Radio Control SOARING Dan Pruss CROSS-COUNTRY Michigan RC So ciety Ann Arbor MI won Great Race VIII won ever having look back during last half race Yet provided drama finish like no other ending previous seven years Sailplane classic years event held memory Lee Renaud helped establish continued supportthe event first time race scheduled four days Coupling new RC fre quencies organizers looked contest biggest ever Twentythree teams 13 states Canada Switzerland preregistered 22 teams par ticipated After 17 weekends rain out 18 forecasters finally promised typical June-like weather practice day Wednesday June 8th saw teams enjoying some best soaring conditions ever Some clubs took course LSF goal-and-return tasks Others took course abbreviated on-the-course practice Others stayed close trimmed out new ships retrimmed old ones least two teams lost ships due June-in-Illinois thermals day manhole covers could log 10 minutes practice days usually like Thursday light drizzle greeted crowd morning briefing re sult official flying didnt start until twelve oclock first officially-logged flight didnt come until 207 pm Ed Wil vf Virginias Tidewater Soaring Society L flew Bob Champines unusual Redbird design influenced both Carl Goldberg Frank Zaic Its 4-meter wing features full-span camber-changing flap its E-214 modified airfoil perches atop pylon mount Men photo R Joe Lupton timer John Lange Woody Blanchard planes designer Bob Champine Next R see entry DCRC club Don Clark Carl Klopman Otto l4elthecker pose plane voted winner Lee Renaud Award Excellence features foam-and-glass fuselage conventional wing/tail construction too has alull-span camber changing flap its E214modified airfoil similar ship using E-197 airfoil destroyed during practice day before contest Team finished 3rd 222 ml 44 Model Aviation MRCS Mike Bak Kurt Ernerling Ken Shaw Mike Mcintyre Ken Bates plane finish years Great Race Sailplane built components several other models wing Super Espritdesigned Lee Renaud nearly decade ago years Race dedicated memory planes name Pieceodis left best toreign team Scarborough soaring society trom Canada Competitors Halpfl McDonald John McMillan Frank Crouch Steve Smith planes two Super Pro-Runners team best time first day Race Next R see Tom Pratt original-design Exceder features superb workmanship fine flier Wingspan 15 ft 9 airfoil E-205 son Louisville club managed 12 miles later logged 22 thats kind day Thursday Much time spent over field light lift too light really obtain decent height on-course gust 950 temperatures high humidity 15 mph winds indicated would tough team make buck cause award day best performance day attempts challenge course weather made first leg course relatively short year coupled crosswind long stretch south wind some respectable high-onthe-course entries soon finding selves doing zeroor lessmph over ground persistent Bob Gill Ken Olsen St Louis Eagles along Alden longer official record whole course Only Greater Detroit Soaring Hiking Society Louisville Rockford Skyhawks managed get past fivemile mark Sundays weather repeat Satur day few extra knots wind thrown just case some thought Saturday no challenge Mark Stidham Rockford club logged 56 miles 41 minutes won daily award also won Best Rookie Team Award having best total daily performance meet 125 miles N have Lawickis L Clare Troy Wade Renee pose two Troys ships wing tip Paramount designed Ed Slobod other Troys own Albatross spans 172 has fully-flapped E-214 airfoil Next R Jim Porter Hudson IA modified Sagitta-XC Mods include conventional dihedral straight trailing edge photo makes look like plane has polyhedral thats because wing leading edge sweep-angle breaks point attempt However Jack McMillan Scarsborough Soaring Society Ontario Canada did eke out 35 miles 15 minutes best performance first day Saturday June turned Au Sr Shipp Quincy IL Falcons managed best distance day 61 miles Time two hours 39 minutesseven minutes organi7ers planned years contest four-day schedule came about idea hoping sandwich least good day what sometimes becomes erratic weather cycle Friday June 10 proved scheduling right Along schedule came two new features summer classic closing time dependent weather forecastthat time nounced mornings briefingand on-the-course reporting amateur radio group Through Amateur Radio Club Argonne Laboratories four stations set up strategic points along race route Channeling information back base station set up launch site maintained Fred Propper stations provided valuable service added whole new dimension cross-country racing tabulating on-course check points 20 kilometer mark year first time special award given best per formance up mark reports Argonne Amateur Radio Club Continued page 140 October 1983 45 LEE RENAUD MEMORIALGREAT RACE VIII TOP FIVE FINISHERS1983 TeamPerformance NameHome BaseSpokesmankm/mihrsmin Plane 1MRCSAnn Arbor MIKen Bates760/4720332Pieceodis 2SACHomewood ILStan Watson426/2670318Pegasus 3DCRCWashington DCOtto l-leithecker357/2220135The Challenge 4CSGHudson IAJim Porter352/2190140Challenger 5GOS & HSDetroit MIPat Flinn295/1830133Astro Jeff commemorative patch Great Race VIII Sagitta-XC popular kit-plane little nickey mounted atop Cincinnati meet two shown Soaring Societys plane airspeed sensort Roclcford Skyhawks Soaring Society Its prop rotation telemetered back won Best Rookie Team award Models ground Draggybut works well-built Electrics/Kopski Continued paqe 137 date variety electric power systems planned construction article Next up Part Three will discuss pro pellers electric power motors sole function convert energy stored battery propeller thrust Im sure will amazed just what takes turn prop various props com pare prop change affects flight performance think youll find Part Three enlightening though still fundamental also graphic unique dont think thing like has published before Part Four will devoted bat teries about