The Classic winner Jim Rhoades (above left) and his Jerry Worth Apteryx. A PA .51 and muffler powered this extremely nice looking model to First. John Benzing and Paul Winter (above center) came back to the Nats from London and found a smaller crowd to meander around than those attending the
looking for someone to run both venues next year. Contact Dave to volunteer to assist in this role in 2013.
The Intermediate event has been spon- sored by John and Buzz Brodak for many years. Bob and Elaine Brookins have spear- headed this event, and they have run a very nice competition. The seven winners includ- ed: Scott Harness (1st), Bob Hudak (2nd), Bob Krug (3rd), Jose Parodi (4th), Jeff Traxler (5th) and Don Sopka (6th) and Dennis Moritz (7th). Jose Parodi won the Intermediate Pi- lot’s Choice award, and Bob Krug won the Best Brodak kit award. If you are moving up from Beginner and desire a fine event, come to the Nats in 2013 and fly Intermediate. The Beginner event hosted the largest contingent of pilots ever. Eleven Open pilots vied for the top prizes while seven Junior and Senior contestants flew for their set of awards. The event began with the support of the Peoria Area Wyreflyers, with assistance by the Paducah Aero Modelers, the New Al-
Olympics. The Jason Greer family (above right) and his Bill Werwage GEO XL in MonoKote and paint. Jason had probably one of the prettiest film covered models at the Nats to include memories of Kaz Minato’s Blue Maxat the 1988 Nats and Bob Baron’s winning Patternmasterin later years.
bany Skyliners, and the St. Louis based Lafayette Esquadrille. The winners in Open Beginner were: Dan Bregar (1st), Steve Drake (2nd), Steve Gerding (3rd), Harry Crespo (4th), Bill Allen (5th), Kevin Hines (6th), Terry Bentley (7th), Joe Eastman (8th), John Bodde (9th), Naomi Macklem (10th) and Paul Barbour (11th). The seven Junior/Senior Beginner final- ists were: Kevin DeMauro (1st), Samantha Hines (2nd), Ben Mills (3rd), Marquis Thur- man (4th), Marcus Schwartz (5th), Chris Lamb (6th) and Chuck Carter (7th). Equal size “Eagles’ Nest” perpetual trophies were awarded to Dan Bregar and Kevin DeMau- ro for safe-keeping for one year. After that time, they return the trophy to the event. Anyone who would like to donate prizes (to be chosen by the contestants) for the 2013 event, please contact Allen Brickhaus for ways to get those items to the Nats. It was great to see so many out-of-country fliers attending the Nats. Paul Winter and
John Benzing came from the city of London, site of the Olympics, to revive friendships. We had many pilots from the Caribbean area with at least four checking in for the compe- tition. Beyond practice time on the circles at the Nationals site, lots of time was also spent at dinner get-togethers during the week. The lack of rain was definitely hurting the farmers in the area, but the absence of the precipitation led to some very nice, dry and brown, “grass” circles upon which the pilots could fly without any problems. I did not hear of any complaints about not being able to get off the ground or land on the 900 × 900-foot grass practice area. I believe the pilots were happy, even though as stated by one famous flyer: only one person at the Nats is happy, the winner. But the flying surfaces were not the problem with the vast majority of competitors. Look for the Nats to be flown in the middle of July in 2013. Come to Muncie to enjoy the fellowship of so many great friends.
Models designed by Lew McFarland were displayed (above) at these Nats and included one of Lew’s own models refurbished by Kenny Stevens, along with Sharksby James Mills, Larry Robertson and Charlie Reeves and an errant Ruffy. It was so wonderful seeing so many young Junior and Senior Beginner pilots (at right, above) at this year’s Nats. The winners are noted in the column as named from left to right. The Open Beginners (at right) were in full force with eleven pilots flying to top the class. They are also named in the column with the listing from left to right in this picture.
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