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<\/a>Ted Allebone testing a new Phantom from EasyBuilt<\/p><\/div>\n
Friday proved to be equally perfect.\u00a0 We set up at the south end of the site and we didn’t have to move all weekend.\u00a0 I got out most of my new planes and we casually tested all day.\u00a0 I had some great flights but I also found out how poorly prepared I was – virtually all of my planes needed new motors – and I brought enough to register for 21 events!<\/p>\n
<\/a>my Jumbo Stallion in flight<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>my Yankee IV 1\/2 Wake showing its potential<\/p><\/div>\n
It turned out that event count was a little ambitious on my part – I just couldn’t get every event flown.\u00a0 I got my Jumbo Stallion up in the air on Friday; it flies low and slow, just like my original, but I think my blade area is too small – I will have to think about making a new prop.\u00a0 My brand-new-not-completely-finished Jimmie Allen Special went on a 5 minute flight – the fuse burnt down, but didn’t burn the rubber band (I got that fixed)!\u00a0 And I got some nice test flights on my new Yankee IV 1\/2 Wakefield.<\/p>\n
<\/a>the un-burnt DT band on my Jimmie Allen Special!\u00a0 I’m very lucky it came down!<\/p><\/div>\n
We just had a nice relaxed day of flying and camaraderie.\u00a0 Winn Moore arrived in the late afternoon, and he, Pat and I enjoyed some T-bone steaks grilled right on the flying field.\u00a0 We chatted into the night and I still didn’t make any new motors.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Sunset from the south end of the AMA Flying Site (site 4)<\/p><\/div>\n
Saturday morning started out as a beautiful day, with no hint that it would become super-hot – we hit about 95 degrees with high humidity on Saturday and I went through over a dozen bottles of water and gatorade.\u00a0 Still, the wind was nearly nothing and we had some great flying.\u00a0 I had a very promising flight on my B-52 after adding a loop of\u00a0 1\/16″ rubber to the existing motor – it climbed out well on the first flight and circled to the left.\u00a0 I should have paid more attention – I knew that it circled to the right last year, but it was flying so nicely, I just went back and put in a couple hundred more turns – nothing too much.\u00a0 Or so I thought – the extra torque rolled it to the left on launch and broke the prop (and tore up the nose and tissue).\u00a0 I can get it fixed, but I wish I didn’t have to.<\/p>\n most (but not all) of my Saturday liquids<\/p><\/div>\n The air was good most of the day, with light thermals and occasional boomers.\u00a0 I maxed out in 2 Bit with my King Harry, but had a rough time with my Pepper.\u00a0 In Jimmie Allen, my Special couldn’t find any air and I settled for three flights under 70 seconds (needs more trimming and duration).\u00a0 I logged 3 of 6 flights in Phantom Flash and decided to return to that later.\u00a0 I flew my 24″ Comper Swift in both Golden Age and in the Greve Race, but didn’t win either event – Pat Murray took the Greve with a Mr Smoothie (of course).<\/p>\n Mike Welshans, Dave Niedzielski, and Ted Allebone discussing something rather important.<\/p><\/div>\n McCook has two special club events that we enjoy flying – just for fun – they aren’t FAC events:\u00a0 On Saturday, they have the Watson Challenge and on Sunday, they have the Cloud Tramp Mass Launch.\u00a0 The Watson Challenge is best 2 of 3 flights (no max) with any model you want – but it must be propelled by a 24″ strand of 1\/8″ rubber, provided by the Contest Director.\u00a0 One year, I won when I stripped the rubber to 1\/16″ and flew a Peanut Maule M-5 OOS after 6 minutes.\u00a0 This year, I decided to use my new Phantom Flash.<\/p>\n my best PF ever. Now lost to the east of the AMA Flying Field.<\/p><\/div>\n I knew it would flew (and flew well) on a loop of 3\/32″, 1\/8″, or even 3\/16″!\u00a0 So a loop of 1\/8″ would be no problem.