batteries Installations planes follow Now answer title question good stuff will continue will eventually come together promise As continue challenge series Ive come appreciate its sizeable scope very difficult write compact complete simple Introduction Elec trics regard want thank wife Wilma MA Editor Carl Wheeley Columnist Bill Winter Electric flying friends KRCHerb Dirks John Hickey Heinz Koerner Don LeGower Dan Mittenfor critiquing drafts artworks helpful sugges tions Any questions related part earlier parts series may directed SASE author Bob Kopski 25 West End Dr Lansdale PA 19446 RC Soaring/Pruss Continued page 45 helpful may have noticed skipped Fri days activity did because thats excitement occurred Fridays forecast thin layer four-day weather sandwich However based encouraging figures light winds aver age soaring conditions shutoff time day set 600 pm Published starting time four days 1000 am Troy Lawicki group Sil ver Eagles Soaring Society Michigan first course 1045 Several others followed logged very short flights Further attempts went way until about two oclock shortly after 17 Sailplanes air same time sight Nine working same thermal see 14-foot beau ties gracing same sky Contest Direc tor s reward time frame between 219 228 13 teams entered course included nine top 10 last years event test both Sailplane pilots skills purest form No gimmicks no trick launch equip ment no bad luck due bad draw can claimed protested against year con testants furnished own winches could launch exactly wanted Once air strategy overshadows luck ship capable bridging thermals moderate altitude trade off higher altitude because youll able cover ground once higher what about winds higher altitudes plowed fields plot ted course map just case need seek out hoping thermal being generated need day nature threw just crumb contestants way didnt last long Among gaggle 13 entered course about same time Jim Boh mer MOSS club group won event last year year retrieved model after 33 miles Skip Miller FAST first ever finish course official time managed 56-mile run relaunched logged 99 best effort during meet Six teams made about 20-mile mark Among Ken Bates Kurt Bak Mike McIntyre Ken Shaw MRCS Ann Abbor MI some six teams played lift hopes altitude before stretching down long southern course Bates left pack about half altitude highest plane group looked though wrong move After losing altitude down treetop height plowed field gave plane nudge upward Bates played thermal out new life made around south side course flew westward northbound forecast winds increased south provided team tailwind last half run Meanwhile south erly heading western leg coming down MRCS suddently course themselves Radio reports gave teams progress no question team con ditions favorable completing course question could beat clock well past three-hour mark air 600 pm shutoff nearing Passing last radio check point became very doubtful whether could finish course time rules state distance flown time shutdown will official distance time less seven minutes go still six miles flown radio reports made exciting Saturday sporting event drama moon launch countdown precisely 175930 official watches MRCS touched down com pleting 76 km1472 mile course three hours 32 minutes second time two years Bates company conquered Soarings greatest challenge also second time used makeshift bird year used wing very old Super Esprit parts other planes team Stan Watson Jim Slater Eric Stenson Dave Haertelrepresenting 4-STROKE ENGINE SALE COMPARE & SAVE Os FS 408950 OSFS6012500 OS FS 7514500 OS ES 120T34900 ENYA4O-4C12950 ENYA6O-4C14950 ENYA9O-4C18950 SAITO 308450 SAITO 40-Il9950 SAITO4510950 SAITO 90T29950 TERMS Prepaid check money order Include $250 UPS street address Calif residents add 6% sates tax No credit cards please Allow 2 weeks delivery REDWOOD hobby imports PO BOX 6171 SANTA ROSA CALIF 95401 Sublect stock hand 140 Model Aviation CA THREAD LOCKING COMPOUNDS West House OS Balsa Central EAkAEI fasif OISSSTATE 584-7616 CERWTOS CA 107011914 jj 1436 213 860-1276 ACER V Suburban Aero Clubfinished second 426km/267 miles three hr 18 mm Otto Heithecker Don Clark Carl Klopman DCRC group turned 357km1222 mile run hr 35 mm third place Cedar Soaring Group Iowa Jim Porter finished close fourth 352km/21 9 miles hour 40 minutes GDS&HS Pat Flinn did 29Skm/183 ml hour 33 mm also best performance first 20 kilometers 104 time Four other teams within seven minutes time Bits pieces 555 Canada won Best Foreign Team Performance Award planes except oneand number three backup shipused thermal sensors une team tne Lincinnati Soanng Society used device measured planes air speed transmitted back pilot Pickup trucks popular types chase vehicles new RC frequencies worked wellsome questionable glitches no serious gripes MRCS time exactly hour longer MOSS winning time 1982 practice run Wednesday Jack Hiner Tom Kallevang SOAR turned course 138 official competition finished sixth 28Okm/174 miles 245 15 teams last year returned Otto Heithecker won Lee Renaud Memorial Excellence Design award design selected result poll taken among other contestants No griped about anybody elses winch being too powerful Nobody griped Copies souvenir booklet contains three-view drawings planes flown along pertinent data can obtained SOAR 23546 W Fern Plainfield IL 60544 USA costs two dol lars Good lift Dan Pruss 131 E Pennington Ln Plainfield IL 60544 SAFE FLYING IS NO ACCIDENT CHUCK WOOD Rank Clark IT -TURkJOIJThE RNJS HANK CLARK Y YOUR STRIPLOOK BuSTENATURE OF THE MEDIA P TRYINJG T0 EDIT WE GOT GOT BUMPEDFELT LEFT OUTPHANIY BOY- WHOS SIDE TO PAP7~ WI-IILE BACK LOTSATHINGSARE YOU ON ITS \ 2INJE FOR LACKRAFTA GET /OFSPACEy lJTOME OUTP NECKWHAT WHATS BUGGI NOWf ~ / DID.--YOU RESPOND PICTURE IS VRIH YOU PLJTUPA THOUSAND WORDSCHUCK WOOD NOT BIG FUSS YOU WROTE RESTON HANK CLAPK HANS UPSff October 1983 141
Edition: Model Aviation - 1983/10
Page Numbers: 44, 45, 140, 141
