FAC PHOTOGRAPHY: TOM NALLEN II, VIC NIPPERT, ALAN COHEN & BRUCE THOMS T 34
he bi-annual 2013 Flying Aces Club (FAC) Non-Nats contest was held once again this past July in Gene- seo, New York, on the beautiful sod airfield of the 1941 Historical Aircraft Group. From Wednesday, July 17 through Saturday, July 20, in the midst of a midsum- mer heat wave, a hundred or so stick and tis- sue scale modelers gathered to show, fly and compete with their latest creations. For as long as there’s been an FAC Na-
tionals, there has been an FAC Non-Nats. From the beginning in the late 1970s, this aptly named off-year meet was intended to be a more casual and informal event. The Non-Nats provides a great venue for the FAC faithful to gather and fly, while allow- ing additional time to have that new model developed and ready to compete at the flag- ship FAC Nationals contest the following year.
Attendance at the FAC Non-Nats is typi-
cally about one-half that of the FAC Nation- als, but this year that benchmark was ex- ceeded with a strong turnout of more than one hundred contestants. A steady influx of new and active flyers keeps the Flying Aces Club in growth mode.
Wednesday, July 17
Many flyers arrived at Geneseo on Tues- day, July 16, to test and trim out their mod- els on the big HAG airfield, but contestant
NOVEMBER 2013
Non-Nats 2013
High temperatures, wind and rain did not dampen the spirits of those who flew in this year’s event!
By Tom Nallen II
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