Rac ing Most rules governing events have come NMPRA NMPRA rotates race site year year must some place US weather nice end October year races held Florida year California year Texas back Florida year went Dallas TX October 21-22 weather great qualify race person has finish top 20% NMPRA district means lot hard work determination part qualify 49 entrants signed ready compete dead line came 600 pm October 20 During registration checks made AMA memberships FCC licenses planes safety checked es pecially devises linkage radio installa tion engine mounting control surfaces 82 Model Aviation start races NMPRA Championshipsplane No 1 position already out view No 2 just starting No3 waiting third drop flag Author says workers bent over backwards see flier got fair shake look goes time clock competitors fire up Pylon rules give 90 seconds starting adjusting engines getting position race begin Planes also measured weighed per rules Next came what 1 call hardest part planes judged appear ance Formula best looking planes take off first Following usual practice planes put four dif ferent groups championship award given best plane Out about 90 very beautiful airplanes plane judged best honor went again Ron Schorr tops Nats too Pole Cat planes checked judged pilots went back rooms ready full weekend racing Saturday 845 am first race got underway lot jock eying around lead come win Ron Schorr might considered favorite since won AMA Nats August just could get together what several flameouts BitI Preis early leader ran 0 form few short laps have go around pylons BitI Bill Williamson has going fast year ran few 0s form engine failure hard luck story Charlie Brunner came two planes close race Charlie overturned No 3 pylon know theres much left couple races later mid-air No 1 pylon backup plane made short contest Charlie Being competitor though Charlie will back Ill bet time issue reaches press Charlie probably will getting ready next year past have very few fliers Ohio Indiana Michi gan area have attended Cham pionship Races Well year after years preaching urging finally got some crowd attend [hey did pretty well first time out Art Arro finished 18th Rex Knepper 22nd Wayne Yeager 36th guys planning try qualify attend again 1979 Nearly days end John McDermott Bob Reuther lave Shadel tied first last heats Dave Shadels wing suddenly exploded No pylon thus ending bid lead Saturday evenings banquetwasserved ballroom headquarters motel very nice food very good area NMPRA V-Ps gave brief reports things going dis tricts guest speaker Mike Clark ex-Dallas Cowboy football player Mike son have interest model airplanes Mike spent two days out line official lap counter February 1 979 83 happy triowinner John McDermott center caller Dave Shadel left sponsor Jim Shin ohara pose after John took first 10 heats Plane Little Toni Supertigre power Engines putting out best callers ready launch racers go off after other about one-second intervalsas quickly astheflag can repeatedly dropped 1978 NMPRA CHAMPIONSHIP P1Name 1John McDermott 2Bob Reuther 3Gary Hover 4Ed Allen 5A Mike Atzei 6A Dave Shadel 7 Tom Castellano 8A Dennis OBrien 9A Clay/Barrett Team 10Bill Preis 11Doug Ruble 12A Bill Hager 13A Cliff Telford 14A Gale Helms 15Mike Helsel 16Charles Monnett 17A Pete Reed 18A Art Arro 19B Bill Williamson 208 Carl Simms 21B George Parks 228 Rex Knepper 23B Bob Wallace 248 David Donat 25B Steve Dentz 26 Tim Edwards 278 Rusty Van Baren 28B Gary Heithald 29B Rick Oliver 308 Gary McPike 31B Jerry Boyce 328 Leonard Ledson 33Greig Simpson 34Mark Harsu 35B Larry Barnes 36B Wayne Yeager 37Ron Schorr 38Jim Kimbro 39Dan Downing 40Fransicso Gonzalez 41Bob Brogdon 42Jeff Bertken 43Glen Sicoste 44Charlie Brunner 45Norm Johnson 46Gail Jacobson 47Omar Lopez 48Dan Kaylor 49Sergio Baamano ATie broken flyoff Airplane/Engine Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/ST LR1A/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/K&B Little Toni/ST Minnow/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/K&B Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/K&B Little Toni/ST Minnow/ST Pole Cat/ST Minnow/K&B Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Midget Mustang/ST Minnow/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Midget Mustang/ST Rickey Rat/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/K&B Little Toni/ST Midget Mustang/K&B Little Toni/ST El Bandido/K&B Minnow/K&B Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/ST Minnow/ST Pole Cat/ST Midget Mustang/K&B Minnow/ST Midget Mustang RACE RESULTS PtsBess Time 401132 391177 371184 361200 341176 341184 321173 311215 311188 311162 311191 291205 291235 291263 281220 271190 251250 251261 231185 231202 231230 231250 231269 221229 221270 211271 191206 191307 181254 181340 171186 171298 161255 151268 141283 141303 131377 121236 10 8 6 3 3 3 3 3 3 0 0 1305 1400 1247 1318 1320 1343 1345 1443 1546 BTie broken best time 84 Model Aviation top five L-R John McDermott 1st Bob Reuther 2nd Gary Hover 3rd Ed Allen 4th Mike Atzei 5th George Parks wife teamed up finish 21stnot bad considering quality competition George perhaps better known QM Left Pilots callers must work teams successful Note concentration faces race progress Right top 20 fliers NMPRA Championships came over US Canada Mexico Altogether 49 vieing top spot timer Mike said really enjoyed weekend NMPRA Races banquet Mike told training discipline goes fore big football game Its much same races won qualify NMPRA Cham pionships discipline sacri fices go being Pylon Racing champion Sunday saw another perfect day temperatures reached 90 degrees could have better day racing competitive some Championship races have lot planes lost fliers aiming same groove putting out super effort race somehow few mis haps best races con test between Tom Casteliano Clay-Barrett team planes actually touched paint under Toms wing slight mid-air no dam age otherwise Tom Casteliano won race after crowd specta tors stood up applauded seen fine example good close race John McDermott Bob Reuther remained tied until ninth round Bob got edged out close race Ed Allen dropping Bob point down John managed hang finished perfect score 10 rounds John also fast time forthis race 1132 Ties broken either flyoffs best time previous heats flyoff between Mike Atzei Dave Shadel fifth Mike won Dave failed start Dennis OBrien edged out Clay-Barrett team flyoff 8th 9th authorBill Hager man aged come out top three-way flyoff Cliff Telford Gale Helms 12th 13th 14th Pete Reed edged out Art Arro flyoff 17th 18th short pause final points computation came awards pre sentation NMPRA supplied awards silver wine coolers through fifth sil ver dishes 6th through 20th plus best finish fast timeKits sever al manufacturers Pylon Race field also awarded biggest sur prise cash accompanied trophies$30000 first $20000 second $15000 third fourth $10000 fifth $10000 fast time quite shock hadnt expecting prize money came anonymous donor think know donorthanks race has come long way since its inception 1973 racing im proving year Lets hope trend continues NMPRA growing ganization proper care promotion will continue reach new heights opinion Formula racers easiest best flying planes RC Try youll like closing comment lifted Ed Rankin Contest Directors AMA Nats NMPRA Cham pionships should experienced CDs also experienced Pylon fliers Ten-four Thanks Dallas RC Club Ed Rankin workers fine contest February 1979 85 Art Arro right authors son Rob Hager carrying Arts Little Toni back pits after flight Rob often caller fliers area speaks well abilities eventual winner John McDermottright makes some last-minute adjustmentshelped Len Ledson win permits no mistakes size Hanno Prettners winning Dalotel DM-165 vivid photo right held Hanno father Hans behind fuselage has 2500 sq wing area weighs 21 lbs uses 11 servos own design retracts Above Hanno checking glow plug two Webra 61s powering model Gears barely visible photo below link two en gines 20-11 prop two-to-one reduction Prettner designed own dutch engine quit other still would keep plane airborne Flew very slow stable consistent 45-50 mph attitudes Hannos first place year won him $15000 Dave Browns Zlin Z-50-L touching down smallest plane event 870 sq wing area won second place $7000 FIFTH TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS o0 / o L1 op I0 1~\ III LQ i- 0 / 0 0 8 00 aerobatic schedule flown 1978 T0C shown Aresti notation left graphic form familiar modelers right Below Judges recorders during qualifying flight Qualifying flights before five judges 10 judges being used finals Judges drawn both modeling fullicale fields including several nationalities Report Photos Dave Lane years Tournament Champi ons outstanding thanks no small part sponsors--Circus Circus Ho tel Casino Model Airplane News just five years have seen event evolve FAI RC Aerobatic Pat tern through progression com plicated maneuvers including special Scale event last year years sophisticated Aresti routine semi-scale 85% replicas full-scale aerobatic aircraft popular planes Zlin Z-50-L Zlin 526-AS Spinks Akromaster next Other air craft modeled Kraft Super Fli Laser 200 Stephens Acro Chipmunk Cap 20 L Cap 10 Cranfield A-i Hiper bipe Sportmaster 150 Skybolt Dalotel DM-165 Hanno Prettner won TOC fifth time total score 5061 points Dave Brown second 47215 Ivan Kristensen third 47125 Dean Koger fourth 4669 Wolfgang Matt fifth 4623 points Wolfgang flew four final rounds intermittent radio still finished 438 points off pace takes some kind concen tration February 1979 87 ---xx ED I \ Ivan Kristensen beautiful Cap 1Oa two-place aerobatic trainer elliptical surfaces smooth flying plane looked great air cop third place $5000 Right Wolfgang Matt Liechtenstein fifth caught explaining some finer points Zlin Z-50-L Matt radio problems week Zlins prototype Topp kits W Germany years pattern consisted following 20 maneuvers 1 One loop inside snaproll top ioop 2 Hammerhead turn-around maneu ver 3 Slow roll 4 One-half Cuban eight 1 out side snaprolls turn-around maneu ver 5 Square inside loop 6 Immelmann turn turn-around ma neuver 7 Inside snaproll 45-degree down line 8 Hammerhead 112 roll down line turn-around maneuver 9 Outside loop inverted flight 10 Wind correction maneuver turn around maneuver 11 Wind correction maneuver turn around maneuver 12 Four-point roll 13 1/2 reverse Cuban eight l/l snaprolls 45-degree upline turn around maneuver 14 Slow roll 45-degree upline 15 1-turn spin turn-around maneu ver 16 Eight-point roll 17 Hump turn-around turn-around maneuver 18 Rolling 360-degree turn circle 19 1/2 Cuban eight turn-around ma neuver 20 Verticalroll pattern fun watch joy judge competitors commended doing excellent job flying limited time practice TOC pilots learn new routine also design PL 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Hanno Prettner Dave Brown Ivan Kristensen Dean Koger Wolfgang Man Gunter Hoppe Steve Helms Richard Brand Phil Kraft Giichi Naruke Mark Radcliff Fred Kugel Jeff Tracy Don Lowe Bruno Giezendanner lsao Matsui Don Weitz Ron Chidgey Tony Bonetti Denis Donohue Benito Bertolani Harald Neckar Norm Cassella Ed Keck John Brink Ralph Brooke John Lockwood Joe Bridi Country Austria USA Canada USA Liechtenstein W Germany USA Rhodesia USA Japan USA USA Australia USA Switzerland Japan USA USA USA USA Italy W Germany USA USA So Africa USA USA USA 50610 47215 47125 46690 46230 22105 21935 21905 21900 21890 21750 21745 21725 21555 21190 21185 21160 21035 21035 20855 20390 19850 18455 17779 17645 17545 16735 15415 $15000 $7000 $5000 $4000 $3000 $2000 $1500 $1300 $1000 $900 $800 $700 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 Dalotel DM-165 Zlin Z-50 Cap 10 Laser 200 Zlin Z-50-L Cranfield A-i Spinks Akromaster Zlin Z-526 Super Fli Chipmunk Super Fli Spinks Akromaster Cap 20 L Zlin 526AS ZIin 50-L Zlin 50-L Spinks Akromaster Spinks Akromaster Super Fli Stephens Acro Zlin 526-AFS Zlin 50-L Skybolt Spinks Akromaster Stephens Acro Hiperbipe Sportmaster 150 Spinks Akromaster 88 Model Aviation Dean Koger 4th place very nice Laser 2001200 sq 12 lbs. alibalsa plywood construction fiberglass cowl Webra 91 reduction belt drive Laser 200 modified Stephens Acro Leo Loudenslager made modifications won World Championships Photo right shows bit Koger puts plane together big wing held place four 6-32 machine screws TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONSRESULTS/MODEL DATA PilotPoints PrizeAircraftEngine Webra 61 0S90 FSR Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 YS 12 Webra 91 Webra 91 Quadra Webra 91 Webra 91 0S90 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 OPS Webra 91 Webra 91 0S90 Webra 91 Quadra Webra 91 0S90 build new aircraft competition Most aircraft between 800 1200 square inches wing area Hanno Prettners Dalotel 2500 square inches 9-foot wingspan weighed 21 pounds maximum weight allowed 22 pounds Hanno used two Webra 6 ls clutches driving two-to-one reduction-geared center shaft 20-1 1 prop Hannos aircraft flew between 40 50 mph attitude rudder elevator two servos servo aileron servo landing gear throttle servo servo mixture control Thats 11 servos Dave Brown flew own design Zlin Z-50-L smallest ship 870 square inches Daves airplane all-balsa foam wing tail cores drawback Zlin Z-50-Ls color scheme silver red trim silver really disappears overcast sky background during fi nals sky clear silver hard see Daves Zlin fastest ships meet Ivan Kristensen flew Cap 10 two-place side-by-side aerobatic trainer competition aircraft Ivans bird flew very nice looked very good air its elliptical wing planform Cap 10 built-up construction similar full-scale aircraft Dean Kogers Laser 200 typical designs has flying FAI Pattern has built-up fuselage tail group foam wing cores Dean really advantage contest has flying 1000 square inch pattern bird last three years familiar flying characteristics large model Wolfgang Matts bird Zlin Z-50-L prototype Topp kit fuse lage fiberglass foam wing tail cores wing 950 square inches Wolfgang built Laser 200 contest lost third flight cause faulty battery pack also scratch-built Zlin Z-50-L lost first flight because radio February 1979 89 Left Gunter 1-loppe Cranfield A-i British design aero batics fixed gear Looks bit like P-51 belly radiator Uses epoxy/glass fuselage foam wing tail Above Top scale points special award went Denis Donohue modified Stephens Acro Like used Webra 91 engine Ralph Brookes Hiperbipe Has Quadra engine all-balsa open structure covered Monokote Richard Brand Rhodesia two entered Zlin 526s Webra 91 power Giichi Narukes all-balsa dope Chipmunk powered new VS 120 engine produced Japan Left Fuselage Jeff Tracys Quadra-powered Cap 20 L Note stub spars wing panels slip overheld place machine screws through bottom wing leading edge Right lsao Matsui waiting turn Zlin Z-50-L all-balsa finished dopelooks like glass Left Ron Chidgey flew Spinks Akromaster designed Ed Keck original demonstrated 1977 TOC Right Bruno Giezendanner taxiing out takeoff like Matt flew prototype Topp kit Zlin Z-50-L has 950 sq wing area Above The crash caused mal functioning radio John Brinks Stephens Ac ro stalled about six feet above ground broke half impact doesnt look bad picture probably total washout Fortunately John backup low Clown pilot Gunter Hoppes Cranfield A-i especially appropriate event problems wasnt Wolfgangs year exactly though still finished fifth seemed everyone ex ception two contestants crashed before contest fli ers using either back-up ships borrowed airplanes Tony Bonetti flying very nice Pitts 5-1 until crashed couple weeks before contest Phil Kraft loaned Tony back-up Super Fli competiton Thats sportsmanship judging panel year included seven modelers five full-scale aero batic pilots and/or judges full-scale judges Art Scholl Chipmunk fame LaMar Stern Skybolt fame Jim Roberts Laser 200 pilot Gordon Price Canadian champion Gerry Zim merrnan top US aerobatic judge model judges Bill Johnson USA fifth time TOC Bob Upton USA fifth time TOC Warren Hitchcox Canada Canadian World Championship Team Geoff Franklin England judged 1977 World Championships Dennis Hunt Rhodesia Masahiro Kato Ja pan Dave Lane USA fifth time TOC judging very consistent throughout tournament fullscale judges commented fact wished full-scale judging could consistent model judg ing seems judges full-scale aerobatics meets leave something desired mentioned model ing judges TOC minimum 12 years judging experience apiece would glad judge full-scale aerobatics major difference judging Aresti pattern versus FAI pattern cannot take eyes off airplane during Aresti routine Everything plane does judged FAI worry about turn arounds can relax during time TOC judge assistant recorded scores maneuverthe same done full-scale aerobatics closing would like say judges opinion TOC Aresti schedule way FAI Pattern should go makes much inter esting event both fliers spectators believe would see spectators new pattern because aircraft remain front flier time also eliminates spot landing contest see much pattern flying present hope able judge next TOC can hardly wait see what sponsors will come up future top years event special thank appropriate Jerry Nelson Contest Director Doc Edwards Chief Judge gether sponsors made con test outstanding concerned 90 Model 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NE WSLETTE ACADEMY OF MODEL AERONAUTICS 815 FlFTEENTH STREET NW WASHINGTON DC 20005 RC AEROBATICS TEAM PROGRAM As mid-November 64 registered intent try qualify Masters Tournament team selection finals paid $10 program entry fee num ber 42 have qualified placing top one-third Master class event least five fliers AMA sanctioned meet Mem bers 1977 US RC Aerobatics Team automatically qualified having paid program entry fee Dave Brown Cincinnati OH Rhett Miller Ill Tallahassee FL Mark Radcliff Newport OH 42 have qualified press time follows although some thc 19 others may also qualify December 31 dead line Wayne Abernathy Hillside MD Donald L Atwood Denvez CO Roderick W Barnes Zanesville OH Sal Battaglia New Rochelle NY Andre Bauchard King Prussia PA Tony Bonetti Emerson NJ Joe Bridi Harbor City CA John Britt Hazelwood MOGeorge Buzel Jr Stamford CT Ron Chidgey Pen sacola FL Charles Danley Baytown TX Denis Donohue Bergenfield NJ Alan C Dupler Millersport OH Tony rackowiak Erie PA William M Furori Commack NY joseph G Gross Altus OK Steve Helms Pensacola FL George Hill An nandale VA Ed Izzo Holliston MA Fd Keck Webster NY Jim Kimbro Oceanside CA Dean Koger Wright-Patterson AFB OH Daniel E Kowallek Kokomo IN Fred Kugel Celina OH W R Lippincott Jr Boyce VA Don Lowe Dayton OH William Macek Bethlehem PA Thomas Moore Forestville MD Michael Mueller Rolling Meadows IL William Ney Wheeling WV Lloyd Nicholson Denver CO Jim Oddino Woodland Hills CA Roy Pinner Waterford Ml C W Reed III Raytown MO Donald Seals Paris IL Pat Shuttleworth Warren IN William E Thomas Bartlesville OK Biuce Underwood Guntersville AL DIRECTORY CONTEST COORDINATORS I Paul L Penney B Oarlotte Dr Andoser MA OlBtO II R Sobrino 87-26 88th St. Woodhanen Queens NY 11421 RC Bryan Sattler 29 Waldorf P1. Schenectady NY 12307 RC Fred Blackburn B Blue Spruce Ln. Commack NY 11725 Ill Ken Reber RD 1 Nazareth PA 18064 lEastI M Weisenbach 4568W 146th St. Cleseland OH 44135 IWessi IV Warren Sanders Jr. 9735 52nd Ane College Pk MD 20741 RC Ed Fitzwater 474 Tudor Or. Crownusille MD 21032 V NC Soaring Donna Dde 7409 Atwood Dr Huntsnille AL 35802 RC Charlene Fields 818 Main St. SW New Ellington SC 29809 FF Wallace Johnson 4112 White Acres Rd Montgomery AL 36106 VI Jim Thomerson 1317 EilewCollinssille IL 62234 RC Ralph White Jr RR 1 Son 324 Neoga IL 62447 VII John Enern 421 Walnut Las Apple Valley MN 55124 IWesti Wes Slack 12851 Payton Detroit MI 48224 lEasti VIII John Deaton 505 Connerce St. Port Worth TX 76102 RC Larry Snanfield 205 Quail Creek Dr Crowley TX 76036 IX Bill Bieda 411 Barker Building Osnelsa NE 68102 RC Tranis McGinnis 8027 W 81st Circle Arnada CO 80005 X Myrtle Coed Rn Boa 19 miner Lake CA 95457 INorthl Lee Polaneky 258 Iris Ate. Goleta CA 93017 ISouthi Prank Games 2241 Noah St Honolulu HI 96816 IHI meensi XI Don Dodd 3406 Bnltidere Ate. SW Seattle WA 98126 RC Don Miller 24715 Sa55mit-Landsburg Ranensdale