Please see the listing in the EVENTS section. We will be having a raffle, too. You could win a radio, engine, kit or other valuable prizes!

CARRIER CONTEST REPORT OCTOBER 14 DALLAS TX                                         Bill Bischoff

Six contestants, including first-timer Steve Moon, enjoyed a breezy but otherwise nice day, and made a total of 26 flights. Since every official flight earned a raffle ticket, most contestants took all their flights, and Class I became the "earn more tickets" class. David Russum also flew in Nostalgia Profile for more raffle tickets, a strategy that seems to have paid off. I flew JP Hanway's beautiful Sterling Guardian in Nostalgia Class II,  giving JP the chance to see his creation in action, and allowing me to submit a score to the NCS top 20. (Ok, it got me another raffle ticket, too.)

We modified the rules a bit, allowing multiple contestants to fly the same airplane. My carrier trainer Hellcat, dubbed "the mule", made a total of 12 flights without so much as a broken prop, needle valve adjustment, or glitch of any kind.

Steve Moon did great in his first carrier contest, even if he did violate the spirit of the event by coming out to practice the weekend before the contest! Steve and David Russum duked it out in Sportsman Profile and Class I, with David besting Steve by about 4 points in both classes. Look closely at the scores, and notice that Steve had 95 point landings to David's 100 pointers. Now that's close! Both of them handled the wind well, and I suspect that they'll be hanging the slider equipped Hellcat in the near future.

David Russum was also the big winner in the raffle. He won the Spektrum radio, the Thunder Tiger 36 engine, a set of foam wing cores and Hellcat plans, and CA glue!

In the thank you department, I'd like to thank all the contestants for participating and helping with setup, tear down, and timing. Thanks to CD Patrick Hempel, and center judge Phil Dunlap. Also thanks to Michael and Curtis Pugh, Tom Hamblet, JP Hanway, and Wayne Cox for timing. And of course thanks to our raffle sponsors Bob Smith Industries, the CoreHouse, Great Planes Hobby Distributors, Horizon Hobby Distributors, MBS Model Supply, Mike's Hobby Shop, and VP-Powermaster Fuel.  

Sportsman Profile
1)David Russum       22.60   1:02.8    100  10    217.4       Hellcat/ OS 32F
2)Steve Moon         22.79   1:05.6     95   10   212.7        Hellcat/ OS 32F
3)Dave Ek              33.39     52.5       0    30    99.6        Tigercat/ Magnum 15 (2)

Expert Profile
1)Bill Bischoff          18.73   3:53.9   100   10   330.9        Zero/ Wiley 36
2)Mike Greb            20.93   2:15.4   100   10   260.7        MO-1/ Nelson 36
3)Dale Gleason      attempt                                           MO-1/ Wiley 36

Class I
1)Mike Greb          20.28    2:21.7    100     0   258.6       MO-1/ Nelson 36
2)Bill Bischoff        22.33    1:37.1     95      0   219.1       Hellcat/ OS 32F
3)David Russum     22.97      59.2     100     0   204.1       Hellcat/ OS 32F
4)Steve Moon       23.00    1:03.3      95     0   200.7       Hellcat/ OS 32F

Class II
1)Dale Gleason      18.15    3:02.3    100   100  399.6      MO-1/ OS 65 VRDF

15 Profile
1) Bill Bischoff      70+      3:07.4     100      0    242.9    Sniper/ Conquest 15
2)Dale Gleason    25.90     1:14.9       0       0     98.4     Sniper/ Conquest 15

Nostalgia Profile
1)David Russum   22.42    1:11.1       0       0     244      Hellcat/ OS 32F

Nostalgia Class II
1)Bill Bischoff      16.77     1:06.0      0      200   546    Guardian/ OS 65RSR

Dale Gleason's MO-1

Mike Greb and center judge Phil Dunlap

Mike Greb's Class I MO-1

Bill Bischoff's .15 MO-1

Dave Ek's Grumman Tigercat

Dale Gleason's .15 MO-1

The contest was a blast. Thaks to Billy Biscuit for all the effort in putting it
together and collecting all the great raffle prizes. Flying the carrier planes is a lot of
fun and the slow flight protion can be a real challenge. I was certainly happy with my
95, 85, 95 and 95 point landings for my four official flights. Next time I just gotta
remember that Carrier contests don't get rolling quite as early as the stunt
shows. I was there at 8:00 AM and the only two guys at the field were Mike
Scott and Joe Hildreth putting in some flights with their brand new RO Jett 76s.

Steve

Sorry, no progress on the Zero plans yet. In fact, the person who did the CAD work on the wing lost a lot of files in a computer crash, so we may have gone backwards. It is still on the to-do list, though. As I said before, if you're in a position to want to start building, I can give you enough info to get you going.