Here are the times for the Florida Contest.
21 Sport Speed
1st A. CABALLERO 144.29
2nd Team Marvin-Albritton 133.08
D Speed
1st Butch Andrews 175.03
2nd Gordon Kent 151.97
Jet Speed
1st Jet Bill 196.86
2nd Brent Murgatroyd 194.94
3rd Chris Montagino 192.85
Sport Jet
1st Team Mark-Montagino 149.82 Regional Record
2nd Butch Andrews 148.46 Regional Record
3rd Dave Cotton 141.79
Formula 40
1st Team Mark-Montagino 164.09 National Record
2nd Al CABALLERO 149.63
Flight Times for Formula 40 Record
T1 T2 T3 Avg Speed
1st Flight
22.17 22.17 22.10 22.15 162.46
2nd Flight
21.89 21.99 21.90 21.93 164.09
3rd Flight
21.99 22.04 22.07 22.03 163.35
There were many unsuccessful attempts as people worked out equipment problems after a long winter. Jet had 7 flyers with new flyer Brent Murgatroyd posting a 196 plus test flight on his new “Jet Bill” engine and model built from Bills kit.
The team of Marvin-Albritton flew a new 21 model powered with a $99 car engine. They worked all weekend on fixing problems in this their first speed model. They did post a practice flight of 151 with the car engine