Radio Control SOARING Dan Pruss CROSS-COUNTRY Michigan RC So ciety Ann Arbor MI won Great Race VIII won ever having look back during last half race Yet provided drama finish like no other ending previous seven years Sailplane classic years event held memory Lee Renaud helped establish continued supportthe event first time race scheduled four days Coupling new RC fre quencies organizers looked contest biggest ever Twentythree teams 13 states Canada Switzerland preregistered 22 teams par ticipated After 17 weekends rain out 18 forecasters finally promised typical June-like weather practice day Wednesday June 8th saw teams enjoying some best soaring conditions ever Some clubs took course LSF goal-and-return tasks Others took course abbreviated on-the-course practice Others stayed close trimmed out new ships retrimmed old ones least two teams lost ships due June-in-Illinois thermals day manhole covers could log 10 minutes practice days usually like Thursday light drizzle greeted crowd morning briefing re sult official flying didnt start until twelve oclock first officially-logged flight didnt come until 207 pm Ed Wil vf Virginias Tidewater Soaring Society L flew Bob Champines unusual Redbird design influenced both Carl Goldberg Frank Zaic Its 4-meter wing features full-span camber-changing flap its E-214 modified airfoil perches atop pylon mount Men photo R Joe Lupton timer John Lange Woody Blanchard planes designer Bob Champine Next R see entry DCRC club Don Clark Carl Klopman Otto l4elthecker pose plane voted winner Lee Renaud Award Excellence features foam-and-glass fuselage conventional wing/tail construction too has alull-span camber changing flap its E214modified airfoil similar ship using E-197 airfoil destroyed during practice day before contest Team finished 3rd 222 ml 44 Model Aviation MRCS Mike Bak Kurt Ernerling Ken Shaw Mike Mcintyre Ken Bates plane finish years Great Race Sailplane built components several other models wing Super Espritdesigned Lee Renaud nearly decade ago years Race dedicated memory planes name Pieceodis left best toreign team Scarborough soaring society trom Canada Competitors Halpfl McDonald John McMillan Frank Crouch Steve Smith planes two Super Pro-Runners team best time first day Race Next R see Tom Pratt original-design Exceder features superb workmanship fine flier Wingspan 15 ft 9 airfoil E-205 son Louisville club managed 12 miles later logged 22 thats kind day Thursday Much time spent over field light lift too light really obtain decent height on-course gust 950 temperatures high humidity 15 mph winds indicated would tough team make buck cause award day best performance day attempts challenge course weather made first leg course relatively short year coupled crosswind long stretch south wind some respectable high-onthe-course entries soon finding selves doing zeroor lessmph over ground persistent Bob Gill Ken Olsen St Louis Eagles along Alden longer official record whole course Only Greater Detroit Soaring Hiking Society Louisville Rockford Skyhawks managed get past fivemile mark Sundays weather repeat Satur day few extra knots wind thrown just case some thought Saturday no challenge Mark Stidham Rockford club logged 56 miles 41 minutes won daily award also won Best Rookie Team Award having best total daily performance meet 125 miles N have Lawickis L Clare Troy Wade Renee pose two Troys ships wing tip Paramount designed Ed Slobod other Troys own Albatross spans 172 has fully-flapped E-214 airfoil Next R Jim Porter Hudson IA modified Sagitta-XC Mods include conventional dihedral straight trailing edge photo makes look like plane has polyhedral thats because wing leading edge sweep-angle breaks point attempt However Jack McMillan Scarsborough Soaring Society Ontario Canada did eke out 35 miles 15 minutes best performance first day Saturday June turned Au Sr Shipp Quincy IL Falcons managed best distance day 61 miles Time two hours 39 minutesseven minutes organi7ers planned years contest four-day schedule came about idea hoping sandwich least good day what sometimes becomes erratic weather cycle Friday June 10 proved scheduling right Along schedule came two new features summer classic closing time dependent weather forecastthat time nounced mornings briefingand on-the-course reporting amateur radio group Through Amateur Radio Club Argonne Laboratories four stations set up strategic points along race route Channeling information back base station set up launch site maintained Fred Propper stations provided valuable service added whole new dimension cross-country racing tabulating on-course check points 20 kilometer mark year first time special award given best per formance up mark reports Argonne Amateur Radio Club Continued page 140 October 1983 45 LEE RENAUD MEMORIALGREAT RACE VIII TOP FIVE FINISHERS1983 TeamPerformance NameHome BaseSpokesmankm/mihrsmin Plane 1MRCSAnn Arbor MIKen Bates760/4720332Pieceodis 2SACHomewood ILStan Watson426/2670318Pegasus 3DCRCWashington DCOtto l-leithecker357/2220135The Challenge 4CSGHudson IAJim Porter352/2190140Challenger 5GOS & HSDetroit MIPat Flinn295/1830133Astro Jeff commemorative patch Great Race VIII Sagitta-XC popular kit-plane little nickey mounted atop Cincinnati meet two shown Soaring Societys plane airspeed sensort Roclcford Skyhawks Soaring Society Its prop rotation telemetered back won Best Rookie Team award Models ground Draggybut works well-built Electrics/Kopski Continued paqe 137 date variety electric power systems planned construction article Next up Part Three will discuss pro pellers electric power motors sole function convert energy stored battery propeller thrust Im sure will amazed just what takes turn prop various props com pare prop change affects flight performance think youll find Part Three enlightening though still fundamental also graphic unique dont think thing like has published before Part Four will devoted bat teries