Nats history

[dale gleason]

Is there anyone who can help me locate the placings in Control line aerobatics at the Nationals in the year 2003?
Some kind of AMA archive? I'm stymied in my search...
Thanks ,
dale gleason

[dale gleason]

That got it just right, Ty. 2003 was the "windy" Nats and I was trying to recall the flyers who handled the wind so well.
Thanks,
dale g

[Brett Buck]

Is there anyone who can help me locate the placings in Control line aerobatics at the Nationals in the year 2003?
Some kind of AMA archive? I'm stymied in my search...
Thanks ,
dale gleason

  i would help you, but I have wiped the 2003 NATs from my memory - even though I managed to CRASH on Top 20 day and still finish 10th.

   Brett

[dale gleason]

It was a pretty interesting Nats re the wind.....Carrier had only one successful landing, as I recall. I remember Bob G's heroics, but he said he was mainly embarrassed, crawling around while his airplane menaced judges and soybeans. Allen Goff lost his brand new plane, apparently he still got fourth in Advanced, with his backup plane. I think I placed 7th that year in Advanced...hoping for Pattern Points to help my score, but my ST60/SV11 flamed out on the first loop of the clover both official flights, even though I had muffler pressure....

I don't have ready access to my past issues of SN, and the PAMPA website doesn't have anything for download for 2003 other than March/April.

I guess Ty had the issue in hand?

Thanks, dg

[Crist Rigotti]

Here is a link to the NATS Scores for 2003.


http://www.modelaircraft.org/events/nats/scores.aspx?yr=2003

[dale gleason]

Thank you, Crist. I've got it book marked now.
dg

[Doug Moon]

Thanks for the link.  I have bookmarked as well.

I remember calling Mike Scott for updates on Friday morning during our early trip home.  The words Mayhem and Carnage were used many times during those conversations.  Sounded like a real mess.

[Will Hinton]

Those were some mean memories.  We had four or five guys placed around circle one to grab the planes as soon as they stopped rolling in order to keep the carnage to a minimum!  I forget who had the nasty crash that destroyed an engine, but that was the first time I ever saw a piston and rod laying several feet from the rest of the sadly broken parts!

[Howard Rush]

Dan Banjock enjoyed it, of course.  He laughed hysterically through both patterns, which he finished nicely.  I wish I'd tried harder to fly accurately.  The mighty OS .40VF was up to it. 

[andrew stokey]

Didn't Steve Millet get "rookie" of the year at that Nats.  I believe he got a 489 in that wind.  Todd Lee lost a nice P51 right in front of me.  The wind blew the pieces several feet across the circle.

[Dennis Moritz]

Yep. Dan was smiling during his flights. Guess he thought the wind was in the style of Neshaminy Park. Our home field ringed by trees. Subject to prevailing winds flowing off the Delaware. Not uncommon to feel the breeze in your face, while the plane pulls as tho the wind is at your back. And usually, one set of conditions up to 45 degrees, another above. I thought Mike Palko debuted the electric Silencer in the wind during this NATS. But I didn't see his name listed for this year. He would have flown in Advanced.