with the new format, Alexi Tupnov running the matches from the center circle, Mal Faw- ley, Scott Fawley, Gordy Gruerine, and Chris Sarnowski judging cuts and timing, and Pat Gibson doing the pull testing. All the flyers really appreciated their experi- enced judging. The final placings were:
1. Alex Prokofiev 10–1 2. Andrew Nadein 7–3 3. Cary Minor 6–3 4. Andy Minor 6-3 5. Howard Williams 5–3 6. Mark Rudner 5–3
Big Block AMA Fast had been hyped a lot
on the Internet. It was flown on Saturday, 7/21, with a few avid spectators. Unlike the rest of the week, the weather was gor- geous—light winds, in the low 80s. Out of all the fliers who volunteered on-line, only one showed up. There were six pre-entries, but only two flew. Fortunately three of the De- troit guys showed up and made a nice little contest of it, a mostly gentlemanly affair, pi- lots start your own engines. Ron Colombo and Phil Cartier started it
out with Phil getting a kill. The rest of the 11 matches went pretty smoothly, with something like 7 kills, 3 up and down matches with a cut or two, and only one to- tally air time match. No midairs and no fly- aways.
1. Wayne McDaniel 4–1 2. Ron Colombo 3–2 3. Ed Bryzs 2–2
Fast F2D flew on Wednesday with 14 fly-
ers. Again lots of good action. My hat is off to junior Rylan Ritch flying in this hungry crowd. Of the approximately 30 matches I’d bet at least 20 ended fairly quickly with clean kills. Not many midairs, but some were spectacular. I managed to cut a hole in Howard Williams muffler, without cutting the string holding it on. Probably the most spectacular match of
the day was between old flying buddies Chuck Rudner and Rich Lopez. Rich got up first. After some tight mixing it up there was a spectacular midair. As the plane came twirling down, all tangled up with both en- gines running, the two streamers floated out side by side. That sent the judges to check the rule book. When the judges can’t deter- mine which kill came first the air time and cuts determine the winner, which was Chuck Rudner. The finals match was again quick and
clean. Chuck was a bit slow getting up, but it didn’t matter. About 20 seconds later Bob Mears scored a clean kill.
1. Bob Mears 5–1 2. Chuck Rudner 5–2 3. Rich Lopez 4–2 4. Richard Stubblefield 3–2 5. Howard Williams 3–2
Half-A Combat had 12 flyers. The weath-
Speed Limit Combat: The best Juniors (above) were (L–R) Charles Carter and Marquis Thurman with merchandise generously contributed by Sig. Neil Simpson took first; Brian Stas, second; and Bob Burch, third A lot of F2D Fast competition (below) resulted in (L–R) Bobby Mears winning first; Chuck Rudner, second; Rich Lopez, third; Richard Stubblefield, fourth; Howard Williams, fifth. The Event Director was Chris Gay.
er was poor for 1⁄2A, starting with a misty rain and then turning cool and windy. Rylan Ritch probably had the most entertaining matches. His Texas buddies gave him a plane to fly. Both times the motor twisted off to the right making the plane tail heavy with a huge amount of out-thrust. It be- haved a bit like a Bi-Slob, hanging on the prop with no power to go around the circle upwind. Rylan managed to keep it in the air an amazing amount of time.
1. Tom Siegler 5–1 2. Neil Simpson 4–2 3. Chris Sarnowski 3–2 4. Richard Stubblfield 3–2 5. Wayne McDaniel 2–2 6. Howard Williams 2–2
Sixteen flyers competed in an unofficial
MACA 75mph Combat event using Midwest rules: nothing ends the match. Planes can be repaired after a midair to go back up, but that didn’t happen more than once or twice. Neil Simpson topped the event, as I kind of expected. He is a master at doing just enough to win and the OS 32 powered planes the New England bunch used worked well in the windy weather.
1. Neil Simpson 6–1 2. Brian Stas 6–2 3. Bob Burch 5–-2
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