about batteries Installations planes follow Now answer title question good stuff will continue will eventually come together promise As continue challenge series Ive come appreciate its sizeable scope very difficult write compact complete simple Introduction Elec trics regard want thank wife Wilma MA Editor Carl Wheeley Columnist Bill Winter Electric flying friends KRCHerb Dirks John Hickey Heinz Koerner Don LeGower Dan Mittenfor critiquing drafts artworks helpful sugges tions Any questions related part earlier parts series may directed SASE author Bob Kopski 25 West End Dr Lansdale PA 19446 RC Soaring/Pruss Continued page 45 helpful may have noticed skipped Fri days activity did because thats excitement occurred Fridays forecast thin layer four-day weather sandwich However based encouraging figures light winds aver age soaring conditions shutoff time day set 600 pm Published starting time four days 1000 am Troy Lawicki group Sil ver Eagles Soaring Society Michigan first course 1045 Several others followed logged very short flights Further attempts went way until about two oclock shortly after 17 Sailplanes air same time sight Nine working same thermal see 14-foot beau ties gracing same sky Contest Direc tor s reward time frame between 219 228 13 teams entered course included nine top 10 last years event test both Sailplane pilots skills purest form No gimmicks no trick launch equip ment no bad luck due bad draw can claimed protested against year con testants furnished own winches could launch exactly wanted Once air strategy overshadows luck ship capable bridging thermals moderate altitude trade off higher altitude because youll able cover ground once higher what about winds higher altitudes plowed fields plot ted course map just case need seek out hoping thermal being generated need day nature threw just crumb contestants way didnt last long Among gaggle 13 entered course about same time Jim Boh mer MOSS club group won event last year year retrieved model after 33 miles Skip Miller FAST first ever finish course official time managed 56-mile run relaunched logged 99 best effort during meet Six teams made about 20-mile mark Among Ken Bates Kurt Bak Mike McIntyre Ken Shaw MRCS Ann Abbor MI some six teams played lift hopes altitude before stretching down long southern course Bates left pack about half altitude highest plane group looked though wrong move After losing altitude down treetop height plowed field gave plane nudge upward Bates played thermal out new life made around south side course flew westward northbound forecast winds increased south provided team tailwind last half run Meanwhile south erly heading western leg coming down MRCS suddently course themselves Radio reports gave teams progress no question team con ditions favorable completing course question could beat clock well past three-hour mark air 600 pm shutoff nearing Passing last radio check point became very doubtful whether could finish course time rules state distance flown time shutdown will official distance time less seven minutes go still six miles flown radio reports made exciting Saturday sporting event drama moon launch countdown precisely 175930 official watches MRCS touched down com pleting 76 km1472 mile course three hours 32 minutes second time two years Bates company conquered Soarings greatest challenge also second time used makeshift bird year used wing very old Super Esprit parts other planes team Stan Watson Jim Slater Eric Stenson Dave Haertelrepresenting 4-STROKE ENGINE SALE COMPARE & SAVE Os FS 408950 OSFS6012500 OS FS 7514500 OS ES 120T34900 ENYA4O-4C12950 ENYA6O-4C14950 ENYA9O-4C18950 SAITO 308450 SAITO 40-Il9950 SAITO4510950 SAITO 90T29950 TERMS Prepaid check money order Include $250 UPS street address Calif residents add 6% sates tax No credit cards please Allow 2 weeks delivery REDWOOD hobby imports PO BOX 6171 SANTA ROSA CALIF 95401 Sublect stock hand 140 Model Aviation CA THREAD LOCKING COMPOUNDS West House OS Balsa Central EAkAEI fasif OISSSTATE 584-7616 CERWTOS CA 107011914 jj 1436 213 860-1276 ACER V Suburban Aero Clubfinished second 426km/267 miles three hr 18 mm Otto Heithecker Don Clark Carl Klopman DCRC group turned 357km1222 mile run hr 35 mm third place Cedar Soaring Group Iowa Jim Porter finished close fourth 352km/21 9 miles hour 40 minutes GDS&HS Pat Flinn did 29Skm/183 ml hour 33 mm also best performance first 20 kilometers 104 time Four other teams within seven minutes time Bits pieces 555 Canada won Best Foreign Team Performance Award planes except oneand number three backup shipused thermal sensors une team tne Lincinnati Soanng Society used device measured planes air speed transmitted back pilot Pickup trucks popular types chase vehicles new RC frequencies worked wellsome questionable glitches no serious gripes MRCS time exactly hour longer MOSS winning time 1982 practice run Wednesday Jack Hiner Tom Kallevang SOAR turned course 138 official competition finished sixth 28Okm/174 miles 245 15 teams last year returned Otto Heithecker won Lee Renaud Memorial Excellence Design award design selected result poll taken among other contestants No griped about anybody elses winch being too powerful Nobody griped Copies souvenir booklet contains three-view drawings planes flown along pertinent data can obtained SOAR 23546 W Fern Plainfield IL 60544 USA costs two dol lars Good lift Dan Pruss 131 E Pennington Ln Plainfield IL 60544 SAFE FLYING IS NO ACCIDENT CHUCK WOOD Rank Clark IT -TURkJOIJThE RNJS HANK CLARK Y YOUR STRIPLOOK BuSTENATURE OF THE MEDIA P TRYINJG T0 EDIT WE GOT GOT BUMPEDFELT LEFT OUTPHANIY BOY- WHOS SIDE TO PAP7~ WI-IILE BACK LOTSATHINGSARE YOU ON ITS \ 2INJE FOR LACKRAFTA GET /OFSPACEy lJTOME OUTP NECKWHAT WHATS BUGGI NOWf ~ / DID.--YOU RESPOND PICTURE IS VRIH YOU PLJTUPA THOUSAND WORDSCHUCK WOOD NOT BIG FUSS YOU WROTE RESTON HANK CLAPK HANS UPSff October 1983 141
Edition: Model Aviation - 1983/10