WA 98051 RC Pylon & Souring RC Pattern other RC CL RC leocept Soaringi Bold Pace Below Indica-les Chairman Contest Board FREE FLIGHT CONTEST BOARD I Henry Struck RFO 2 Hamburg Old Lynre CT 06371 II Carrol Allen2 Arizona R Huntington Sta NY 11746 III Rudy Kluiber 2021 Lakeland Ate. Lakessood OH 44107 IV Joe Boyle Jr 219 Shenandoah Rd. Hampton VA 23361 V Bonny Jenkins 3112 E Raires Rd. Memphis TN 38115 VI Chris Mansuno 8S76 Ginger St John MO 83114 VII Phil Klintworth Jr. 715 Rutgers Rd. Rocinester Ml 48063 VIII Mark Valerius 2302 Pomeran Or. Houston TX 77055 IX Jerald Murphy 2432 Astron Dr Colorado Springs CO 80906 X Joe Norcross215 WSanta Ana No 211A Clonis CA 93612 XI Ernie Lint 16558- 121st Ace. SE RennonWA 98055 CONTROL LINE CONTEST BOARD I George Higgins P0 Ban 482 North Pembroke MA 02358 II Bill Boss 7706 269th St New Hyde Park NY 11040 III Laird Jackson 523 Meadombrook St Danids PA 19087 IV Ron McNally 6118 Bardo Ate Springfield VA 22152 V Dane Hemstruught PO Bon 171 Moecks Corner SC 29461 VI Bob Bsrch 5248W Scool Chicago IL 60641 VII James Snnon 4941 Wisconsin Ate. N New Hope MN 55428 VIII Charles Anasnon 3730 Kiestcnest Dallas TX 75233 IX Mictruel Tallman 3014 Eaclarge Wichita KS 67217 X Pete Brandn 315 S Maria Ace. Redondo Beach CA 90277 XI Dan Rutherford 4705 237th R SE Boshell WA 98011 RADIO CONTROL CONTEST BOARD I Ed Izzo 483 Fiske St Holliston MA 01746 II Joe Friend 62 Joysan Terr. Freehold NJ 07728 Ill Date Brown 8534 Huddleston Cincinnati OH 45236 IV Fred M Gregg 12709 Rcfrwood St. Chester VA 23831 V J Oasis Jr 1813S Lakesnore Dr. Birmingham AL 35216 VI Bob Onderwond 4109 Concord Oaks Dr. SI Louis MO 63128 VII Peter Waters 31219 Kendall Linonia MI 48154 VIII Danid Hyde 2026 Scommass Ln Garland TX 75042 IX Loren Tregellas 3003S Eterett Wichita KS 87217 X Bill Northrop Jr. 621 W 19th St Costa Mesa CA 92627 XI Ralph Brooke 3431 5 194th Seattle WA 98188 SCALE CONTEST BOARD I Richard Sherman 408 Rite Rd Tewksbury MA 01876 II Robert Clemens 95 Shoretray Dr Rochester NY 14612 Ill Edward Wisser 1521 Suwmn St McKeesport PA 15130 IV Bob Karlsuon 2643 Marsh Rd Wilmington DE 19810 V Danid Platt 6540 NW 15th Ft Lauderdale FL 33313 VI Frank Bearty 2608 Pontoon Rd. Granite City IL 62040 VII Claude McCullough Boa 40 Montezuma IA 50171 VIII Johnny Casburn Son 8029 Ft Worth TX 76112 IX Dean Copeland 7817 Sewed St. Omaha NE 68114 X Frank Capat 251 Camino de las P10mw Encininas CA 92024 Xl Earle Moorhead 275S View P1 5 Salem OR 97302 CONTEST BOARD COORDINATOR Don Lindley 420 Tupelo Napertille IL 60540 James E Vanderwalker Clintonville WI David vonLinsowe Linden Ml David G Weitz Jr Henderson NV Ralph White Neoga IL early January finalists will voting hold RC Masters Team Selec tion Tournament among sites have offered World Championships US three-man team being picked planned South Africa probably September October 1979 PROPOSED CHANGES TO CB PROCEDURES NOT ACCEPTED Vot ng n ma ballot Execut ye Council Contest Board chairmen CB coordinator has resulted defeat four proposals reported last month page 84 Briefly proposals three-year rules review cycle requiring amount kind experience proposer shown rules proposal form allow ing Provisional Supplemental rules events held Nats done auto matic upgrade Official status changing date age class determination July 1 January 1 year Craft tissue Mark Westminster MD February 1979 81 Mark Arnold ths Shocer 4Ks kitJ holding set national AMA record 17 min utes 36 seconds FF BGasCat Ill Open August 131978 uses K&B 35 engine GloBee plug 84 RevUp prop Seelig multi-function timer KraftHayes engine mount wingspan increased 70 surfaces doublecovered Aristo NMPRA Championship Race Pylon Racings Tournament Cham pions National Miniature Pylon Racing Association organization made up Pylon Race fliers through out US Canada Mexico organization responsible pro motion betterment Pylon Rac ing Most rules governing events have come NMPRA NMPRA rotates race site year year must some place US weather nice end October year races held Florida year California year Texas back Florida year went Dallas TX October 21-22 weather great qualify race person has finish top 20% NMPRA district means lot hard work determination part qualify 49 entrants signed ready compete dead line came 600 pm October 20 During registration checks made AMA memberships FCC licenses planes safety checked es pecially devises linkage radio installa tion engine mounting control surfaces 82 Model Aviation start races NMPRA Championshipsplane No 1 position already out view No 2 just starting No3 waiting third drop flag Author says workers bent over backwards see flier got fair shake look goes time clock competitors fire up Pylon rules give 90 seconds starting adjusting engines getting position race begin Planes also measured weighed per rules Next came what 1 call hardest part planes judged appear ance Formula best looking planes take off first Following usual practice planes put four dif ferent groups championship award given best plane Out about 90 very beautiful airplanes plane judged best honor went again Ron Schorr tops Nats too Pole Cat planes checked judged pilots went back rooms ready full weekend racing Saturday 845 am first race got underway lot jock eying around lead come win Ron Schorr might considered favorite since won AMA Nats August just could get together what several flameouts BitI Preis early leader ran 0 form few short laps have go around pylons BitI Bill Williamson has going fast year ran few 0s form engine failure hard luck story Charlie Brunner came two planes close race Charlie overturned No 3 pylon know theres much left couple races later mid-air No 1 pylon backup plane made short contest Charlie Being competitor though Charlie will back Ill bet time issue reaches press Charlie probably will getting ready next year past have very few fliers Ohio Indiana Michi gan area have attended Cham pionship Races Well year after years preaching urging finally got some crowd attend [hey did pretty well first time out Art Arro finished 18th Rex Knepper 22nd Wayne Yeager 36th guys planning try qualify attend again 1979 Nearly days end John McDermott Bob Reuther lave Shadel tied first last heats Dave Shadels wing suddenly exploded No pylon thus ending bid lead Saturday evenings banquetwasserved ballroom headquarters motel very nice food very good area NMPRA V-Ps gave brief reports things going dis tricts guest speaker Mike Clark ex-Dallas Cowboy football player Mike son have interest model airplanes Mike spent two days out line official lap counter February 1 979 83 happy triowinner John McDermott center caller Dave Shadel left sponsor Jim Shin ohara pose after John took first 10 heats Plane Little Toni Supertigre power Engines putting out best callers ready launch racers go off after other about one-second intervalsas quickly astheflag can repeatedly dropped 1978 NMPRA CHAMPIONSHIP P1Name 1John McDermott 2Bob Reuther 3Gary Hover 4Ed Allen 5A Mike Atzei 6A Dave Shadel 7 Tom Castellano 8A Dennis OBrien 9A Clay/Barrett Team 10Bill Preis 11Doug Ruble 12A Bill Hager 13A Cliff Telford 14A Gale Helms 15Mike Helsel 16Charles Monnett 17A Pete Reed 18A Art Arro 19B Bill Williamson 208 Carl Simms 21B George Parks 228 Rex Knepper 23B Bob Wallace 248 David Donat 25B Steve Dentz 26 Tim Edwards 278 Rusty Van Baren 28B Gary Heithald 29B Rick Oliver 308 Gary McPike 31B Jerry Boyce 328 Leonard Ledson 33Greig Simpson 34Mark Harsu 35B Larry Barnes 36B Wayne Yeager 37Ron Schorr 38Jim Kimbro 39Dan Downing 40Fransicso Gonzalez 41Bob Brogdon 42Jeff Bertken 43Glen Sicoste 44Charlie Brunner 45Norm Johnson 46Gail Jacobson 47Omar Lopez 48Dan Kaylor 49Sergio Baamano ATie broken flyoff Airplane/Engine Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/ST LR1A/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/K&B Little Toni/ST Minnow/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/K&B Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/K&B Little Toni/ST Minnow/ST Pole Cat/ST Minnow/K&B Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Midget Mustang/ST Minnow/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Midget Mustang/ST Rickey Rat/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/K&B Little Toni/ST Midget Mustang/K&B Little Toni/ST El Bandido/K&B Minnow/K&B Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/ST Minnow/ST Pole Cat/ST Midget Mustang/K&B Minnow/ST Midget Mustang RACE RESULTS PtsBess Time 401132 391177 371184 361200 341176 341184 321173 311215 311188 311162 311191 291205 291235 291263 281220 271190 251250 251261 231185 231202 231230 231250 231269 221229 221270 211271 191206 191307 181254 181340 171186 171298 161255 151268 141283 141303 131377 121236 10 8 6 3 3 3 3 3 3 0 0 1305 1400 1247 1318 1320 1343 1345 1443 1546 BTie broken best time 84 Model Aviation top five L-R John McDermott 1st Bob Reuther 2nd Gary Hover 3rd Ed Allen 4th Mike Atzei 5th George Parks wife teamed up finish 21stnot bad considering quality competition George perhaps better known QM Left Pilots callers must work teams successful Note concentration faces race progress Right top 20 fliers NMPRA Championships came over US Canada Mexico Altogether 49 vieing top spot timer Mike said really enjoyed weekend NMPRA Races banquet Mike told training discipline goes fore big football game Its much same races won qualify NMPRA Cham pionships discipline sacri fices go being Pylon Racing champion Sunday saw another perfect day temperatures reached 90 degrees could have better day racing competitive some Championship races have lot planes lost fliers aiming same groove putting out super effort race somehow few mis haps best races con test between Tom Casteliano Clay-Barrett team planes actually touched paint under Toms wing slight mid-air no dam age otherwise Tom Casteliano won race after crowd specta tors stood up applauded seen fine example good close race John McDermott Bob Reuther remained tied until ninth round Bob got edged out close race Ed Allen dropping Bob point down John managed hang finished perfect score 10 rounds John also fast time forthis race 1132 Ties broken either flyoffs best time previous heats flyoff between Mike Atzei Dave Shadel fifth Mike won Dave failed start Dennis OBrien edged out Clay-Barrett team flyoff 8th 9th authorBill Hager man aged come out top three-way flyoff Cliff Telford Gale Helms 12th 13th 14th Pete Reed edged out Art Arro flyoff 17th 18th short pause final points computation came awards pre sentation NMPRA supplied awards silver wine coolers through fifth sil ver dishes 6th through 20th plus best finish fast timeKits sever al manufacturers Pylon Race field also awarded biggest sur prise cash accompanied trophies$30000 first $20000 second $15000 third fourth $10000 fifth $10000 fast time quite shock hadnt expecting prize money came anonymous donor think know donorthanks race has come long way since its inception 1973 racing im proving year Lets hope trend continues NMPRA growing ganization proper care promotion will continue reach new heights opinion Formula racers easiest best flying planes RC Try youll like closing comment lifted Ed Rankin Contest Directors AMA Nats NMPRA Cham pionships should experienced CDs also experienced Pylon fliers Ten-four Thanks Dallas RC Club Ed Rankin workers fine contest February 1979 85 Art Arro right authors son Rob Hager carrying Arts Little Toni back pits after flight Rob often caller fliers area speaks well abilities eventual winner John McDermottright makes some last-minute adjustmentshelped Len Ledson win permits no mistakes size Hanno Prettners winning Dalotel DM-165 vivid photo right held Hanno father Hans behind fuselage has 2500 sq wing area weighs 21 lbs uses 11 servos own design retracts Above Hanno checking glow plug two Webra 61s powering model Gears barely visible photo below link two en gines 20-11 prop two-to-one reduction Prettner designed own dutch engine quit other still would keep plane airborne Flew very slow stable consistent 45-50 mph attitudes Hannos first place year won him $15000 Dave Browns Zlin Z-50-L touching down smallest plane event 870 sq wing area won second place $7000 FIFTH TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS o0 / o L1 op I0 1~\ III LQ i- 0 / 0 0 8 00 aerobatic schedule flown 1978 T0C shown Aresti notation left graphic form familiar modelers right Below Judges recorders during qualifying flight Qualifying flights before five judges 10 judges being used finals Judges drawn both modeling fullicale fields including several nationalities Report Photos Dave Lane years Tournament Champi ons outstanding thanks no small part sponsors--Circus Circus Ho tel Casino Model Airplane News just five years have seen event evolve FAI RC Aerobatic Pat tern through progression com plicated maneuvers including special Scale event last year years sophisticated Aresti routine semi-scale 85% replicas full-scale aerobatic aircraft popular planes Zlin Z-50-L Zlin 526-AS Spinks Akromaster next Other air craft modeled Kraft Super Fli Laser 200 Stephens Acro Chipmunk Cap 20 L Cap 10 Cranfield A-i Hiper bipe Sportmaster 150 Skybolt Dalotel DM-165 Hanno Prettner won TOC fifth time total score 5061 points Dave Brown second 47215 Ivan Kristensen third 47125 Dean Koger fourth 4669 Wolfgang Matt fifth 4623 points Wolfgang flew four final rounds intermittent radio still finished 438 points off pace takes some kind concen tration February 1979 87 ---xx ED I \ Ivan Kristensen beautiful Cap 1Oa two-place aerobatic trainer elliptical surfaces smooth flying plane looked great air cop third place $5000 Right Wolfgang Matt Liechtenstein fifth caught explaining some finer points Zlin Z-50-L Matt radio problems week Zlins prototype Topp kits W Germany years pattern consisted following 20 maneuvers 1 One loop inside snaproll top ioop 2 Hammerhead turn-around maneu ver 3 Slow roll 4 One-half Cuban eight 1 out side snaprolls turn-around maneu ver 5 Square inside loop 6 Immelmann turn turn-around ma neuver 7 Inside snaproll 45-degree down line 8 Hammerhead 112 roll down line turn-around maneuver 9 Outside loop inverted flight 10 Wind correction maneuver turn around maneuver 11 Wind correction maneuver turn around maneuver 12 Four-point roll 13 1/2 reverse Cuban eight l/l snaprolls 45-degree upline turn around maneuver 14 Slow roll 45-degree upline 15 1-turn spin turn-around maneu ver 16 Eight-point roll 17 Hump turn-around turn-around maneuver 18 Rolling 360-degree turn circle 19 1/2 Cuban eight turn-around ma neuver 20 Verticalroll pattern fun watch joy judge competitors commended doing excellent job flying limited time practice TOC pilots learn new routine also design PL 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Hanno Prettner Dave Brown Ivan Kristensen Dean Koger Wolfgang Man Gunter Hoppe Steve Helms Richard Brand Phil Kraft Giichi Naruke Mark Radcliff Fred Kugel Jeff Tracy Don Lowe Bruno Giezendanner lsao Matsui Don Weitz Ron Chidgey Tony Bonetti Denis Donohue Benito Bertolani Harald Neckar Norm Cassella Ed Keck John Brink Ralph Brooke John Lockwood Joe Bridi Country Austria USA Canada USA Liechtenstein W Germany USA Rhodesia USA Japan USA USA Australia USA Switzerland Japan USA USA USA USA Italy W Germany USA USA So Africa USA USA USA 50610 47215 47125 46690 46230 22105 21935 21905 21900 21890 21750 21745 21725 21555 21190 21185 21160 21035 21035 20855 20390 19850 18455 17779 17645 17545 16735 15415 $15000 $7000 $5000 $4000 $3000 $2000 $1500 $1300 $1000 $900 $800 $700 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 Dalotel DM-165 Zlin Z-50 Cap 10 Laser 200 Zlin Z-50-L Cranfield A-i Spinks Akromaster Zlin Z-526 Super Fli Chipmunk Super Fli Spinks Akromaster Cap 20 L Zlin 526AS ZIin 50-L Zlin 50-L Spinks Akromaster Spinks Akromaster Super Fli Stephens Acro Zlin 526-AFS Zlin 50-L Skybolt Spinks Akromaster Stephens Acro Hiperbipe Sportmaster 150 Spinks Akromaster 88 Model Aviation Dean Koger 4th place very nice Laser 2001200 sq 12 lbs. alibalsa plywood construction fiberglass cowl Webra 91 reduction belt drive Laser 200 modified Stephens Acro Leo Loudenslager made modifications won World Championships Photo right shows bit Koger puts plane together big wing held place four 6-32 machine screws TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONSRESULTS/MODEL DATA PilotPoints PrizeAircraftEngine Webra 61 0S90 FSR Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 YS 12 Webra 91 Webra 91 Quadra Webra 91 Webra 91 0S90 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 OPS Webra 91 Webra 91 0S90 Webra 91 Quadra Webra 91 0S90 build new aircraft competition Most aircraft between 800 1200 square inches wing area Hanno Prettners Dalotel 2500 square inches 9-foot wingspan weighed 21 pounds maximum weight allowed 22 pounds Hanno used two Webra 6 ls clutches driving two-to-one reduction-geared center shaft 20-1 1 prop Hannos aircraft flew between 40 50 mph attitude rudder elevator two servos servo aileron servo landing gear throttle servo servo mixture control Thats 11 servos Dave Brown flew own design Zlin Z-50-L smallest ship 870 square inches Daves airplane all-balsa foam wing tail cores drawback Zlin Z-50-Ls color scheme silver red trim silver really disappears overcast sky background during fi nals sky clear silver hard see Daves Zlin fastest ships meet Ivan Kristensen flew Cap 10 two-place side-by-side aerobatic trainer competition aircraft Ivans bird flew very nice looked very good air its elliptical wing planform Cap 10 built-up construction similar full-scale aircraft Dean Kogers Laser 200 typical designs has flying FAI Pattern has built-up fuselage tail group foam wing cores Dean really advantage contest has flying 1000 square inch pattern bird last three years familiar flying characteristics large model Wolfgang Matts bird Zlin Z-50-L prototype Topp kit fuse lage fiberglass foam wing tail cores wing 950 square inches Wolfgang built Laser 200 contest lost third flight cause faulty battery pack also scratch-built Zlin Z-50-L lost first flight because radio February 1979 89 Left Gunter 1-loppe Cranfield A-i British design aero batics fixed gear Looks bit like P-51 belly radiator Uses epoxy/glass fuselage foam wing tail Above Top scale points special award went Denis Donohue modified Stephens Acro Like used Webra 91 engine Ralph Brookes Hiperbipe Has Quadra engine all-balsa open structure covered Monokote Richard Brand Rhodesia two entered Zlin 526s Webra 91 power Giichi Narukes all-balsa dope Chipmunk powered new VS 120 engine produced Japan Left Fuselage Jeff Tracys Quadra-powered Cap 20 L Note stub spars wing panels slip overheld place machine screws through bottom wing leading edge Right lsao Matsui waiting turn Zlin Z-50-L all-balsa finished dopelooks like glass Left Ron Chidgey flew Spinks Akromaster designed Ed Keck original demonstrated 1977 TOC Right Bruno Giezendanner taxiing out takeoff like Matt flew prototype Topp kit Zlin Z-50-L has 950 sq wing area Above The crash caused mal functioning radio John Brinks Stephens Ac ro stalled about six feet above ground broke half impact doesnt look bad picture probably total washout Fortunately John backup low Clown pilot Gunter Hoppes Cranfield A-i especially appropriate event problems wasnt Wolfgangs year exactly though still finished fifth seemed everyone ex ception two contestants crashed before contest fli ers using either back-up ships borrowed airplanes Tony Bonetti flying very nice Pitts 5-1 until crashed couple weeks before contest Phil Kraft loaned Tony back-up Super Fli competiton Thats sportsmanship judging panel year included seven modelers five full-scale aero batic pilots and/or judges full-scale judges Art Scholl Chipmunk fame LaMar Stern Skybolt fame Jim Roberts Laser 200 pilot Gordon Price Canadian champion Gerry Zim merrnan top US aerobatic judge model judges Bill Johnson USA fifth time TOC Bob Upton USA fifth time TOC Warren Hitchcox Canada Canadian World Championship Team Geoff Franklin England judged 1977 World Championships Dennis Hunt Rhodesia Masahiro Kato Ja pan Dave Lane USA fifth time TOC judging very consistent throughout tournament fullscale judges commented fact wished full-scale judging could consistent model judg ing seems judges full-scale aerobatics meets leave something