CONTROL LINE COMBAT U ing Combat season has traditionally March Tucson Arizona Top Gun Triple Elimination Fast Combat Contest year 44 competitors across US tried hand winning $1 OOO top prize other contests may take place before Top Gun event its first big-money contests some parts country pilots spend time building during winter anxious test new projects designs contest arena Arizona event provides good opportunity test models engines under fire year Henry Nelson himself Tucson brains talent behind now-dominant Nelson Combat 36 Henry developed engine several years ago has essentially taken over Fast Slow Combat market engines reliable make Mogombo power Mogomho word engine guru Don Repp uses mean huge amounts Roughly 75% pilots Top Gun used Nelsons rest various versions Foxes pilot daring use Stels 36 Most propellers carved-on Rev-Ups Master Airscrew scimitars APCs glass copies APCs types fuel shutoffs dumps available Tomas Mejzlik Czechoslovakian swing-arm types seen problems integral needle valves being too weak design removed needle valve used remote OS Max type instead Tomas aware problem will taking measures correct Mark Smith Maverick Enterprises has refined Mears design slotted bellerank shutoff has working flawlessly making own belleranks fittings go external bellerank-type shutoff Its cleanest lightest systems have seen date expect Mark will soon making available public Top Gun pilots going really fast got themselves trouble really quickly hopeless line tangles some cutaways proved usefulness fuel shutoffs During some early years contest pilots often go walkabout get models after sent off desert year search party organized find long-overdue Peter Athans As year moves along pilots get better line sense ability keep up models shutoffs will go long way improving status Combat general public other modelers excitement still some danger gone werent too new faces Top Gun present some time Doss Porter used fly quite bit Fresno California area 142 Model Aviation Maywald has intricate predictable double belicrank fuel shutoff system always-dangerous Bob Burch has around long time Mexicos Combat Team L R Leonardo Silva Arnulfo Delgado Rafael Vargas Californian Rich von Lopez made comeback Mitch Williams flew youngster Northern California sharp eye could tell left-handed moves just random movements handle Max Boyd moved Seattle area lost weight looked fighting trim moved deep contest regular faces seen major competitions Cleveland Mears Hess Wilcox Stubblefield Rudner Lopez Capuano Perkins Petri Cranfil Minor Cline Smith McKinney Liddle Ie Cour Skelly Heppenstall Cash Maywald Athans Rein Burdick Colombo Hemy Burch numerous others pilots closing senior-citizen discounts meals entry fees Several other pilots present did fly James Mears Riley Wooten Larry Driskill Larry Scarmnzi Don Repp Steve Stewart Dave Stewart Gary Cash few hung around pitting shooting breeze some contest becomes social event rather model contest Some tall stories told under Texans canopies about rattlesnakes other adventures field loaded Friday afternoon pilots doing last-minute tuning trimming bunch guys getting practice matches 1/2A models looks AME 049 engine choice serious pilots Larry Driskill has engines available few modifications make userfriendly purchased him looks really good will giving go soon Lany let fly 049 Lite Hawk models perfonnance quite good combination makes rocksteady model lots power nice take model engine test drive before buy Jerry Capuanos son also Lite Hawk AME 061 worked well great sport flier did see anything new model designs same old foam designs internal external controls plenty short tail boom design Czech models Ready-to-Fly aircraft make easy have money time competitive cost $45 $50 depending shipping new trick item saw comes Henry Nelsons shopa backplate engine mount Combat 36 very light exact spacing Czech model mount said about /2-ounce lighter nonnal metal engine mount setup down side costs $35 makes clean setup reduced vibration Several pilots using mounting system front line models purchased will testing near future Probably best thing about Top Gun contest fact run well Arizona guys pride themselves running tight efficient contest also helps Fast Combat easiest judge time point view kill ends match Most pilots can tell have taken kill killed little no arguing Competitors ready assigned times contest moved quick pace 44 entries no problem getting through first four rounds Saturday fact couple fifth-round matches run before 630 pmthe equivalent having 85-plus matches day also couple reflys thrown add count beautiful weather site conditions added pleasure contest matches flown anyone feeling pressured rushed enough time take one-hour lunch break As usual host club Cholla Choppers homemade lunch available competitors competition intense great deal friendship supersedes need win Well-prepared Mark Smith came out top after some hard-fought matches Chuck Cline editor MACA News Miniature Aircraft Combat Association battled way second place what might have personal best major competitions ever-wily skillful Richard Stubblefield finished third Richard may have sore toe sneaking up senior citizen cards eyesight sharp kill zone quarter-circle-long him 1999 Top Gun will 10th annual organizers already working will biggest best ever make plans attendance 1998 Bladder Grabber end June will biggest yet Bob Carver putting up $16000 worth stereo prizes other goodies contest has history being best offers substantial prizes come out top Duke Fox Memorial Competition Chicago Illinois will go back Fast Combat format after one-year deviation/experiment 1997 80 mph wish well need majorleague contest Midwest have out town two weeks have regular flying field However learned work has begun fixing irrigation system specifically around flying site might allow return Money Nats some new events future parking situation next item take amazing much can get accomplished write few carefully worded letters polite tone Through years attending various competitions US abroad have met modelers around world time Mexico consistently sent teams Nationals World Championships members Rafael Vargas Mexico City business late March decided look him up Sure enough Rafael still around although given up model aircraft favor scale model boats museum quality highly sought-after special projects Rafael 70 seen him since 1982 World Championships Sweden gathered few other fliers got together lunch Leonardo Silva Arnulfo Delgado Federico Quezada still active Combat pilots plan going Bladder Grabber year dont think ready 1998 World Championships have eyes France year 2000 st1998 143
Edition: Model Aviation - 1998/08
Page Numbers: 142, 143