Page Numbers: 44, 45, 140, 141
Radio Control SOARING Dan Pruss CROSS-COUNTRY Michigan RC So ciety Ann Arbor MI won Great Race VIII won ever having look back during last half race Yet provided drama finish like no other ending previous seven years Sailplane classic years event held memory Lee Renaud helped establish continued supportthe event first time race scheduled four days Coupling new RC fre quencies organizers looked contest biggest ever Twentythree teams 13 states Canada Switzerland preregistered 22 teams par ticipated After 17 weekends rain out 18 forecasters finally promised typical June-like weather practice day Wednesday June 8th saw teams enjoying some best soaring conditions ever Some clubs took course LSF goal-and-return tasks Others took course abbreviated on-the-course practice Others stayed close trimmed out new ships retrimmed old ones least two teams lost ships due June-in-Illinois thermals day manhole covers could log 10 minutes practice days usually like Thursday light drizzle greeted crowd morning briefing re sult official flying didnt start until twelve oclock first officially-logged flight didnt come until 207 pm Ed Wil vf Virginias Tidewater Soaring Society L flew Bob Champines unusual Redbird design influenced both Carl Goldberg Frank Zaic Its 4-meter wing features full-span camber-changing flap its E-214 modified airfoil perches atop pylon mount Men photo R Joe Lupton timer John Lange Woody Blanchard planes designer Bob Champine Next R see entry DCRC club Don Clark Carl Klopman Otto l4elthecker pose plane voted winner Lee Renaud Award Excellence features foam-and-glass fuselage conventional wing/tail construction too has alull-span camber changing flap its E214modified airfoil similar ship using E-197 airfoil destroyed during practice day before contest Team finished 3rd 222 ml 44 Model Aviation MRCS Mike Bak Kurt Ernerling Ken Shaw Mike Mcintyre Ken Bates plane finish years Great Race Sailplane built components several other models wing Super Espritdesigned Lee Renaud nearly decade ago years Race dedicated memory planes name Pieceodis left best toreign team Scarborough soaring society trom Canada Competitors Halpfl McDonald John McMillan Frank Crouch Steve Smith planes two Super Pro-Runners team best time first day Race Next R see Tom Pratt original-design Exceder features superb workmanship fine flier Wingspan 15 ft 9 airfoil E-205 son Louisville club managed 12 miles later logged 22 thats kind day Thursday Much time spent over field light lift too light really obtain decent height on-course gust 950 temperatures high humidity 15 mph winds indicated would tough team make buck cause award day best performance day attempts challenge course weather made first leg course relatively short year coupled crosswind long stretch south wind some respectable high-onthe-course entries soon finding selves doing zeroor lessmph over ground persistent Bob Gill Ken Olsen St Louis Eagles along Alden longer official record whole course Only Greater Detroit Soaring Hiking Society Louisville Rockford Skyhawks managed get past fivemile mark Sundays weather repeat Satur day few extra knots wind thrown just case some thought Saturday no challenge Mark Stidham Rockford club logged 56 miles 41 minutes won daily award also won Best Rookie Team Award having best total daily performance meet 125 miles N have Lawickis L Clare Troy Wade Renee pose two Troys ships wing tip Paramount designed Ed Slobod other Troys own Albatross spans 172 has fully-flapped E-214 airfoil Next R Jim Porter Hudson IA modified Sagitta-XC Mods include conventional dihedral straight trailing edge photo makes look like plane has polyhedral thats because wing leading edge sweep-angle breaks point attempt However Jack McMillan Scarsborough Soaring Society Ontario Canada did eke out 35 miles 15 minutes best performance first day Saturday June turned Au Sr Shipp Quincy IL Falcons managed best distance day 61 miles Time two hours 39 minutesseven minutes organi7ers planned years contest four-day schedule came about idea hoping sandwich least good day what sometimes becomes erratic weather cycle Friday June 10 proved scheduling right Along schedule came two new features summer classic closing time dependent weather forecastthat time nounced mornings briefingand on-the-course reporting amateur radio group Through Amateur Radio Club Argonne Laboratories four stations set up strategic points along race route Channeling information back base station set up launch site maintained Fred Propper stations provided valuable service added whole new dimension cross-country racing tabulating on-course check points 20 kilometer mark year first time special award given best per formance up mark reports Argonne Amateur Radio Club Continued page 140 October 1983 45 LEE RENAUD MEMORIALGREAT RACE VIII TOP FIVE FINISHERS1983 TeamPerformance NameHome BaseSpokesmankm/mihrsmin Plane 1MRCSAnn Arbor MIKen Bates760/4720332Pieceodis 2SACHomewood ILStan Watson426/2670318Pegasus 3DCRCWashington DCOtto l-leithecker357/2220135The Challenge 4CSGHudson IAJim Porter352/2190140Challenger 5GOS & HSDetroit MIPat Flinn295/1830133Astro Jeff commemorative patch Great Race VIII Sagitta-XC popular kit-plane little nickey mounted atop Cincinnati meet two shown Soaring Societys plane airspeed sensort Roclcford Skyhawks Soaring Society Its prop rotation telemetered back won Best Rookie Team award Models ground Draggybut works well-built Electrics/Kopski Continued paqe 137 date variety electric power systems planned construction article Next up Part Three will discuss pro pellers electric power motors sole function convert energy stored battery propeller thrust Im sure will amazed just what takes turn prop various props com pare prop change affects flight performance think youll find Part Three enlightening though still fundamental also graphic unique dont think thing like has published before Part Four will devoted