desired mentioned model ing judges TOC minimum 12 years judging experience apiece would glad judge full-scale aerobatics major difference judging Aresti pattern versus FAI pattern cannot take eyes off airplane during Aresti routine Everything plane does judged FAI worry about turn arounds can relax during time TOC judge assistant recorded scores maneuverthe same done full-scale aerobatics closing would like say judges opinion TOC Aresti schedule way FAI Pattern should go makes much inter esting event both fliers spectators believe would see spectators new pattern because aircraft remain front flier time also eliminates spot landing contest see much pattern flying present hope able judge next TOC can hardly wait see what sponsors will come up future top years event special thank appropriate Jerry Nelson Contest Director Doc Edwards Chief Judge gether sponsors made con test outstanding concerned 90 Model 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NE WSLETTE ACADEMY OF MODEL AERONAUTICS 815 FlFTEENTH STREET NW WASHINGTON DC 20005 RC AEROBATICS TEAM PROGRAM As mid-November 64 registered intent try qualify Masters Tournament team selection finals paid $10 program entry fee num ber 42 have qualified placing top one-third Master class event least five fliers AMA sanctioned meet Mem bers 1977 US RC Aerobatics Team automatically qualified having paid program entry fee Dave Brown Cincinnati OH Rhett Miller Ill Tallahassee FL Mark Radcliff Newport OH 42 have qualified press time follows although some thc 19 others may also qualify December 31 dead line Wayne Abernathy Hillside MD Donald L Atwood Denvez CO Roderick W Barnes Zanesville OH Sal Battaglia New Rochelle NY Andre Bauchard King Prussia PA Tony Bonetti Emerson NJ Joe Bridi Harbor City CA John Britt Hazelwood MOGeorge Buzel Jr Stamford CT Ron Chidgey Pen sacola FL Charles Danley Baytown TX Denis Donohue Bergenfield NJ Alan C Dupler Millersport OH Tony rackowiak Erie PA William M Furori Commack NY joseph G Gross Altus OK Steve Helms Pensacola FL George Hill An nandale VA Ed Izzo Holliston MA Fd Keck Webster NY Jim Kimbro Oceanside CA Dean Koger Wright-Patterson AFB OH Daniel E Kowallek Kokomo IN Fred Kugel Celina OH W R Lippincott Jr Boyce VA Don Lowe Dayton OH William Macek Bethlehem PA Thomas Moore Forestville MD Michael Mueller Rolling Meadows IL William Ney Wheeling WV Lloyd Nicholson Denver CO Jim Oddino Woodland Hills CA Roy Pinner Waterford Ml C W Reed III Raytown MO Donald Seals Paris IL Pat Shuttleworth Warren IN William E Thomas Bartlesville OK Biuce Underwood Guntersville AL DIRECTORY CONTEST COORDINATORS I Paul L Penney B Oarlotte Dr Andoser MA OlBtO II R Sobrino 87-26 88th St. Woodhanen Queens NY 11421 RC Bryan Sattler 29 Waldorf P1. Schenectady NY 12307 RC Fred Blackburn B Blue Spruce Ln. Commack NY 11725 Ill Ken Reber RD 1 Nazareth PA 18064 lEastI M Weisenbach 4568W 146th St. Cleseland OH 44135 IWessi IV Warren Sanders Jr. 9735 52nd Ane College Pk MD 20741 RC Ed Fitzwater 474 Tudor Or. Crownusille MD 21032 V NC Soaring Donna Dde 7409 Atwood Dr Huntsnille AL 35802 RC Charlene Fields 818 Main St. SW New Ellington SC 29809 FF Wallace Johnson 4112 White Acres Rd Montgomery AL 36106 VI Jim Thomerson 1317 EilewCollinssille IL 62234 RC Ralph White Jr RR 1 Son 324 Neoga IL 62447 VII John Enern 421 Walnut Las Apple Valley MN 55124 IWesti Wes Slack 12851 Payton Detroit MI 48224 lEasti VIII John Deaton 505 Connerce St. Port Worth TX 76102 RC Larry Snanfield 205 Quail Creek Dr Crowley TX 76036 IX Bill Bieda 411 Barker Building Osnelsa NE 68102 RC Tranis McGinnis 8027 W 81st Circle Arnada CO 80005 X Myrtle Coed Rn Boa 19 miner Lake CA 95457 INorthl Lee Polaneky 258 Iris Ate. Goleta CA 93017 ISouthi Prank Games 2241 Noah St Honolulu HI 96816 IHI meensi XI Don Dodd 3406 Bnltidere Ate. SW Seattle WA 98126 RC Don Miller 24715 Sa55mit-Landsburg Ranensdale WA 98051 RC Pylon & Souring RC Pattern other RC CL RC leocept Soaringi Bold Pace Below Indica-les Chairman Contest Board FREE FLIGHT CONTEST BOARD I Henry Struck RFO 2 Hamburg Old Lynre CT 06371 II Carrol Allen2 Arizona R Huntington Sta NY 11746 III Rudy Kluiber 2021 Lakeland Ate. Lakessood OH 44107 IV Joe Boyle Jr 219 Shenandoah Rd. Hampton VA 23361 V Bonny Jenkins 3112 E Raires Rd. Memphis TN 38115 VI Chris Mansuno 8S76 Ginger St John MO 83114 VII Phil Klintworth Jr. 715 Rutgers Rd. Rocinester Ml 48063 VIII Mark Valerius 2302 Pomeran Or. Houston TX 77055 IX Jerald Murphy 2432 Astron Dr Colorado Springs CO 80906 X Joe Norcross215 WSanta Ana No 211A Clonis CA 93612 XI Ernie Lint 16558- 121st Ace. SE RennonWA 98055 CONTROL LINE CONTEST BOARD I George Higgins P0 Ban 482 North Pembroke MA 02358 II Bill Boss 7706 269th St New Hyde Park NY 11040 III Laird Jackson 523 Meadombrook St Danids PA 19087 IV Ron McNally 6118 Bardo Ate Springfield VA 22152 V Dane Hemstruught PO Bon 171 Moecks Corner SC 29461 VI Bob Bsrch 5248W Scool Chicago IL 60641 VII James Snnon 4941 Wisconsin Ate. N New Hope MN 55428 VIII Charles Anasnon 3730 Kiestcnest Dallas TX 75233 IX Mictruel Tallman 3014 Eaclarge Wichita KS 67217 X Pete Brandn 315 S Maria Ace. Redondo Beach CA 90277 XI Dan Rutherford 4705 237th R SE Boshell WA 98011 RADIO CONTROL CONTEST BOARD I Ed Izzo 483 Fiske St Holliston MA 01746 II Joe Friend 62 Joysan Terr. Freehold NJ 07728 Ill Date Brown 8534 Huddleston Cincinnati OH 45236 IV Fred M Gregg 12709 Rcfrwood St. Chester VA 23831 V J Oasis Jr 1813S Lakesnore Dr. Birmingham AL 35216 VI Bob Onderwond 4109 Concord Oaks Dr. SI Louis MO 63128 VII Peter Waters 31219 Kendall Linonia MI 48154 VIII Danid Hyde 2026 Scommass Ln Garland TX 75042 IX Loren Tregellas 3003S Eterett Wichita KS 87217 X Bill Northrop Jr. 621 W 19th St Costa Mesa CA 92627 XI Ralph Brooke 3431 5 194th Seattle WA 98188 SCALE CONTEST BOARD I Richard Sherman 408 Rite Rd Tewksbury MA 01876 II Robert Clemens 95 Shoretray Dr Rochester NY 14612 Ill Edward Wisser 1521 Suwmn St McKeesport PA 15130 IV Bob Karlsuon 2643 Marsh Rd Wilmington DE 19810 V Danid Platt 6540 NW 15th Ft Lauderdale FL 33313 VI Frank Bearty 2608 Pontoon Rd. Granite City IL 62040 VII Claude McCullough Boa 40 Montezuma IA 50171 VIII Johnny Casburn Son 8029 Ft Worth TX 76112 IX Dean Copeland 7817 Sewed St. Omaha NE 68114 X Frank Capat 251 Camino de las P10mw Encininas CA 92024 Xl Earle Moorhead 275S View P1 5 Salem OR 97302 CONTEST BOARD COORDINATOR Don Lindley 420 Tupelo Napertille IL 60540 James E Vanderwalker Clintonville WI David vonLinsowe Linden Ml David G Weitz Jr Henderson NV Ralph White Neoga IL early January finalists will voting hold RC Masters Team Selec tion Tournament among sites have offered World Championships US three-man team being picked planned South Africa probably September October 1979 PROPOSED CHANGES TO CB PROCEDURES NOT ACCEPTED Vot ng n ma ballot Execut ye Council Contest Board chairmen CB coordinator has resulted defeat four proposals reported last month page 84 Briefly proposals three-year rules review cycle requiring amount kind experience proposer shown rules proposal form allow ing Provisional Supplemental rules events held Nats done auto matic upgrade Official status changing date age class determination July 1 January 1 year Craft tissue Mark Westminster MD February 1979 81 Mark Arnold ths Shocer 4Ks kitJ holding set national AMA record 17 min utes 36 seconds FF BGasCat Ill Open August 131978 uses K&B 35 engine GloBee plug 84 RevUp prop Seelig multi-function timer KraftHayes engine mount wingspan increased 70 surfaces doublecovered Aristo NMPRA Championship Race Pylon Racings Tournament Cham pions National Miniature Pylon Racing Association organization made up Pylon Race fliers through out US Canada Mexico organization responsible pro motion betterment Pylon Rac ing Most rules governing events have come NMPRA NMPRA rotates race site year year must some place US weather nice end October year races held Florida year California year Texas back Florida year went Dallas TX October 21-22 weather great qualify race person has finish top 20% NMPRA district means lot hard work determination part qualify 49 entrants signed ready compete dead line came 600 pm October 20 During registration checks made AMA memberships FCC licenses planes safety checked es pecially devises linkage radio installa tion engine mounting control surfaces 82 Model Aviation start races NMPRA Championshipsplane No 1 position already out view No 2 just starting No3 waiting third drop flag Author says workers bent over backwards see flier got fair shake look goes time clock competitors fire up Pylon rules give 90 seconds starting adjusting engines getting position race begin Planes also measured weighed per rules Next came what 1 call hardest part planes judged appear ance Formula best looking planes take off first Following usual practice planes put four dif ferent groups championship award given best plane Out about 90 very beautiful airplanes plane judged best honor went again Ron Schorr tops Nats too Pole Cat planes checked judged pilots went back rooms ready full weekend racing Saturday 845 am first race got underway lot jock eying around lead come win Ron Schorr might considered favorite since won AMA Nats August just could get together what several flameouts BitI Preis early leader ran 0 form few short laps have go around pylons BitI Bill Williamson has going fast year ran few 0s form engine failure hard luck story Charlie Brunner came two planes close race Charlie overturned No 3 pylon know theres much left couple races later mid-air No 1 pylon backup plane made short contest Charlie Being competitor though Charlie will back Ill bet time issue reaches press Charlie probably will getting ready next year past have very few fliers Ohio Indiana Michi gan area have attended Cham pionship Races Well year after years preaching urging finally got some crowd attend [hey did pretty well first time out Art Arro finished 18th Rex Knepper 22nd Wayne Yeager 36th guys planning try qualify attend again 1979 Nearly days end John McDermott Bob Reuther lave Shadel tied first last heats Dave Shadels wing suddenly exploded No pylon thus ending bid lead Saturday evenings banquetwasserved ballroom headquarters motel very nice food very good area NMPRA V-Ps gave brief reports things going dis tricts guest speaker Mike Clark ex-Dallas Cowboy football player Mike son have interest model airplanes Mike spent two days out line official lap counter February 1 979 83 happy triowinner John McDermott center caller Dave Shadel left sponsor Jim Shin ohara pose after John took first 10 heats Plane Little Toni Supertigre power Engines putting out best callers ready launch racers go off after other about one-second intervalsas quickly astheflag can repeatedly dropped 1978 NMPRA CHAMPIONSHIP P1Name 1John McDermott 2Bob Reuther 3Gary Hover 4Ed Allen 5A Mike Atzei 6A Dave Shadel 7 Tom Castellano 8A Dennis OBrien 9A Clay/Barrett Team 10Bill Preis 11Doug Ruble 12A Bill Hager 13A Cliff Telford 14A Gale Helms 15Mike Helsel 16Charles Monnett 17A Pete Reed 18A Art Arro 19B Bill Williamson 208 Carl Simms 21B George Parks 228 Rex Knepper 23B Bob Wallace 248 David Donat 25B Steve Dentz 26 Tim Edwards 278 Rusty Van Baren 28B Gary Heithald 29B Rick Oliver 308 Gary McPike 31B Jerry Boyce 328 Leonard Ledson 33Greig Simpson 34Mark Harsu 35B Larry Barnes 36B Wayne Yeager 37Ron Schorr 38Jim Kimbro 39Dan Downing 40Fransicso Gonzalez 41Bob Brogdon 42Jeff Bertken 43Glen Sicoste 44Charlie Brunner 45Norm Johnson 46Gail Jacobson 47Omar Lopez 48Dan Kaylor 49Sergio Baamano ATie broken flyoff Airplane/Engine Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/ST LR1A/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/K&B Little Toni/ST Minnow/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/K&B Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/K&B Little Toni/ST Minnow/ST Pole Cat/ST Minnow/K&B Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Midget Mustang/ST Minnow/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Midget Mustang/ST Rickey Rat/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/K&B Little Toni/ST Midget Mustang/K&B Little Toni/ST El Bandido/K&B Minnow/K&B Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/ST Minnow/ST Pole Cat/ST Midget Mustang/K&B Minnow/ST Midget Mustang RACE RESULTS PtsBess Time 401132 391177 371184 361200 341176 341184 321173 311215 311188 311162 311191 291205 291235 291263 281220 271190 251250 251261 231185 231202 231230 231250 231269 221229 221270 211271 191206 191307 181254 181340 171186 171298 161255 151268 141283 141303 131377 121236 10 8 6 3 3 3 3 3 3 0 0 1305 1400 1247 1318 1320 1343 1345 1443 1546 BTie broken best time 84 Model Aviation top five L-R John McDermott 1st Bob Reuther 2nd Gary Hover 3rd Ed Allen 4th Mike Atzei 5th George Parks wife teamed up finish 21stnot bad considering quality competition George perhaps better known QM Left Pilots callers must work teams successful Note concentration faces race progress Right top 20 fliers NMPRA Championships came over US Canada Mexico Altogether 49 vieing top spot timer Mike said really enjoyed weekend NMPRA Races banquet Mike told training discipline goes fore big football game Its much same races won qualify NMPRA Cham pionships discipline sacri fices go being Pylon Racing champion Sunday saw another perfect day temperatures reached 90 degrees could have better day racing competitive some Championship races have lot planes lost fliers aiming same groove putting out super effort race somehow few mis haps best races con test between Tom Casteliano Clay-Barrett team planes actually touched paint under Toms wing slight mid-air no dam age otherwise Tom Casteliano won race after crowd specta tors stood up applauded seen fine example good close race John McDermott Bob Reuther remained tied until ninth round Bob got edged out close race Ed Allen dropping Bob point down John managed hang finished perfect score 10 rounds John also fast time forthis race 1132 Ties broken either flyoffs best time previous heats flyoff between Mike Atzei Dave Shadel fifth Mike won Dave failed start Dennis OBrien edged out Clay-Barrett team flyoff 8th 9th authorBill Hager man aged come out top three-way flyoff Cliff Telford Gale Helms 12th 13th 14th Pete Reed edged out Art Arro flyoff 17th 18th short pause final points computation came awards pre sentation NMPRA supplied awards silver wine coolers through fifth sil ver dishes 6th through 20th plus best finish fast timeKits sever al manufacturers Pylon Race field also awarded biggest sur prise cash accompanied trophies$30000 first $20000 second $15000 third fourth $10000 fifth $10000 fast time quite shock hadnt expecting prize money came anonymous donor think know donorthanks race has come long way since its inception 1973 racing im proving year Lets hope trend continues NMPRA growing ganization proper care promotion will continue reach new heights opinion Formula racers easiest best flying planes RC Try youll like closing comment lifted Ed Rankin Contest Directors AMA Nats NMPRA Cham pionships should experienced CDs also experienced Pylon fliers Ten-four Thanks Dallas RC Club Ed Rankin workers fine contest February 1979 85 Art Arro right authors son Rob Hager carrying Arts Little Toni back pits after flight Rob often caller fliers area speaks well abilities eventual winner John McDermottright makes some last-minute adjustmentshelped Len Ledson win permits no mistakes size Hanno Prettners winning Dalotel DM-165 vivid photo right held Hanno father Hans behind fuselage has 2500 sq wing area weighs 21 lbs uses 11 servos own design retracts Above Hanno checking glow plug two Webra 61s powering model Gears barely visible photo below link two en gines 20-11 prop two-to-one reduction Prettner designed own dutch engine quit other still would keep plane airborne Flew very slow stable consistent 45-50 mph attitudes Hannos first place year won him $15000 Dave Browns Zlin Z-50-L touching down smallest plane event 870 sq wing area won second place $7000 FIFTH TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS o0 / o L1 op I0 1~\ III LQ i- 0 / 0 0 8 00 aerobatic schedule flown 1978 T0C shown Aresti notation left graphic form familiar modelers right Below Judges recorders during qualifying flight Qualifying flights before five judges 10 judges being used finals Judges drawn both modeling fullicale fields including several nationalities Report Photos Dave Lane years Tournament Champi ons outstanding thanks no small part sponsors--Circus Circus Ho tel Casino Model Airplane News just five years have seen event evolve FAI RC Aerobatic Pat tern through progression com plicated maneuvers including special Scale event last year years sophisticated Aresti routine semi-scale 85% replicas full-scale aerobatic aircraft popular planes Zlin Z-50-L Zlin 526-AS Spinks Akromaster next Other air craft modeled Kraft Super Fli Laser 200 Stephens Acro Chipmunk Cap 20 L Cap 10 Cranfield A-i Hiper bipe Sportmaster 150 Skybolt Dalotel DM-165 Hanno Prettner won TOC fifth time total score 5061 points Dave Brown second 47215 Ivan Kristensen third 47125 Dean Koger fourth 4669 Wolfgang Matt fifth 4623 points Wolfgang flew four final rounds intermittent radio still finished 438 points off pace takes some kind concen tration February 1979 87 ---xx ED I \ Ivan Kristensen beautiful Cap 1Oa two-place aerobatic trainer elliptical surfaces smooth flying plane looked great air cop third place $5000 Right Wolfgang Matt Liechtenstein fifth caught explaining some finer points Zlin Z-50-L Matt radio problems week Zlins prototype Topp kits W Germany years pattern consisted following 20 maneuvers 1 One loop inside snaproll top ioop 2 Hammerhead turn-around maneu ver 3 Slow roll 4 One-half Cuban eight 1 out side snaprolls turn-around maneu ver 5 Square inside loop 6 Immelmann turn turn-around ma neuver 7 Inside snaproll 45-degree down line 8 Hammerhead 112 roll down line turn-around maneuver 9 Outside loop inverted flight 10 Wind correction maneuver turn around maneuver 11 Wind correction maneuver turn around maneuver 12 Four-point roll 13 1/2 reverse Cuban eight l/l snaprolls 45-degree upline turn around maneuver 14 Slow roll 45-degree upline 15 1-turn spin turn-around maneu ver 16 Eight-point roll 17 Hump turn-around turn-around maneuver 18 Rolling 360-degree turn circle 19 1/2 Cuban eight turn-around ma neuver 20 Verticalroll pattern fun watch joy judge competitors commended doing excellent job flying limited time practice TOC pilots learn new routine also design PL 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Hanno Prettner Dave Brown Ivan Kristensen Dean Koger Wolfgang Man Gunter Hoppe Steve Helms Richard Brand Phil Kraft Giichi Naruke Mark Radcliff Fred Kugel Jeff Tracy Don Lowe Bruno Giezendanner lsao Matsui Don Weitz Ron Chidgey Tony Bonetti Denis Donohue Benito Bertolani Harald Neckar Norm Cassella Ed Keck John Brink Ralph Brooke John Lockwood Joe Bridi Country Austria USA Canada USA Liechtenstein W Germany USA Rhodesia USA Japan USA USA Australia USA Switzerland Japan USA USA USA USA Italy W Germany USA USA So Africa USA USA USA 50610 47215 47125 46690 46230 22105 21935 21905 21900 21890 21750 21745 21725 21555 21190 21185 21160 21035 21035 20855 20390 19850 18455 17779 17645 17545 16735 15415 $15000 $7000 $5000 $4000 $3000 $2000 $1500 $1300 $1000 $900 $800 $700 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 Dalotel DM-165 Zlin Z-50 Cap 10 Laser 200 Zlin Z-50-L Cranfield A-i Spinks Akromaster Zlin Z-526 Super Fli Chipmunk Super Fli Spinks Akromaster Cap 20 L Zlin 526AS ZIin 50-L Zlin 50-L Spinks Akromaster Spinks Akromaster Super Fli Stephens Acro Zlin 526-AFS Zlin 50-L Skybolt Spinks Akromaster Stephens Acro Hiperbipe Sportmaster 150 Spinks Akromaster 88 Model Aviation Dean Koger 4th place very nice Laser 2001200 sq 12 lbs. alibalsa plywood construction fiberglass cowl Webra 91 reduction belt drive Laser 200 modified Stephens Acro Leo Loudenslager made modifications won World Championships Photo right shows bit Koger puts plane together big wing held place four 6-32 machine screws TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONSRESULTS/MODEL DATA PilotPoints PrizeAircraftEngine Webra 61 0S90 FSR Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 