Author Topic: Nats News (Read 5972 times)

Howard Rush · « **on:** July 11, 2010, 10:21:36 PM »

Entry seems to be up over last year, despite the absence of the F2B team and other name-brand guys. Tomorrow is appearance judging and flight draws, so I'll know then for sure. We get a printout of who flies when in qualifying rounds.

We have been forbidden to fly yesterday and today until RC Scale flying was done. Even the grass circles were off limits. It was pretty blustery this evening until 7 PM. It looked like Darrell Harvin crashed his electric this evening. Gene Martine came within about an inch of the ground on a horizontal eight. My first wingover pullout yesterday was frighteningly low. Air here is less dense than the 55-degree F, sea-level stuff at home and takes a while getting used to.

I looked at the weather prediction and found a quite pleasant forecast with highs in the 70s. Then I noticed that was for Bellevue, WA. Muncie weather for the week looks hot and stormy.

wwwarbird · « **Reply #1 on:** July 11, 2010, 11:24:16 PM »

Thanks for the update for those of us stuck at home Howard. Hopefully we'll see more updates and pics from yourself and others as things progress.

Derek Barry · « **Reply #2 on:** July 12, 2010, 05:27:11 AM »

Man, I hate to hear that about Darrell. I hope he has a back up.

Howard,

You and Gene try and keep them off the asphalt!!!!

Good luck!

Balsa Butcher · « **Reply #3 on:** July 12, 2010, 08:31:20 AM »

Thanks for the update Howard, always good to hear from the JCT.

TDM · « **Reply #4 on:** July 12, 2010, 08:59:20 AM »

Speaking of the crash I was thinking of it and it reinforced my theory of having planes with interchangeable parts. If he was flying my plane then al it needed was to say hey Traian/Dorin I need a new outboard wing or a new fuse or stab whatever and presto you are back in business minus the paint finish but you have your plane.

john e. holliday · « **Reply #5 on:** July 12, 2010, 09:31:58 AM »

So how did the control line scale guys get to fly? With all the old timers coming back into the fold, I can see the entries coming back up.

Howard, make sure you eat a Dairy Queen Special in honor of me.

Bob Reeves · « **Reply #6 on:** July 12, 2010, 11:56:28 AM »

Herd through the grapevine that Doug Moon also crashed on a low pull out. Sure hope it wasn't so or he has a backup.

Matt Colan · « **Reply #7 on:** July 12, 2010, 01:08:54 PM »

Quote from: Bob Reeves on July 12, 2010, 11:56:28 AM

Herd through the grapevine that Doug Moon also crashed on a low pull out. Sure hope it wasn't so or he has a backup.

Please tell us it wasn't so. If he brought Riff Raff, that would have been a gorgeous airplane gone.

Derek Barry · « **Reply #8 on:** July 12, 2010, 01:18:57 PM »

Doug lost Ol' Blue. They said that the wings folded while he was practicing. The new Riff Raff is on the way, his dad is driving it up from Dallas. He should be back in the air tomorrow.

Zuriel Armstrong · « **Reply #9 on:** July 12, 2010, 02:49:21 PM »

Ole Blue was so cool to watch flying slowly accross the sky. Good Luck with Riff Raff.

Mike Palko · « **Reply #10 on:** July 12, 2010, 03:51:50 PM »

A lot of drama for being only Monday! It makes for great stories, I just hope it all ends well for everyone. Looking forward to seeing more pictures.

Thanks for the updates.

Mike

Tom Niebuhr · « **Reply #11 on:** July 12, 2010, 05:51:42 PM »

I hope that Doug has enough time to get the new airplane working well.

Clancy Arnold · « **Reply #12 on:** July 12, 2010, 07:10:51 PM »

Doc
As I posted in the Scale section, the wind all day Saturday and Sunday morning was not stunt weather it was better. A stunt flier would have complained about hitting his own wake turbulence. Sunday afternoon it got a little brisk but no one had problems.
Clancy

Howard Rush · « **Reply #13 on:** July 12, 2010, 09:02:10 PM »

Darrell is here to judge and was just flying for the heck of it. He said that the airplane wasn't too important, but it looked nice to me.

rustler · « **Reply #14 on:** July 13, 2010, 02:01:07 PM »

Don't forget to keep us informed of the progress (or otherwise) of the Brit contingent, Paul Winter and his sidekick John Benzing. John might be hard to spot, but just listen and you'll soon find Paul.

peabody · « **Reply #15 on:** July 13, 2010, 03:08:53 PM »

there aren't a whole lot of seven footers wandering around the Memorial Drive site.....

Will Hinton · « **Reply #16 on:** July 13, 2010, 04:03:53 PM »

Referring to Doc Holiday's question as to how we flew scale if the grass circles were off-limits, that's an excellent question!! That was stupid. Here we were on the scale circles due north of the r/c scale, the grass circles are west of us and well outside of the markers setting in the access road but were still deemed off-limits while we weren't.
Someone at AMA is missing a few brain cells in the common sense area.
Will

Mike Greb · « **Reply #17 on:** July 14, 2010, 06:54:34 AM »

Open and advanced qualifying has started. Almost no wind, bright sunshine and it is getting hot already
.

RC Storick · « **Reply #18 on:** July 14, 2010, 08:16:20 AM »

Sure miss being there! But hard times have made it impossible for me to do much..

Derek Barry · « **Reply #19 on:** July 14, 2010, 08:49:00 AM »

Quote from: Robert Storick on July 14, 2010, 08:16:20 AM

Sure miss being there! But hard times have made it impossible for me to do much..

I hate to hear that Bob. Maybe things will improve before next year. I am at work watching from the side lines. I would love to be there too but taking 3 weeks off work was out of the question.

Mike Palko · « **Reply #20 on:** July 15, 2010, 02:23:02 PM »

There was no PA coverage in today's Nat's News???

Anyone at the Nat's have time to report on the top 20?

Thanks!

Mike

Crist Rigotti · « **Reply #21 on:** July 15, 2010, 02:48:24 PM »

Both Advanced and Open.

Matt Colan · « **Reply #22 on:** July 15, 2010, 03:27:08 PM »

So who made top 20 in advanced and open?

Derek Barry · « **Reply #23 on:** July 16, 2010, 04:58:46 AM »

Advanced finalists are:
Mike Schmitt
Enrique Diez
Steve Fitton
William DeMauro
Mike Greb
Adrian Dominguez
David Heinzman
Scott Reynolds
John Paris
Eric Taylor
Roger Wildman
Jason Greer
Paul Winter
Robert Harness
James Borrelli
Greg Voumard
Don Ogren
Scott Condon
Eric Viglione
Dennis Vander Kuur

Open finalists are:
Richard Oliver
Frank Williams
Doug Moon
Windy Urtnowski
Mike Scott
Josias Delgado
Joe Gilbert
Kenny Stevens
Frank McMillan
Matt Neumann
Bill Werwage
Bud Wieder
Bob McDonald
Allen Goff
Gene Martine
Kent Tysor
Dan Banjock
Randy Smith
Jose Modesto
Howard Rush

I took this from SSW. Thanks Howard

frank carlisle · « **Reply #24 on:** July 16, 2010, 06:23:13 AM »

It was so hot in Muncie that a sign was tacked to the scoreboard----picture attached.

Derek Barry · « **Reply #25 on:** July 16, 2010, 07:22:27 AM »

Quote from: frank carlisle on July 16, 2010, 06:23:13 AM

It was so hot in Muncie that a sign was tacked to the scoreboard----picture attached.

They should have it in Georgia!