Control Line: Aerobatics

Control Line AEROBA TICS Wynn Paul US CL AEROBATICS TEAM 1983 FAT team tryouts held once again over Labor Day weekend now tra ditional flying held Dayton OH has hosted FAt tryouts Two winners repeat members team sixth time Keith Trostle Event Director prob ably sets record number con secutive times ED Bob Baron Claremont CA came out overall winner led way first round Saturday will making second appearance World Cham pionships will held United States next summer fliers flew three rounds first day adding two high est scores two highest three rounds Sunday overall scores Eighttime team member Bill Werwage World Champion 1970 1972 finished second tryouts score 398325 Barons 410250 team tryouts have traditionally harsh newly-crowned National Cham pions years Nats wionner Jim Casale completed fantastic summer qualified team finishing third 389775 first second try outs pretty solid after second round Saturday third place contested Veteran Bob Gieseke nipping heels Casale pretty big gap between fourth place rest field Current World Champion Les McDonald assisted Keith contest judges along Joe Reinhard Jack Sheeks Larry Lauer Robert McDonald Bill Zimmer round applause should go Keith judges recorders spending Labor Day weekend sitting out sun watching patterns thing certain Dayton OH may own record greatest number Control Line sites past CLers have used Wright-Patterson AFB old circles power plant now gone parking lot University Dayton new municipal circles Northwest side town FAI tryouts year held parking lot Wright State University turned out reasonably good site ade quate practice circles available turnout FAI team tryouts low year Missing perennial con testants Ted Fancher Wynn Paul Den nis Adamisin 1983 Nats second-place finisher Paul Walker also unable tend two Carolina flying bud dies David Hemstrought Stan Powell Only eleven contestants showed up fly after Gieseke fourth order finish other two alternates Windy Urnowski 367600 Remel Cooperin best finish ever sixth 340175 Rounding out flying order Lou Dudka Glen Meador Dennis Harkai Tom Dixon Frank McMillan World Championships held States next year USA team should stronger member will jible practice right up until one- twoday trip siteinstead usual fiveto seven-day trip required going over seas Once again will Les McDonald against World master inter national flying will once again defend individual title three tryout winners will attempting unseat him retain team title USA has held since 1964 Since team includes two veterans much-improved Jim Casale USA should again favorite win Precision Aerobatics team title thanks Randy Hancock Lexing ton KY help preparation article Wynn Paul 1640 Maywick Dr Lexing ton KY 40504 Frank McMillans ship semi-scale based Dennis Harkal used unusual 4-bladed prop MB-S fighter uses built-up wing enlarged outboard flap outgrowth molded balsa fuselage sides Its ST 51 engine trimming sessions Bill Werwage modified Rabe/McMiIIan standards 70 Model Aviation Bob Baron took marbles time placing first team Finals latest Avanti uses foam wing OS Max 45 engine Bill Werwages new Apteryx brings back mem ories Bob Gialdinis twin-rudder Olympic Mark VI planes Sixties Note built-up wing European-style clear fnish wing/stab Jim Casale Paterson NJ flew Spectrum 3rd Foam wing ST 60 engine Remel Cooper Jacksonville FL placed 6th I-beam-winged version Stiletto