Edition: Model Aviation - 1985/06
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COMPETITION NEWSLETTER

Academy of Model Aeronautics 1810 Samuel Morse Drive Reston, VA 22090

International CL Combat/Stunt Meet Announced

Dedicated C/L fliers have an opportunity to enter a big European contest. An announcement has just been received for the Twelfth Dutch Combat International Contest. Events will be FAI classes F2B (Aerobatics) and F2D (Combat). It is scheduled for 1985.

1985 Nats: Help Wanted!

The following plea has been received, and it is directed to all AMA members who are planning to attend the 1985 Nats:

"In 1985, the AMA National Championships will again be held at Westover AFB in Chicopee, MA. The Soaring events will take place from July 30 through August 3 at the nearby Smith & Wesson Firearms Plant."

RC Pylon World Champs Supporter Package Available

Modelers wishing to attend the forthcoming 1985 RC Pylon World Championships (August 3–7, 1985; Westover AFB, Chicopee, MA) as spectators may find it to their advantage to obtain the status of Supporter by paying the $100 entry fee.

Some of the advantages of being a Supporter include parking space close to the contest activity (spectator parking will be considerably farther away), receiving three box lunches at the field (one per day) and a set of official souvenirs. Additionally, Supporters will be admitted to any special social events scheduled for officials, participants, and the team.

"Supporter" is very literal; the fee paid provides financial support to make the team possible. Without such support, the competitor entry fees would have to be much higher, and the event could not be held without extensive commercial sponsorship.

Normally, a country hosting a World Championships has about two years to plan and finance the event. This year, AMA took on the obligation of hosting the RC Pylon World Championships for the good of the sport and, with only six months' notice, the event would not be possible without Supporters.

Besides receiving the previously mentioned list of goodies, Supporters may also obtain lodging at the official hotel(s) and buy a ticket to the closing banquet. Lodging cost will be $110 per person (double occupancy) for five nights (August 3–7), and the banquet ticket is $30. A special package is available (to AMA members only) which gives all three of these items (Supporter, lodging, and banquet) for $200, instead of the combined, individual prices of $240.

Booster Packet Also Available

AMA members can obtain a 1985 RC Pylon World Championships Booster Packet for half price. Even if you don't plan to attend the World Champs, you'll want to have this great souvenir collection. Included in the Booster Packet are the following items: official cloth patch ($5 value); official enamel pin; and other commemorative souvenirs.

National Records

No new records were processed during the month of March 1985.

CL Scale Flier Comments

Mike Gretz

I'm very proud to have been a member of the 1984 United States Scale Team. Our trip to the World Championships was an experience that I'll never forget. There were 23 people in our U.S. entourage—three RC fliers, three CL fliers, plus wives and other assorted team supporters. The entire group displayed extraordinary friendliness and team spirit throughout the trip. Everyone really pulled together to help each other in any way they could. Thank you, fellow team members! My wife Doris and I will always treasure the good times we all had together.

I'm also proud of our team's performance in the contest. Out of 18 countries entered, the U.S. Team placed second in CL Scale and third in RC Scale. That's not bad!

You often hear athletes and TV commentators talk about the "Olympic experience." Participation in a Scale World Championships gives one a firsthand understanding of what that experience is all about. It means excitement, adventure, fellowship, and pride like you've never felt before. I had been a member of the U.S. Scale Team in 1974 and 1976, and I looked forward to competing again this year with great anticipation. Modelers from all over the world come together, strangers at first, most unable to speak to each other because of language barriers, yet model aviation provides the common bond that quickly makes them all friends. We all live at the same hotel, eat our meals together, and experience the foreign customs of the host country together. Communication is accomplished by exaggerated gestures and unusual sound effects, often ending with laughter on both sides. In fact, from what I saw, laughter must be the official language of a World Championships! As long as you have a smile and a ready handshake, you don't need an interpreter. Modelers really can communicate without words.

Our French hosts did a superior job of organizing both the competitive and the social aspects of this Scale Championship. We were treated with much kindness and consideration while we were there. The French provided many "extras"—hospitality above and beyond what was expected, like providing everyone with a list of all the contestants' names and room numbers so we could mingle. They also provided maps, brochures, and instructions for getting into Paris via the bus and subway systems to go sightseeing. Complete contest portfolios containing programs, patches, decals, and name tags were given not only to the contestants but to all the wives and supporters as well. There was music, singing, and dancing almost every night after supper, either in the dining room or in the "Bleriot Bar." Our hotel rooms were clean and modern, and the food was good. At supper on the 4th of July, all the women in the U.S. party were presented with a rose. Best of all, the French provided cars, a truck, and drivers for moving our model boxes both to and from the contest site and De Gaulle airport—and when we offered to pay for the rental truck, they would not hear of it.

