Midwest Slope Challenge 2003

Joe Chovan launches Terry Dwyer’s Dymond Modelsports S2G Magnum at the start of a heat in Unlimited. Wilson Lake is in the background.
Dave Garwood
SLOPE SOARING IN KANSAS? Yes, Kansas. Although it’s
surprising to some who may not have flown sailplanes there, it’s
true. It’s windy in the heartland and the topography around Wilson
Lake gives us several primo flying sites, and that’s why it’s been
the place of choice for the Lincoln Area Soaring Society’s
(Nebraska) memorable Soaring-event series.
The 10th Midwest Slope Challenge (MWSC) was held May 15-
18, 2003, at Wilson Reservoir in Lucas, Kansas. This is the
longest-running Slope Racing event in North America. There were
53 pilots registered, and they traveled from 13 states, England, and
Germany. This is clearly a national event, with significant
international participation by a couple of former USA Heartlanders
who now live abroad.
One of the great joys for me in attending the event is the time
spent in rural America. Lucas is a town of 450, and it gives us
Slope fliers a warm welcome when we come to town. There was
rain on Thursday—enough that we couldn’t fly the scheduled
event—so the Lucas movie theater opened expressly for us and
showed a matinee of The Core. I don’t think this would happen in
my hometown.
Race pilot Marley Palmer became interested in Slope Soaring
partly because one of our regular flying sites is a pasture on her
family’s farm and partly because Alden Shipp, “The Johnny
Appleseed of Slope Soaring,” has been coaching her in Radio
Control flying.
That week in May was also Marley’s high-school graduation.
Larry Blevins’ Northrop F-5 Tiger—a new design this year that
Magnum Models will kit—is made from light EPP foam with a
minimum of strapping tape.
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Wayne Rigby’s DAW foaMe-109 and Mike Bailey’s original-design Sea Fury in a hot lap during the Foamie Warbird Race.
Mike Bailey launches his new large-scale EPP-foam MDM Fox, which features a
wingspan of 122 inches. Mike will be making kits for these sailplanes.
Midwest Slope Challenge Contest Director
Loren Blinde times a heat of flying-wing
Slope Soaring foamie combat.
George Voss did a first-rate job of
organizing and running the Fridayevening
air show. The crowd size was
estimated to be 150. Greg Smith photo.
Photos by the author except as noted
February 2004 19
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Two Unlimited Class racers at near turn. There was excellent lift
for Unlimited and competitive flying.
Joe Falconer’s Two-Meter, EPP-foam MDM Fox. Joe makes this
and other Scale kits from EPP at Falcon Air Models.
Larry Blevins’ and Duane Jenkins’ Magnum Models ODR Cobras over Wilson Lake. They are made from EPP foam.
02sig1.QXD 11/25/03 2:54 pm Page 20
February 2004 21
Joyce and Doug Barry, AMA Soaring Contest Board chairman,
came to fly. Doug also ran the Foamie Warbird race.
Denny Maize’s Aeroplane Works Hammerhead is easiest of all
ODR racers to recognize because of forward-swept wing.
Alden Shipp’s Aerofoam Corsair and Mike Bailey’s originaldesign
Sea Fury turn to attack Larry Blevins’ MiG-3 in foamie
warbird combat. Joe Chovan photo.
Erik Eaton’s realistic MiG-3 turns and burns over Wilson Lake.
SR Hobbies makes this EPP-foam kit. It has fluid lines.
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William Crane flies Control Line at air show, amazing those who
hadn’t seen it and bringing back memories for those who had.
Left: Start of heat during ill-fated ODR competition. Pilots try for
all the altitude they can get on launch, hoping to have enough to
finish the race in light lift.
One of the hard-working crew at far-turn pylon during Unlimited.
Look close to see a secret they use to keep track of lap count.
Joe Hosey carries trusty DAW Ka-6 to Unlimited ready area. Note three Unlimited models in air over Wilson Lake.
