Competition Newsletter
1983 ANNUAL FAI/CIAM MEETING REPORTS
AMA President
John Grigg
Fifteen people representing the United States attended the CIAM meeting this year. This included 11 members of subcommittees, the CIAM Secretary, our voting Delegate, our Alternate Delegate, and one official observer. We were also privileged to have Bryant Thompson join us as an unofficial observer at his own expense. The wives of five of the above people accompanied us; their expenses were paid by their husbands.
The two-day meeting commenced on the morning of December 1 and concluded about 4:30 p.m. on Friday, December 2. Each committee member and our voting delegate will have their reports in this same issue, so I won't tread on their areas. However, several of the U.S. proposals were withdrawn with my permission prior to the voting session, and I feel these should be explained.
During the Soaring Technical Committee meeting, it became quite obvious that the U.S. man-on-man proposal would never survive a vote on the floor—virtually the entire committee favored the German proposal for man-on-man. Since we want our foot in the door with man-on-man, we felt it best to withdraw our version and lend support to the popular version. We can now propose changes to the thinking and fine-tune the basic concept (which only a year ago was soundly defeated).
Summary of Conclusions
by John Worth
- New FAI Sporting Code (rule book) to be available early in 1984.
- FAI rules "freeze" now in effect, until 1988. (Applies to the FAI rules in the AMA rule book for 1984–85.)
- 1984 World Championships approved:
- Scale (R/C & C/L) — Paris, France; July 2–8.
- Control Line — Chicopee, MA (U.S.A.); September 17–22.
- Indoor — Nagoya, Japan; October 13–18.
- Other World Championships approved:
- 1985: Free Flight — Yugoslavia; RC Aerobatics — Netherlands; RC Soaring — Australia.
- 1986: Scale — Norway or South Africa.
- 1987: RC Soaring — W. Germany.
- Possible new World Championships after 1984: RC Helicopters, RC Pylon Racing, RC Electroflight.
- Control Line Team Racing (F2C) returns to 7 cc fuel capacity; no changes to model specifications in any other category (FF, RC, Scale).
- RC Aerobatics "normalizing" of scores approved.
- Cross-country RC Soaring rules approved (not effective until 1988).
Control Line World Championships
Upon CIAM approval of this event for Chicopee, MA (site of the 1983 AMA National Championships), the following FAI officials were approved:
- Jury (overall): Peter Freebrey (United Kingdom); Rudy Beck (Hungary); Laird Jackson (U.S.A.).
- Aerobatic Judges: M. Harvey (U.K.); J. van Ommeren (Netherlands); H. Yongliang (China); L. Gregori (Italy); K. Trostle (U.S.A.).
- Team Racing Jury: P. Fontana (Italy); R. Horwood (U.K.); D. Jehlik (U.S.A.).
- Combat Judges: R. Evans (U.K.); G. Michiels (Belgium); R. Lopez (U.S.A.).
Based on a survey taken at the FAI meeting, at least 17 countries are expected to send teams, including China. The basic entry fee for all participants (competitors or supporters) will be $60, plus $150 if lodging is desired; no food is included. Tickets for the closing banquet will be available separately. U.S. supporters may register now.
National Records
Beginning with this issue, the "Competition Newsletter" will publish a monthly list of all AMA National Records which have been recorded during the previous month. This list will supplement the full-page National listing which appears less frequently (an attempt is made to publish the large list on a quarterly basis, but it is all too frequently delayed by the "space crunch" for an additional month or two).
Every National Record issued during the month will be listed. This may result in more than one record being issued for the same event and age category in any given month.
New Records as of December 30, 1983
Outdoor FF Category I
- Ornithopter Open — 01:25 Jean Andrews, 11/12/83
Outdoor FF Category III
- A Gas Junior — 09:26 Ken Keegan, 11/27/83
- B Gas Junior — 12:38 Travis Hunter, 11/27/83
- C Gas Junior — 21:45 Travis Hunter, 11/27/83
- D Gas Junior — 07:33 Travis Hunter, 11/27/83
Sullivan Award (continued)
His first-place wins were in Indoor Paper Stick, Indoor Easy B, Indoor Hand-Launched Glider, Indoor Peanut Scale, Ya Scale, A Gas, Mulvihill Rubber, AMA Rubber Scale, and P-30.
Second-place wins were in Indoor Penny-plane, Indoor AMA Scale, A-1 Towline Glider, and Outdoor Peanut Scale.
His worst event was Outdoor Hand-Launched Glider, where he placed ninth. However, that wasn't too bad, since there were 14 fliers in this event.
There was a total of 63 Juniors entered in the 1983 Nationals.
RCCB Action (continued)
There are no engines on the market with this displacement; the largest commonly available engines have displacements of .90 cu. in.
Transcribed from original scans by AI. Minor OCR errors may remain.