\u00a0 I wound and launched the first flight and it was something around 55 seconds – not very impressive – I would have to do better on the other two flights.\u00a0 I wound it up again and found someone to time me.\u00a0 As I launched, a monster thermal pulled it right out of my hand!\u00a0 It stood on its tail and looked like a fluttering leaf – in reverse – it was climbing FAST.\u00a0 It finally settled into its circular flight pattern and just kept riding that elevator.\u00a0 The black wings showed up great against the white cloud cover and I was able to track it for a long, long time.\u00a0 I followed on my chase bike, but it didn’t really look like it was coming down. \u00a0 I followed it to the eastern edge of the site; I made it over to the road that is farther east; and I watched and watched until I lost sight of it.\u00a0 It might have come down, but I wouldn’t know.\u00a0 I went back, expecting a 5 minute or so time (I’d been gone 10 minutes for sure), but was told “oh, I lost it at 2:20”.\u00a0 Well, without binoculars, that sounded reasonable.\u00a0 I did end up winning the Watson Challenge, but of course, it cost me a great little airplane (I’ll build another).<\/p>\n Mike Welshans returning from a flight with his 1939 Canadian 1\/2 Wakefield<\/p><\/div>\n Marty Richey showed up (we did have about 15 total contestants over the two days).\u00a0 He said he had not been flying all year, as his work has been keeping him busy.\u00a0 He had some significant accomplishments at this meet.\u00a0 The first:\u00a0 he won WWI Dogfight with a Fokker D.vii.\u00a0 Not only did he win this difficult event, but that win earned him his 16th kanone – and a Blue Max (to be awarded at a national event).\u00a0 The second:\u00a0 he won WWII Combat with his beautiful P-47N, a model that he lost last year – and found again.\u00a0 He had re-covered it over the winter and it was ready to go.\u00a0 And go, it did – as in it flew away – again.\u00a0 It was in the final round and he had a tracker on it.\u00a0 However, he returned empty-handed, with a feeling he know what part of the woods it was in, but without hope he would get it back.<\/p>\n I won the Goodyear races.\u00a0 It was a contest of “old vs. new”\u00a0 – Dave Livesay and I had 20 year old models and Pat Murray and Winn Moore had models less than two years old.\u00a0 Dave and I outflew Pat in the last heat and I outlasted Dave by a good margin.<\/p>\n By the end of the day on Saturday, I was exhausted – the heat was really taking a toll on me.\u00a0 We grilled burgers that night.\u00a0 We found out that Chuck Markos, who had shared our AMA test during the day, was planning on sleeping in his car (in this heat!).\u00a0 We volunteered my extra bunk in my trailer and I felt good about providing air-conditioned comfort for Chuck.<\/p>\n Sunrise from the south end of the AMA Flying Site (site 4)<\/p><\/div>\n Sunday turned out to feel more humid, but less hot, but was probably nearly the same as Saturday.\u00a0 Some of my struggles continued, as I couldn’t get some planes to fly and I broke a ton of motors.\u00a0 Sometimes I would not get a flight in in-between breaking.\u00a0 I’d break a motor, load a new one, and break that one.\u00a0 I broke so many on my Embryo, that all of the tissue around the motor peg was gone.\u00a0 The wood was still intact, but without the tissue providing rigidity, the tail was twisted on launch and the plane would not fly.\u00a0 So I gave up with 2 out of 6 flights left and with only 2 maxes.\u00a0 I ended up in 3rd since I couldn’t get that 3rd max.<\/p>\n I came 1 second short of maxing out in OT Stick with my Wanderer – that held up for the win.\u00a0 Ted Allebone chased that all day; first with his Casano and then with his Wanderer, but he couldn’t catch me.\u00a0 Winn Moore lost a Wisp old-timer in another boomer, other than that, I don’t think any other models were lost over the weekend.