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Foamie Warbird racers and crew: (L-R) Loren Blinde, Joe Dunnaway, Greg Smith, Mike
Bailey, Denny Maize, Larry Blevins, photographer Rich Loud, Duane Jenkins.
This is a wide view of the main hill at Lucas Park at Wilson Lake during the foamie warbird combat competition.
Of the 17 seniors in the Lucas-Luray
Cougars’ graduating class, those who were
college bound had been awarded $125,000
in scholarships. That’s something else I
don’t think happened in my village.
Another of the MWSC’s appealing
aspects is the opportunity to talk and fly
with designers who are showing their new
models. This year’s introductions included
Mike Bailey flying his Mike’s Models 3-
meter Fox Scale glider, Larry Blevins
flying his Magnum Models F-5 Tiger Slope
jet, and Joe Chovan flying his TufFlight
Predator. (TufFlight is the only maker of
EPP [expanded polypropylene-foam] fuelpowered
combat kits.) Also, Joe Falconer
flying his Falcon Air 2-meter Scale Fox and
Denny Maize racing his new Pole Cat Aero
Works V-tail Hammerhead One-Design
Racing-class sailplane.
We also flew with AMA Soaring
Contest Board Chairman Doug Barry. In
addition to being a good stick on the slope
and the thermal field, he’s one of those
people who gives much more than he takes.
Doug volunteered to run the Foamie
Warbird race, thus letting Contest Director
02sig1.QXD 11/25/03 3:03 pm Page 23
Loren Blinde fly in his own contest for the
first time in five years.
The Events: Thursday—a warm-up day—
began with a light wind blowing up the east
side of the main hill and plenty of flying
until rain interrupted for a few hours. After
the rain stopped, the breeze stiffened and 20
or more pilots flew, with more arriving
each hour.
Friday we woke up to rain—lots of rain.
The Combat events were postponed and we
went to the movies. When the movie let
out, the skies had cleared and we flew at
Palmer’s Pasture until dark.
Friday after supper we tried to return
some hospitality to local residents by
staging a model air show in Lucas at the
local airport. George Voss planned,
organized, and honchoed this event, which
included Control Line flying, electricpowered
slow flyers and hotliners, fuelpowered
combat matches, hand-launched
and winch-launched thermal-duration
gliders, bungee launching slope gliders, and
a Free Flight helicopter. Attendance was
estimated at roughly 150, and it was so well
received that I would not be surprised to see
more model air shows at future MWSCs.
As tough as weather conditions had
been Thursday and Friday, Saturday was
worse. The sun came out, but the wind
died. There was good direction but poor
velocity. The course was set up for the
One-Design Race. The event was started,
but in most heats most airplanes could not
finish the course, going down for lack of
lift.
Rules were modified to base the heat
win on the most distance covered, and it
turned into an “all up, last down” event.
Todd Martin did the best, appreciating Joe
Hosey’s strong-arm launches.
On Sunday, all was forgiven for the
tricks the weather gods had played on us for
three days. Loren Blinde called it “the best
and busiest day in the history of MWSC.”
We had smooth and steady 20 mph winds
straight into the hill throughout the day.
In the morning we flew both foam
combat events: flying wings and foamie
warbirds. Roger Brining beat all comers to
become the Wing King, and Joe Chovan
outflew all of the other warbird jockeys.
Unlimited-class racing began in the
early afternoon, and it turned out to be
some of the best and most hard-fought
racing we’ve seen in years. Many heats
were won by inches, and in other heats
experienced pilots flew into the dirt,
battling it out on the final lap. Jim Porter
showed us how to concentrate on flying and
have a good time all the while.
The last event was the Foamie Warbird
Race. It was so heavily anticipated that
crews and the crowd went nuts when we
finally got to fly it in good lift. The models
looked awesome tearing around the pylon,
and even those that hit the pylon (which
happens much more often than you’d
guess) can often be launched in the next
heat. Greg Smith flew to victory in this one.
