Sacramento,  California.  Dates unknown.   Likely around Labor Day.  This came out of a meeting of those concerned during the Nats.  Bob Hunt is acting as co-ordinator.   

Dave

Any more news on  when and where this will happen?

I'd like to see the 4 category system come back.   If some think the 40 points is too much -which might have been the reason it was shelved in the first place- then reduce the four categories mentioned to just 5 points each.  It would carry the same weight it does now but become a little more than just a finishing contest.   When the rule was changed back when it took away much of the incentive to design new airplanes and largely killed semi-scale in favor of more cookie cutter types.  Someone would need to write up a rules proposal and submit it to see what happens......

Dave

Bring back the 40-point rule, and all is moot. Building a plane for most takes a year, so why would it not be worth the same range of scoring for one maneuver?

Orinanility -10
Realizem -10
Craftsmanship -10
Finish -10

    And maybe throw in some bonus points for spelling and grammar!!!

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   Dan McEntee

  Yeah, it's a Bub!!  I watched it again fairly recently and it's from early on in the series. Both Bub and Uncle Charlie were played by great character actors of the time. The Dad, Steve Douglas, was supposed to be an aeronautical engineer, and that was at least one other episode that I remember that was aviation related. I think it was the oldest son, Mike, wanted to learn how to fly so he could fly a Nieuport 28 that belonged to a visiting older man that was a WW-I pilot or something like that, and the Dad knew the difficulties of flying the old biplanes powered by a rotary engine and that set the scene for the scene for the episode. I probably haven't seen that one since I was a kid so I'm not real sure of the synopsis. I'll have to see if that can be dug up on YouTube. Another one I would like to revisit is the episode of Hazel, starring Shirley Booth, and the son in that series was involved in a C/L contest similar to the My Three Sons episode. Been a long time since I saw that also. I think there were at least two episodes of Lassie that had plastic RTF models in them?

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  Dan McEntee