YS 12 Webra 91 Webra 91 Quadra Webra 91 Webra 91 0S90 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 OPS Webra 91 Webra 91 0S90 Webra 91 Quadra Webra 91 0S90 build new aircraft competition Most aircraft between 800 1200 square inches wing area Hanno Prettners Dalotel 2500 square inches 9-foot wingspan weighed 21 pounds maximum weight allowed 22 pounds Hanno used two Webra 6 ls clutches driving two-to-one reduction-geared center shaft 20-1 1 prop Hannos aircraft flew between 40 50 mph attitude rudder elevator two servos servo aileron servo landing gear throttle servo servo mixture control Thats 11 servos Dave Brown flew own design Zlin Z-50-L smallest ship 870 square inches Daves airplane all-balsa foam wing tail cores drawback Zlin Z-50-Ls color scheme silver red trim silver really disappears overcast sky background during fi nals sky clear silver hard see Daves Zlin fastest ships meet Ivan Kristensen flew Cap 10 two-place side-by-side aerobatic trainer competition aircraft Ivans bird flew very nice looked very good air its elliptical wing planform Cap 10 built-up construction similar full-scale aircraft Dean Kogers Laser 200 typical designs has flying FAI Pattern has built-up fuselage tail group foam wing cores Dean really advantage contest has flying 1000 square inch pattern bird last three years familiar flying characteristics large model Wolfgang Matts bird Zlin Z-50-L prototype Topp kit fuse lage fiberglass foam wing tail cores wing 950 square inches Wolfgang built Laser 200 contest lost third flight cause faulty battery pack also scratch-built Zlin Z-50-L lost first flight because radio February 1979 89 Left Gunter 1-loppe Cranfield A-i British design aero batics fixed gear Looks bit like P-51 belly radiator Uses epoxy/glass fuselage foam wing tail Above Top scale points special award went Denis Donohue modified Stephens Acro Like used Webra 91 engine Ralph Brookes Hiperbipe Has Quadra engine all-balsa open structure covered Monokote Richard Brand Rhodesia two entered Zlin 526s Webra 91 power Giichi Narukes all-balsa dope Chipmunk powered new VS 120 engine produced Japan Left Fuselage Jeff Tracys Quadra-powered Cap 20 L Note stub spars wing panels slip overheld place machine screws through bottom wing leading edge Right lsao Matsui waiting turn Zlin Z-50-L all-balsa finished dopelooks like glass Left Ron Chidgey flew Spinks Akromaster designed Ed Keck original demonstrated 1977 TOC Right Bruno Giezendanner taxiing out takeoff like Matt flew prototype Topp kit Zlin Z-50-L has 950 sq wing area Above The crash caused mal functioning radio John Brinks Stephens Ac ro stalled about six feet above ground broke half impact doesnt look bad picture probably total washout Fortunately John backup low Clown pilot Gunter Hoppes Cranfield A-i especially appropriate event problems wasnt Wolfgangs year exactly though still finished fifth seemed everyone ex ception two contestants crashed before contest fli ers using either back-up ships borrowed airplanes Tony Bonetti flying very nice Pitts 5-1 until crashed couple weeks before contest Phil Kraft loaned Tony back-up Super Fli competiton Thats sportsmanship judging panel year included seven modelers five full-scale aero batic pilots and/or judges full-scale judges Art Scholl Chipmunk fame LaMar Stern Skybolt fame Jim Roberts Laser 200 pilot Gordon Price Canadian champion Gerry Zim merrnan top US aerobatic judge model judges Bill Johnson USA fifth time TOC Bob Upton USA fifth time TOC Warren Hitchcox Canada Canadian World Championship Team Geoff Franklin England judged 1977 World Championships Dennis Hunt Rhodesia Masahiro Kato Ja pan Dave Lane USA fifth time TOC judging very consistent throughout tournament fullscale judges commented fact wished full-scale judging could consistent model judg ing seems judges full-scale aerobatics meets leave something desired mentioned model ing judges TOC minimum 12 years judging experience apiece would glad judge full-scale aerobatics major difference judging Aresti pattern versus FAI pattern cannot take eyes off airplane during Aresti routine Everything plane does judged FAI worry about turn arounds can relax during time TOC judge assistant recorded scores maneuverthe same done full-scale aerobatics closing would like say judges opinion TOC Aresti schedule way FAI Pattern should go makes much inter esting event both fliers spectators believe would see spectators new pattern because aircraft remain front flier time also eliminates spot landing contest see much pattern flying present hope able judge next TOC can hardly wait see what sponsors will come up future top years event special thank appropriate Jerry Nelson Contest Director Doc Edwards Chief Judge gether sponsors made con test outstanding concerned 90 Model 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NE WSLETTE ACADEMY OF MODEL AERONAUTICS 815 FlFTEENTH STREET NW WASHINGTON DC 20005 RC AEROBATICS TEAM PROGRAM As mid-November 64 registered intent try qualify Masters Tournament team selection finals paid $10 program entry fee num ber 42 have qualified placing top one-third Master class event least five fliers AMA sanctioned meet Mem bers 1977 US RC Aerobatics Team automatically qualified having paid program entry fee Dave Brown Cincinnati OH Rhett Miller Ill Tallahassee FL Mark Radcliff Newport OH 42 have qualified press time follows although some thc 19 others may also qualify December 31 dead line Wayne Abernathy Hillside MD Donald L Atwood Denvez CO Roderick W Barnes Zanesville OH Sal Battaglia New Rochelle NY Andre Bauchard King Prussia PA Tony Bonetti Emerson NJ Joe Bridi Harbor City CA John Britt Hazelwood MOGeorge Buzel Jr Stamford CT Ron Chidgey Pen sacola FL Charles Danley Baytown TX Denis Donohue Bergenfield NJ Alan C Dupler Millersport OH Tony rackowiak Erie PA William M Furori Commack NY joseph G Gross Altus OK Steve Helms Pensacola FL George Hill An nandale VA Ed Izzo Holliston MA Fd Keck Webster NY Jim Kimbro Oceanside CA Dean Koger Wright-Patterson AFB OH Daniel E Kowallek Kokomo IN Fred Kugel Celina OH W R Lippincott Jr Boyce VA Don Lowe Dayton OH William Macek Bethlehem PA Thomas Moore Forestville MD Michael Mueller Rolling Meadows IL William Ney Wheeling WV Lloyd Nicholson Denver CO Jim Oddino Woodland Hills CA Roy Pinner Waterford Ml C W Reed III Raytown MO Donald Seals Paris IL Pat Shuttleworth Warren IN William E Thomas Bartlesville OK Biuce Underwood Guntersville AL DIRECTORY CONTEST COORDINATORS I Paul L Penney B Oarlotte Dr Andoser MA OlBtO II R Sobrino 87-26 88th St. Woodhanen Queens NY 11421 RC Bryan Sattler 29 Waldorf P1. Schenectady NY 12307 RC Fred Blackburn B Blue Spruce Ln. Commack NY 11725 Ill Ken Reber RD 1 Nazareth PA 18064 lEastI M Weisenbach 4568W 146th St. Cleseland OH 44135 IWessi IV Warren Sanders Jr. 9735 52nd Ane College Pk MD 20741 RC Ed Fitzwater 474 Tudor Or. Crownusille MD 21032 V NC Soaring Donna Dde 7409 Atwood Dr Huntsnille AL 35802 RC Charlene Fields 818 Main St. SW New Ellington SC 29809 FF Wallace Johnson 4112 White Acres Rd Montgomery AL 36106 VI Jim Thomerson 1317 EilewCollinssille IL 62234 RC Ralph White Jr RR 1 Son 324 Neoga IL 62447 VII John Enern 421 Walnut Las Apple Valley MN 55124 IWesti Wes Slack 12851 Payton Detroit MI 48224 lEasti VIII John Deaton 505 Connerce St. Port Worth TX 76102 RC Larry Snanfield 205 Quail Creek Dr Crowley TX 76036 IX Bill Bieda 411 Barker Building Osnelsa NE 68102 RC Tranis McGinnis 8027 W 81st Circle Arnada CO 80005 X Myrtle Coed Rn Boa 19 miner Lake CA 95457 INorthl Lee Polaneky 258 Iris Ate. Goleta CA 93017 ISouthi Prank Games 2241 Noah St Honolulu HI 96816 IHI meensi XI Don Dodd 3406 Bnltidere Ate. SW Seattle WA 98126 RC Don Miller 24715 Sa55mit-Landsburg Ranensdale WA 98051 RC Pylon & Souring RC Pattern other RC CL RC leocept Soaringi Bold Pace Below Indica-les Chairman Contest Board FREE FLIGHT CONTEST BOARD I Henry Struck RFO 2 Hamburg Old Lynre CT 06371 II Carrol Allen2 Arizona R Huntington Sta NY 11746 III Rudy Kluiber 2021 Lakeland Ate. Lakessood OH 44107 IV Joe Boyle Jr 219 Shenandoah Rd. Hampton VA 23361 V Bonny Jenkins 3112 E Raires Rd. Memphis TN 38115 VI Chris Mansuno 8S76 Ginger St John MO 83114 VII Phil Klintworth Jr. 715 Rutgers Rd. Rocinester Ml 48063 VIII Mark Valerius 2302 Pomeran Or. Houston TX 77055 IX Jerald Murphy 2432 Astron Dr Colorado Springs CO 80906 X Joe Norcross215 WSanta Ana No 211A Clonis CA 93612 XI Ernie Lint 16558- 121st Ace. SE RennonWA 98055 CONTROL LINE CONTEST BOARD I George Higgins P0 Ban 482 North Pembroke MA 02358 II Bill Boss 7706 269th St New Hyde Park NY 11040 III Laird Jackson 523 Meadombrook St Danids PA 19087 IV Ron McNally 6118 Bardo Ate Springfield VA 22152 V Dane Hemstruught PO Bon 171 Moecks Corner SC 29461 VI Bob Bsrch 5248W Scool Chicago IL 60641 VII James Snnon 4941 Wisconsin Ate. N New Hope MN 55428 VIII Charles Anasnon 3730 Kiestcnest Dallas TX 75233 IX Mictruel Tallman 3014 Eaclarge Wichita KS 67217 X Pete Brandn 315 S Maria Ace. Redondo Beach CA 90277 XI Dan Rutherford 4705 237th R SE Boshell WA 98011 RADIO CONTROL CONTEST BOARD I Ed Izzo 483 Fiske St Holliston MA 01746 II Joe Friend 62 Joysan Terr. Freehold NJ 07728 Ill Date Brown 8534 Huddleston Cincinnati OH 45236 IV Fred M Gregg 12709 Rcfrwood St. Chester VA 23831 V J Oasis Jr 1813S Lakesnore Dr. Birmingham AL 35216 VI Bob Onderwond 4109 Concord Oaks Dr. SI Louis MO 63128 VII Peter Waters 31219 Kendall Linonia MI 48154 VIII Danid Hyde 2026 Scommass Ln Garland TX 75042 IX Loren Tregellas 3003S Eterett Wichita KS 87217 X Bill Northrop Jr. 621 W 19th St Costa Mesa CA 92627 XI Ralph Brooke 3431 5 194th Seattle WA 98188 SCALE CONTEST BOARD I Richard Sherman 408 Rite Rd Tewksbury MA 01876 II Robert Clemens 95 Shoretray Dr Rochester NY 14612 Ill Edward Wisser 1521 Suwmn St McKeesport PA 15130 IV Bob Karlsuon 2643 Marsh Rd Wilmington DE 19810 V Danid Platt 6540 NW 15th Ft Lauderdale FL 33313 VI Frank Bearty 2608 Pontoon Rd. Granite City IL 62040 VII Claude McCullough Boa 40 Montezuma IA 50171 VIII Johnny Casburn Son 8029 Ft Worth TX 76112 IX Dean Copeland 7817 Sewed St. Omaha NE 68114 X Frank Capat 251 Camino de las P10mw Encininas CA 92024 Xl Earle Moorhead 275S View P1 5 Salem OR 97302 CONTEST BOARD COORDINATOR Don Lindley 420 Tupelo Napertille IL 60540 James E Vanderwalker Clintonville WI David vonLinsowe Linden Ml David G Weitz Jr Henderson NV Ralph White Neoga IL early January finalists will voting hold RC Masters Team Selec tion Tournament among sites have offered World Championships US three-man team being picked planned South Africa probably September October 1979 PROPOSED CHANGES TO CB PROCEDURES NOT ACCEPTED Vot ng n ma ballot Execut ye Council Contest Board chairmen CB coordinator has resulted defeat four proposals reported last month page 84 Briefly proposals three-year rules review cycle requiring amount kind experience proposer shown rules proposal form allow ing Provisional Supplemental rules events held Nats done auto matic upgrade Official status changing date age class determination July 1 January 1 year Craft tissue Mark Westminster MD February 1979 81 Mark Arnold ths Shocer 4Ks kitJ holding set national AMA record 17 min utes 36 seconds FF BGasCat Ill Open August 131978 uses K&B 35 engine GloBee plug 84 RevUp prop Seelig multi-function timer KraftHayes engine mount wingspan increased 70 surfaces doublecovered Aristo NMPRA Championship Race Pylon Racings Tournament Cham pions National Miniature Pylon Racing Association organization made up Pylon Race fliers through out US Canada Mexico organization responsible pro motion betterment Pylon Rac ing Most rules governing events have come NMPRA NMPRA rotates race site year year must some place US weather nice end October year races held Florida year California year Texas back Florida year went Dallas TX October 21-22 weather great qualify race person has finish top 20% NMPRA district means lot hard work determination part qualify 49 entrants signed ready compete dead line came 600 pm October 20 During registration checks made AMA memberships FCC licenses planes safety checked es pecially devises linkage radio installa tion engine mounting control surfaces 82 Model Aviation start races NMPRA Championshipsplane No 1 position already out view No 2 just starting No3 waiting third drop flag Author says workers bent over backwards see flier got fair shake look goes time clock competitors fire up Pylon rules give 90 seconds starting adjusting engines getting position race begin Planes also measured weighed per rules Next came what 1 call hardest part planes judged appear ance Formula best looking planes take off first Following usual practice planes put four dif ferent groups championship award given best plane Out about 90 very beautiful airplanes plane judged best honor went again Ron Schorr tops Nats too Pole Cat planes checked judged pilots went back rooms ready full weekend racing Saturday 845 am first race got underway lot jock eying around lead come win Ron Schorr might considered favorite since won AMA Nats August just could get together what several flameouts BitI Preis early leader ran 0 form few short laps have go around pylons BitI Bill Williamson has going fast year ran few 0s form engine failure hard luck story Charlie Brunner came two planes close race Charlie overturned No 3 pylon know theres much left couple races later mid-air No 1 pylon backup plane made short contest Charlie Being competitor though Charlie will back Ill bet time issue reaches press Charlie probably will getting ready next year past have very few fliers Ohio Indiana Michi gan area have attended Cham pionship Races Well year after years preaching urging finally got some crowd attend [hey did pretty well first time out Art Arro finished 18th Rex Knepper 22nd Wayne Yeager 36th guys planning try qualify attend again 1979 Nearly days end John McDermott Bob Reuther lave Shadel tied first last heats Dave Shadels wing suddenly exploded No pylon thus ending bid lead Saturday evenings banquetwasserved ballroom headquarters motel very nice food very good area NMPRA V-Ps gave brief reports things going dis tricts guest speaker Mike Clark ex-Dallas Cowboy football player Mike son have interest model airplanes Mike spent two days out line official lap counter February 1 979 83 happy triowinner John McDermott center caller Dave Shadel left sponsor Jim Shin ohara pose after John took first 10 heats Plane Little Toni Supertigre power Engines putting out best callers ready launch racers go off after other about one-second intervalsas quickly astheflag can repeatedly dropped 1978 NMPRA CHAMPIONSHIP P1Name 1John McDermott 2Bob Reuther 3Gary Hover 4Ed Allen 5A Mike Atzei 6A Dave Shadel 7 Tom Castellano 8A Dennis OBrien 9A Clay/Barrett Team 10Bill Preis 11Doug Ruble 12A Bill Hager 13A Cliff Telford 14A Gale Helms 15Mike Helsel 16Charles Monnett 17A Pete Reed 18A Art Arro 19B Bill Williamson 208 Carl Simms 21B George Parks 228 Rex Knepper 23B Bob Wallace 248 David Donat 25B Steve Dentz 26 Tim Edwards 278 Rusty Van Baren 28B Gary Heithald 29B Rick Oliver 308 Gary McPike 31B Jerry Boyce 328 Leonard Ledson 33Greig Simpson 34Mark Harsu 35B Larry Barnes 36B Wayne Yeager 37Ron Schorr 38Jim Kimbro 39Dan Downing 40Fransicso Gonzalez 41Bob Brogdon 42Jeff Bertken 43Glen Sicoste 44Charlie Brunner 45Norm Johnson 46Gail Jacobson 47Omar Lopez 48Dan Kaylor 49Sergio Baamano ATie broken flyoff Airplane/Engine Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/ST LR1A/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/K&B Little Toni/ST Minnow/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/K&B Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/K&B Little Toni/ST Minnow/ST Pole Cat/ST Minnow/K&B Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Midget Mustang/ST Minnow/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Midget Mustang/ST Rickey Rat/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/K&B Little Toni/ST Midget Mustang/K&B Little Toni/ST El Bandido/K&B Minnow/K&B Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/ST Minnow/ST Pole Cat/ST Midget Mustang/K&B Minnow/ST Midget Mustang RACE RESULTS PtsBess Time 401132 391177 371184 361200 341176 341184 321173 311215 311188 311162 311191 291205 291235 291263 281220 271190 251250 251261 231185 231202 231230 231250 231269 221229 221270 211271 191206 191307 181254 181340 171186 171298 161255 151268 141283 141303 131377 121236 10 8 6 3 3 3 3 3 3 0 0 1305 1400 1247 1318 1320 1343 1345 1443 1546 BTie broken best time 84 Model Aviation top five L-R John McDermott 1st Bob Reuther 2nd Gary Hover 3rd Ed Allen 4th Mike Atzei 5th George Parks wife teamed up finish 21stnot bad considering quality competition George perhaps better known QM Left Pilots callers must work teams successful Note concentration faces race progress Right top 20 fliers NMPRA Championships came over US Canada Mexico Altogether 49 vieing top spot timer Mike said really enjoyed weekend NMPRA Races banquet Mike told training discipline goes fore big football game Its much same races won qualify NMPRA Cham pionships discipline sacri fices go being Pylon Racing champion Sunday saw another perfect day temperatures reached 90 degrees could have better day racing competitive some Championship races have lot planes lost fliers aiming same groove putting out super effort race somehow few mis haps best races con test between Tom Casteliano Clay-Barrett team planes actually touched paint under Toms wing slight mid-air no dam age otherwise Tom Casteliano won race after crowd specta tors stood up applauded seen fine example good close race John McDermott Bob Reuther remained tied until ninth round Bob got edged out close race Ed Allen dropping Bob point down John managed hang finished perfect score 10 rounds John also fast time forthis race 1132 Ties broken either flyoffs best time previous heats flyoff between Mike Atzei Dave Shadel fifth Mike won Dave failed start Dennis OBrien edged out Clay-Barrett team flyoff 8th 9th authorBill Hager man aged come out top three-way flyoff Cliff Telford Gale Helms 12th 13th 14th Pete Reed edged out Art Arro flyoff 17th 18th short pause final points computation came awards pre sentation NMPRA supplied awards silver wine coolers through fifth sil ver dishes 6th through 20th plus best finish fast timeKits sever al manufacturers Pylon Race field also awarded biggest sur prise cash accompanied trophies$30000 first $20000 second $15000 third fourth $10000 fifth $10000 fast time quite shock hadnt expecting prize money came anonymous donor think know donorthanks race has come long way since its inception 1973 racing im proving year Lets hope trend continues NMPRA growing ganization proper care promotion will continue reach new heights opinion Formula racers easiest best flying planes RC Try youll like closing comment lifted Ed Rankin Contest Directors AMA Nats NMPRA Cham pionships should experienced CDs also experienced Pylon fliers Ten-four Thanks Dallas RC Club Ed Rankin workers fine contest February 1979 85 Art Arro right authors son Rob Hager carrying Arts Little Toni back pits after flight Rob often caller fliers area speaks well abilities eventual winner John McDermottright makes some last-minute adjustmentshelped Len Ledson win permits no mistakes size Hanno Prettners winning Dalotel DM-165 vivid photo right held Hanno father Hans behind fuselage has 2500 sq wing area weighs 21 lbs uses 11 servos own design retracts Above Hanno checking glow plug two Webra 61s powering model Gears barely visible photo below link two en gines 20-11 prop two-to-one reduction Prettner designed own dutch engine quit other still would keep plane airborne Flew very slow stable consistent 45-50 mph attitudes Hannos first place year won him $15000 Dave Browns Zlin Z-50-L touching down smallest plane event 870 sq wing area won second place $7000 FIFTH TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS o0 / o L1 op I0 1~\ III LQ i- 0 / 0 0 8 00 aerobatic schedule flown 1978 T0C shown Aresti notation left graphic form familiar modelers right Below Judges recorders during qualifying flight Qualifying flights before five judges 10 judges being used finals Judges drawn both modeling fullicale fields including several nationalities Report