I have covered the events in brief, mainly
because I wanted to leave space for
photographs. If you want more information
about the event, you’ll find roughly 300
photos on slopeflyer.com at
www.slopeflyer.com. Much detail is
available on the MWSC Web site at
http://home.alltel.net/mwsc.
You can also check out New York Slope
Dog Rich Loud’s report in Flying Models
magazine www.flying-models.com and
Loren Blinde’s article in R/C Soaring
Digest—the last pure Soaring specialty
magazine—at www.b2streamlines.com/
RCSD.html. MA
Dave Garwood
5 Birch Ln.
Scotia NY 12302
[email protected]
MWSC 2003 Sponsors:
Al the Bag Lady
www.thebagladyal.com
Bowman’s Hobbies
www.bowmanshobbies.com
California Sailplanes
www.californiasailplanes.com
Combat Wings
www.combatwings.com
Dave’s Aircraft Works
www.davesaircraftworks.com
Garrison Aerodrome
www.rc-aero.com
Magnum Models
www.magnum-models.com
North County FM
www.northcountyflyingmachines.com
Pole Cat Aero Works
www.polecataero.com
Quiet Flyer magazine
www.semodeler.com
Reese Productions
www.reeseproductions.com
ShredAir
www.shredair.com
slopeflyer.com
www.slopeflyer.com
Soaring Specialties
www.soaringspecialties.com
Super Stand
www.super-stand.com
Trick R/C
www.zagi.com
Windrider Aviation
www.windrider.com.hk
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Flying-Wing Combat
Place/name Model
1. Roger Brining (Great Bend KS) Windrider EPP Bee
2. Steve Dworsky (Lincoln NE) Cavazos Boomerang
3. (tie) Randy Mohr (Holyrood KS) Trick R/C Zagi 3C
3. (tie) Duane Jenkins (Wrightsville Beach NC) Cavazos Boomerang
Conventional Aircraft Combat
1. Joe Chovan (Syracuse NY) own-design Me 109
2. (tie) Joe Hosey (Wichita KS) DAW Foam 51 Mustang
2. (tie) Todd Martin (Wichita KS) DAW foaMe-109
2. (tie) Alden Shipp (Lucas KS) Aerofoam F4U Corsair
One-Design Race
1. Todd Martin (Wichita KS) CR Aircraft Fun-1
2. Greg Smith (Milwaukee WI) CR Aircraft Fun-1
3. Joe Chovan (Syracuse NY) CR Aircraft Fun-1
4. Denny Maize (Landisburg PA) Pole Cat Aero Hammerhead
Unlimited Class
1. Jim Porter (Germany) NYX F3F Carbon
2. Greg Smith (Milwaukee WI) Brian McLean Extreme
3. Paul Wright (England) Milan Demcisák Brisk
4. Mike Bailey (Maize KS) own-design 40
Foamie Warbird Race
1. Greg Smith (Milwaukee WI) DAW Foam 51 Mustang
2. Joe Chovan (Syracuse NY) own-design Me 109
3. Mike Bailey (Maize KS) own-design Sea Fury
4. Todd Martin (Wichita KS) DAW foaMe-109
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Joe Chovan launches Terry Dwyer’s Dymond Modelsports S2G Magnum at the start of a heat in Unlimited. Wilson Lake is in the background.
Dave Garwood
SLOPE SOARING IN KANSAS? Yes, Kansas. Although it’s
surprising to some who may not have flown sailplanes there, it’s
true. It’s windy in the heartland and the topography around Wilson
Lake gives us several primo flying sites, and that’s why it’s been
the place of choice for the Lincoln Area Soaring Society’s
(Nebraska) memorable Soaring-event series.
The 10th Midwest Slope Challenge (MWSC) was held May 15-
18, 2003, at Wilson Reservoir in Lucas, Kansas. This is the
longest-running Slope Racing event in North America. There were
53 pilots registered, and they traveled from 13 states, England, and
Germany. This is clearly a national event, with significant
international participation by a couple of former USA Heartlanders
who now live abroad.
