FF Outdoor Glider Larry Kruse SPREAD OUT over week Glider events appeared have chance enjoying least decent day flying Except best day Wednesday fate random scheduling would have no Glider events scheduled Beset rain shifting winds Tuesday A-i flown intermittently between showers morning chaser finding himself need shelter midway through re trieve technique seemed to watch far upwind possible order pick what looked pocket rising air coming down wind fast get plane up quickly pop off line very little opportunity kit ing ships lift circle towing A-i Towline bit like Hand-Launch Glider Pick air get up before gets away Due existing conditions no maxed out However good conditions accepted contest emerged Open less 45 seconds sep arating top four places Bill Schlarb posted 403 seconds barely nosing out Jorge Triana Jorge put up total 399 excellentlycrafted ship Nebraskan Hank Sperzel seemed over field flying everything once third 369 Very close busy Sperzel 362 nicest men youll ever meet AMAs own flying priest Father Dignan took home fourth-place Nats trophy A-i efforts Only Junior Rod loerger Senior David Brown entered A-i Thats real shame As entry-level event FM competition A-i good place young person start planes easy inexpensive build no en gine cost relatively easy get fly well good steppingstone other Glider Power events other low cost seemingly simple event Hand-Launch Glider some best actual participation outdoor FF event simply because much less risk southern zephyrs Junior-age flier James Buxton made HLG efforts double winning Outdoor HLG easily Indoor Young Don DeLoachs HLG suffered uncharacteristic transition prob lems too ended up repeating door effortsonly second place Troy Chamberlain distant third Senior HLG two familiar names top heap Jan Langelius bested Dave Brown five full seconds win top honors Brian Spiller like Chamberlain Junior quite some distance back third Charles Gagliano won Indoor HLG fine fashion simply could find way solve problems presented wind never threat ever-strengthening winds reduced lot top Open HLG fliers status participants flew early day seemed have some advantage although events eventual winner former National Record holder Bobby Hanford chucked large Full Grunt ship later day managed snag little lift Terry Rimert guru Unofficial Events flew early surprised himself ending up second Kevin Anderson led off early max trouble duplicating ended up third frustrations flying HLG il lustrated Bobby Dunhams experience pick good air difficult task best center HLG watch blow Out Continued page 176 November 1987 69 AMA NATS 0 *1987 oln Nebraska Paul Crowley former Nats winner de signer Happy Hooker A-2 model launches Chuck Markos Paul War ren Mi ended up sixth overall Open HIG Father Dignan Hettinger ND brought along older HLG design generous V-dihedral large stab should have made easy transition launch glide Vic Nipert Lake Katrine NY good hu mordly puts A-i Tadpole model back gether after spun hard still attached towline plane suffered no damage took Vic 5th place Open decided trend larger HLG designs botn Outdoor Indoor could noted Kevin Anderson Stratford MO third Open HLG flying Thermal Tick Kevins glider weighed 42gm pop-up DT System Bruce Kimballs 1987 NFFS Model Year Climb Max employs built-up tissue covered wing structure An unusual feature pop-up wing hinged plywood aft trailing edge model weighs nominal 35gm has generous tip dihedral smooth roll-out glide pattern Fred Biom Timonium MD makes retrieve A-i model between showers Note other participants spectators have decided take shelter soggy skies cars lining launch area BYRON . 5445 IflS New Aviation EXPO 87 Approximately 30 minutes featuring Complete Greatly Expanded Set Aircraft Carriers PT Boats eThe Worlds Largest Gathering R/C Models Featuring Both Ducted Fan Jets Giant Scale Models Points North American Continent Just $3000 includes shipping Specify VHS Beta Byron Originals IncBox 279Ida Grove IA 51445 Ph 712-364-3165 normally goes right down wire model ers frantically putting up flights beat four oclock time line course no oppor tunity such dramatic end paraphrase TS Eliot Outdoor Rubber ended bang whimper Nats FF Out GIider/Kruse Continued page 69 timers sight 89 seconds still going up dis appeared view downwind A-2 flown Friday continuation circumstances experienced smaller Glider classes Bruce Kimball summed up best observed things missed see ing five six planes same thermal getting smaller turn wind truth thermal could have held A-2s flew could have persuaded hold still long enough Only five fliers risked ships wind however credit certainly must given doing what come Again A-i no maxcd out However Andy Barron put up excellent 792 displaying uncanny ability sort out good air bad blew briskly him no opportun ity circle towing although Chuck Markos could seen giving go early Tuesday tried get some practice dealing gusty conditions practice paid off some modicum success finished third Sandwiched between Markos Barron relative newcomer Richard Haas appeared flying Ultimate Dragmaster USFFC winner Mike Fantham put up flight before bowing better judgment retiring sidelines truly unfortunate conditions did permit fuller contest develop potential great event couched names Crow ley Shailor Nippert Murphy well fliers mentioned previously truly gone wind flies what has come standard class Lacey Lance does very well time hes Senior age flier hell wily veter sport very hard beat Jim Miller another flier efforts re ceive applause Jim too flew canard Don Srull-designed Voisin biplane floats other Model Aviation full-size plan offering last year long fuselage stable char acteristics plane provided near-max flights Jim allowing him place second Peanut third Rubber Scale unofficial Bostonian event sponsored Nebraska FF contingent proved popular contestants spectators alike purists bemoaned 14-gram minimum weight require ment flying indoors variety ships showed up ranged T-taii low-wingers lovely semiscale biplanes multi-engined asymmetrical time-warp machines short really fun way get Free Flight As brief editorial note Bostonian has around about 10 years think its about time rules codified event made offi cial part s offerings After Peanut P 30 have certainly shown way wouldnt too difficult Bostonian follow certainly has history success As good competition was missing element drama competitive pres sure None fliers knew relation others no posting static scores flight scores flown would certainly suggest tote board standard item contest particularly Nats Knowing whos pushing needs some gentle nudging important psychologi cal component competition spurring contestants greater effort concluding report wish thank Scale judges Ron Sears Cliff Tacie Jeff Perez Category Director Bert Dugan Coming Control Line circle Radio Control Scale flight line respectively Im sure judges Ron Jeff Cliff got whole new insight perspective world Indoor flight ______________________ Nats Indoor/Kruse Nats Indoor Scale/Kruse Continued page 73 Continued page 71 struction time add necessary scale details later single unofficial flight little ca nard pusher 201 no small feat Peanut Scale model let alone fairly unorthodox subject Also worthy mention Lance Fergusons repeat win Junior Peanut Scale Although tering Senior ROG Cabin record over 10 minutes may have surprised him Dons 1737 compared previous record 710 another mark should remain intact immediate future Continuing saga Slusarczyk Don next methodically broke Senior Intermediate Stick record 1437 flight 1849 2104 Thats again phenomenal seven minutes over previous best Senior Dons planes horses Im sure would have tested introduction illegal substances juncture outdone young whippersnapper Jim Grant broke Open Intermediate Stick record 1620 1731 able revel accomplishment less two hours time Stan Chilton put up definitive 2128 cop US National Record taken Jack McGillivray beat Chilton four full seconds What became increasingly evi dent Pershing Auditorium flier could set new National Record given event still assured first place fat lady sang Easy B misnomer ever Don Slusarczyk picked up final Continued page 178 176 Model Aviation S 5 Eagles Acrobatic Flight Team Coors Light Silver Bullet New Striking Back Show