Photos Dave Lane years Tournament Champi ons outstanding thanks no small part sponsors--Circus Circus Ho tel Casino Model Airplane News just five years have seen event evolve FAI RC Aerobatic Pat tern through progression com plicated maneuvers including special Scale event last year years sophisticated Aresti routine semi-scale 85% replicas full-scale aerobatic aircraft popular planes Zlin Z-50-L Zlin 526-AS Spinks Akromaster next Other air craft modeled Kraft Super Fli Laser 200 Stephens Acro Chipmunk Cap 20 L Cap 10 Cranfield A-i Hiper bipe Sportmaster 150 Skybolt Dalotel DM-165 Hanno Prettner won TOC fifth time total score 5061 points Dave Brown second 47215 Ivan Kristensen third 47125 Dean Koger fourth 4669 Wolfgang Matt fifth 4623 points Wolfgang flew four final rounds intermittent radio still finished 438 points off pace takes some kind concen tration February 1979 87 ---xx ED I \ Ivan Kristensen beautiful Cap 1Oa two-place aerobatic trainer elliptical surfaces smooth flying plane looked great air cop third place $5000 Right Wolfgang Matt Liechtenstein fifth caught explaining some finer points Zlin Z-50-L Matt radio problems week Zlins prototype Topp kits W Germany years pattern consisted following 20 maneuvers 1 One loop inside snaproll top ioop 2 Hammerhead turn-around maneu ver 3 Slow roll 4 One-half Cuban eight 1 out side snaprolls turn-around maneu ver 5 Square inside loop 6 Immelmann turn turn-around ma neuver 7 Inside snaproll 45-degree down line 8 Hammerhead 112 roll down line turn-around maneuver 9 Outside loop inverted flight 10 Wind correction maneuver turn around maneuver 11 Wind correction maneuver turn around maneuver 12 Four-point roll 13 1/2 reverse Cuban eight l/l snaprolls 45-degree upline turn around maneuver 14 Slow roll 45-degree upline 15 1-turn spin turn-around maneu ver 16 Eight-point roll 17 Hump turn-around turn-around maneuver 18 Rolling 360-degree turn circle 19 1/2 Cuban eight turn-around ma neuver 20 Verticalroll pattern fun watch joy judge competitors commended doing excellent job flying limited time practice TOC pilots learn new routine also design PL 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Hanno Prettner Dave Brown Ivan Kristensen Dean Koger Wolfgang Man Gunter Hoppe Steve Helms Richard Brand Phil Kraft Giichi Naruke Mark Radcliff Fred Kugel Jeff Tracy Don Lowe Bruno Giezendanner lsao Matsui Don Weitz Ron Chidgey Tony Bonetti Denis Donohue Benito Bertolani Harald Neckar Norm Cassella Ed Keck John Brink Ralph Brooke John Lockwood Joe Bridi Country Austria USA Canada USA Liechtenstein W Germany USA Rhodesia USA Japan USA USA Australia USA Switzerland Japan USA USA USA USA Italy W Germany USA USA So Africa USA USA USA 50610 47215 47125 46690 46230 22105 21935 21905 21900 21890 21750 21745 21725 21555 21190 21185 21160 21035 21035 20855 20390 19850 18455 17779 17645 17545 16735 15415 $15000 $7000 $5000 $4000 $3000 $2000 $1500 $1300 $1000 $900 $800 $700 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 Dalotel DM-165 Zlin Z-50 Cap 10 Laser 200 Zlin Z-50-L Cranfield A-i Spinks Akromaster Zlin Z-526 Super Fli Chipmunk Super Fli Spinks Akromaster Cap 20 L Zlin 526AS ZIin 50-L Zlin 50-L Spinks Akromaster Spinks Akromaster Super Fli Stephens Acro Zlin 526-AFS Zlin 50-L Skybolt Spinks Akromaster Stephens Acro Hiperbipe Sportmaster 150 Spinks Akromaster 88 Model Aviation Dean Koger 4th place very nice Laser 2001200 sq 12 lbs. alibalsa plywood construction fiberglass cowl Webra 91 reduction belt drive Laser 200 modified Stephens Acro Leo Loudenslager made modifications won World Championships Photo right shows bit Koger puts plane together big wing held place four 6-32 machine screws TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONSRESULTS/MODEL DATA PilotPoints PrizeAircraftEngine Webra 61 0S90 FSR Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 YS 12 Webra 91 Webra 91 Quadra Webra 91 Webra 91 0S90 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 OPS Webra 91 Webra 91 0S90 Webra 91 Quadra Webra 91 0S90 build new aircraft competition Most aircraft between 800 1200 square inches wing area Hanno Prettners Dalotel 2500 square inches 9-foot wingspan weighed 21 pounds maximum weight allowed 22 pounds Hanno used two Webra 6 ls clutches driving two-to-one reduction-geared center shaft 20-1 1 prop Hannos aircraft flew between 40 50 mph attitude rudder elevator two servos servo aileron servo landing gear throttle servo servo mixture control Thats 11 servos Dave Brown flew own design Zlin Z-50-L smallest ship 870 square inches Daves airplane all-balsa foam wing tail cores drawback Zlin Z-50-Ls color scheme silver red trim silver really disappears overcast sky background during fi nals sky clear silver hard see Daves Zlin fastest ships meet Ivan Kristensen flew Cap 10 two-place side-by-side aerobatic trainer competition aircraft Ivans bird flew very nice looked very good air its elliptical wing planform Cap 10 built-up construction similar full-scale aircraft Dean Kogers Laser 200 typical designs has flying FAI Pattern has built-up fuselage tail group foam wing cores Dean really advantage contest has flying 1000 square inch pattern bird last three years familiar flying characteristics large model Wolfgang Matts bird Zlin Z-50-L prototype Topp kit fuse lage fiberglass foam wing tail cores wing 950 square inches Wolfgang built Laser 200 contest lost third flight cause faulty battery pack also scratch-built Zlin Z-50-L lost first flight because radio February 1979 89 Left Gunter 1-loppe Cranfield A-i British design aero batics fixed gear Looks bit like P-51 belly radiator Uses epoxy/glass fuselage foam wing tail Above Top scale points special award went Denis Donohue modified Stephens Acro Like used Webra 91 engine Ralph Brookes Hiperbipe Has Quadra engine all-balsa open structure covered Monokote Richard Brand Rhodesia two entered Zlin 526s Webra 91 power Giichi Narukes all-balsa dope Chipmunk powered new VS 120 engine produced Japan Left Fuselage Jeff Tracys Quadra-powered Cap 20 L Note stub spars wing panels slip overheld place machine screws through bottom wing leading edge Right lsao Matsui waiting turn Zlin Z-50-L all-balsa finished dopelooks like glass Left Ron Chidgey flew Spinks Akromaster designed Ed Keck original demonstrated 1977 TOC Right Bruno Giezendanner taxiing out takeoff like Matt flew prototype Topp kit Zlin Z-50-L has 950 sq wing area Above The crash caused mal functioning radio John Brinks Stephens Ac ro stalled about six feet above ground broke half impact doesnt look bad picture probably total washout Fortunately John backup low Clown pilot Gunter Hoppes Cranfield A-i especially appropriate event problems wasnt Wolfgangs year exactly though still finished fifth seemed everyone ex ception two contestants crashed before contest fli ers using either back-up ships borrowed airplanes Tony Bonetti flying very nice Pitts 5-1 until crashed couple weeks before contest Phil Kraft loaned Tony back-up Super Fli competiton Thats sportsmanship judging panel year included seven modelers five full-scale aero batic pilots and/or judges full-scale judges Art Scholl Chipmunk fame LaMar Stern Skybolt fame Jim Roberts Laser 200 pilot Gordon Price Canadian champion Gerry Zim merrnan top US aerobatic judge model judges Bill Johnson USA fifth time TOC Bob Upton USA fifth time TOC Warren Hitchcox Canada Canadian World Championship Team Geoff Franklin England judged 1977 World Championships Dennis Hunt Rhodesia Masahiro Kato Ja pan Dave Lane USA fifth time TOC judging very consistent throughout tournament fullscale judges commented fact wished full-scale judging could consistent model judg ing seems judges full-scale aerobatics meets leave something desired mentioned model ing judges TOC minimum 12 years judging experience apiece would glad judge full-scale aerobatics major difference judging Aresti pattern versus FAI pattern cannot take eyes off airplane during Aresti routine Everything plane does judged FAI worry about turn arounds can relax during time TOC judge assistant recorded scores maneuverthe same done full-scale aerobatics closing would like say judges opinion TOC Aresti schedule way FAI Pattern should go makes much inter esting event both fliers spectators believe would see spectators new pattern because aircraft remain front flier time also eliminates spot landing contest see much pattern flying present hope able judge next TOC can hardly wait see what sponsors will come up future top years event special thank appropriate Jerry Nelson Contest Director Doc Edwards Chief Judge gether sponsors made con test outstanding concerned 90 Model 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NE WSLETTE ACADEMY OF MODEL AERONAUTICS 815 FlFTEENTH STREET NW WASHINGTON DC 20005 RC AEROBATICS TEAM PROGRAM As mid-November 64 registered intent try qualify Masters Tournament team selection finals paid $10 program entry fee num ber 42 have qualified placing top one-third Master class event least five fliers AMA sanctioned meet Mem bers 1977 US RC Aerobatics Team automatically qualified having paid program entry fee Dave Brown Cincinnati OH Rhett Miller Ill Tallahassee FL Mark Radcliff Newport OH 42 have qualified press time follows although some thc 19 others may also qualify December 31 dead line Wayne Abernathy Hillside MD Donald L Atwood Denvez CO Roderick W Barnes Zanesville OH Sal Battaglia New Rochelle NY Andre Bauchard King Prussia PA Tony Bonetti Emerson NJ Joe Bridi Harbor City CA John Britt Hazelwood MOGeorge Buzel Jr Stamford CT Ron Chidgey Pen sacola FL Charles Danley Baytown TX Denis Donohue Bergenfield NJ Alan C Dupler Millersport OH Tony rackowiak Erie PA William M Furori Commack NY joseph G Gross Altus OK Steve Helms Pensacola FL George Hill An nandale VA Ed Izzo Holliston MA Fd Keck Webster NY Jim Kimbro Oceanside CA Dean Koger Wright-Patterson AFB OH Daniel E Kowallek Kokomo IN Fred Kugel Celina OH W R Lippincott Jr Boyce VA Don Lowe Dayton OH William Macek Bethlehem PA Thomas Moore Forestville MD Michael Mueller Rolling Meadows IL William Ney Wheeling WV Lloyd Nicholson Denver CO Jim Oddino Woodland Hills CA Roy Pinner Waterford Ml C W Reed III Raytown MO Donald Seals Paris IL Pat Shuttleworth Warren IN William E Thomas Bartlesville OK Biuce Underwood Guntersville AL DIRECTORY CONTEST COORDINATORS I Paul L Penney B Oarlotte Dr Andoser MA OlBtO II R Sobrino 87-26 88th St. Woodhanen Queens NY 11421 RC Bryan Sattler 29 Waldorf P1. Schenectady NY 12307 RC Fred Blackburn B Blue Spruce Ln. Commack NY 11725 Ill Ken Reber RD 1 Nazareth PA 18064 lEastI M Weisenbach 4568W 146th St. Cleseland OH 44135 IWessi IV Warren Sanders Jr. 9735 52nd Ane College Pk MD 20741 RC Ed Fitzwater 474 Tudor Or. Crownusille MD 21032 V NC Soaring Donna Dde 7409 Atwood Dr Huntsnille AL 35802 RC Charlene Fields 818 Main St. SW New Ellington SC 29809 FF Wallace Johnson 4112 White Acres Rd Montgomery AL 36106 VI Jim Thomerson 1317 EilewCollinssille IL 62234 RC Ralph White Jr RR 1 Son 324 Neoga IL 62447 VII John Enern 421 Walnut Las Apple Valley MN 55124 IWesti Wes Slack 12851 Payton Detroit MI 48224 lEasti VIII John Deaton 505 Connerce St. Port Worth TX 76102 RC Larry Snanfield 205 Quail Creek Dr Crowley TX 76036 IX Bill Bieda 411 Barker Building Osnelsa NE 68102 RC Tranis McGinnis 8027 W 81st Circle Arnada CO 80005 X Myrtle Coed Rn Boa 19 miner Lake CA 95457 INorthl Lee Polaneky 258 Iris Ate. Goleta CA 93017 ISouthi Prank Games 2241 Noah St Honolulu HI 96816 IHI meensi XI Don Dodd 3406 Bnltidere Ate. SW Seattle WA 98126 RC Don Miller 24715 Sa55mit-Landsburg Ranensdale WA 98051 RC Pylon & Souring RC Pattern other RC CL RC leocept Soaringi Bold Pace Below Indica-les Chairman Contest Board FREE FLIGHT CONTEST BOARD I Henry Struck RFO 2 Hamburg Old Lynre CT 06371 II Carrol Allen2 Arizona R Huntington Sta NY 11746 III Rudy Kluiber 2021 Lakeland Ate. Lakessood OH 44107 IV Joe Boyle Jr 219 Shenandoah Rd. Hampton VA 23361 V Bonny Jenkins 3112 E Raires Rd. Memphis TN 38115 VI Chris Mansuno 8S76 Ginger St John MO 83114 VII Phil Klintworth Jr. 715 Rutgers Rd. Rocinester Ml 48063 VIII Mark Valerius 2302 Pomeran Or. Houston TX 77055 IX Jerald Murphy 2432 Astron Dr Colorado Springs CO 80906 X Joe Norcross215 WSanta Ana No 211A Clonis CA 93612 XI Ernie Lint 16558- 121st Ace. SE RennonWA 98055 CONTROL LINE CONTEST BOARD I George Higgins P0 Ban 482 North Pembroke MA 02358 II Bill Boss 7706 269th St New Hyde Park NY 11040 III Laird Jackson 523 Meadombrook St Danids PA 19087 IV Ron McNally 6118 Bardo Ate Springfield VA 22152 V Dane Hemstruught PO Bon 171 Moecks Corner SC 29461 VI Bob Bsrch 5248W Scool Chicago IL 60641 VII James Snnon 4941 Wisconsin Ate. N New Hope MN 55428 VIII Charles Anasnon 3730 Kiestcnest Dallas TX 75233 IX Mictruel Tallman 3014 Eaclarge Wichita KS 67217 X Pete Brandn 315 S Maria Ace. Redondo Beach CA 90277 XI Dan Rutherford 4705 237th R SE Boshell WA 98011 RADIO CONTROL CONTEST BOARD I Ed Izzo 483 Fiske St Holliston MA 01746 II Joe Friend 62 Joysan Terr. Freehold NJ 07728 Ill Date Brown 8534 Huddleston Cincinnati OH 45236 IV Fred M Gregg 12709 Rcfrwood St. Chester VA 23831 V J Oasis Jr 1813S Lakesnore Dr. Birmingham AL 35216 VI Bob Onderwond 4109 Concord Oaks Dr. SI Louis MO 63128 VII Peter Waters 31219 Kendall Linonia MI 48154 VIII Danid Hyde 2026 Scommass Ln Garland TX 75042 IX Loren Tregellas 3003S Eterett Wichita KS 87217 X Bill Northrop Jr. 621 W 19th St Costa Mesa CA 92627 XI Ralph Brooke 3431 5 194th Seattle WA 98188 SCALE CONTEST BOARD I Richard Sherman 408 Rite Rd Tewksbury MA 01876 II Robert Clemens 95 Shoretray Dr Rochester NY 14612 Ill Edward Wisser 1521 Suwmn St McKeesport PA 15130 IV Bob Karlsuon 2643 Marsh Rd Wilmington DE 19810 V Danid Platt 6540 NW 15th Ft Lauderdale FL 33313 VI Frank Bearty 2608 Pontoon Rd. Granite City IL 62040 VII Claude McCullough Boa 40 Montezuma IA 50171 VIII Johnny Casburn Son 8029 Ft Worth TX 76112 IX Dean Copeland 7817 Sewed St. Omaha NE 68114 X Frank Capat 251 Camino de las P10mw Encininas CA 92024 Xl Earle Moorhead 275S View P1 5 Salem OR 97302 CONTEST BOARD COORDINATOR Don Lindley 420 Tupelo Napertille IL 60540 James E Vanderwalker Clintonville WI David vonLinsowe Linden Ml David G Weitz Jr Henderson NV Ralph White Neoga IL early January finalists will voting hold RC Masters Team Selec tion Tournament among sites have offered World Championships US three-man team being picked planned South Africa probably September October 1979 PROPOSED CHANGES TO CB PROCEDURES NOT ACCEPTED Vot ng n ma ballot Execut ye Council Contest Board chairmen CB coordinator has resulted defeat four proposals reported last month page 84 Briefly proposals three-year rules review cycle requiring amount kind experience proposer shown rules proposal form allow ing Provisional Supplemental rules events held Nats done auto matic upgrade Official status changing date age class determination July 1 January 1 year Craft tissue Mark Westminster MD February 1979 81 Mark Arnold ths Shocer 4Ks kitJ holding set national AMA record 17 min utes 36 seconds FF BGasCat Ill Open August 131978 uses K&B 35 engine GloBee plug 84 RevUp prop Seelig multi-function timer KraftHayes engine mount wingspan increased 70 surfaces doublecovered Aristo NMPRA Championship Race Pylon Racings Tournament Cham pions National Miniature Pylon Racing Association organization made up Pylon Race fliers through out US Canada Mexico organization responsible pro motion betterment Pylon Rac ing Most rules governing events have come NMPRA NMPRA rotates race site year year must some place US weather nice end October year races held Florida year California year Texas back Florida year went Dallas TX October 21-22 weather great qualify race person has finish top 20% NMPRA district means lot hard work determination part qualify 49 entrants signed ready compete dead line came 600 pm October 20 During registration checks made AMA memberships FCC licenses planes safety checked es pecially devises linkage radio installa tion engine mounting control surfaces 82 Model Aviation start races NMPRA Championshipsplane No 1 position already out view No 2 just starting No3 waiting third drop flag Author says workers bent over backwards see flier got fair shake look goes time clock competitors fire up Pylon rules give 90 seconds starting adjusting engines getting position race begin Planes also measured weighed per rules Next came what 1 call hardest part planes judged appear ance Formula best looking planes take off first Following usual practice planes put four dif ferent groups championship award given best plane Out about 90 very beautiful airplanes plane judged best honor went again Ron Schorr tops Nats too Pole Cat planes checked judged pilots went back rooms ready full weekend racing Saturday 845 am first race got underway lot jock eying around lead come win Ron Schorr might considered favorite since won AMA Nats August just could get together what several flameouts BitI Preis early leader ran 0 form few short laps have go around pylons BitI Bill Williamson has going fast year ran few 0s form engine failure hard luck story Charlie Brunner came two planes close race Charlie overturned No 3 pylon know theres much left couple races later mid-air No 1 pylon backup plane made short contest Charlie Being competitor though Charlie will back Ill bet time issue reaches press Charlie probably will getting ready next year past have very few fliers Ohio Indiana Michi gan area have attended Cham pionship Races Well year after years preaching urging finally got some crowd attend [hey did pretty well first time out Art Arro finished 18th Rex Knepper 22nd Wayne Yeager 36th guys planning try qualify attend again 1979 Nearly days end John McDermott Bob Reuther lave Shadel tied first last heats Dave Shadels wing suddenly exploded No pylon thus ending bid lead Saturday evenings banquetwasserved ballroom headquarters motel very nice food very good area NMPRA V-Ps gave brief reports things going dis tricts guest speaker Mike Clark ex-Dallas Cowboy football player Mike son have interest model airplanes Mike spent two days out line official lap counter February 1 979 83 happy triowinner John McDermott center caller Dave Shadel left sponsor Jim Shin ohara pose after John took first 10 heats Plane Little Toni Supertigre power Engines putting out best callers ready launch racers go off after other about one-second intervalsas quickly astheflag can repeatedly dropped 1978 NMPRA CHAMPIONSHIP P1Name 1John McDermott 2Bob Reuther 3Gary Hover 4Ed Allen 5A Mike Atzei 6A Dave Shadel 7 Tom Castellano 8A Dennis OBrien 9A Clay/Barrett Team 10Bill Preis 11Doug Ruble 12A Bill Hager 13A Cliff Telford 14A Gale Helms 15Mike Helsel 16Charles Monnett 17A Pete Reed 18A Art Arro 19B Bill Williamson 208 Carl Simms 21B George Parks 228 Rex Knepper 23B Bob Wallace 248 David Donat 25B Steve Dentz 26 Tim Edwards 278 Rusty Van Baren 28B Gary Heithald 29B Rick Oliver 308 Gary McPike 31B Jerry Boyce 328 Leonard Ledson 33Greig Simpson 34Mark Harsu 35B Larry Barnes 36B Wayne Yeager 37Ron Schorr 38Jim Kimbro 39Dan Downing 40Fransicso Gonzalez 41Bob Brogdon 42Jeff Bertken 43Glen Sicoste 44Charlie Brunner 45Norm Johnson 46Gail Jacobson 47Omar Lopez 48Dan Kaylor 49Sergio Baamano ATie broken flyoff Airplane/Engine Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/ST LR1A/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/K&B Little Toni/ST Minnow/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/K&B Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/K&B Little Toni/ST Minnow/ST Pole Cat/ST Minnow/K&B Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Midget Mustang/ST Minnow/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Midget Mustang/ST Rickey Rat/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/K&B Little Toni/ST Midget Mustang/K&B Little Toni/ST El Bandido/K&B Minnow/K&B Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/ST Minnow/ST Pole Cat/ST Midget Mustang/K&B Minnow/ST Midget Mustang RACE RESULTS PtsBess Time 401132 391177 371184 361200 341176 341184 321173 311215 311188 311162 311191 291205 291235 291263 281220 271190 251250 251261 231185 231202 231230 231250 231269 221229 221270 211271 191206 191307 181254 181340 171186 171298 161255 151268 