One of the great joys for me in attending the event is the time
spent in rural America. Lucas is a town of 450, and it gives us
Slope fliers a warm welcome when we come to town. There was
rain on Thursday—enough that we couldn’t fly the scheduled
event—so the Lucas movie theater opened expressly for us and
showed a matinee of The Core. I don’t think this would happen in
my hometown.
Race pilot Marley Palmer became interested in Slope Soaring
partly because one of our regular flying sites is a pasture on her
family’s farm and partly because Alden Shipp, “The Johnny
Appleseed of Slope Soaring,” has been coaching her in Radio
Control flying.
That week in May was also Marley’s high-school graduation.
Larry Blevins’ Northrop F-5 Tiger—a new design this year that
Magnum Models will kit—is made from light EPP foam with a
minimum of strapping tape.
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02sig1.QXD 11/25/03 1:57 pm Page 18
Wayne Rigby’s DAW foaMe-109 and Mike Bailey’s original-design Sea Fury in a hot lap during the Foamie Warbird Race.
Mike Bailey launches his new large-scale EPP-foam MDM Fox, which features a
wingspan of 122 inches. Mike will be making kits for these sailplanes.
Midwest Slope Challenge Contest Director
Loren Blinde times a heat of flying-wing
Slope Soaring foamie combat.
George Voss did a first-rate job of
organizing and running the Fridayevening
air show. The crowd size was
estimated to be 150. Greg Smith photo.
Photos by the author except as noted
February 2004 19
02sig1.QXD 11/25/03 2:01 pm Page 19
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Two Unlimited Class racers at near turn. There was excellent lift
for Unlimited and competitive flying.
Joe Falconer’s Two-Meter, EPP-foam MDM Fox. Joe makes this
and other Scale kits from EPP at Falcon Air Models.
Larry Blevins’ and Duane Jenkins’ Magnum Models ODR Cobras over Wilson Lake. They are made from EPP foam.
02sig1.QXD 11/25/03 2:54 pm Page 20
February 2004 21
Joyce and Doug Barry, AMA Soaring Contest Board chairman,
came to fly. Doug also ran the Foamie Warbird race.
Denny Maize’s Aeroplane Works Hammerhead is easiest of all
ODR racers to recognize because of forward-swept wing.
Alden Shipp’s Aerofoam Corsair and Mike Bailey’s originaldesign
Sea Fury turn to attack Larry Blevins’ MiG-3 in foamie
warbird combat. Joe Chovan photo.
Erik Eaton’s realistic MiG-3 turns and burns over Wilson Lake.
SR Hobbies makes this EPP-foam kit. It has fluid lines.
02sig1.QXD 11/25/03 2:57 pm Page 21
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William Crane flies Control Line at air show, amazing those who
hadn’t seen it and bringing back memories for those who had.
Left: Start of heat during ill-fated ODR competition. Pilots try for
all the altitude they can get on launch, hoping to have enough to
finish the race in light lift.
One of the hard-working crew at far-turn pylon during Unlimited.
Look close to see a secret they use to keep track of lap count.
Joe Hosey carries trusty DAW Ka-6 to Unlimited ready area. Note three Unlimited models in air over Wilson Lake.
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February 2004 23
Foamie Warbird racers and crew: (L-R) Loren Blinde, Joe Dunnaway, Greg Smith, Mike
Bailey, Denny Maize, Larry Blevins, photographer Rich Loud, Duane Jenkins.
This is a wide view of the main hill at Lucas Park at Wilson Lake during the foamie warbird combat competition.
Of the 17 seniors in the Lucas-Luray
Cougars’ graduating class, those who were
college bound had been awarded $125,000
in scholarships. That’s something else I
don’t think happened in my village.
Another of the MWSC’s appealing
aspects is the opportunity to talk and fly
with designers who are showing their new
models. This year’s introductions included
Mike Bailey flying his Mike’s Models 3-
meter Fox Scale glider, Larry Blevins
flying his Magnum Models F-5 Tiger Slope
jet, and Joe Chovan flying his TufFlight
Predator. (TufFlight is the only maker of
EPP [expanded polypropylene-foam] fuelpowered
combat kits.) Also, Joe Falconer
flying his Falcon Air 2-meter Scale Fox and
Denny Maize racing his new Pole Cat Aero
Works V-tail Hammerhead One-Design
Racing-class sailplane.