The contest site was historic Le Bourget Airport on the outskirts of Paris. Le Bourget is where Charles Lindbergh landed the Spirit of St. Louis in 1927. It's now the home of France's national air and space museum, the Musée de l'Air. We were allowed free access to the museum all week simply by showing our contest name tags at the gate. The CL flying site, adjacent to the museum, was very nice. They had used a grinder on the concrete to make sure all the seams were perfectly smooth and flat.

As expected, the competition was intense. My biggest satisfaction came from our second-place finish in the CL team standings. It was a dogfight until the last round between us, the British team, and the Polish team. You can have a completely dependable, smooth-flying airplane to be competitive in FAI Scale, and that's what Ron Sears, Jeff Perez, and myself had entered. Each of us had been U.S. National Champion at some time with the same airplanes we took to Paris. I wish that we could have seriously contested the Russians for first place, but with the static scores we were given that was not possible. I think the judging was basically fair in regards to the ranking of the models, but the gap between the Russians' scores and everyone else's was a little unrealistic, in my opinion. I can say that Jeff, Ron, and I all gave it our best effort on the flightline. Nobody held back! My personal disappointment in my ninth-place static score was partially eased by getting the highest flight score of the CL competition. That allowed me to move up to fifth place in the final standings.

John Guenther was our team manager at the CL Scale flight circle. John really impressed me with his helpfulness, his knowledge of the CL Scale rules, and with how quickly he picked up the unwritten idiosyncrasies of judging a good CL Scale flight (not his normal event). Thanks Jeff, Ron, and John for all your support at the flightline.

I'd also like to thank Dolly Wischer, our overall team manager, for the excellent job she did handling the details of the trip. She did a top-notch job. Dolly was the glue that held our large group together.

Thanks also to Cliff Tacie for volunteering so quickly to stay at De Gaulle Airport with the model boxes while the rest of us all went to find the hotel and the Frenchman with the truck (we never thought it would take four hours, Cliff).

Thanks to Bob Underwood and Col. John deVries for leading the U.S. Team in a perfectly harmonized (well, almost) rendition of "Home On The Range" at the awards banquet that completely outclassed our singing competitors, the Swedish Team. I can't understand why the French wouldn't let the Swedish and American Teams back up on the stage together (about 40 people) to sing "Old McDonald Had A Farm!" It would have been great—the Swedes knew all the words.

Congratulations to Skip Mast for having the biggest model box in history. It worked great as a team meeting place and lounge at the contest.

Thank you to John Worth, Micheline Madison, Vince Markowski, Bob Voyslav, Greg Chartrand, and all the other friendly people at AMA HQ for their help.

A huge "Thank you" to Nino Dironzo and TWA Airlines for transporting our model boxes to Paris at no charge. Nino even came over to Paris on our return date to make sure the boxes got on the airplane OK for the trip back. What a lifesaver!

Thanks to Sig for the beautiful team shirts and to ProPower for the fuel. I would like to thank Dick Byron for use of his model box—it certainly helped! And thanks most of all to the AMA members who supported the Scale Team Fund.

GET YOUR NATS ENTRY FORM NOW!

You must send it back to AMA HQ no later than JULY 3, 1985 to avoid late entry penalty!

Simply send a stamped (22 cent), self-addressed No. 10 (business size) envelope to:

  • Academy of Model Aeronautics

1810 Samuel Morse Drive Reston, VA 22090 Attn: Nats Entry Forms

Note: Separate forms are necessary for each person, contestant or mechanic.

(This is NOT the Official Entry Form!)

FEE INFORMATION

BASIC REGISTRATION FEES FOR CONTESTANTS

  • Junior: $5.00
  • Senior: $5.00
  • Open: $25.00

After July 3, 1985: Late fee (add to basic fee): $15.00

FOR MECHANICS (non-flying participants)

  • Each mechanic: $5.00

(Add separate sheet(s) for additional mechanic(s).)

EVENT FEES

  • Junior or Senior: $2.00 per event
  • Open:
  • Free Flight: $5.00 per event
  • Control Line: $10.00 per event (except Control Line Aerobatics—add $20.00)
  • Radio Control: $20.00 per event

ADDITIONAL FEES

  • Foreign nationals (except MAAC members) pay $1.00 for NATS-only AMA member insurance.

Note: Photocopy of MAAC card must accompany entry.

DEADLINE FOR ADVANCE ENTRY: Postmarked no later than midnight July 3, 1985. After that date, entries will be processed at the NATS site as per Entry Form instructions and Official Schedule.

