FF Outdoor Scale larry Kruse MIRACULOUSLY almost Outdoor Scale slipped between two weather fronts dominated FF during Nats week landed smack-dab perfect day flying As werent enough good fortune Scale Category Manager John Guenther made arrangements previous day shift Outdoor Scale site Denton same sod farm occupied RC Soaring events order provide appropriate setting ROG launches retrieval sometimes-delicate Scale birds Through good efforts CD Mike Gretz willing workers material suitable ROG surface appeared overnight southern edge broad expanse sod regrowth quickly assembled takeoff surface Wed nesday morning Light early morning breezes predominantly south modu lated trees bordering field trees provided windbreak picturesque setting models circled smoothly up over tree line bright blue sky Beautiful aircraft abundance categories several contestants choosing bring outdoors ships previously flown indoors Pershing Auditorium Ken Groves well-detailed Fike Dream won Indoor Peanut took almost stained-glass appearance outdoors sunlight lit up tissue Ed DeLoach particularly nice red Rearwin Speedster 6000 process trimming AMA Rubber Scale Dave Platt entered characteristically large well-done Brewster SB2A same event Probably visually impressive entry Outdoor Scale 54-in-span Gas Scale maroon-and-silver Taylorcraft built Eric Ditt man plane began Comet kit picked up fully detailed interior padded seats full instrument panel control system scale shock-absorbing landing gear shrunken copy Flying magazine dash Powered dieselized Cox 049 plane weighed little over 13 oz Another noteworthy craft Jack McGilli vrays large SE-S actually designed Flying Aces Club FAC Scale truly knockdown model four separate wing panels interplane struts cleverly hung gether wings brace wires also em ployed dethermalizer DT timer unusual single-spar ribless stabilizer piv oted its spar dethermalizing purposes Competition event keen Open Peanut Scale led Canadian duo Ken Groves Jack McGillivray Indoor really makes little differ ence whether like Fikes suffice say Ken Groves has developed best best winning Outdoor Peanut excep tional model Jack McGillivray too flew same vener able SE-S outdoors used indoors eight grams perfect prevailing con ditions Lincolnite Bob Willey preserved honor city flying Fike third place think scoring wasnt close Willey amassed point total 14869 third William Rogers flew Tailwind 14850 fourth Junior Senior Peanut bevy Laceys Continued page 176 70 Model Aviation AMA NATS Lincoln Nebraska Bob Schneider Houston TX launches Cox 020-powered Inland Sport AMA Gas Scale entry built Flyline Models kit C02-powered Baby Ace Peck-Poly mers kit 1 1-year-old Summer Ferguson Dallas TX won second place Junior AMA Gas Scale Brother Lance first P-47 Thunderbolt entered Junior Reporter Larry Kruse Liberal KS won Open AMA Rubber Scale 13-year-old Chuck AMA Gas Scale thIs 1917 Cessna Comet Rummery Muscatine IA Model appears powered Telco Turbo CO2 motor Craft built Golden Age kit weighed 59 grams flew very realistically Gorgeous Taylorcraft Eric Dittman Ed monds WA took second Open AMA Gas Scale Complete cockpit InterIor included padded vinyl seats scale copy Flying magazine dash Based Comet kit Ken Groves amazing Fike Dream E won Big beautiful Brewster 2B2A entered both Indoor Outdoor Peanut Scale AMA Rubber Scale well-known RC Scale AMA Scale Nats model has un- builder Dave Platt Plantation FL Prop beatable combination maximum flight per- blades carved balsa plug hub formance extremely high static scores Landing gear removable FAC meets Static judging can give over half points FF Scale competition Longtime Scale judge Bill Pepin R confers Stan Alex ander about Jack McGillivrays SE-S RETAIL APPROX PART NO SIZEPRICE WT $1295 Z 1395 IOOOZ 1495 1550Z 1695 OZ 1695 188 OZ 1895 1660Z 1995 2150Z 2195 OZ 2395 . 258 OZ 2595 OZ U-i 75-B1-3/4 U-200-B2 TT-225-B2-1/4 1r-226-82-1/4 FAI TT-250-B2-1/2 rr-251-B2-1/2FAI . 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