141283 141303 131377 121236 10 8 6 3 3 3 3 3 3 0 0 1305 1400 1247 1318 1320 1343 1345 1443 1546 BTie broken best time 84 Model Aviation top five L-R John McDermott 1st Bob Reuther 2nd Gary Hover 3rd Ed Allen 4th Mike Atzei 5th George Parks wife teamed up finish 21stnot bad considering quality competition George perhaps better known QM Left Pilots callers must work teams successful Note concentration faces race progress Right top 20 fliers NMPRA Championships came over US Canada Mexico Altogether 49 vieing top spot timer Mike said really enjoyed weekend NMPRA Races banquet Mike told training discipline goes fore big football game Its much same races won qualify NMPRA Cham pionships discipline sacri fices go being Pylon Racing champion Sunday saw another perfect day temperatures reached 90 degrees could have better day racing competitive some Championship races have lot planes lost fliers aiming same groove putting out super effort race somehow few mis haps best races con test between Tom Casteliano Clay-Barrett team planes actually touched paint under Toms wing slight mid-air no dam age otherwise Tom Casteliano won race after crowd specta tors stood up applauded seen fine example good close race John McDermott Bob Reuther remained tied until ninth round Bob got edged out close race Ed Allen dropping Bob point down John managed hang finished perfect score 10 rounds John also fast time forthis race 1132 Ties broken either flyoffs best time previous heats flyoff between Mike Atzei Dave Shadel fifth Mike won Dave failed start Dennis OBrien edged out Clay-Barrett team flyoff 8th 9th authorBill Hager man aged come out top three-way flyoff Cliff Telford Gale Helms 12th 13th 14th Pete Reed edged out Art Arro flyoff 17th 18th short pause final points computation came awards pre sentation NMPRA supplied awards silver wine coolers through fifth sil ver dishes 6th through 20th plus best finish fast timeKits sever al manufacturers Pylon Race field also awarded biggest sur prise cash accompanied trophies$30000 first $20000 second $15000 third fourth $10000 fifth $10000 fast time quite shock hadnt expecting prize money came anonymous donor think know donorthanks race has come long way since its inception 1973 racing im proving year Lets hope trend continues NMPRA growing ganization proper care promotion will continue reach new heights opinion Formula racers easiest best flying planes RC Try youll like closing comment lifted Ed Rankin Contest Directors AMA Nats NMPRA Cham pionships should experienced CDs also experienced Pylon fliers Ten-four Thanks Dallas RC Club Ed Rankin workers fine contest February 1979 85 Art Arro right authors son Rob Hager carrying Arts Little Toni back pits after flight Rob often caller fliers area speaks well abilities eventual winner John McDermottright makes some last-minute adjustmentshelped Len Ledson win permits no mistakes size Hanno Prettners winning Dalotel DM-165 vivid photo right held Hanno father Hans behind fuselage has 2500 sq wing area weighs 21 lbs uses 11 servos own design retracts Above Hanno checking glow plug two Webra 61s powering model Gears barely visible photo below link two en gines 20-11 prop two-to-one reduction Prettner designed own dutch engine quit other still would keep plane airborne Flew very slow stable consistent 45-50 mph attitudes Hannos first place year won him $15000 Dave Browns Zlin Z-50-L touching down smallest plane event 870 sq wing area won second place $7000 FIFTH TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS o0 / o L1 op I0 1~\ III LQ i- 0 / 0 0 8 00 aerobatic schedule flown 1978 T0C shown Aresti notation left graphic form familiar modelers right Below Judges recorders during qualifying flight Qualifying flights before five judges 10 judges being used finals Judges drawn both modeling fullicale fields including several nationalities Report Photos Dave Lane years Tournament Champi ons outstanding thanks no small part sponsors--Circus Circus Ho tel Casino Model Airplane News just five years have seen event evolve FAI RC Aerobatic Pat tern through progression com plicated maneuvers including special Scale event last year years sophisticated Aresti routine semi-scale 85% replicas full-scale aerobatic aircraft popular planes Zlin Z-50-L Zlin 526-AS Spinks Akromaster next Other air craft modeled Kraft Super Fli Laser 200 Stephens Acro Chipmunk Cap 20 L Cap 10 Cranfield A-i Hiper bipe Sportmaster 150 Skybolt Dalotel DM-165 Hanno Prettner won TOC fifth time total score 5061 points Dave Brown second 47215 Ivan Kristensen third 47125 Dean Koger fourth 4669 Wolfgang Matt fifth 4623 points Wolfgang flew four final rounds intermittent radio still finished 438 points off pace takes some kind concen tration February 1979 87 ---xx ED I \ Ivan Kristensen beautiful Cap 1Oa two-place aerobatic trainer elliptical surfaces smooth flying plane looked great air cop third place $5000 Right Wolfgang Matt Liechtenstein fifth caught explaining some finer points Zlin Z-50-L Matt radio problems week Zlins prototype Topp kits W Germany years pattern consisted following 20 maneuvers 1 One loop inside snaproll top ioop 2 Hammerhead turn-around maneu ver 3 Slow roll 4 One-half Cuban eight 1 out side snaprolls turn-around maneu ver 5 Square inside loop 6 Immelmann turn turn-around ma neuver 7 Inside snaproll 45-degree down line 8 Hammerhead 112 roll down line turn-around maneuver 9 Outside loop inverted flight 10 Wind correction maneuver turn around maneuver 11 Wind correction maneuver turn around maneuver 12 Four-point roll 13 1/2 reverse Cuban eight l/l snaprolls 45-degree upline turn around maneuver 14 Slow roll 45-degree upline 15 1-turn spin turn-around maneu ver 16 Eight-point roll 17 Hump turn-around turn-around maneuver 18 Rolling 360-degree turn circle 19 1/2 Cuban eight turn-around ma neuver 20 Verticalroll pattern fun watch joy judge competitors commended doing excellent job flying limited time practice TOC pilots learn new routine also design PL 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Hanno Prettner Dave Brown Ivan Kristensen Dean Koger Wolfgang Man Gunter Hoppe Steve Helms Richard Brand Phil Kraft Giichi Naruke Mark Radcliff Fred Kugel Jeff Tracy Don Lowe Bruno Giezendanner lsao Matsui Don Weitz Ron Chidgey Tony Bonetti Denis Donohue Benito Bertolani Harald Neckar Norm Cassella Ed Keck John Brink Ralph Brooke John Lockwood Joe Bridi Country Austria USA Canada USA Liechtenstein W Germany USA Rhodesia USA Japan USA USA Australia USA Switzerland Japan USA USA USA USA Italy W Germany USA USA So Africa USA USA USA 50610 47215 47125 46690 46230 22105 21935 21905 21900 21890 21750 21745 21725 21555 21190 21185 21160 21035 21035 20855 20390 19850 18455 17779 17645 17545 16735 15415 $15000 $7000 $5000 $4000 $3000 $2000 $1500 $1300 $1000 $900 $800 $700 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 Dalotel DM-165 Zlin Z-50 Cap 10 Laser 200 Zlin Z-50-L Cranfield A-i Spinks Akromaster Zlin Z-526 Super Fli Chipmunk Super Fli Spinks Akromaster Cap 20 L Zlin 526AS ZIin 50-L Zlin 50-L Spinks Akromaster Spinks Akromaster Super Fli Stephens Acro Zlin 526-AFS Zlin 50-L Skybolt Spinks Akromaster Stephens Acro Hiperbipe Sportmaster 150 Spinks Akromaster 88 Model Aviation Dean Koger 4th place very nice Laser 2001200 sq 12 lbs. alibalsa plywood construction fiberglass cowl Webra 91 reduction belt drive Laser 200 modified Stephens Acro Leo Loudenslager made modifications won World Championships Photo right shows bit Koger puts plane together big wing held place four 6-32 machine screws TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONSRESULTS/MODEL DATA PilotPoints PrizeAircraftEngine Webra 61 0S90 FSR Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 YS 12 Webra 91 Webra 91 Quadra Webra 91 Webra 91 0S90 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 OPS Webra 91 Webra 91 0S90 Webra 91 Quadra Webra 91 0S90 build new aircraft competition Most aircraft between 800 1200 square inches wing area Hanno Prettners Dalotel 2500 square inches 9-foot wingspan weighed 21 pounds maximum weight allowed 22 pounds Hanno used two Webra 6 ls clutches driving two-to-one reduction-geared center shaft 20-1 1 prop Hannos aircraft flew between 40 50 mph attitude rudder elevator two servos servo aileron servo landing gear throttle servo servo mixture control Thats 11 servos Dave Brown flew own design Zlin Z-50-L smallest ship 870 square inches Daves airplane all-balsa foam wing tail cores drawback Zlin Z-50-Ls color scheme silver red trim silver really disappears overcast sky background during fi nals sky clear silver hard see Daves Zlin fastest ships meet Ivan Kristensen flew Cap 10 two-place side-by-side aerobatic trainer competition aircraft Ivans bird flew very nice looked very good air its elliptical wing planform Cap 10 built-up construction similar full-scale aircraft Dean Kogers Laser 200 typical designs has flying FAI Pattern has built-up fuselage tail group foam wing cores Dean really advantage contest has flying 1000 square inch pattern bird last three years familiar flying characteristics large model Wolfgang Matts bird Zlin Z-50-L prototype Topp kit fuse lage fiberglass foam wing tail cores wing 950 square inches Wolfgang built Laser 200 contest lost third flight cause faulty battery pack also scratch-built Zlin Z-50-L lost first flight because radio February 1979 89 Left Gunter 1-loppe Cranfield A-i British design aero batics fixed gear Looks bit like P-51 belly radiator Uses epoxy/glass fuselage foam wing tail Above Top scale points special award went Denis Donohue modified Stephens Acro Like used Webra 91 engine Ralph Brookes Hiperbipe Has Quadra engine all-balsa open structure covered Monokote Richard Brand Rhodesia two entered Zlin 526s Webra 91 power Giichi Narukes all-balsa dope Chipmunk powered new VS 120 engine produced Japan Left Fuselage Jeff Tracys Quadra-powered Cap 20 L Note stub spars wing panels slip overheld place machine screws through bottom wing leading edge Right lsao Matsui waiting turn Zlin Z-50-L all-balsa finished dopelooks like glass Left Ron Chidgey flew Spinks Akromaster designed Ed Keck original demonstrated 1977 TOC Right Bruno Giezendanner taxiing out takeoff like Matt flew prototype Topp kit Zlin Z-50-L has 950 sq wing area Above The crash caused mal functioning radio John Brinks Stephens Ac ro stalled about six feet above ground broke half impact doesnt look bad picture probably total washout Fortunately John backup low Clown pilot Gunter Hoppes Cranfield A-i especially appropriate event problems wasnt Wolfgangs year exactly though still finished fifth seemed everyone ex ception two contestants crashed before contest fli ers using either back-up ships borrowed airplanes Tony Bonetti flying very nice Pitts 5-1 until crashed couple weeks before contest Phil Kraft loaned Tony back-up Super Fli competiton Thats sportsmanship judging panel year included seven modelers five full-scale aero batic pilots and/or judges full-scale judges Art Scholl Chipmunk fame LaMar Stern Skybolt fame Jim Roberts Laser 200 pilot Gordon Price Canadian champion Gerry Zim merrnan top US aerobatic judge model judges Bill Johnson USA fifth time TOC Bob Upton USA fifth time TOC Warren Hitchcox Canada Canadian World Championship Team Geoff Franklin England judged 1977 World Championships Dennis Hunt Rhodesia Masahiro Kato Ja pan Dave Lane USA fifth time TOC judging very consistent throughout tournament fullscale judges commented fact wished full-scale judging could consistent model judg ing seems judges full-scale aerobatics meets leave something desired mentioned model ing judges TOC minimum 12 years judging experience apiece would glad judge full-scale aerobatics major difference judging Aresti pattern versus FAI pattern cannot take eyes off airplane during Aresti routine Everything plane does judged FAI worry about turn arounds can relax during time TOC judge assistant recorded scores maneuverthe same done full-scale aerobatics closing would like say judges opinion TOC Aresti schedule way FAI Pattern should go makes much inter esting event both fliers spectators believe would see spectators new pattern because aircraft remain front flier time also eliminates spot landing contest see much pattern flying present hope able judge next TOC can hardly wait see what sponsors will come up future top years event special thank appropriate Jerry Nelson Contest Director Doc Edwards Chief Judge gether sponsors made con test outstanding concerned 90 Model 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NE WSLETTE ACADEMY OF MODEL AERONAUTICS 815 FlFTEENTH STREET NW WASHINGTON DC 20005 RC AEROBATICS TEAM PROGRAM As mid-November 64 registered intent try qualify Masters Tournament team selection finals paid $10 program entry fee num ber 42 have qualified placing top one-third Master class event least five fliers AMA sanctioned meet Mem bers 1977 US RC Aerobatics Team automatically qualified having paid program entry fee Dave Brown Cincinnati OH Rhett Miller Ill Tallahassee FL Mark Radcliff Newport OH 42 have qualified press time follows although some thc 19 others may also qualify December 31 dead line Wayne Abernathy Hillside MD Donald L Atwood Denvez CO Roderick W Barnes Zanesville OH Sal Battaglia New Rochelle NY Andre Bauchard King Prussia PA Tony Bonetti Emerson NJ Joe Bridi Harbor City CA John Britt Hazelwood MOGeorge Buzel Jr Stamford CT Ron Chidgey Pen sacola FL Charles Danley Baytown TX Denis Donohue Bergenfield NJ Alan C Dupler Millersport OH Tony rackowiak Erie PA William M Furori Commack NY joseph G Gross Altus OK Steve Helms Pensacola FL George Hill An nandale VA Ed Izzo Holliston MA Fd Keck Webster NY Jim Kimbro Oceanside CA Dean Koger Wright-Patterson AFB OH Daniel E Kowallek Kokomo IN Fred Kugel Celina OH W R Lippincott Jr Boyce VA Don Lowe Dayton OH William Macek Bethlehem PA Thomas Moore Forestville MD Michael Mueller Rolling Meadows IL William Ney Wheeling WV Lloyd Nicholson Denver CO Jim Oddino Woodland Hills CA Roy Pinner Waterford Ml C W Reed III Raytown MO Donald Seals Paris IL Pat Shuttleworth Warren IN William E Thomas Bartlesville OK Biuce Underwood Guntersville AL DIRECTORY CONTEST COORDINATORS I Paul L Penney B Oarlotte Dr Andoser MA OlBtO II R Sobrino 87-26 88th St. Woodhanen Queens NY 11421 RC Bryan Sattler 29 Waldorf P1. Schenectady NY 12307 RC Fred Blackburn B Blue Spruce Ln. Commack NY 11725 Ill Ken Reber RD 1 Nazareth PA 18064 lEastI M Weisenbach 4568W 146th St. Cleseland OH 44135 IWessi IV Warren Sanders Jr. 9735 52nd Ane College Pk MD 20741 RC Ed Fitzwater 474 Tudor Or. Crownusille MD 21032 V NC Soaring Donna Dde 7409 Atwood Dr Huntsnille AL 35802 RC Charlene Fields 818 Main St. SW New Ellington SC 29809 FF Wallace Johnson 4112 White Acres Rd Montgomery AL 36106 VI Jim Thomerson 1317 EilewCollinssille IL 62234 RC Ralph White Jr RR 1 Son 324 Neoga IL 62447 VII John Enern 421 Walnut Las Apple Valley MN 55124 IWesti Wes Slack 12851 Payton Detroit MI 48224 lEasti VIII John Deaton 505 Connerce St. Port Worth TX 76102 RC Larry Snanfield 205 Quail Creek Dr Crowley TX 76036 IX Bill Bieda 411 Barker Building Osnelsa NE 68102 RC Tranis McGinnis 8027 W 81st Circle Arnada CO 80005 X Myrtle Coed Rn Boa 19 miner Lake CA 95457 INorthl Lee Polaneky 258 Iris Ate. Goleta CA 93017 ISouthi Prank Games 2241 Noah St Honolulu HI 96816 IHI meensi XI Don Dodd 3406 Bnltidere Ate. SW Seattle WA 98126 RC Don Miller 24715 Sa55mit-Landsburg Ranensdale WA 98051 RC Pylon & Souring RC Pattern other RC CL RC leocept Soaringi Bold Pace Below Indica-les Chairman Contest Board FREE FLIGHT CONTEST BOARD I Henry Struck RFO 2 Hamburg Old Lynre CT 06371 II Carrol Allen2 Arizona R Huntington Sta NY 11746 III Rudy Kluiber 2021 Lakeland Ate. Lakessood OH 44107 IV Joe Boyle Jr 219 Shenandoah Rd. Hampton VA 23361 V Bonny Jenkins 3112 E Raires Rd. Memphis TN 38115 VI Chris Mansuno 8S76 Ginger St John MO 83114 VII Phil Klintworth Jr. 715 Rutgers Rd. Rocinester Ml 48063 VIII Mark Valerius 2302 Pomeran Or. Houston TX 77055 IX Jerald Murphy 2432 Astron Dr Colorado Springs CO 80906 X Joe Norcross215 WSanta Ana No 211A Clonis CA 93612 XI Ernie Lint 16558- 121st Ace. SE RennonWA 98055 CONTROL LINE CONTEST BOARD I George Higgins P0 Ban 482 North Pembroke MA 02358 II Bill Boss 7706 269th St New Hyde Park NY 11040 III Laird Jackson 523 Meadombrook St Danids PA 19087 IV Ron McNally 6118 Bardo Ate Springfield VA 22152 V Dane Hemstruught PO Bon 171 Moecks Corner SC 29461 VI Bob Bsrch 5248W Scool Chicago IL 60641 VII James Snnon 4941 Wisconsin Ate. N New Hope MN 55428 VIII Charles Anasnon 3730 Kiestcnest Dallas TX 75233 IX Mictruel Tallman 3014 Eaclarge Wichita KS 67217 X Pete Brandn 315 S Maria Ace. Redondo Beach CA 90277 XI Dan Rutherford 4705 237th R SE Boshell WA 98011 RADIO CONTROL CONTEST BOARD I Ed Izzo 483 Fiske St Holliston MA 01746 II Joe Friend 62 Joysan Terr. Freehold NJ 07728 Ill Date Brown 8534 Huddleston Cincinnati OH 45236 IV Fred M Gregg 12709 Rcfrwood St. Chester VA 23831 V J Oasis Jr 1813S Lakesnore Dr. Birmingham AL 35216 VI Bob Onderwond 4109 Concord Oaks Dr. SI Louis MO 63128 VII Peter Waters 31219 Kendall Linonia MI 48154 VIII Danid Hyde 2026 Scommass Ln Garland TX 75042 IX Loren Tregellas 3003S Eterett Wichita KS 87217 X Bill Northrop Jr. 621 W 19th St Costa Mesa CA 92627 XI Ralph Brooke 3431 5 194th Seattle WA 98188 SCALE CONTEST BOARD I Richard Sherman 408 Rite Rd Tewksbury MA 01876 II Robert Clemens 95 Shoretray Dr Rochester NY 14612 Ill Edward Wisser 1521 Suwmn St McKeesport PA 15130 IV Bob Karlsuon 2643 Marsh Rd Wilmington DE 19810 V Danid Platt 6540 NW 15th Ft Lauderdale FL 33313 VI Frank Bearty 2608 Pontoon Rd. Granite City IL 62040 VII Claude McCullough Boa 40 Montezuma IA 50171 VIII Johnny Casburn Son 8029 Ft Worth TX 76112 IX Dean Copeland 7817 Sewed St. Omaha NE 68114 X Frank Capat 251 Camino de las P10mw Encininas CA 92024 Xl Earle Moorhead 275S View P1 5 Salem OR 97302 CONTEST BOARD COORDINATOR Don Lindley 420 Tupelo Napertille IL 60540 James E Vanderwalker Clintonville WI David vonLinsowe Linden Ml David G Weitz Jr Henderson NV Ralph White Neoga IL early January finalists will voting hold RC Masters Team Selec tion Tournament among sites have offered World Championships US three-man team being picked planned South Africa probably September October 1979 PROPOSED CHANGES TO CB PROCEDURES NOT ACCEPTED Vot ng n ma ballot Execut ye Council Contest Board chairmen CB coordinator has resulted defeat four proposals reported last month page 84 Briefly proposals three-year rules review cycle requiring amount kind experience proposer shown rules proposal form allow ing Provisional Supplemental rules events held Nats done auto matic upgrade Official status changing date age class determination July 1 January 1 year Craft tissue Mark Westminster MD February 1979 81 Mark Arnold ths Shocer 4Ks kitJ holding set national AMA record 17 min utes 36 seconds FF BGasCat Ill Open August 131978 uses K&B 35 engine GloBee plug 84 RevUp prop Seelig multi-function timer KraftHayes engine mount wingspan increased 70 surfaces doublecovered Aristo NMPRA Championship Race Pylon Racings Tournament Cham pions National Miniature Pylon Racing Association organization made up Pylon Race fliers through out US Canada Mexico organization responsible pro motion betterment Pylon Rac ing Most rules governing events have come NMPRA NMPRA rotates race site year year must some place US weather nice end October year races held Florida year California year Texas back Florida year went Dallas TX October 21-22 weather great qualify race person has finish top 20% NMPRA district means lot hard work determination part qualify 49 entrants signed ready compete dead line came 600 pm October 20 During registration checks made AMA memberships FCC licenses planes safety checked es pecially devises linkage radio installa tion engine mounting control surfaces 82 Model Aviation start races NMPRA Championshipsplane No 1 position already out view No 2 just starting No3 waiting third drop flag Author says workers bent over backwards see flier got fair shake look goes time clock competitors fire up Pylon rules give 90 seconds starting adjusting engines getting position race begin Planes also measured weighed per rules Next