IMPORTANT: The Nats Entry Form includes four pages of detailed information which must be understood before signing and submitting. The information contains details of the official daily schedule concerning registration, model and equipment processing, awards, deadlines, etc.

PHOTOCOPIES OF ENTRY FORMS ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE—you must use the original Official Entry Form with the detailed information pages, either as a contestant or a mechanic.

Nats Volunteer Officials Wanted!

The world's biggest model meet can't function without several hundred officials—and they're all volunteers! Most of the critical positions are already filled (Event Directors, etc.), but hundreds more are needed: timers, scorekeepers, CL pull-testers, etc. Historically, Nats volunteers have received credit towards their next year's AMA dues and/or Nats lodging for their efforts. Children under 16 years of age are also eligible to participate.

For further information and/or to volunteer your services, call or write:

  • Joyce Hager, AMA HQ: (703) 435-0750
  • Roman Polaski: (203) 749-9743

Do it today!

EVENTS TO BE HELD

INDOOR

  1. AMA Stick
  2. Paper Stick
  3. Cabin
  4. FAI Stick
  5. Pennyplane
  6. Easy B
  7. H.L. Glider All Wood
  8. H.L. Glider Hi-Tech
  9. Manhattan Cabin
  10. AMA Scale
  11. Peanut Scale

CONTROL LINE

  1. Scale Racing
  2. Rat Racing
  3. Slow Rat Racing
  4. Mouse Racing I
  5. 1/2A Profile Proto
  6. FAI Speed
  7. 1/2A Speed
  8. A Speed
  9. B Speed
  10. D Speed (Open Only)
  11. Formula "40" Speed
  12. Jet Speed
  13. Precision Aerobatics
  14. Combat
  15. 1/2A Combat
  16. FAI Combat
  17. Slow Combat
  18. FAI Team Racing
  19. Precision Scale (AMA)
  20. Sport Scale
  21. FAI Scale
  22. Carrier I
  23. Carrier II
  24. Profile Carrier

RADIO CONTROL

  1. Sportsman Pattern
  2. Advanced Pattern
  3. Expert Pattern
  4. Masters Pattern
  5. FAI (Turnaround)
  6. Scale (FAI)
  7. Sport Scale, Sportsman
  8. Sport Scale, Expert
  9. Giant Scale
  10. Formula 1 Pylon Racing
  11. Quarter Midget Pylon
  12. FAI Pylon
  13. Std. or Mod. Std. Sailplanes
  14. Unlimited Sailplanes
  15. 2-Meter Sailplanes
  16. Sport Scale Sailplanes
  17. Novice Helicopter
  18. Intermediate Helicopter
  19. Expert Helicopter
  20. Scale Helicopter
  21. FAI Helicopter

OUTDOOR FREE FLIGHT

  1. 1/2A Gas
  2. A Gas
  3. B Gas
  4. C Gas
  5. 1/4A Gas
  6. FAI Power
  7. Wakefield Rubber
  8. Mulvihill Rubber
  9. Coupe d'Hiver
  10. A-1 Towline (FAI Only)
  11. A-2 Towline
  12. Hand Launch Glider
  13. AMA Rubber Scale
  14. AMA Gas Scale
  15. Peanut Scale (Rule No. 51A)
  16. Payload
  17. Electric Power, Class A
  18. Electric Power, Class B
  19. P-30
  20. Cargo
  21. CO2

*Age classes combined

CONTEST COORDINATORS

  • I. Bernice Williams, 347 Southwick Rd., Westfield, MA 01085
  • II. R. Sobrino, 8726 Beth St., Woodhaven, Queens, NY 11421
  • RC. Ernest Nikodem, 407 Willow St., Lockport, NY 14094
  • RC. Bill Poore, 28 Fernwood Dr., Commack, NY 11725
  • III. Ken Reber, 427 Elm Dr., Nazareth, PA 18064
  • East. M. Weisenbach, 4568 W. 146th, Cleveland, OH 44135
  • West IV. Warren Sanders Jr., 9735 52nd Ave., College Park, MD 20741
  • RC. Ed Byerley, 200 Commander Cove, Stafford, VA 22554
  • V RC. Don Peck, 1311 Oster Dr. NW, Huntsville, AL 35805
  • FF. Wallace Johnson, 4112 White Acres Rd., Montgomery, AL 36106
  • CL. Joseph Mead, 1339 Rensselaer St., Jacksonville, FL 32205
  • VI RC. Charles Gray, 201 Holmes Salem Rd., Terre Haute, IN 47803
  • RC. Sowing Dale Folkening, 1039 College Ave. SW, Wheaton, IL 60187
  • CL. W. R. Bodnioch Jr., 235 W. Glade, Palatine, IL 60067

