Radio Control: Soaring
NEW ALTITUDE RECORD. Since 1975, Jack Hiner, current Distance World Record holder, has been trying to establish a new record for altitude. Using a Replogle barograph (the same type used in full-scale soaring), its recording traces have indicated over 6,000 feet on some unofficial flights (those flights were either not filed or official witnesses were not present) while on the official flights the top of the lift was too short for a record.
Radio Control: Soaring
TO PARAPHRASE an old song title: June busted out all over. Some events took place in June 1982 which will be highlighted here chronologically. You can determine the order of their impact on RC Soaring. June 5. If this column is reading like a press release for certain folks, it's being read wrong. Anybody who has stared at the sky for over an hour, or has hoped to, will appreciate the following accomplishment and the others mentioned in this report.
1982 AMA Nats: RC Soaring
HOT! That's the only word to describe the weather (and some of the contestant performances) at the Nats Soaring site in Lincoln. The events this year had something for everybody-not just a token one-day event for certain categories (Scale excepted). The first two days had Two-Meter and Standard scheduled, and the third and fourth days saw Modified Standard and Unlimited flown. Scale was also flown on the fourth day.
Radio Control: Soaring
HISTORY: The 1982 F3B Team selection program. For a detailed report of who did what to whom, see the "Competition Newsletter" in this issue. This scribe seldom uses this column for personal viewpoints, much less personal messages; but, as the Contest Director for the Team Finals, I wish to say thanks to the people who helped pull this one off . . . to Helen and Ken Olsen from St. Louis, who performed a World Championship act in scoring, (results were posted within minutes after the last flight of each task) . . . to Warren Tiahrt, Ken Bates and Ken Shaw . . . to LSF president, Warren Plohr, and his gang from MOSS . . . to Ray Marvin, team selection chairman . . . to Dave Lindley and his fellow Chicago Aeronuts . . . and to 38 of the SOAR members who sat through sun, wind and rain for three days. More of them showed up for this event than show up for one of their own club contests, the club's annual turkey shoot or annual banquet!
Radio Control: Soaring
THERE WAS A TIME when man was sticking himself with straight-pin fasteners, straining his back while using short-handled shovels, and having to turn his head 180 degrees every time he wanted to check out the traffic behind him while driving. Then, along came the safety pin, the long-handled shovel, and the rear-view mirror. Straightforward, common sense inventions, you say. Right. But somebody had to come up with them. What does the above have to do with Soaring? Nothing, except there are times when we get too hung up and lost in the complexities of some new construction techniques, or are awed by someone's six-channel soarer or one's nuclear-powered winch.