came what 1 call hardest part planes judged appear ance Formula best looking planes take off first Following usual practice planes put four dif ferent groups championship award given best plane Out about 90 very beautiful airplanes plane judged best honor went again Ron Schorr tops Nats too Pole Cat planes checked judged pilots went back rooms ready full weekend racing Saturday 845 am first race got underway lot jock eying around lead come win Ron Schorr might considered favorite since won AMA Nats August just could get together what several flameouts BitI Preis early leader ran 0 form few short laps have go around pylons BitI Bill Williamson has going fast year ran few 0s form engine failure hard luck story Charlie Brunner came two planes close race Charlie overturned No 3 pylon know theres much left couple races later mid-air No 1 pylon backup plane made short contest Charlie Being competitor though Charlie will back Ill bet time issue reaches press Charlie probably will getting ready next year past have very few fliers Ohio Indiana Michi gan area have attended Cham pionship Races Well year after years preaching urging finally got some crowd attend [hey did pretty well first time out Art Arro finished 18th Rex Knepper 22nd Wayne Yeager 36th guys planning try qualify attend again 1979 Nearly days end John McDermott Bob Reuther lave Shadel tied first last heats Dave Shadels wing suddenly exploded No pylon thus ending bid lead Saturday evenings banquetwasserved ballroom headquarters motel very nice food very good area NMPRA V-Ps gave brief reports things going dis tricts guest speaker Mike Clark ex-Dallas Cowboy football player Mike son have interest model airplanes Mike spent two days out line official lap counter February 1 979 83 happy triowinner John McDermott center caller Dave Shadel left sponsor Jim Shin ohara pose after John took first 10 heats Plane Little Toni Supertigre power Engines putting out best callers ready launch racers go off after other about one-second intervalsas quickly astheflag can repeatedly dropped 1978 NMPRA CHAMPIONSHIP P1Name 1John McDermott 2Bob Reuther 3Gary Hover 4Ed Allen 5A Mike Atzei 6A Dave Shadel 7 Tom Castellano 8A Dennis OBrien 9A Clay/Barrett Team 10Bill Preis 11Doug Ruble 12A Bill Hager 13A Cliff Telford 14A Gale Helms 15Mike Helsel 16Charles Monnett 17A Pete Reed 18A Art Arro 19B Bill Williamson 208 Carl Simms 21B George Parks 228 Rex Knepper 23B Bob Wallace 248 David Donat 25B Steve Dentz 26 Tim Edwards 278 Rusty Van Baren 28B Gary Heithald 29B Rick Oliver 308 Gary McPike 31B Jerry Boyce 328 Leonard Ledson 33Greig Simpson 34Mark Harsu 35B Larry Barnes 36B Wayne Yeager 37Ron Schorr 38Jim Kimbro 39Dan Downing 40Fransicso Gonzalez 41Bob Brogdon 42Jeff Bertken 43Glen Sicoste 44Charlie Brunner 45Norm Johnson 46Gail Jacobson 47Omar Lopez 48Dan Kaylor 49Sergio Baamano ATie broken flyoff Airplane/Engine Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/ST LR1A/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/K&B Little Toni/ST Minnow/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/K&B Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/K&B Little Toni/ST Minnow/ST Pole Cat/ST Minnow/K&B Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Midget Mustang/ST Minnow/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Midget Mustang/ST Rickey Rat/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/K&B Little Toni/ST Midget Mustang/K&B Little Toni/ST El Bandido/K&B Minnow/K&B Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/ST Minnow/ST Pole Cat/ST Midget Mustang/K&B Minnow/ST Midget Mustang RACE RESULTS PtsBess Time 401132 391177 371184 361200 341176 341184 321173 311215 311188 311162 311191 291205 291235 291263 281220 271190 251250 251261 231185 231202 231230 231250 231269 221229 221270 211271 191206 191307 181254 181340 171186 171298 161255 151268 141283 141303 131377 121236 10 8 6 3 3 3 3 3 3 0 0 1305 1400 1247 1318 1320 1343 1345 1443 1546 BTie broken best time 84 Model Aviation top five L-R John McDermott 1st Bob Reuther 2nd Gary Hover 3rd Ed Allen 4th Mike Atzei 5th George Parks wife teamed up finish 21stnot bad considering quality competition George perhaps better known QM Left Pilots callers must work teams successful Note concentration faces race progress Right top 20 fliers NMPRA Championships came over US Canada Mexico Altogether 49 vieing top spot timer Mike said really enjoyed weekend NMPRA Races banquet Mike told training discipline goes fore big football game Its much same races won qualify NMPRA Cham pionships discipline sacri fices go being Pylon Racing champion Sunday saw another perfect day temperatures reached 90 degrees could have better day racing competitive some Championship races have lot planes lost fliers aiming same groove putting out super effort race somehow few mis haps best races con test between Tom Casteliano Clay-Barrett team planes actually touched paint under Toms wing slight mid-air no dam age otherwise Tom Casteliano won race after crowd specta tors stood up applauded seen fine example good close race John McDermott Bob Reuther remained tied until ninth round Bob got edged out close race Ed Allen dropping Bob point down John managed hang finished perfect score 10 rounds John also fast time forthis race 1132 Ties broken either flyoffs best time previous heats flyoff between Mike Atzei Dave Shadel fifth Mike won Dave failed start Dennis OBrien edged out Clay-Barrett team flyoff 8th 9th authorBill Hager man aged come out top three-way flyoff Cliff Telford Gale Helms 12th 13th 14th Pete Reed edged out Art Arro flyoff 17th 18th short pause final points computation came awards pre sentation NMPRA supplied awards silver wine coolers through fifth sil ver dishes 6th through 20th plus best finish fast timeKits sever al manufacturers Pylon Race field also awarded biggest sur prise cash accompanied trophies$30000 first $20000 second $15000 third fourth $10000 fifth $10000 fast time quite shock hadnt expecting prize money came anonymous donor think know donorthanks race has come long way since its inception 1973 racing im proving year Lets hope trend continues NMPRA growing ganization proper care promotion will continue reach new heights opinion Formula racers easiest best flying planes RC Try youll like closing comment lifted Ed Rankin Contest Directors AMA Nats NMPRA Cham pionships should experienced CDs also experienced Pylon fliers Ten-four Thanks Dallas RC Club Ed Rankin workers fine contest February 1979 85 Art Arro right authors son Rob Hager carrying Arts Little Toni back pits after flight Rob often caller fliers area speaks well abilities eventual winner John McDermottright makes some last-minute adjustmentshelped Len Ledson win permits no mistakes size Hanno Prettners winning Dalotel DM-165 vivid photo right held Hanno father Hans behind fuselage has 2500 sq wing area weighs 21 lbs uses 11 servos own design retracts Above Hanno checking glow plug two Webra 61s powering model Gears barely visible photo below link two en gines 20-11 prop two-to-one reduction Prettner designed own dutch engine quit other still would keep plane airborne Flew very slow stable consistent 45-50 mph attitudes Hannos first place year won him $15000 Dave Browns Zlin Z-50-L touching down smallest plane event 870 sq wing area won second place $7000 FIFTH TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS o0 / o L1 op I0 1~\ III LQ i- 0 / 0 0 8 00 aerobatic schedule flown 1978 T0C shown Aresti notation left graphic form familiar modelers right Below Judges recorders during qualifying flight Qualifying flights before five judges 10 judges being used finals Judges drawn both modeling fullicale fields including several nationalities Report Photos Dave Lane years Tournament Champi ons outstanding thanks no small part sponsors--Circus Circus Ho tel Casino Model Airplane News just five years have seen event evolve FAI RC Aerobatic Pat tern through progression com plicated maneuvers including special Scale event last year years sophisticated Aresti routine semi-scale 85% replicas full-scale aerobatic aircraft popular planes Zlin Z-50-L Zlin 526-AS Spinks Akromaster next Other air craft modeled Kraft Super Fli Laser 200 Stephens Acro Chipmunk Cap 20 L Cap 10 Cranfield A-i Hiper bipe Sportmaster 150 Skybolt Dalotel DM-165 Hanno Prettner won TOC fifth time total score 5061 points Dave Brown second 47215 Ivan Kristensen third 47125 Dean Koger fourth 4669 Wolfgang Matt fifth 4623 points Wolfgang flew four final rounds intermittent radio still finished 438 points off pace takes some kind concen tration February 1979 87 ---xx ED I \ Ivan Kristensen beautiful Cap 1Oa two-place aerobatic trainer elliptical surfaces smooth flying plane looked great air cop third place $5000 Right Wolfgang Matt Liechtenstein fifth caught explaining some finer points Zlin Z-50-L Matt radio problems week Zlins prototype Topp kits W Germany years pattern consisted following 20 maneuvers 1 One loop inside snaproll top ioop 2 Hammerhead turn-around maneu ver 3 Slow roll 4 One-half Cuban eight 1 out side snaprolls turn-around maneu ver 5 Square inside loop 6 Immelmann turn turn-around ma neuver 7 Inside snaproll 45-degree down line 8 Hammerhead 112 roll down line turn-around maneuver 9 Outside loop inverted flight 10 Wind correction maneuver turn around maneuver 11 Wind correction maneuver turn around maneuver 12 Four-point roll 13 1/2 reverse Cuban eight l/l snaprolls 45-degree upline turn around maneuver 14 Slow roll 45-degree upline 15 1-turn spin turn-around maneu ver 16 Eight-point roll 17 Hump turn-around turn-around maneuver 18 Rolling 360-degree turn circle 19 1/2 Cuban eight turn-around ma neuver 20 Verticalroll pattern fun watch joy judge competitors commended doing excellent job flying limited time practice TOC pilots learn new routine also design PL 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Hanno Prettner Dave Brown Ivan Kristensen Dean Koger Wolfgang Man Gunter Hoppe Steve Helms Richard Brand Phil Kraft Giichi Naruke Mark Radcliff Fred Kugel Jeff Tracy Don Lowe Bruno Giezendanner lsao Matsui Don Weitz Ron Chidgey Tony Bonetti Denis Donohue Benito Bertolani Harald Neckar Norm Cassella Ed Keck John Brink Ralph Brooke John Lockwood Joe Bridi Country Austria USA Canada USA Liechtenstein W Germany USA Rhodesia USA Japan USA USA Australia USA Switzerland Japan USA USA USA USA Italy W Germany USA USA So Africa USA USA USA 50610 47215 47125 46690 46230 22105 21935 21905 21900 21890 21750 21745 21725 21555 21190 21185 21160 21035 21035 20855 20390 19850 18455 17779 17645 17545 16735 15415 $15000 $7000 $5000 $4000 $3000 $2000 $1500 $1300 $1000 $900 $800 $700 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 Dalotel DM-165 Zlin Z-50 Cap 10 Laser 200 Zlin Z-50-L Cranfield A-i Spinks Akromaster Zlin Z-526 Super Fli Chipmunk Super Fli Spinks Akromaster Cap 20 L Zlin 526AS ZIin 50-L Zlin 50-L Spinks Akromaster Spinks Akromaster Super Fli Stephens Acro Zlin 526-AFS Zlin 50-L Skybolt Spinks Akromaster Stephens Acro Hiperbipe Sportmaster 150 Spinks Akromaster 88 Model Aviation Dean Koger 4th place very nice Laser 2001200 sq 12 lbs. alibalsa plywood construction fiberglass cowl Webra 91 reduction belt drive Laser 200 modified Stephens Acro Leo Loudenslager made modifications won World Championships Photo right shows bit Koger puts plane together big wing held place four 6-32 machine screws TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONSRESULTS/MODEL DATA PilotPoints PrizeAircraftEngine Webra 61 0S90 FSR Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 YS 12 Webra 91 Webra 91 Quadra Webra 91 Webra 91 0S90 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 OPS Webra 91 Webra 91 0S90 Webra 91 Quadra Webra 91 0S90 build new aircraft competition Most aircraft between 800 1200 square inches wing area Hanno Prettners Dalotel 2500 square inches 9-foot wingspan weighed 21 pounds maximum weight allowed 22 pounds Hanno used two Webra 6 ls clutches driving two-to-one reduction-geared center shaft 20-1 1 prop Hannos aircraft flew between 40 50 mph attitude rudder elevator two servos servo aileron servo landing gear throttle servo servo mixture control Thats 11 servos Dave Brown flew own design Zlin Z-50-L smallest ship 870 square inches Daves airplane all-balsa foam wing tail cores drawback Zlin Z-50-Ls color scheme silver red trim silver really disappears overcast sky background during fi nals sky clear silver hard see Daves Zlin fastest ships meet Ivan Kristensen flew Cap 10 two-place side-by-side aerobatic trainer competition aircraft Ivans bird flew very nice looked very good air its elliptical wing planform Cap 10 built-up construction similar full-scale aircraft Dean Kogers Laser 200 typical designs has flying FAI Pattern has built-up fuselage tail group foam wing cores Dean really advantage contest has flying 1000 square inch pattern bird last three years familiar flying characteristics large model Wolfgang Matts bird Zlin Z-50-L prototype Topp kit fuse lage fiberglass foam wing tail cores wing 950 square inches Wolfgang built Laser 200 contest lost third flight cause faulty battery pack also scratch-built Zlin Z-50-L lost first flight because radio February 1979 89 Left Gunter 1-loppe Cranfield A-i British design aero batics fixed gear Looks bit like P-51 belly radiator Uses epoxy/glass fuselage foam wing tail Above Top scale points special award went Denis Donohue modified Stephens Acro Like used Webra 91 engine Ralph Brookes Hiperbipe Has Quadra engine all-balsa open structure covered Monokote Richard Brand Rhodesia two entered Zlin 526s Webra 91 power Giichi Narukes all-balsa dope Chipmunk powered new VS 120 engine produced Japan Left Fuselage Jeff Tracys Quadra-powered Cap 20 L Note stub spars wing panels slip overheld place machine screws through bottom wing leading edge Right lsao Matsui waiting turn Zlin Z-50-L all-balsa finished dopelooks like glass Left Ron Chidgey flew Spinks Akromaster designed Ed Keck original demonstrated 1977 TOC Right Bruno Giezendanner taxiing out takeoff like Matt flew prototype Topp kit Zlin Z-50-L has 950 sq wing area Above The crash caused mal functioning radio John Brinks Stephens Ac ro stalled about six feet above ground broke half impact doesnt look bad picture probably total washout Fortunately John backup low Clown pilot Gunter Hoppes Cranfield A-i especially appropriate event problems wasnt Wolfgangs year exactly though still finished fifth seemed everyone ex ception two contestants crashed before contest fli ers using either back-up ships borrowed airplanes Tony Bonetti flying very nice Pitts 5-1 until crashed couple weeks before contest Phil Kraft loaned Tony back-up Super Fli competiton Thats sportsmanship judging panel year included seven modelers five full-scale aero batic pilots and/or judges full-scale judges Art Scholl Chipmunk fame LaMar Stern Skybolt fame Jim Roberts Laser 200 pilot Gordon Price Canadian champion Gerry Zim merrnan top US aerobatic judge model judges Bill Johnson USA fifth time TOC Bob Upton USA fifth time TOC Warren Hitchcox Canada Canadian World Championship Team Geoff Franklin England judged 1977 World Championships Dennis Hunt Rhodesia Masahiro Kato Ja pan Dave Lane USA fifth time TOC judging very consistent throughout tournament fullscale judges commented fact wished full-scale judging could consistent model judg ing seems judges full-scale aerobatics meets leave something desired mentioned model ing judges TOC minimum 12 years judging experience apiece would glad judge full-scale aerobatics major difference judging Aresti pattern versus FAI pattern cannot take eyes off airplane during Aresti routine Everything plane does judged FAI worry about turn arounds can relax during time TOC judge assistant recorded scores maneuverthe same done full-scale aerobatics closing would like say judges opinion TOC Aresti schedule way FAI Pattern should go makes much inter esting event both fliers spectators believe would see spectators new pattern because aircraft remain front flier time also eliminates spot landing contest see much pattern flying present hope able judge next TOC can hardly wait see what sponsors will come up future top years event special thank appropriate Jerry Nelson Contest Director Doc Edwards Chief Judge gether sponsors made con test outstanding concerned 90 Model 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NE WSLETTE ACADEMY OF MODEL AERONAUTICS 815 FlFTEENTH STREET NW WASHINGTON DC 20005 RC AEROBATICS TEAM PROGRAM As mid-November 64 registered intent try qualify Masters Tournament team selection finals paid $10 program entry fee num ber 42 have qualified placing top one-third Master class event least five fliers AMA sanctioned meet Mem bers 1977 US RC Aerobatics Team automatically qualified having paid program entry fee Dave Brown Cincinnati OH Rhett Miller Ill Tallahassee FL Mark Radcliff Newport OH 42 have qualified press time follows although some thc 19 others may also qualify December 31 dead line Wayne Abernathy Hillside MD Donald L Atwood Denvez CO Roderick W Barnes Zanesville OH Sal Battaglia New Rochelle NY Andre Bauchard King Prussia PA Tony Bonetti Emerson NJ Joe Bridi Harbor City CA John Britt Hazelwood MOGeorge Buzel Jr Stamford CT Ron Chidgey Pen sacola FL Charles Danley Baytown TX Denis Donohue Bergenfield NJ Alan C Dupler Millersport OH Tony rackowiak Erie PA William M Furori Commack NY joseph G Gross Altus OK Steve Helms Pensacola FL George Hill An nandale VA Ed Izzo Holliston MA Fd Keck Webster NY Jim Kimbro Oceanside CA Dean Koger Wright-Patterson AFB OH Daniel E Kowallek Kokomo IN Fred Kugel Celina OH W R Lippincott Jr Boyce VA Don Lowe Dayton OH William Macek Bethlehem PA Thomas Moore Forestville MD Michael Mueller Rolling Meadows IL William Ney Wheeling WV Lloyd Nicholson Denver CO Jim Oddino Woodland Hills CA Roy Pinner Waterford Ml C W Reed III Raytown MO Donald Seals Paris IL Pat Shuttleworth Warren IN William E Thomas Bartlesville OK Biuce Underwood Guntersville AL DIRECTORY CONTEST COORDINATORS I Paul L Penney B Oarlotte Dr Andoser MA OlBtO II R Sobrino 87-26 88th St. Woodhanen Queens NY 11421 RC Bryan Sattler 29 Waldorf P1. Schenectady NY 12307 RC Fred Blackburn B Blue Spruce Ln. Commack NY 11725 Ill Ken Reber RD 1 Nazareth PA 18064 lEastI M Weisenbach 4568W 146th St. Cleseland OH 44135 IWessi IV Warren Sanders Jr. 9735 52nd Ane College Pk MD 20741 RC Ed Fitzwater 474 Tudor Or. Crownusille MD 21032 V NC Soaring Donna Dde 7409 Atwood Dr Huntsnille AL 35802 RC Charlene Fields 818 Main St. SW New Ellington SC 29809 FF Wallace Johnson 4112 White Acres Rd Montgomery AL 36106 VI Jim Thomerson 1317 EilewCollinssille IL 62234 RC Ralph White Jr RR 1 Son 324 Neoga IL 62447 VII John Enern 421 Walnut Las Apple Valley MN 55124 IWesti Wes Slack 12851 Payton Detroit MI 48224 lEasti VIII John Deaton 505 Connerce St. Port Worth TX 76102 RC Larry Snanfield 205 Quail Creek Dr Crowley TX 76036 IX Bill Bieda 411 Barker Building Osnelsa NE 68102 RC Tranis McGinnis 8027 W 81st Circle Arnada CO 80005 X Myrtle Coed Rn Boa 19 miner Lake CA 95457 INorthl Lee Polaneky 258 Iris Ate. Goleta CA 93017 ISouthi Prank Games 2241 Noah St Honolulu HI 96816 IHI meensi XI Don Dodd 3406 Bnltidere Ate. SW Seattle WA 98126 RC Don Miller 24715 Sa55mit-Landsburg Ranensdale WA 98051 RC Pylon & Souring RC Pattern other RC CL RC leocept Soaringi Bold Pace Below Indica-les Chairman Contest Board FREE FLIGHT CONTEST BOARD I Henry Struck RFO 2 Hamburg Old Lynre CT 06371 II Carrol Allen2 Arizona R Huntington Sta NY 11746 III Rudy Kluiber 2021 Lakeland Ate. Lakessood OH 44107 IV Joe Boyle Jr 219 Shenandoah Rd. Hampton VA 23361 V Bonny Jenkins 3112 E Raires Rd. Memphis TN 38115 VI Chris Mansuno 8S76 Ginger St John MO 83114 VII Phil Klintworth Jr. 715 Rutgers Rd. Rocinester Ml 48063 VIII Mark Valerius 2302 Pomeran Or. Houston TX 77055 IX Jerald Murphy 2432 Astron Dr Colorado Springs CO 80906 X Joe Norcross215 WSanta Ana No 211A Clonis CA 93612 XI Ernie Lint 16558- 121st Ace. SE RennonWA 98055 CONTROL LINE CONTEST BOARD I George Higgins P0 Ban 482 North Pembroke MA 02358 II Bill Boss 7706 269th St New Hyde Park NY 11040 III Laird Jackson 523 Meadombrook St Danids PA 19087 IV Ron McNally 6118 Bardo Ate