1998 NATS Scrapbook

Edition: Model Aviation - 1998/12
Page Numbers: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

Plenty of action in the center of the circle as Don Cranfill and Andy Mears go at it in a CL Combat match.
Crystal King models are 180° apart in CL Combat.
From behind the net: CL Racing pilot and pitman get ready.
The .21 Proto CL models are judged for appearance as well as speed, so colorful paint schemes are used.

A flock of RC hand-launched gliders searches for a sometimes-elusive thermal.
RC soaring events were well-attended, with many graceful, elegant models.
League of Silent Flight president Cal Posthuma enjoys a flight at the RC Soaring site.
Californian Martyn Cowley gets ready for a flight in Free Flight hand-launched glider as Chris Matsuno looks on.

Chris Lakin (L) calls maneuvers for Don Weitz in RC Pattern.
RC Aerobatics Event Director Bob Noll awards the first-place Masters Pattern plaque to Dave Lockhart (Brick, NJ).
Ransom Fairchild checks engine RPM prior to a pattern flight.
Bob Laybourne's Jimmie Allen model (Donnellsville, OH) waits its turn.
Jeff Hill was site director for Masters and FAI Pattern.
Hard rains forced closure of the grass-strip Pattern site.

Somehow it's never too hard to locate Jerry Salisbury (Hickory, NC) at the RC Pylon Racing site.
Nancy Telford keeps pilots ready to go as she announces upcoming heat assignments in RC Pylon.
Busy man: Bill Gallagher listens intently as RC Pylon models are identified by the cage workers.
Well, maybe things aren't quite that desperate at RC Pylon, but ...

Ted Kraver got lots of help counting laps during the carrier flight of a Curtiss biplane.
Larry Davidson gets set to launch a Foote Westerner Old-Timer.
Dave Curtis gets help working on his Classic Nobler CL Aerobatics model.
Brian Hancock flew Flight Streak to third place in Junior Beginner Stunt.

Junior Mouse Race winners (L-R): Jason Stone, second place, and Scott Mattson, first place.
Three generations of the Bauer family (L-R): Charlie, five-year-old Aaron, and Peter.
This killdeer mother bird was discovered at the CL Precision Aerobatics site; she was protected with cones and hatched two chicks during the competition.
Jack-of-all-trades Tony Stillman repairs a transmitter in the basement of Nats HQ.
Sean Bradley ran the FAI helicopter flightline.
Gene Martine keeps Classic Stunt scores up to date.
Traveling in style!
Shouldn't the model have to be bigger than its support equipment? (Joyner photo.)

Transcribed from original scans by AI. Minor OCR errors may remain.