Control Line Scale-2007/02

Also included in this column:
• Junior FAI CL teams at 2008
Scale World Championships
• A correction
• A Bücker Jungmeister by Dave
Dulaitis
THE 2007 USA FAI Scale Championships,
hosted by the National Association of Scale
Aeromodelers (NASA), is scheduled to be the
qualifier for US teams that will compete at the
2008 Scale World Championships.
The National Championships will take
place Thursday, September 20 through
Sunday, September 23. The site for the
competition will be the AMA National Flying
Site in Muncie, Indiana, which is
approximately 11/2 hours from Indianapolis
International Airport.
The team selection will be for the FAI F4B
(CL Scale) and F4C (RC Scale) teams that will
participate in the 2008 Scale World
Championships that will be held in
Wloclawek, Poland. The events will be
conducted under the direction of NASA with
support from AMA.
A unique feature of these events is the fact
that there will be monetary prizes amounting to
$5,000 in F4B and F4C events. First place in
each class will receive $2,000, second place
will get $1,000, third place will earn $800,
fourth place will garner $700, and fifth place is
worth $500.
These championships are open to any US
resident and AMA member who holds a valid
AMA member license. No foreign modelers
will be allowed entry since this program of
events is offered in an effort to improve our
country’s FAI Scale Program.
There will be a limit of two
helpers per entry. The helpers are
considered pit crew only—not the
contestant who builds and flies
his or her model.
The Scale Championships
will be run according to the FAI
Sporting Code, Sections ABR,
Section 4—Aeromodels, as
published in January 2007. This
contest will employ two
flightlines in F4B and F4C.
Static judging for both classes
will be Thursday (site to be
announced) starting at 9 a.m.
Competitors will select numbers
at a random drawing. That
number will be his or her static
and flight position for the
remainder of the competition.
Static judging will continue
Friday to its conclusion. RC and CL sites will
be open for practice flying that day.
Flight judging will take place Saturday and
Sunday. The competition will employ two
flightlines in F4C and F4B. Two sets of flight
judges will be used, with the best of the two of
four flights determining the flight score.
Saturday at 6:30 p.m. there will be a dinner
at the field, with some good times provided by
the NASA LTD crew. The awards ceremony
for F4B and F4C will take place at the
conclusion of the competition on Sunday.
Entry fees for the competition are $75 per
competitor and $35 for official helpers. All
entries, as well as full payment, must be
postmarked by August 1, 2007. The late-entry
fee will be $150 for each competitor, and entry
will be closed at 9 a.m. Thursday, September
20, 2007.
The 2008 Scale World Championships will be
hosted by Aeroklub Polski of Poland and is
expected to take place in the later part of July.
The venue is Wloclawek: a town situated 155
kilometers northwest of Warsaw.
The Wloclawek Aero Club has organized
many events in various air sports, including
many national competitions such as the 2001
European Championships.
The flying field is located approximately 10
kilometers from Wloclawek and
offers great conditions for a Scale
contest. There are asphalt
runways for RC and CL models,
three hangars, an office building
with a conference room, rooms
for FAI Jury and judges, and a
café.
For the first time in world
competition a Junior F4B event
will be offered. At this Scale
World Championships each
country may enter a team
consisting of three F4B
competitors, three Junior F4B
competitors, and three F4C
competitors.
Individual F4B and F4C
World Champions will have a
right to defend their titles. Also
included as part of the teams are
F4B and F4C team managers as
Dave Dulaitis (Sun City FL) is still going strong at 84. His latest project is a Bücker
Jungmeister finished in a Lithuanian Air Force color scheme. Dulaitis photo.
The engine cowling on Dave’s 3-pound Jungmeister completely
hides the Fox .35 power plant. Dulaitis photo.
observers.
Any Scale modeler who is interested in
trying his or her hand at FAI events in
September 2007 should visit the NASA Web
site at www.nasascale.org for information.
You can download printouts of FAI event
rules and scoresheets for RC and CL. There is
nothing like learning the rules and being
prepared.
Having a Junior team participate in the
Scale World Championships is an effort to
bring younger modelers into FAI Scale events
and cultivate future championship-caliber
modelers. According to page 29, ABR Section,
of the FAI rules, “a competitor is considered to
be a Junior up to and including the calendar
year in which he attains the age of 18.”
I don’t know of a movement within the US
for the formulation of a Junior world team, but
I hope AMA and NASA would consider
developing a Junior team-selection program. It
might help improve Scale modeling in our
country and especially help promote the FAI
Scale category. Watch the NASA Web site
and MA columns for more information.
Wrong Engine: In the October column I
identified the engine in Karl Krafft’s Boeing
100 as a rotary. AMA member Tony Greene
sent an E-mail telling me that the Boeing 100
was equipped with a radial engine—not a
rotary one.
He correctly noted that many World War I
aircraft had rotary engines where the
crankshaft was fixed and the engine cylinders
with the propeller rotated around it. Thanks
for the information, Tony.
Dave Dulaitis of Sun City, Florida, who has
been featured many times in this column, is
back again. He just passed his 84th birthday, is
still building prolifically, and flies at least
twice a month.
This month I’m featuring Dave’s latest
endeavor: a Bücker Jungmeister. He built the
model to a scale of 2 inches equaling 1 foot,
which gives it a wingspan of roughly 44
inches. That size allows the model’s Fox .35
engine to be totally enclosed in the cowling.
The Bücker weighs 3 pounds, which Dave
considers heavy even though he reports that it
flies well with the .35 engine. His complaint is
that it is not aerobatic, as the prototype
Jungmeister is. It would probably be capable
of mild aerobatics if it were fitted with a larger
engine.
Dave’s models generally have color
schemes that emulate aircraft flown in the
Lithuanian Air Force. His Bücker is finished
with the color scheme of the six Jungmeisters
that served in the Lithuanian Air Force. I hope
to see his next project, which is a Focke-Wulf
Ta 152H.
Please send ideas, notice of upcoming CL
Scale events, contest reports, and especially
photos of CL Scale activity. You can send
your reports to me at the E-mail address or by
regular mail to 77-06 269th St., New Hyde
Park NY 11040. Remember that 35mm film
pictures are okay and that digital camera
photos must be submitted on a CD.
Keep your landings good. MA