We also flew with AMA Soaring
Contest Board Chairman Doug Barry. In
addition to being a good stick on the slope
and the thermal field, he’s one of those
people who gives much more than he takes.
Doug volunteered to run the Foamie
Warbird race, thus letting Contest Director
02sig1.QXD 11/25/03 3:03 pm Page 23
Loren Blinde fly in his own contest for the
first time in five years.
The Events: Thursday—a warm-up day—
began with a light wind blowing up the east
side of the main hill and plenty of flying
until rain interrupted for a few hours. After
the rain stopped, the breeze stiffened and 20
or more pilots flew, with more arriving
each hour.
Friday we woke up to rain—lots of rain.
The Combat events were postponed and we
went to the movies. When the movie let
out, the skies had cleared and we flew at
Palmer’s Pasture until dark.
Friday after supper we tried to return
some hospitality to local residents by
staging a model air show in Lucas at the
local airport. George Voss planned,
organized, and honchoed this event, which
included Control Line flying, electricpowered
slow flyers and hotliners, fuelpowered
combat matches, hand-launched
and winch-launched thermal-duration
gliders, bungee launching slope gliders, and
a Free Flight helicopter. Attendance was
estimated at roughly 150, and it was so well
received that I would not be surprised to see
more model air shows at future MWSCs.
As tough as weather conditions had
been Thursday and Friday, Saturday was
worse. The sun came out, but the wind
died. There was good direction but poor
velocity. The course was set up for the
One-Design Race. The event was started,
but in most heats most airplanes could not
finish the course, going down for lack of
lift.
Rules were modified to base the heat
win on the most distance covered, and it
turned into an “all up, last down” event.
Todd Martin did the best, appreciating Joe
Hosey’s strong-arm launches.
On Sunday, all was forgiven for the
tricks the weather gods had played on us for
three days. Loren Blinde called it “the best
and busiest day in the history of MWSC.”
We had smooth and steady 20 mph winds
straight into the hill throughout the day.
In the morning we flew both foam
combat events: flying wings and foamie
warbirds. Roger Brining beat all comers to
become the Wing King, and Joe Chovan
outflew all of the other warbird jockeys.
Unlimited-class racing began in the
early afternoon, and it turned out to be
some of the best and most hard-fought
racing we’ve seen in years. Many heats
were won by inches, and in other heats
experienced pilots flew into the dirt,
battling it out on the final lap. Jim Porter
showed us how to concentrate on flying and
have a good time all the while.
The last event was the Foamie Warbird
Race. It was so heavily anticipated that
crews and the crowd went nuts when we
finally got to fly it in good lift. The models
looked awesome tearing around the pylon,
and even those that hit the pylon (which
happens much more often than you’d
guess) can often be launched in the next
heat. Greg Smith flew to victory in this one.
I have covered the events in brief, mainly
because I wanted to leave space for
photographs. If you want more information
about the event, you’ll find roughly 300
photos on slopeflyer.com at
www.slopeflyer.com. Much detail is
available on the MWSC Web site at
http://home.alltel.net/mwsc.