Springfield VA 22152 V Dane Hemstruught PO Bon 171 Moecks Corner SC 29461 VI Bob Bsrch 5248W Scool Chicago IL 60641 VII James Snnon 4941 Wisconsin Ate. N New Hope MN 55428 VIII Charles Anasnon 3730 Kiestcnest Dallas TX 75233 IX Mictruel Tallman 3014 Eaclarge Wichita KS 67217 X Pete Brandn 315 S Maria Ace. Redondo Beach CA 90277 XI Dan Rutherford 4705 237th R SE Boshell WA 98011 RADIO CONTROL CONTEST BOARD I Ed Izzo 483 Fiske St Holliston MA 01746 II Joe Friend 62 Joysan Terr. Freehold NJ 07728 Ill Date Brown 8534 Huddleston Cincinnati OH 45236 IV Fred M Gregg 12709 Rcfrwood St. Chester VA 23831 V J Oasis Jr 1813S Lakesnore Dr. Birmingham AL 35216 VI Bob Onderwond 4109 Concord Oaks Dr. SI Louis MO 63128 VII Peter Waters 31219 Kendall Linonia MI 48154 VIII Danid Hyde 2026 Scommass Ln Garland TX 75042 IX Loren Tregellas 3003S Eterett Wichita KS 87217 X Bill Northrop Jr. 621 W 19th St Costa Mesa CA 92627 XI Ralph Brooke 3431 5 194th Seattle WA 98188 SCALE CONTEST BOARD I Richard Sherman 408 Rite Rd Tewksbury MA 01876 II Robert Clemens 95 Shoretray Dr Rochester NY 14612 Ill Edward Wisser 1521 Suwmn St McKeesport PA 15130 IV Bob Karlsuon 2643 Marsh Rd Wilmington DE 19810 V Danid Platt 6540 NW 15th Ft Lauderdale FL 33313 VI Frank Bearty 2608 Pontoon Rd. Granite City IL 62040 VII Claude McCullough Boa 40 Montezuma IA 50171 VIII Johnny Casburn Son 8029 Ft Worth TX 76112 IX Dean Copeland 7817 Sewed St. Omaha NE 68114 X Frank Capat 251 Camino de las P10mw Encininas CA 92024 Xl Earle Moorhead 275S View P1 5 Salem OR 97302 CONTEST BOARD COORDINATOR Don Lindley 420 Tupelo Napertille IL 60540 James E Vanderwalker Clintonville WI David vonLinsowe Linden Ml David G Weitz Jr Henderson NV Ralph White Neoga IL early January finalists will voting hold RC Masters Team Selec tion Tournament among sites have offered World Championships US three-man team being picked planned South Africa probably September October 1979 PROPOSED CHANGES TO CB PROCEDURES NOT ACCEPTED Vot ng n ma ballot Execut ye Council Contest Board chairmen CB coordinator has resulted defeat four proposals reported last month page 84 Briefly proposals three-year rules review cycle requiring amount kind experience proposer shown rules proposal form allow ing Provisional Supplemental rules events held Nats done auto matic upgrade Official status changing date age class determination July 1 January 1 year Craft tissue Mark Westminster MD February 1979 81 Mark Arnold ths Shocer 4Ks kitJ holding set national AMA record 17 min utes 36 seconds FF BGasCat Ill Open August 131978 uses K&B 35 engine GloBee plug 84 RevUp prop Seelig multi-function timer KraftHayes engine mount wingspan increased 70 surfaces doublecovered Aristo NMPRA Championship Race Pylon Racings Tournament Cham pions National Miniature Pylon Racing Association organization made up Pylon Race fliers through out US Canada Mexico organization responsible pro motion betterment Pylon Rac ing Most rules governing events have come NMPRA NMPRA rotates race site year year must some place US weather nice end October year races held Florida year California year Texas back Florida year went Dallas TX October 21-22 weather great qualify race person has finish top 20% NMPRA district means lot hard work determination part qualify 49 entrants signed ready compete dead line came 600 pm October 20 During registration checks made AMA memberships FCC licenses planes safety checked es pecially devises linkage radio installa tion engine mounting control surfaces 82 Model Aviation start races NMPRA Championshipsplane No 1 position already out view No 2 just starting No3 waiting third drop flag Author says workers bent over backwards see flier got fair shake look goes time clock competitors fire up Pylon rules give 90 seconds starting adjusting engines getting position race begin Planes also measured weighed per rules Next came what 1 call hardest part planes judged appear ance Formula best looking planes take off first Following usual practice planes put four dif ferent groups championship award given best plane Out about 90 very beautiful airplanes plane judged best honor went again Ron Schorr tops Nats too Pole Cat planes checked judged pilots went back rooms ready full weekend racing Saturday 845 am first race got underway lot jock eying around lead come win Ron Schorr might considered favorite since won AMA Nats August just could get together what several flameouts BitI Preis early leader ran 0 form few short laps have go around pylons BitI Bill Williamson has going fast year ran few 0s form engine failure hard luck story Charlie Brunner came two planes close race Charlie overturned No 3 pylon know theres much left couple races later mid-air No 1 pylon backup plane made short contest Charlie Being competitor though Charlie will back Ill bet time issue reaches press Charlie probably will getting ready next year past have very few fliers Ohio Indiana Michi gan area have attended Cham pionship Races Well year after years preaching urging finally got some crowd attend [hey did pretty well first time out Art Arro finished 18th Rex Knepper 22nd Wayne Yeager 36th guys planning try qualify attend again 1979 Nearly days end John McDermott Bob Reuther lave Shadel tied first last heats Dave Shadels wing suddenly exploded No pylon thus ending bid lead Saturday evenings banquetwasserved ballroom headquarters motel very nice food very good area NMPRA V-Ps gave brief reports things going dis tricts guest speaker Mike Clark ex-Dallas Cowboy football player Mike son have interest model airplanes Mike spent two days out line official lap counter February 1 979 83 happy triowinner John McDermott center caller Dave Shadel left sponsor Jim Shin ohara pose after John took first 10 heats Plane Little Toni Supertigre power Engines putting out best callers ready launch racers go off after other about one-second intervalsas quickly astheflag can repeatedly dropped 1978 NMPRA CHAMPIONSHIP P1Name 1John McDermott 2Bob Reuther 3Gary Hover 4Ed Allen 5A Mike Atzei 6A Dave Shadel 7 Tom Castellano 8A Dennis OBrien 9A Clay/Barrett Team 10Bill Preis 11Doug Ruble 12A Bill Hager 13A Cliff Telford 14A Gale Helms 15Mike Helsel 16Charles Monnett 17A Pete Reed 18A Art Arro 19B Bill Williamson 208 Carl Simms 21B George Parks 228 Rex Knepper 23B Bob Wallace 248 David Donat 25B Steve Dentz 26 Tim Edwards 278 Rusty Van Baren 28B Gary Heithald 29B Rick Oliver 308 Gary McPike 31B Jerry Boyce 328 Leonard Ledson 33Greig Simpson 34Mark Harsu 35B Larry Barnes 36B Wayne Yeager 37Ron Schorr 38Jim Kimbro 39Dan Downing 40Fransicso Gonzalez 41Bob Brogdon 42Jeff Bertken 43Glen Sicoste 44Charlie Brunner 45Norm Johnson 46Gail Jacobson 47Omar Lopez 48Dan Kaylor 49Sergio Baamano ATie broken flyoff Airplane/Engine Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/ST LR1A/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/K&B Little Toni/ST Minnow/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/K&B Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/K&B Little Toni/ST Minnow/ST Pole Cat/ST Minnow/K&B Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Midget Mustang/ST Minnow/ST Little Toni/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/ST Midget Mustang/ST Rickey Rat/ST Little Toni/ST Pole Cat/K&B Little Toni/ST Midget Mustang/K&B Little Toni/ST El Bandido/K&B Minnow/K&B Pole Cat/ST Little Toni/ST Minnow/ST Pole Cat/ST Midget Mustang/K&B Minnow/ST Midget Mustang RACE RESULTS PtsBess Time 401132 391177 371184 361200 341176 341184 321173 311215 311188 311162 311191 291205 291235 291263 281220 271190 251250 251261 231185 231202 231230 231250 231269 221229 221270 211271 191206 191307 181254 181340 171186 171298 161255 151268 141283 141303 131377 121236 10 8 6 3 3 3 3 3 3 0 0 1305 1400 1247 1318 1320 1343 1345 1443 1546 BTie broken best time 84 Model Aviation top five L-R John McDermott 1st Bob Reuther 2nd Gary Hover 3rd Ed Allen 4th Mike Atzei 5th George Parks wife teamed up finish 21stnot bad considering quality competition George perhaps better known QM Left Pilots callers must work teams successful Note concentration faces race progress Right top 20 fliers NMPRA Championships came over US Canada Mexico Altogether 49 vieing top spot timer Mike said really enjoyed weekend NMPRA Races banquet Mike told training discipline goes fore big football game Its much same races won qualify NMPRA Cham pionships discipline sacri fices go being Pylon Racing champion Sunday saw another perfect day temperatures reached 90 degrees could have better day racing competitive some Championship races have lot planes lost fliers aiming same groove putting out super effort race somehow few mis haps best races con test between Tom Casteliano Clay-Barrett team planes actually touched paint under Toms wing slight mid-air no dam age otherwise Tom Casteliano won race after crowd specta tors stood up applauded seen fine example good close race John McDermott Bob Reuther remained tied until ninth round Bob got edged out close race Ed Allen dropping Bob point down John managed hang finished perfect score 10 rounds John also fast time forthis race 1132 Ties broken either flyoffs best time previous heats flyoff between Mike Atzei Dave Shadel fifth Mike won Dave failed start Dennis OBrien edged out Clay-Barrett team flyoff 8th 9th authorBill Hager man aged come out top three-way flyoff Cliff Telford Gale Helms 12th 13th 14th Pete Reed edged out Art Arro flyoff 17th 18th short pause final points computation came awards pre sentation NMPRA supplied awards silver wine coolers through fifth sil ver dishes 6th through 20th plus best finish fast timeKits sever al manufacturers Pylon Race field also awarded biggest sur prise cash accompanied trophies$30000 first $20000 second $15000 third fourth $10000 fifth $10000 fast time quite shock hadnt expecting prize money came anonymous donor think know donorthanks race has come long way since its inception 1973 racing im proving year Lets hope trend continues NMPRA growing ganization proper care promotion will continue reach new heights opinion Formula racers easiest best flying planes RC Try youll like closing comment lifted Ed Rankin Contest Directors AMA Nats NMPRA Cham pionships should experienced CDs also experienced Pylon fliers Ten-four Thanks Dallas RC Club Ed Rankin workers fine contest February 1979 85 Art Arro right authors son Rob Hager carrying Arts Little Toni back pits after flight Rob often caller fliers area speaks well abilities eventual winner John McDermottright makes some last-minute adjustmentshelped Len Ledson win permits no mistakes size Hanno Prettners winning Dalotel DM-165 vivid photo right held Hanno father Hans behind fuselage has 2500 sq wing area weighs 21 lbs uses 11 servos own design retracts Above Hanno checking glow plug two Webra 61s powering model Gears barely visible photo below link two en gines 20-11 prop two-to-one reduction Prettner designed own dutch engine quit other still would keep plane airborne Flew very slow stable consistent 45-50 mph attitudes Hannos first place year won him $15000 Dave Browns Zlin Z-50-L touching down smallest plane event 870 sq wing area won second place $7000 FIFTH TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS o0 / o L1 op I0 1~\ III LQ i- 0 / 0 0 8 00 aerobatic schedule flown 1978 T0C shown Aresti notation left graphic form familiar modelers right Below Judges recorders during qualifying flight Qualifying flights before five judges 10 judges being used finals Judges drawn both modeling fullicale fields including several nationalities Report Photos Dave Lane years Tournament Champi ons outstanding thanks no small part sponsors--Circus Circus Ho tel Casino Model Airplane News just five years have seen event evolve FAI RC Aerobatic Pat tern through progression com plicated maneuvers including special Scale event last year years sophisticated Aresti routine semi-scale 85% replicas full-scale aerobatic aircraft popular planes Zlin Z-50-L Zlin 526-AS Spinks Akromaster next Other air craft modeled Kraft Super Fli Laser 200 Stephens Acro Chipmunk Cap 20 L Cap 10 Cranfield A-i Hiper bipe Sportmaster 150 Skybolt Dalotel DM-165 Hanno Prettner won TOC fifth time total score 5061 points Dave Brown second 47215 Ivan Kristensen third 47125 Dean Koger fourth 4669 Wolfgang Matt fifth 4623 points Wolfgang flew four final rounds intermittent radio still finished 438 points off pace takes some kind concen tration February 1979 87 ---xx ED I \ Ivan Kristensen beautiful Cap 1Oa two-place aerobatic trainer elliptical surfaces smooth flying plane looked great air cop third place $5000 Right Wolfgang Matt Liechtenstein fifth caught explaining some finer points Zlin Z-50-L Matt radio problems week Zlins prototype Topp kits W Germany years pattern consisted following 20 maneuvers 1 One loop inside snaproll top ioop 2 Hammerhead turn-around maneu ver 3 Slow roll 4 One-half Cuban eight 1 out side snaprolls turn-around maneu ver 5 Square inside loop 6 Immelmann turn turn-around ma neuver 7 Inside snaproll 45-degree down line 8 Hammerhead 112 roll down line turn-around maneuver 9 Outside loop inverted flight 10 Wind correction maneuver turn around maneuver 11 Wind correction maneuver turn around maneuver 12 Four-point roll 13 1/2 reverse Cuban eight l/l snaprolls 45-degree upline turn around maneuver 14 Slow roll 45-degree upline 15 1-turn spin turn-around maneu ver 16 Eight-point roll 17 Hump turn-around turn-around maneuver 18 Rolling 360-degree turn circle 19 1/2 Cuban eight turn-around ma neuver 20 Verticalroll pattern fun watch joy judge competitors commended doing excellent job flying limited time practice TOC pilots learn new routine also design PL 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Hanno Prettner Dave Brown Ivan Kristensen Dean Koger Wolfgang Man Gunter Hoppe Steve Helms Richard Brand Phil Kraft Giichi Naruke Mark Radcliff Fred Kugel Jeff Tracy Don Lowe Bruno Giezendanner lsao Matsui Don Weitz Ron Chidgey Tony Bonetti Denis Donohue Benito Bertolani Harald Neckar Norm Cassella Ed Keck John Brink Ralph Brooke John Lockwood Joe Bridi Country Austria USA Canada USA Liechtenstein W Germany USA Rhodesia USA Japan USA USA Australia USA Switzerland Japan USA USA USA USA Italy W Germany USA USA So Africa USA USA USA 50610 47215 47125 46690 46230 22105 21935 21905 21900 21890 21750 21745 21725 21555 21190 21185 21160 21035 21035 20855 20390 19850 18455 17779 17645 17545 16735 15415 $15000 $7000 $5000 $4000 $3000 $2000 $1500 $1300 $1000 $900 $800 $700 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 Dalotel DM-165 Zlin Z-50 Cap 10 Laser 200 Zlin Z-50-L Cranfield A-i Spinks Akromaster Zlin Z-526 Super Fli Chipmunk Super Fli Spinks Akromaster Cap 20 L Zlin 526AS ZIin 50-L Zlin 50-L Spinks Akromaster Spinks Akromaster Super Fli Stephens Acro Zlin 526-AFS Zlin 50-L Skybolt Spinks Akromaster Stephens Acro Hiperbipe Sportmaster 150 Spinks Akromaster 88 Model Aviation Dean Koger 4th place very nice Laser 2001200 sq 12 lbs. alibalsa plywood construction fiberglass cowl Webra 91 reduction belt drive Laser 200 modified Stephens Acro Leo Loudenslager made modifications won World Championships Photo right shows bit Koger puts plane together big wing held place four 6-32 machine screws TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONSRESULTS/MODEL DATA PilotPoints PrizeAircraftEngine Webra 61 0S90 FSR Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 YS 12 Webra 91 Webra 91 Quadra Webra 91 Webra 91 0S90 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 Webra 91 OPS Webra 91 Webra 91 0S90 Webra 91 Quadra Webra 91 0S90 build new aircraft competition Most aircraft between 800 1200 square inches wing area Hanno Prettners Dalotel 2500 square inches 9-foot wingspan weighed 21 pounds maximum weight allowed 22 pounds Hanno used two Webra 6 ls clutches driving two-to-one reduction-geared center shaft 20-1 1 prop Hannos aircraft flew between 40 50 mph attitude rudder elevator two servos servo aileron servo landing gear throttle servo servo mixture control Thats 11 servos Dave Brown flew own design Zlin Z-50-L smallest ship 870 square inches Daves airplane all-balsa foam wing tail cores drawback Zlin Z-50-Ls color scheme silver red trim silver really disappears overcast sky background during fi nals sky clear silver hard see Daves Zlin fastest ships meet Ivan Kristensen flew Cap 10 two-place side-by-side aerobatic trainer competition aircraft Ivans bird flew very nice looked very good air its elliptical wing planform Cap 10 built-up construction similar full-scale aircraft Dean Kogers Laser 200 typical designs has flying FAI Pattern has built-up fuselage tail group foam wing cores Dean really advantage contest has flying 1000 square inch pattern bird last three years familiar flying characteristics large model Wolfgang Matts bird Zlin Z-50-L prototype Topp kit fuse lage fiberglass foam wing tail cores wing 950 square inches Wolfgang built Laser 200 contest lost third flight cause faulty battery pack also scratch-built Zlin Z-50-L lost first flight because radio February 1979 89 Left Gunter 1-loppe Cranfield A-i British design aero batics fixed gear Looks bit like P-51 belly radiator Uses epoxy/glass fuselage foam wing tail Above Top scale points special award went Denis Donohue modified Stephens Acro Like used Webra 91 engine Ralph Brookes Hiperbipe Has Quadra engine all-balsa open structure covered Monokote Richard Brand Rhodesia two entered Zlin 526s Webra 91 power Giichi Narukes all-balsa dope Chipmunk powered new VS 120 engine produced Japan Left Fuselage Jeff Tracys Quadra-powered Cap 20 L Note stub spars wing panels slip overheld place machine screws through bottom wing leading edge Right lsao Matsui waiting turn Zlin Z-50-L all-balsa finished dopelooks like glass Left Ron Chidgey flew Spinks Akromaster designed Ed Keck original demonstrated 1977 TOC Right Bruno Giezendanner taxiing out takeoff like Matt flew prototype Topp kit Zlin Z-50-L has 950 sq wing area Above The crash caused mal functioning radio John Brinks Stephens Ac ro stalled about six feet above ground broke half impact doesnt look bad picture probably total washout Fortunately John backup low Clown pilot Gunter Hoppes Cranfield A-i especially appropriate event problems wasnt Wolfgangs year exactly though still finished fifth seemed everyone ex ception two contestants crashed before contest fli ers using either back-up ships borrowed airplanes Tony Bonetti flying very nice Pitts 5-1 until crashed couple weeks before contest Phil Kraft loaned Tony back-up Super Fli competiton Thats sportsmanship judging panel year included seven modelers five full-scale aero batic pilots and/or judges full-scale judges Art Scholl Chipmunk fame LaMar Stern Skybolt fame Jim Roberts Laser 200 pilot Gordon Price Canadian champion Gerry Zim merrnan top US aerobatic judge model judges Bill Johnson USA fifth time TOC Bob Upton USA fifth time TOC Warren Hitchcox Canada Canadian World Championship Team Geoff Franklin England judged 1977 World Championships Dennis Hunt Rhodesia Masahiro Kato Ja pan Dave Lane USA fifth time TOC judging very consistent throughout tournament fullscale judges commented fact wished full-scale judging could consistent model judg ing seems judges full-scale aerobatics meets leave something desired mentioned model ing judges TOC minimum 12 years judging experience apiece would glad judge full-scale aerobatics major difference judging Aresti pattern versus FAI pattern cannot take eyes off airplane during Aresti routine Everything plane does judged FAI worry about turn arounds can relax during time TOC judge assistant recorded scores maneuverthe same done full-scale aerobatics closing would like say judges opinion TOC Aresti schedule way FAI Pattern should go makes much inter esting event both fliers spectators believe would see spectators new pattern because aircraft remain front flier time also eliminates spot landing contest see much pattern flying present hope able judge next TOC can hardly wait see what sponsors will come up future top years event special thank appropriate Jerry Nelson Contest Director Doc Edwards Chief Judge gether sponsors made con test outstanding concerned 90 Model 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