bat teries about batteries Installations planes follow Now answer title question good stuff will continue will eventually come together promise As continue challenge series Ive come appreciate its sizeable scope very difficult write compact complete simple Introduction Elec trics regard want thank wife Wilma MA Editor Carl Wheeley Columnist Bill Winter Electric flying friends KRCHerb Dirks John Hickey Heinz Koerner Don LeGower Dan Mittenfor critiquing drafts artworks helpful sugges tions Any questions related part earlier parts series may directed SASE author Bob Kopski 25 West End Dr Lansdale PA 19446 RC Soaring/Pruss Continued page 45 helpful may have noticed skipped Fri days activity did because thats excitement occurred Fridays forecast thin layer four-day weather sandwich However based encouraging figures light winds aver age soaring conditions shutoff time day set 600 pm Published starting time four days 1000 am Troy Lawicki group Sil ver Eagles Soaring Society Michigan first course 1045 Several others followed logged very short flights Further attempts went way until about two oclock shortly after 17 Sailplanes air same time sight Nine working same thermal see 14-foot beau ties gracing same sky Contest Direc tor s reward time frame between 219 228 13 teams entered course included nine top 10 last years event test both Sailplane pilots skills purest form No gimmicks no trick launch equip ment no bad luck due bad draw can claimed protested against year con testants furnished own winches could launch exactly wanted Once air strategy overshadows luck ship capable bridging thermals moderate altitude trade off higher altitude because youll able cover ground once higher what about winds higher altitudes plowed fields plot ted course map just case need seek out hoping thermal being generated need day nature threw just crumb contestants way didnt last long Among gaggle 13 entered course about same time Jim Boh mer MOSS club group won event last year year retrieved model after 33 miles Skip Miller FAST first ever finish course official time managed 56-mile run relaunched logged 99 best effort during meet Six teams made about 20-mile mark Among Ken Bates Kurt Bak Mike McIntyre Ken Shaw MRCS Ann Abbor MI some six teams played lift hopes altitude before stretching down long southern course Bates left pack about half altitude highest plane group looked though wrong move After losing altitude down treetop height plowed field gave plane nudge upward Bates played thermal out new life made around south side course flew westward northbound forecast winds increased south provided team tailwind last half run Meanwhile south erly heading western leg coming down MRCS suddently course themselves Radio reports gave teams progress no question team con ditions favorable completing course question could beat clock well past three-hour mark air 600 pm shutoff nearing Passing last radio check point became very doubtful whether could finish course time rules state distance flown time shutdown will official distance time less seven minutes go still six miles flown radio reports made exciting Saturday sporting event drama moon launch countdown precisely 175930 official watches MRCS touched down com pleting 76 km1472 mile course three hours 32 minutes second time two years Bates company conquered Soarings greatest challenge also second time used makeshift bird year used wing very old Super Esprit parts other planes team Stan Watson Jim Slater Eric Stenson Dave Haertelrepresenting 4-STROKE ENGINE SALE COMPARE & SAVE Os FS 408950 OSFS6012500 OS FS 7514500 OS ES 120T34900 ENYA4O-4C12950 ENYA6O-4C14950 ENYA9O-4C18950 SAITO 308450 SAITO 40-Il9950 SAITO4510950 SAITO 90T29950 TERMS Prepaid check money order Include $250 UPS street address Calif residents add 6% sates tax No credit cards please Allow 2 weeks delivery REDWOOD hobby imports PO BOX 6171 SANTA ROSA CALIF 95401 Sublect stock hand 140 Model Aviation CA THREAD LOCKING COMPOUNDS West House OS Balsa Central EAkAEI fasif OISSSTATE 584-7616 CERWTOS CA 107011914 jj 1436 213 860-1276 ACER V Suburban Aero Clubfinished second 426km/267 miles three hr 18 mm Otto Heithecker Don Clark Carl Klopman DCRC group turned 357km1222 mile run hr 35 mm third place Cedar Soaring Group Iowa Jim Porter finished close fourth 352km/21 9 miles hour 40 minutes GDS&HS Pat Flinn did 29Skm/183 ml hour 33 mm also best performance first 20 kilometers 104 time Four other teams within seven minutes time Bits pieces 555 Canada won Best Foreign Team Performance Award planes except oneand number three backup shipused thermal sensors une team tne Lincinnati Soanng Society used device measured planes air speed transmitted back pilot Pickup trucks popular types chase vehicles new RC frequencies worked wellsome questionable glitches no serious gripes MRCS time exactly hour longer MOSS winning time 1982 practice run Wednesday Jack Hiner Tom Kallevang SOAR turned course 138 official competition finished sixth 28Okm/174 miles 245 15 teams last year returned Otto Heithecker won Lee Renaud Memorial Excellence Design award design selected result poll taken among other contestants No griped about anybody elses winch being too powerful Nobody griped Copies souvenir booklet contains three-view drawings planes flown along pertinent data can obtained SOAR 23546 W Fern Plainfield IL 60544 USA costs two dol lars Good lift Dan Pruss 131 E Pennington Ln Plainfield IL 60544 SAFE FLYING IS NO ACCIDENT CHUCK WOOD Rank Clark IT -TURkJOIJThE RNJS HANK CLARK Y YOUR STRIPLOOK BuSTENATURE OF THE MEDIA P TRYINJG T0 EDIT WE GOT GOT BUMPEDFELT LEFT OUTPHANIY BOY- WHOS SIDE TO PAP7~ WI-IILE BACK LOTSATHINGSARE YOU ON ITS \ 2INJE FOR LACKRAFTA GET /OFSPACEy lJTOME OUTP NECKWHAT WHATS BUGGI NOWf ~ / DID.--YOU RESPOND PICTURE IS VRIH YOU PLJTUPA THOUSAND WORDSCHUCK WOOD NOT BIG FUSS YOU WROTE RESTON HANK CLAPK HANS UPSff October 1983 141
Edition: Model Aviation - 1983/10