You can also check out New York Slope
Dog Rich Loud’s report in Flying Models
magazine www.flying-models.com and
Loren Blinde’s article in R/C Soaring
Digest—the last pure Soaring specialty
magazine—at www.b2streamlines.com/
RCSD.html. MA
Dave Garwood
5 Birch Ln.
Scotia NY 12302
[email protected]
MWSC 2003 Sponsors:
Al the Bag Lady
www.thebagladyal.com
Bowman’s Hobbies
www.bowmanshobbies.com
California Sailplanes
www.californiasailplanes.com
Combat Wings
www.combatwings.com
Dave’s Aircraft Works
www.davesaircraftworks.com
Garrison Aerodrome
www.rc-aero.com
Magnum Models
www.magnum-models.com
North County FM
www.northcountyflyingmachines.com
Pole Cat Aero Works
www.polecataero.com
Quiet Flyer magazine
www.semodeler.com
Reese Productions
www.reeseproductions.com
ShredAir
www.shredair.com
slopeflyer.com
www.slopeflyer.com
Soaring Specialties
www.soaringspecialties.com
Super Stand
www.super-stand.com
Trick R/C
www.zagi.com
Windrider Aviation
www.windrider.com.hk
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•The stand is made from
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•Clamps the transmitter
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•Includes colorful,
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Flying-Wing Combat
Place/name Model
1. Roger Brining (Great Bend KS) Windrider EPP Bee
2. Steve Dworsky (Lincoln NE) Cavazos Boomerang
3. (tie) Randy Mohr (Holyrood KS) Trick R/C Zagi 3C
3. (tie) Duane Jenkins (Wrightsville Beach NC) Cavazos Boomerang
Conventional Aircraft Combat
1. Joe Chovan (Syracuse NY) own-design Me 109
2. (tie) Joe Hosey (Wichita KS) DAW Foam 51 Mustang
2. (tie) Todd Martin (Wichita KS) DAW foaMe-109
2. (tie) Alden Shipp (Lucas KS) Aerofoam F4U Corsair
One-Design Race
1. Todd Martin (Wichita KS) CR Aircraft Fun-1
2. Greg Smith (Milwaukee WI) CR Aircraft Fun-1
3. Joe Chovan (Syracuse NY) CR Aircraft Fun-1
4. Denny Maize (Landisburg PA) Pole Cat Aero Hammerhead
Unlimited Class
1. Jim Porter (Germany) NYX F3F Carbon
2. Greg Smith (Milwaukee WI) Brian McLean Extreme
3. Paul Wright (England) Milan Demcisák Brisk
4. Mike Bailey (Maize KS) own-design 40
Foamie Warbird Race
1. Greg Smith (Milwaukee WI) DAW Foam 51 Mustang
2. Joe Chovan (Syracuse NY) own-design Me 109
3. Mike Bailey (Maize KS) own-design Sea Fury
4. Todd Martin (Wichita KS) DAW foaMe-109
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Joe Chovan launches Terry Dwyer’s Dymond Modelsports S2G Magnum at the start of a heat in Unlimited. Wilson Lake is in the background.
Dave Garwood
SLOPE SOARING IN KANSAS? Yes, Kansas. Although it’s
surprising to some who may not have flown sailplanes there, it’s
true. It’s windy in the heartland and the topography around Wilson
Lake gives us several primo flying sites, and that’s why it’s been
the place of choice for the Lincoln Area Soaring Society’s
(Nebraska) memorable Soaring-event series.
The 10th Midwest Slope Challenge (MWSC) was held May 15-
18, 2003, at Wilson Reservoir in Lucas, Kansas. This is the
longest-running Slope Racing event in North America. There were
53 pilots registered, and they traveled from 13 states, England, and
Germany. This is clearly a national event, with significant
international participation by a couple of former USA Heartlanders
who now live abroad.
One of the great joys for me in attending the event is the time
spent in rural America. Lucas is a town of 450, and it gives us
Slope fliers a warm welcome when we come to town. There was
rain on Thursday—enough that we couldn’t fly the scheduled
event—so the Lucas movie theater opened expressly for us and
showed a matinee of The Core. I don’t think this would happen in
my hometown.
Race pilot Marley Palmer became interested in Slope Soaring
partly because one of our regular flying sites is a pasture on her
family’s farm and partly because Alden Shipp, “The Johnny
Appleseed of Slope Soaring,” has been coaching her in Radio
Control flying.
That week in May was also Marley’s high-school graduation.
Larry Blevins’ Northrop F-5 Tiger—a new design this year that
Magnum Models will kit—is made from light EPP foam with a
minimum of strapping tape.
