Concours Winners, is there a list?

[RandySmith]

The colors were definitely AeroGloss. I'm pretty sure the clear was AeroGloss, too. My dad's plane was painted with Jimmy at the same time and used the same colors. And the clear on that plane turned the foam-sheeted flaps into pretzels after a while.

Aero Gloss  does that  Jimmy told me he started  using  Sig lite coat  clear, also buffs  well

Randy

[Mike Ferguson]

Aero Gloss  does that  Jimmy told me he started  using  Sig lite coat  clear, also buffs  well

Randy

Yep. I know he switched to AeroGloss colors under Sig Clear, I just couldn't remember exactly when. Probably after that.

[Doug Moon]

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Our District VIII V.P. was invited to a Dallas contest last year and had no idea that he was meeting top five and Nats winners.. He never heard of them!

I met him, very nice guy.  He took a bunch of pics and put them in his column. 

[Shorts,David]

I know Chris Cox won Concours in 2018 with his Hellcat.  Who won in 2017?

[Dave_Trible]

I could be wrong but I think it was Kaz Minato with his Hellcat.  It may have won twice?

Dave

[Paul Walker]

I know Chris Cox won Concours in 2018 with his Hellcat.  Who won in 2017?

Some southerner who had a clear canopy!!!!

Ugh....


Why do I know?

[Howard Rush]

Some southerner who had a clear canopy!!!!

And insufficient vortex generators.

[Derek Barry]

And insufficient vortex generators.

I'm not sure they would have helped that particular airplane.

[Derek Barry]

Some southerner who had a clear canopy!!!!

Ugh....


Why do I know?

😎

[Ted Fancher]

This is what I have found so far, the first year for the award was in 1977.

1977   Ted Fancher   Citation
1978   Ron Harding   P-40
1979   Les McDonald   Stiletto 660
1980   Gene Martine   Mariner
1981   Ted Fancher   Intimidation
1982   Stan Powell   Dove
1983   Joe Reinhard   Cycle II
1984   Jim Armor                Epic
1985   Windy Urtnowski   Killer Bee
1986   Ski Dombrowski   Lacemaker
1987   Windy Urtnowski   Tradition
1988   Jim Casale   Columbia
1989   Bob Whitely   "Showtime" Laser
1990      
1991   Steve Buso   Zap Machine
1992   Windy Urtnowski   
1993   Bob Lampione   United III
1994   Bill Werwage   Junar
1995   Bill Werwage   P47-N
1996   Windy Urtnowski   Spitfire
1997   Windy Urtnowski   Seafire
1998   Windy Urtnowski   Seafire
1999   Windy Urtnowski   Seafire
2000   Curt Contrata   Tempest II
2001   Bill Werwage   P-47
2002   Paul Walker   P-51 Miss America
2003   Windy Urtnowski   B-25 Mitchell
2004   Windy Urtnowski   A-26
2005   Windy Urtnowski   
2007   Windy Urtnowski   
2008   Phil Granderson   Zealot

If people can fill in the blanks and/or correct mistakes, it would be great.

Curt

Looks like Windy U. won enough props to drive a fleet of giant drones...and maybe get coverage in "Toy Aviat...."  oops, "Model" Aviation Magazine!

The last comment was a bit of a tease to my good friend Eric who sort of dissed the use of appearance points counting in the bottom line competition tally.  (Quote: Who knows, maybe the individual appearance point scores of every entrant might be intentionally with held from publication, otherwise people might start adding stuff up to see who won on the merits of flight score only...  )

I combined those two comments and came up with the following summation of their gist: United States "stunt" has always included appearance points in its decision making.  The underlying reason is that US stunt is a "modeling" event, not a toy plane fly-in as is so much of the "Model Aviation" coverage of store bought toy airplanes steered by their buyers.  Inasmuch as it is a "modeling" event some modest percentage of the competitions for such aircraft quite properly include recognition toward the final outcome based on the "modeling" of the airplane by the contestant.

No desire to start yet another 'Yeah, But..." thread herein.  Only felt the need to juxtapose the difference between "modeling" versus "buying" the tools of the small airplane competitions of different eras...and values.

Ted