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Radio Control SOARING Dan Pruss CROSS-COUNTRY Michigan RC So ciety Ann Arbor MI won Great Race VIII won ever having look back during last half race Yet provided drama finish like no other ending previous seven years Sailplane classic years event held memory Lee Renaud helped establish continued supportthe event first time race scheduled four days Coupling new RC fre quencies organizers looked contest biggest ever Twentythree teams 13 states Canada Switzerland preregistered 22 teams par ticipated After 17 weekends rain out 18 forecasters finally promised typical June-like weather practice day Wednesday June 8th saw teams enjoying some best soaring conditions ever Some clubs took course LSF goal-and-return tasks Others took course abbreviated on-the-course practice Others stayed close trimmed out new ships retrimmed old ones least two teams lost ships due June-in-Illinois thermals day manhole covers could log 10 minutes practice days usually like Thursday light drizzle greeted crowd morning briefing re sult official flying didnt start until twelve oclock first officially-logged flight didnt come until 207 pm Ed Wil vf Virginias Tidewater Soaring Society L flew Bob Champines unusual Redbird design influenced both Carl Goldberg Frank Zaic Its 4-meter wing features full-span camber-changing flap its E-214 modified airfoil perches atop pylon mount Men photo R Joe Lupton timer John Lange Woody Blanchard planes designer Bob Champine Next R see entry DCRC club Don Clark Carl Klopman Otto l4elthecker pose plane voted winner Lee Renaud Award Excellence features foam-and-glass fuselage conventional wing/tail construction too has alull-span camber changing flap its E214modified airfoil similar ship using E-197 airfoil destroyed during practice day before contest Team finished 3rd 222 ml 44 Model Aviation MRCS Mike Bak Kurt Ernerling Ken Shaw Mike Mcintyre Ken Bates plane finish years Great Race Sailplane built components several other models wing Super Espritdesigned Lee Renaud nearly decade ago years Race dedicated memory planes name Pieceodis left best toreign team Scarborough soaring society trom Canada Competitors Halpfl McDonald John McMillan Frank Crouch Steve Smith planes two Super Pro-Runners team best time first day Race Next R see Tom Pratt original-design Exceder features superb workmanship fine flier Wingspan 15 ft 9 airfoil E-205 son Louisville club managed 12 miles later logged 22 thats kind day Thursday Much time spent over field light lift too light really obtain decent height on-course gust 950 temperatures high humidity 15 mph winds indicated would tough team make buck cause award day best performance day attempts challenge course weather made first leg course relatively short year coupled crosswind long stretch south wind some respectable high-onthe-course entries soon finding selves doing zeroor lessmph over ground persistent Bob Gill Ken Olsen St Louis Eagles along Alden longer official record whole course Only Greater Detroit Soaring Hiking Society Louisville Rockford Skyhawks managed get past fivemile mark Sundays weather repeat Satur day few extra knots wind thrown just case some thought Saturday no challenge Mark Stidham Rockford club logged 56 miles 41 minutes won daily award also won Best Rookie Team Award having best total daily performance meet 125 miles N have Lawickis L Clare Troy Wade Renee pose two Troys ships wing tip Paramount designed Ed Slobod other Troys own Albatross spans 172 has fully-flapped E-214 airfoil Next R Jim Porter Hudson IA modified Sagitta-XC Mods include conventional dihedral straight trailing edge photo makes look like plane has polyhedral thats because wing leading edge sweep-angle breaks point attempt However Jack McMillan Scarsborough Soaring Society Ontario Canada did eke out 35 miles 15 minutes best performance first day Saturday June turned Au Sr Shipp Quincy IL Falcons managed best distance day 61 miles Time two hours 39 minutesseven minutes organi7ers planned years contest four-day schedule came about idea hoping sandwich least good day what sometimes becomes erratic weather cycle Friday June 10 proved scheduling right Along schedule came two new features summer classic closing time dependent weather forecastthat time nounced mornings briefingand on-the-course reporting amateur radio group Through Amateur Radio Club Argonne Laboratories four stations set up strategic points along race route Channeling information back base station set up launch site maintained Fred Propper stations provided valuable service added whole new dimension cross-country racing tabulating on-course check points 20 kilometer mark year first time special award given best per formance up mark reports Argonne Amateur Radio Club Continued page 140 October 1983 45 LEE RENAUD MEMORIALGREAT RACE VIII TOP FIVE FINISHERS1983 TeamPerformance NameHome BaseSpokesmankm/mihrsmin Plane 1MRCSAnn Arbor MIKen Bates760/4720332Pieceodis 2SACHomewood ILStan Watson426/2670318Pegasus 3DCRCWashington DCOtto l-leithecker357/2220135The Challenge 4CSGHudson IAJim Porter352/2190140Challenger 5GOS & HSDetroit MIPat Flinn295/1830133Astro Jeff commemorative patch Great Race VIII Sagitta-XC popular kit-plane little nickey mounted atop Cincinnati meet two shown Soaring Societys plane airspeed sensort Roclcford Skyhawks Soaring Society Its prop rotation telemetered back won Best Rookie Team award Models ground Draggybut works well-built Electrics/Kopski Continued paqe 137 date variety electric power systems planned construction article Next up Part Three will discuss pro pellers electric power motors sole function convert energy stored battery propeller thrust Im sure will amazed just what takes turn prop various props com pare prop change affects flight performance think youll find Part Three enlightening though still fundamental also graphic unique dont think thing like has published