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Wayne Rigby’s DAW foaMe-109 and Mike Bailey’s original-design Sea Fury in a hot lap during the Foamie Warbird Race.
Mike Bailey launches his new large-scale EPP-foam MDM Fox, which features a
wingspan of 122 inches. Mike will be making kits for these sailplanes.
Midwest Slope Challenge Contest Director
Loren Blinde times a heat of flying-wing
Slope Soaring foamie combat.
George Voss did a first-rate job of
organizing and running the Fridayevening
air show. The crowd size was
estimated to be 150. Greg Smith photo.
Photos by the author except as noted
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Two Unlimited Class racers at near turn. There was excellent lift
for Unlimited and competitive flying.
Joe Falconer’s Two-Meter, EPP-foam MDM Fox. Joe makes this
and other Scale kits from EPP at Falcon Air Models.
Larry Blevins’ and Duane Jenkins’ Magnum Models ODR Cobras over Wilson Lake. They are made from EPP foam.
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February 2004 21
Joyce and Doug Barry, AMA Soaring Contest Board chairman,
came to fly. Doug also ran the Foamie Warbird race.
Denny Maize’s Aeroplane Works Hammerhead is easiest of all
ODR racers to recognize because of forward-swept wing.
Alden Shipp’s Aerofoam Corsair and Mike Bailey’s originaldesign
Sea Fury turn to attack Larry Blevins’ MiG-3 in foamie
warbird combat. Joe Chovan photo.
Erik Eaton’s realistic MiG-3 turns and burns over Wilson Lake.
SR Hobbies makes this EPP-foam kit. It has fluid lines.
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William Crane flies Control Line at air show, amazing those who
hadn’t seen it and bringing back memories for those who had.
Left: Start of heat during ill-fated ODR competition. Pilots try for
all the altitude they can get on launch, hoping to have enough to
finish the race in light lift.
One of the hard-working crew at far-turn pylon during Unlimited.
Look close to see a secret they use to keep track of lap count.
Joe Hosey carries trusty DAW Ka-6 to Unlimited ready area. Note three Unlimited models in air over Wilson Lake.
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Foamie Warbird racers and crew: (L-R) Loren Blinde, Joe Dunnaway, Greg Smith, Mike
Bailey, Denny Maize, Larry Blevins, photographer Rich Loud, Duane Jenkins.
This is a wide view of the main hill at Lucas Park at Wilson Lake during the foamie warbird combat competition.
Of the 17 seniors in the Lucas-Luray
Cougars’ graduating class, those who were
college bound had been awarded $125,000
in scholarships. That’s something else I
don’t think happened in my village.
Another of the MWSC’s appealing
aspects is the opportunity to talk and fly
with designers who are showing their new
models. This year’s introductions included
Mike Bailey flying his Mike’s Models 3-
meter Fox Scale glider, Larry Blevins
flying his Magnum Models F-5 Tiger Slope
jet, and Joe Chovan flying his TufFlight
Predator. (TufFlight is the only maker of
EPP [expanded polypropylene-foam] fuelpowered
combat kits.) Also, Joe Falconer
flying his Falcon Air 2-meter Scale Fox and
Denny Maize racing his new Pole Cat Aero
Works V-tail Hammerhead One-Design
Racing-class sailplane.
We also flew with AMA Soaring
Contest Board Chairman Doug Barry. In
addition to being a good stick on the slope
and the thermal field, he’s one of those
people who gives much more than he takes.
Doug volunteered to run the Foamie
Warbird race, thus letting Contest Director
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Loren Blinde fly in his own contest for the
first time in five years.
The Events: Thursday—a warm-up day—
began with a light wind blowing up the east
side of the main hill and plenty of flying
until rain interrupted for a few hours. After
the rain stopped, the breeze stiffened and 20
or more pilots flew, with more arriving
each hour.
Friday we woke up to rain—lots of rain.
The Combat events were postponed and we
went to the movies. When the movie let
out, the skies had cleared and we flew at
Palmer’s Pasture until dark.
