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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: David Russum on August 31, 2014, 10:05:47 PM
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Great contest, great people, great weather! The first day was Old Time, Classic and Profile - 15 flyers, many flying all 3 events, we weren't done until 6 in the evening. We welcomed new member Crist Rigotti - he flew all electric, a Jamison Special in Old Time, and his own design in profile and Expert (actually a backup plane, pressed into service after losing his main airplane in a crash last month). Sunday was great, as well, a little hotter but still better than usual (it has been a mild summer so far) and the forecasted winds held off until flying was finished about 1pm.
Congratulations to Rich Oliver - he had an amazing second flight today to win this contest and also give him enough points to win the 2014 District VIII trophy, awarded to the highest placing Intermediate, Advanced, or Expert flier of the past year.
Pictures - Saturday
Don Cranfill's Foxberg Racer
Stephen Jeansonne and Ray Blanchard race Foxberg
Judges Rich Oliver and Jim Thomerson
Crist Rigotti's electric profile
Crist Rigotti's Jamison Special
Don Cranfill
Don's Old Time Stinger
Frank McMillan's Big Job
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More Saturday Pictures
Gaylord Elling
Gaylord's Old Time Wildman
Gaylord's Shark 35
Sean McEntee
Sean's Frisky Pete
Judges Don Hutchinson and Jim Thomerson
Large Madman flown by...someone (I think Gregg Elling - someone correct me if I'm wrong)
Joe Bowman's Shark 45
Jim Svitko's Oriental
Dave Ek's T-34 (this is one of Don Hutchinson's latest profile warbird designs)
Saturday Scores
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Sunday Pictures
Doug Moon's new Riff Raff
Gaylord Elling's Caudron
Rich Oliver's Maverick
Joe Gilbert's T-Rex (note vortex generators)
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Thanks Dave for the pics! It was a great contest!
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More Sunday Pics
Frank McMillan launches for John Hill
John Hill's new stunter
Frank McMillan's new 'lectric Caudron
Sunday Scores
Last year's District VIII champ Dale Gleason awards the trophy to Rich Oliver
Rich Oliver, 2014 District VIII Champion
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I'm surprised that Joe didn't place any higher, having all those VGs.
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:) it was a great time, Howard. Still learning about those VGs!
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I regret that I missed this contest. Looks like a great turnout. Crist, I hope our paths cross soon! Glad to see that you've gotten settled in. That's a great group to hang out with!
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Thanks for the info and the great pics. y1
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I regret that I missed this contest. Looks like a great turnout. Crist, I hope our paths cross soon! Glad to see that you've gotten settled in. That's a great group to hang out with!
Jason,
I was looking for ya! Might be seeing you in November? Yup, a great group of guys.
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Yes sir, we'd love to see you in November!
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Here's a few from Saturday's racing events.
Mike Greb and Ray Blanchard prep their sport Goodyears.
Dave Ek warns up his Fox powered Buster.
Patrick Hempel, Don Cranfill, and Mike Greb fly mouse.
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Dave Ek pits Stephen Jeansonne's Cosmic Wind. He must have hit it too hard, as the crank sheared during the race.
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Dave Ek pits Stephen Jeansonne's Cosmic Wind. He must have hit it too hard, as the crank sheared during the race.
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That's my pal Dave Ek! We flew together back in 1962 when he was a football lineman at an area (No. Ill.) high school. Guaranteed: if Dave hit anything, it was going to break. LL~
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It was an honor to have judged Expert. With an abundance of top 5 and top 20 pilots, it was the best flying that I have seen in one place in years.
Past Nats Champ Doug Moon's first flight was one to remember. The second round came and the war was on. Richard Oliver found a slight opening in the door and took it to first place. Steve Moon, John Hill, and Joe Gilbert also put on an exhibition on how the pattern should be flown.
The quality of the airplanes just gets better and better, and yes, we still believe in appearance points.
The number of entries for the contest was unbelievable. When the sun came out about 1:00PM the temperature went up and some passed on the second flights to avoid the heat yet the flying still went past 6:00 PM.
It is a shame that AMA no longer knows what real competition and even better friendships are!
I will have more pictures tomorrow.
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Sorry Dave, John Hill does not fly lectric. That is his new lawn dart. Won pilots choice
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Yeah, the Ni-starter in the picture is kind of a give away!
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Fun contest with a great turnout. And, of course plenty of good food.
Steve
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Yeah, the Ni-starter in the picture is kind of a give away!
...as is the smoke trail, durrrrrrr.
It's fixed now.
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There's a correction in Doug Moon's scores in Expert on Sunday. His Appearance Points were inadvertently omitted so his scores are eighteen points more than those shown on the scoreboard photo. His high of 609 moves him ahead of Richard Oliver's high of 606, therefore Dougie is 1st and RO is 2nd.
Also, this changes the point totals for the District VIII Perpetual Trophy to a tie between RO and Andy Stokey. Rather than splitting the coveted eagle down the middle, as some have suggested, or "thumb wrestling", or even tossing objects into trash cans at farther and farther distances as is the practice at the Ringmaster Roundup, each flyer will have custody of the trophy for half a year, to admire, dust, and cherish in his own home. Congratulations Richard and Andy!
The Dallas Model Aircraft Association has kept this contest going for at least twenty years that I've been a member, and we have trophies dating back to 1953, we have no difficulty meeting the AMA "Traditional" definition for a contest. Our contestants and visitors work alongside us as hard as we do, setting up canopies, banners, providing food, judging, tabulating, running scores, counting laps, timing and scoring racing, and then, when it is over, they help tear it all down and store it for next time. Come to think of it, darn near all our visitors are DMAA members, the sun rarely sets over the DMAA organization, to paraphrase a phrase...
Heartfelt, huge, "Thank youse" to all,
dale g
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Here are some of the pictures that I took. As said before participation was way up.
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more
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and more
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again
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and again!
The last picture is of me with my Doctor's son Nanan. I built the Guillows III trainer for the Dr. and Nanan.
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I like the Texan.
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John Hill's or Joe Gilbert's?
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I like the Texan.
Took the words right out of my mouth, that Texan is a great looking airplane. I really like the Shark done in the Navy scheme too, very nicely done. y1