before Part Four will devoted bat teries about batteries Installations planes follow Now answer title question good stuff will continue will eventually come together promise As continue challenge series Ive come appreciate its sizeable scope very difficult write compact complete simple Introduction Elec trics regard want thank wife Wilma MA Editor Carl Wheeley Columnist Bill Winter Electric flying friends KRCHerb Dirks John Hickey Heinz Koerner Don LeGower Dan Mittenfor critiquing drafts artworks helpful sugges tions Any questions related part earlier parts series may directed SASE author Bob Kopski 25 West End Dr Lansdale PA 19446 RC Soaring/Pruss Continued page 45 helpful may have noticed skipped Fri days activity did because thats excitement occurred Fridays forecast thin layer four-day weather sandwich However based encouraging figures light winds aver age soaring conditions shutoff time day set 600 pm Published starting time four days 1000 am Troy Lawicki group Sil ver Eagles Soaring Society Michigan first course 1045 Several others followed logged very short flights Further attempts went way until about two oclock shortly after 17 Sailplanes air same time sight Nine working same thermal see 14-foot beau ties gracing same sky Contest Direc tor s reward time frame between 219 228 13 teams entered course included nine top 10 last years event test both Sailplane pilots skills purest form No gimmicks no trick launch equip ment no bad luck due bad draw can claimed protested against year con testants furnished own winches could launch exactly wanted Once air strategy overshadows luck ship capable bridging thermals moderate altitude trade off higher altitude because youll able cover ground once higher what about winds higher altitudes plowed fields plot ted course map just case need seek out hoping thermal being generated need day nature threw just crumb contestants way didnt last long Among gaggle 13 entered course about same time Jim Boh mer MOSS club group won event last year year retrieved model after 33 miles Skip Miller FAST first ever finish course official time managed 56-mile run relaunched logged 99 best effort during meet Six teams made about 20-mile mark Among Ken Bates Kurt Bak Mike McIntyre Ken Shaw MRCS Ann Abbor MI some six teams played lift hopes altitude before stretching down long southern course Bates left pack about half altitude highest plane group looked though wrong move After losing altitude down treetop height plowed field gave plane nudge upward Bates played thermal out new life made around south side course flew westward northbound forecast winds increased south provided team tailwind last half run Meanwhile south erly heading western leg coming down MRCS suddently course themselves Radio reports gave teams progress no question team con ditions favorable completing course question could beat clock well past three-hour mark air 600 pm shutoff nearing Passing last radio check point became very doubtful whether could finish course time rules state distance flown time shutdown will official distance time less seven minutes go still six miles flown radio reports made exciting Saturday sporting event drama moon launch countdown precisely 175930 official watches MRCS touched down com pleting 76 km1472 mile course three hours 32 minutes second time two years Bates company conquered Soarings greatest challenge also second time used makeshift bird year used wing very old Super Esprit parts other planes team Stan Watson Jim Slater Eric Stenson Dave Haertelrepresenting 4-STROKE ENGINE SALE COMPARE & SAVE Os FS 408950 OSFS6012500 OS FS 7514500 OS ES 120T34900 ENYA4O-4C12950 ENYA6O-4C14950 ENYA9O-4C18950 SAITO 308450 SAITO 40-Il9950 SAITO4510950 SAITO 90T29950 TERMS Prepaid check money order Include $250 UPS street address Calif residents add 6% sates tax No credit cards please Allow 2 weeks delivery REDWOOD hobby imports PO BOX 6171 SANTA ROSA CALIF 95401 Sublect stock hand 140 Model Aviation CA THREAD LOCKING COMPOUNDS West House OS Balsa Central EAkAEI fasif OISSSTATE 584-7616 CERWTOS CA 107011914 jj 1436 213 860-1276 ACER V Suburban Aero Clubfinished second 426km/267 miles three hr 18 mm Otto Heithecker Don Clark Carl Klopman DCRC group turned 357km1222 mile run hr 35 mm third place Cedar Soaring Group Iowa Jim Porter finished close fourth 352km/21 9 miles hour 40 minutes GDS&HS Pat Flinn did 29Skm/183 ml hour 33 mm also best performance first 20 kilometers 104 time Four other teams within seven minutes time Bits pieces 555 Canada won Best Foreign Team Performance Award planes except oneand number three backup shipused thermal sensors une team tne Lincinnati Soanng Society used device measured planes air speed transmitted back pilot Pickup trucks popular types chase vehicles new RC frequencies worked wellsome questionable glitches no serious gripes MRCS time exactly hour longer MOSS winning time 1982 practice run Wednesday Jack Hiner Tom Kallevang SOAR turned course 138 official competition finished sixth 28Okm/174 miles 245 15 teams last year returned Otto Heithecker won Lee Renaud Memorial Excellence Design award design selected result poll taken among other contestants No griped about anybody elses winch being too powerful Nobody griped Copies souvenir booklet contains three-view drawings planes flown along pertinent data can obtained SOAR 23546 W Fern Plainfield IL 60544 USA costs two dol lars Good lift Dan Pruss 131 E Pennington Ln Plainfield IL 60544 SAFE FLYING IS NO ACCIDENT CHUCK WOOD Rank Clark IT -TURkJOIJThE RNJS HANK CLARK Y YOUR STRIPLOOK BuSTENATURE OF THE MEDIA P TRYINJG T0 EDIT WE GOT GOT BUMPEDFELT LEFT OUTPHANIY BOY- WHOS SIDE TO PAP7~ WI-IILE BACK LOTSATHINGSARE YOU ON ITS \ 2INJE FOR LACKRAFTA GET /OFSPACEy lJTOME OUTP NECKWHAT WHATS BUGGI NOWf ~ / DID.--YOU RESPOND PICTURE IS VRIH YOU PLJTUPA THOUSAND WORDSCHUCK WOOD NOT BIG FUSS YOU WROTE RESTON HANK CLAPK HANS UPSff October 1983 141