INDOOR CONTEST BOARD

  • I. Ray Harlan, 15 Happy Hollow Rd., Wayland, MA 01778
  • II. Merrick Andrews, 100 River Rd., Apt. 1, Bogota, NJ 07603
  • III. Walt VanGorder, 5669 Victory View Ln., Cincinnati, OH 45238
  • IV. Don Snoll, 941 Kimberwicke Rd., McLean, VA 22102
  • V. John Martin, 2180 Tigertail, Miami, FL 33133

CONTROL LINE CONTEST BOARD

  • I. George Higgins, P.O. Box 482, North Pembroke, MA 02358
  • II. Bill Boss, 77-05 269th St., New Hyde Park, NY 11040
  • III. Laird Jackson, 1025 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19107
  • IV. Ron McNally, 6118 Bends Ave., Springfield, VA 22152
  • V. Dave Hemontroght, P.O. Box 171, Moncks Corner, SC 29461

FREE FLIGHT CONTEST BOARD

  • I. Henry Struck, RFD 2, Hamburg, Old Lyme, CT 06371
  • II. Bradley Bane, 60 Lake Ave., Lyndonville, NY 14098
  • III. Rudy Kleiber, 2021 Lakeland Ave., Lakewood, OH 44107
  • IV. Jon Boyle Jr., 219 Shenandoah Rd., Hampton, VA 23361
  • V. Bonny Jenkins, 3112 E. Romeo Rd., Memphis, TN 38118

SCALE CONTEST BOARD

  • I. W. Snarl, 52 Longhorn Dr., Nashua, NH 03060
  • II. Robert Clemens, 95 Shoreway Dr., Rochester, NY 14612
  • III. Edward Wisser, 1521 Summit St., McKeesport, PA 15131
  • IV. Bob Karlsson, 2643 Marsh Rd., Wilmington, DE 19810
  • V. Denid Plact, 6940 NW 15th, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33313

AEROBATICS

  • I. Lance Murphy, 29 Hightop Cir., East Haven, CT 06514
  • II. Joe Friend, 41 Carriage Hill Dr., Colts Neck, NJ 07722
  • III. Ron Hesselbrock, 6320 Blueberry Hill Ct., Cincinnati, OH 45248
  • IV. Stacey Mills, Rt. 12, 8006, Charlottesville, VA 22901
  • V. John Thomas, 401 B Jackson St., Ste. 200, Orlando, FL 32801

HELICOPTER

  • I. Ernie Huber, 19 Beaver Park Rd., Danvers, MA 01923
  • II. Horace Hagen, 15 Parkway Pl., Red Bank, NJ 07701
  • III. Bill Curtis, 218 Vernon Rd., Greenville, PA 16125
  • IV. Robert F. Harris, 700 Silver Linden Dr., La Plata, MD 20646
  • V. Tim Schoonard, 802 Alfred Dr., Orlando, FL 32810

RACING

  • I. Pete Reed, 49 Anvil Dr., Avon, CT 06001
  • II. Adam Sassler, 41 Perry Ann, Latham, NY 12110
  • III. Dave Latoha, 1141 Columbus Ave., Lemoyne, PA 17043
  • IV. Cliff Telford, 7417 Arrowood Rd., Bethesda, MD 20817
  • V. Gail Jacobson, 2205 Brittley Terrace, College Park, GA 30349

SOARING

  • I. Fritz Glen, 41 Saw Mill Rd., Concord, MA 01742
  • II. Gordon Stratton, 255 Brevoort St., Kew Gardens, NY 11415
  • III. Gene Shelkey, 217 Euclid Ave., Scottdale, PA 15683
  • IV. Bob Champine, 205 Tipton Rd., Newport News, VA 23606
  • V. James Davis Jr., 1018 Macdallin Lane, Madison, MS 39110
  • FF. Jim Bennett, 324 Holfenstein Ave., St. Louis, MO 63119
  • VII. Contests except RC; entire District except Michigan: Greg Seydel, 3625 E. Ova Terrace, Cudahy, WI 53110
  • RC. Leon Cordy, N4503 Highway 55, Chilton, WI 53014
  • Michigan RC. Wayne Yeager, 38235 Castle, Romulus, MI 48174
  • CL & FF. Paul Smith, 11112 Dill Dr., Sterling Hgts., MI 48077

ADDITIONAL DISTRICTS

  • VIII. Randy Randolph, P.O. Box 271048, Dallas, TX 75227
  • IX. Bill Bieda, UNIVAC Bldg., 7100 W. Center Rd., #420, Omaha, NE

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