Friday after supper we tried to return
some hospitality to local residents by
staging a model air show in Lucas at the
local airport. George Voss planned,
organized, and honchoed this event, which
included Control Line flying, electricpowered
slow flyers and hotliners, fuelpowered
combat matches, hand-launched
and winch-launched thermal-duration
gliders, bungee launching slope gliders, and
a Free Flight helicopter. Attendance was
estimated at roughly 150, and it was so well
received that I would not be surprised to see
more model air shows at future MWSCs.
As tough as weather conditions had
been Thursday and Friday, Saturday was
worse. The sun came out, but the wind
died. There was good direction but poor
velocity. The course was set up for the
One-Design Race. The event was started,
but in most heats most airplanes could not
finish the course, going down for lack of
lift.
Rules were modified to base the heat
win on the most distance covered, and it
turned into an “all up, last down” event.
Todd Martin did the best, appreciating Joe
Hosey’s strong-arm launches.
On Sunday, all was forgiven for the
tricks the weather gods had played on us for
three days. Loren Blinde called it “the best
and busiest day in the history of MWSC.”
We had smooth and steady 20 mph winds
straight into the hill throughout the day.
In the morning we flew both foam
combat events: flying wings and foamie
warbirds. Roger Brining beat all comers to
become the Wing King, and Joe Chovan
outflew all of the other warbird jockeys.
Unlimited-class racing began in the
early afternoon, and it turned out to be
some of the best and most hard-fought
racing we’ve seen in years. Many heats
were won by inches, and in other heats
experienced pilots flew into the dirt,
battling it out on the final lap. Jim Porter
showed us how to concentrate on flying and
have a good time all the while.
The last event was the Foamie Warbird
Race. It was so heavily anticipated that
crews and the crowd went nuts when we
finally got to fly it in good lift. The models
looked awesome tearing around the pylon,
and even those that hit the pylon (which
happens much more often than you’d
guess) can often be launched in the next
heat. Greg Smith flew to victory in this one.
I have covered the events in brief, mainly
because I wanted to leave space for
photographs. If you want more information
about the event, you’ll find roughly 300
photos on slopeflyer.com at
www.slopeflyer.com. Much detail is
available on the MWSC Web site at
http://home.alltel.net/mwsc.
You can also check out New York Slope
Dog Rich Loud’s report in Flying Models
magazine www.flying-models.com and
Loren Blinde’s article in R/C Soaring
Digest—the last pure Soaring specialty
magazine—at www.b2streamlines.com/
RCSD.html. MA
Dave Garwood
5 Birch Ln.
Scotia NY 12302
[email protected]
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Place/name Model
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3. (tie) Randy Mohr (Holyrood KS) Trick R/C Zagi 3C
3. (tie) Duane Jenkins (Wrightsville Beach NC) Cavazos Boomerang
Conventional Aircraft Combat
1. Joe Chovan (Syracuse NY) own-design Me 109
2. (tie) Joe Hosey (Wichita KS) DAW Foam 51 Mustang
2. (tie) Todd Martin (Wichita KS) DAW foaMe-109
2. (tie) Alden Shipp (Lucas KS) Aerofoam F4U Corsair
One-Design Race
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2. Greg Smith (Milwaukee WI) CR Aircraft Fun-1
3. Joe Chovan (Syracuse NY) CR Aircraft Fun-1
4. Denny Maize (Landisburg PA) Pole Cat Aero Hammerhead
Unlimited Class
1. Jim Porter (Germany) NYX F3F Carbon
2. Greg Smith (Milwaukee WI) Brian McLean Extreme
3. Paul Wright (England) Milan Demcisák Brisk
4. Mike Bailey (Maize KS) own-design 40
Foamie Warbird Race
1. Greg Smith (Milwaukee WI) DAW Foam 51 Mustang
2. Joe Chovan (Syracuse NY) own-design Me 109
3. Mike Bailey (Maize KS) own-design Sea Fury
4. Todd Martin (Wichita KS) DAW foaMe-109
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