Free Flight: Indoor
QUICK CHANGE - 1993 Indoor Nats: After the FAA failed to grant timely clearance for use of an airport runway for outdoor events at Lubbock, Texas, the entire unified Nats concept was abandoned for this year. The Indoor Nats will instead be held with the USIC, June 3-6, 1993. Tom lacobellis will be the CD. Send Tom an SASE to receive entry blanks and other information: 198 Manhattan Ave., Hawthorne, NY 10532; Tel.: (914) 592-5176 (day) or (914) 747-9038 (night). U.S. Indoor Champs rides again! Tom Jacobellis is the Contest Director, and the dates are June 3-6, 1993. As usual, the site is the MiniDome at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee. Send Tom a business-sized SASE at the address given in the preceding paragraph for entry blanks and event information. Here's an advance bit of information: A class for 35cm microfilm stick has been added. These models are fun, easy to build, and easy to transport.
Free Flight: Indoor
LIVING Room Stick postal results: The 1992 version of the world's most popular postal meet ended after 117 contestants from 11 countries had posted flights in sites with ceiling heights ranging from 62 feet to 7.97 feet. Each flight score was modified by a carefully developed fudge factor to compensate for ceiling height differences. Here's how it came out after dropping multiple entries by individual fliers: Flier, Country, Ceiling, Raw Score (Sec.), Final Score (Sec.) Gary Hunter, U.S.A., 23.20, 430, 693.9
Free Flight: Indoor
THE 1994 NATIONAL AEROMODELING Championships is over. The entry at Indoor was small, the site one of the better ones in the country, and a few of the best Indoor fliers in the country were there. It was a really good contest, with strong and spirited competition in several events. Anyone (especially Texans) who passed up this meet missed a good event. The Coliseum at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, was rated by one flier as a 6 on a scale of 10 (from a flyability standpoint). To put that in context, he rated the Akron air dock as 10 and the ETSU MiniDome (site of the NFFS US Indoor Championships) as a 9. Another flier rated the Coliseum as the fifth best site in the country; it certainly is by far the best site within a radius of 900 miles.
Free Flight: Indoor
F1D POSTAL: Two of the tree U.S. teams entered in the F1D postal challenge between the U.S. and Japan completed their flights by the October 31, 1992, deadline. The team headed by Chuck Slusarczyk lost access to the site they hoped to use and were unable to arrange for another site in time. The teams headed by Tom Vallee and Bob Randolph completed their flights as listed below: WEST COAST TEAM Bob Randolph - 34:15 + 34:18 = 67:33 Cezar Banks - 17:50 + 23:17 = 41:07 Steve Brown - 30:36 + 30:50 = 61:26 Team Total 170:06 EAST COAST TEAM Tom Vallee - 25:43 + 25:53 = 51:36 Dan Belieff - 20:06 + 18:00 = 38:06 Phillip Kleinert - 17:50 + 19:23 = 37:13 Team Total 127:00
Free Flight: Indoor
PETE ANDREWS remembered: The first flier to post a 30-minute Indoor flight is dead; Pete Andrews passed away after a six-month illness. Pete influenced people and Indoor model design for several decades, winning many Nats events and other awards. Finally, he almost retired from modeling because there seemed to be no challenges left. Frank Cummings, another modeling pioneer and longtime friend, convinced Pete to tackle FAI Indoor. Then, in 1972 Pete became Indoor World Champion after posting flights of 36:12 and 34:57, 1:34 ahead of Czech flier Karol Rybecky.
