2013 FAC Non-Nats
Vance Gilbert’s sprightly new Dietrich-GobietJumbo (above left) looks great, unfortunately it broke a prop in early flight testing. Look for it at the FAC Nationals next year! Matt King built this impressive 54-inch Comet Taylorcraft
Giant Scale ship (above left). The attractive green and yellow trim scheme was easy to see. Wally Farrell holds his AJ Savage (below, at left) after scale judging. The model looks great and flies equally as well.
on the competition. Contest Director, Dave Mitchell, and his team made a timely deci- sion to move up the day’s two mass launch events to take advantage of the lighter winds in the morning.
Dallas Cornelius won the Low Wing Mili- tary Trainer mass launch event flying a Fiat G-46b and Richard Zapf’s broad-winged Hutchinson WLH-1 outlasted a field of Midget Mustangs and Owl Pogos in the final flight
to win the Goodyear Racer mass
launch event. While official flights in the main Flying Scale events could be flown on any of the con- test days, many flyers got their first official flight on the board Thursday, as a hedge against the chance of deteriorating weather. Rumor on the field Thursday was that Tom Hallman had maxed his beautiful Junkers J-1 giant scale ship. In fact, by the end of the contest Tom had maxed the Junkers not just once, but twice to win the Giant Scale event which had been re-instated for the 2013 FAC Non-Nats by popular demand.
Several other FAC “total of three flights” scale events were flown on Thursday includ- ing Golden Age, Simplified Scale, and this year’s one-design event, the Comet 25-inch Porterfield. These popular events place greater emphasis on consistent flying ability and less on static scale and bonus points. A number of non-scale events rounded out the roster on Thursday and provided many moments of drama and points of interest. In Old Time Rubber Stick, strings of maxes in the top four places forced a fly-off that was won by Paul Grabski flying an Ace Whitman Falcon.
Also entered was the gem-like little Louis
Bucalo Shaft Flyer built from plans in the January, 1944 FLYING ACES magazine by Shorty’s Basement owner, George Brede- hoft. This wartime “victory model”, original- ly intended to be built by boys on the home front with scarce supplies, earns a special callout as it embodies, in this writer’s view, the spirit of the event and the FAC itself. Speaking of boys ... well, the modern Fly-
PHOTO: VIC NIPPERT
Hard working scale judges in the HAG visitor center. Fine flying Curtiss Twin Jenny(above) employs motor sticks for the rubber motors. Jim DeTar and Mark Rzadca (at right) share a light moment. Fun at Geneseo is what it’s all about!
36 NOVEMBER 2013
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