Edition: Model Aviation - 1998/08
Page Numbers: 142, 143
CONTROL LINE COMBAT U ing Combat season has traditionally March Tucson Arizona Top Gun Triple Elimination Fast Combat Contest year 44 competitors across US tried hand winning $1 OOO top prize other contests may take place before Top Gun event its first big-money contests some parts country pilots spend time building during winter anxious test new projects designs contest arena Arizona event provides good opportunity test models engines under fire year Henry Nelson himself Tucson brains talent behind now-dominant Nelson Combat 36 Henry developed engine several years ago has essentially taken over Fast Slow Combat market engines reliable make Mogombo power Mogomho word engine guru Don Repp uses mean huge amounts Roughly 75% pilots Top Gun used Nelsons rest various versions Foxes pilot daring use Stels 36 Most propellers carved-on Rev-Ups Master Airscrew scimitars APCs glass copies APCs types fuel shutoffs dumps available Tomas Mejzlik Czechoslovakian swing-arm types seen problems integral needle valves being too weak design removed needle valve used remote OS Max type instead Tomas aware problem will taking measures correct Mark Smith Maverick Enterprises has refined Mears design slotted bellerank shutoff has working flawlessly making own belleranks fittings go external bellerank-type shutoff Its cleanest lightest systems have seen date expect Mark will soon making available public Top Gun pilots going really fast got themselves trouble really quickly hopeless line tangles some cutaways proved usefulness fuel shutoffs During some early years contest pilots often go walkabout get models after sent off desert year search party organized find long-overdue Peter Athans As year moves along pilots get better line sense ability keep up models shutoffs will go long way improving status Combat general public other modelers excitement still some danger gone werent too new faces Top Gun present some time Doss Porter used fly quite bit Fresno California area 142 Model Aviation Maywald has intricate predictable double belicrank fuel shutoff system always-dangerous Bob Burch has around long time Mexicos Combat Team L R Leonardo Silva Arnulfo Delgado Rafael Vargas Californian Rich von Lopez made comeback Mitch Williams flew youngster Northern California sharp eye could tell left-handed moves just random movements handle Max Boyd moved Seattle area lost weight looked fighting trim moved deep contest regular faces seen major competitions Cleveland Mears Hess Wilcox Stubblefield Rudner Lopez Capuano Perkins Petri Cranfil Minor Cline Smith McKinney Liddle Ie Cour Skelly Heppenstall Cash Maywald Athans Rein Burdick Colombo Hemy Burch numerous others pilots closing senior-citizen discounts meals entry fees Several other pilots present did fly James Mears Riley Wooten Larry Driskill Larry Scarmnzi Don Repp Steve Stewart Dave Stewart Gary Cash few hung around pitting shooting breeze some contest becomes social event rather model contest Some tall stories told under Texans canopies about rattlesnakes other adventures field loaded Friday afternoon pilots doing last-minute tuning trimming bunch guys getting practice matches 1/2A models looks AME 049 engine choice serious pilots Larry Driskill has engines available few modifications make userfriendly purchased him looks really good will giving go soon Lany let fly 049 Lite Hawk models perfonnance quite good combination makes rocksteady model lots power nice take model engine test drive before buy Jerry Capuanos son also Lite Hawk AME 061 worked well great sport flier did see anything new model designs same old foam designs internal external controls plenty short tail boom design Czech models Ready-to-Fly aircraft make easy have money time competitive cost $45 $50 depending shipping new trick item saw comes Henry Nelsons shopa backplate engine mount Combat 36 very light exact spacing Czech model mount said about /2-ounce lighter nonnal metal engine mount setup down side costs $35 makes clean setup reduced vibration Several pilots using mounting system front line models purchased will testing near future Probably best thing about Top Gun contest fact run well Arizona guys pride themselves running tight efficient contest also helps Fast Combat easiest judge time point view kill ends match Most pilots can tell have taken kill killed little no arguing Competitors ready assigned times contest moved quick pace 44 entries no problem getting through first four rounds Saturday fact couple fifth-round matches run before 630 pmthe equivalent having 85-plus matches day also couple reflys thrown add count beautiful weather site conditions added pleasure contest matches flown anyone feeling pressured rushed enough time take one-hour lunch break As usual host club Cholla Choppers homemade lunch available competitors competition intense great deal friendship supersedes need win Well-prepared Mark Smith came out top after some hard-fought matches Chuck Cline editor MACA News Miniature Aircraft Combat Association battled way second place what might have personal best major competitions ever-wily skillful Richard Stubblefield finished third Richard may have sore toe sneaking up senior citizen cards eyesight sharp kill zone quarter-circle-long him 1999 Top Gun will 10th annual organizers already working will biggest best ever make plans attendance 1998 Bladder Grabber end June will biggest yet Bob Carver putting up $16000 worth stereo prizes other goodies contest has history being best offers substantial prizes come out top Duke Fox Memorial Competition Chicago Illinois will go back Fast Combat format after one-year deviation/experiment 1997 80 mph wish well need majorleague contest Midwest have out town two weeks have regular flying field However learned work has begun fixing irrigation system specifically around flying site might allow return Money Nats some new events future parking situation next item take amazing much can get accomplished write few carefully worded letters polite tone Through years attending various competitions US abroad have met modelers around world time Mexico consistently sent teams Nationals World Championships members Rafael Vargas Mexico City business late March decided look him up Sure enough Rafael still around although given up model aircraft favor scale model boats museum quality highly sought-after special projects Rafael 70 seen him since 1982 World Championships Sweden gathered few other fliers got together lunch Leonardo Silva Arnulfo Delgado Federico Quezada still active Combat pilots plan going Bladder Grabber year dont think ready 1998 World Championships have eyes France year 2000 st1998 143