<\/p>\n I couldn’t get my new Yankee IV to ROG on an official flight, event though I had been successful twice before.\u00a0 I wasted so much time with broken motors and making motors and testing, that I didn’t have time to fly my scale ships.\u00a0 Preparation is the key to contests and I was unprepared.\u00a0 I did come away with 5 wins and 3 kanones (I won the Cloud Tramp ML, too).\u00a0 Pat Murray took 6 kanones, Winn Moore took 3, Marty Richey took 2, and Ted Allebone won OT Fuselage.\u00a0 Oh!\u00a0 Dave Niedzielski drove all the way from Alabama – he won two events!<\/p>\n My victories. Each 1st place also received the little pins on the right – “McCookies”!<\/p><\/div>\n Here are the Contest Event Winners:<\/p>\n For me, this was a welcome outing to Muncie – it really felt like it was my first outdoor contest of the year.\u00a0 It was actually only the second since I missed the May Cloudbusters meet due to attending the … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>\n
\n EventName<\/span><\/th>\n Contestant<\/span><\/th>\n Place<\/span><\/th>\n ContestantCount<\/span><\/th>\n Model<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n\n \n Old Time Rubber Fuselage<\/span><\/td>\n ALLEBONE, TED<\/span><\/td>\n 1<\/span><\/td>\n 4<\/span><\/td>\n 1939 Canadian Wakefield<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2 Bit Plus 1 OT Rubber Fuselage<\/span><\/td>\n BREDEHOFT, GEORGE<\/span><\/td>\n 1<\/span><\/td>\n 4<\/span><\/td>\n King Harry<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Goodyear\/ Formula Race<\/span><\/td>\n BREDEHOFT, GEORGE<\/span><\/td>\n 1<\/span><\/td>\n 4<\/span><\/td>\n Falcon Special II<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Old Time Rubber Stick<\/span><\/td>\n BREDEHOFT, GEORGE<\/span><\/td>\n 1<\/span><\/td>\n 4<\/span><\/td>\n Wanderer<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n FAC Peanut Scale<\/span><\/td>\n MOORE, WINN<\/span><\/td>\n 1<\/span><\/td>\n 3<\/span><\/td>\n Pegna P.C.1<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Jet Catapult Scale<\/span><\/td>\n MOORE, WINN<\/span><\/td>\n 1<\/span><\/td>\n 5<\/span><\/td>\n Miles M-100<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Phantom Flash<\/span><\/td>\n MOORE, WINN<\/span><\/td>\n 1<\/span><\/td>\n 5<\/span><\/td>\n Phantom Flash<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n FAC Rubber Scale<\/span><\/td>\n MURRAY, PAT<\/span><\/td>\n 1<\/span><\/td>\n 5<\/span><\/td>\n Beriev BE-12<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Golden Age Combined<\/span><\/td>\n MURRAY, PAT<\/span><\/td>\n 1<\/span><\/td>\n 4<\/span><\/td>\n Stinson SR-7<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Greve Race<\/span><\/td>\n MURRAY, PAT<\/span><\/td>\n 1<\/span><\/td>\n 4<\/span><\/td>\n Mr Smoothie<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Jimmie Allen<\/span><\/td>\n MURRAY, PAT<\/span><\/td>\n 1<\/span><\/td>\n 3<\/span><\/td>\n Skokie<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Simplified Scale<\/span><\/td>\n MURRAY, PAT<\/span><\/td>\n 1<\/span><\/td>\n 4<\/span><\/td>\n Vega Starliner<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Thompson Race<\/span><\/td>\n MURRAY, PAT<\/span><\/td>\n 1<\/span><\/td>\n 3<\/span><\/td>\n Mr Mulligan<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Dime Scale<\/span><\/td>\n NIEDZIELSKI, DAVE<\/span><\/td>\n 1<\/span><\/td>\n 5<\/span><\/td>\n Beech Staggerwing<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Embryo Endurance<\/span><\/td>\n NIEDZIELSKI, DAVE<\/span><\/td>\n 1<\/span><\/td>\n 6<\/span><\/td>\n Debut<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n WW-I Combat<\/span><\/td>\n RICHEY, MARTY<\/span><\/td>\n 1<\/span><\/td>\n 3<\/span><\/td>\n Fokker D.vii<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n WW-II Combat<\/span><\/td>\n RICHEY, MARTY<\/span><\/td>\n 1<\/span><\/td>\n 4<\/span><\/td>\n P-47<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"