The premier event of the AMA Nats, FAST Combat was run very successfully by Chris Gay. This year we used F2D equipment with the time-honored AMA Fast Combat rules. The result was 11 advance entries with 8 actual flyers, a nice up tick from recent years. Furthermore, the reliability was exponentially better, resulting in almost all matches being won/lost in the air, not by equipment problems.
First - Don Cranfill 6-0
Second - Pete Plunkett 3-2
Third - Phil Cartier 2-2
Fourth - Don McKay 2-2
Fifth - Howard Williams 1-2
Sixth - Richard Stubblefield, Don Sopka, and Robert Smith 0-2
The contest ended in a sort of "king of the hill" operation in which Cranfill & his crew stayed in the circle for four consecutive matches and systematically eliminated all surviving competition,