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2021 SCAT Annual Report
Wow! A year has gone by since cancelling the 2020 SCAT Annual, first aeromodel contest Covid victim. The modeling world has learned more and has adaptive to this cotangent and we are now enjoying our outdoor sport. Travel is still limited so attendance is down.
The weather reports looked wonderful for the contest weekend. Those arriving to Lost Hills on Friday had great weather and the forecast was more of the same. But oh no, the Loaf started whistling at 3 am Saturday. At 6 am the nearby weather station was reporting 2 mph while my wind meter read 15 mph with gust to 20. I sent an email out.to those that had registered Friday and those I thought were coming changing the first round to 9 am and that I would delay in 1 hour increments until noon. As the sun warmed us, the wind tapered off. At 10:30 it was flyable and we started round 1 at 10 am with 4-5 mph wind to the pits so the max time was set at 150 seconds--- I was so thankful we could fly.
The 12 F1A flyers and 9 F1B flyers flew 5 rounds with 98% maxes, 6 full scores each. The F1A 6 minute FO saw only one drop, Liad Friedman an up and coming junior--- his first fly off. In F1B, Jerry Fitch blew 2 or 3 motors, calmly got his flight off with 30 second left in the round. Looked good but the model came a few seconds short of the max.
The next morning had a 4 to 5 mph breeze, typical for LH this time of the year. F1A flew first, Enes Pencenkovic and Brain Van Nest launched soon after the round started. I launched 30-40 second later in what felt like firm air, soon after Mike McKeever. Enes and Brian found solid air, Enes did just under 6 minutes and had Brian by 50 seconds for the win. Mike and I had what I can only describe as ugly air---- my Altimeter graph looked like DT, how can a modern flapper from 100 meters find the ground in 4 minutes!
F1B was next, the timers describe Larry Norval’s flight as standard until it was lower and it found favorable air for the win. I apologies that you’ll see ”tsb- to be supplied” by some scores—I failed to write the FO scores on the result sheet and left the time cards in the Loaf. Bill Booth was second with Mike Davis and Walt Ghio tied for third.
Back to Saturday. WCh F1C Taron Malkhasyan put in one flight to get the”20 Something” award. Ed Carroll was up to fly F1C but went home with an ailing foot. Buck Murry was the only AMA flyer, he flew ½A Nostalgia. Ben Tarcher was the only Q flyer.
Sunday forecast looked good but could it be believed? The sky was over cast with clouds forming over the West mountains. After the F1A&B FO the breeze tapered off and looked to be good---- good and tricky air. The 11 Mini events flyer (F1H,G,J,S) achieved only 65% maxes, quite a change from Saturday.
In F1G, Tiff O’Dell and Jerry Fitch changed the leads several times with Jerry being in the lead at the end of 5 rounds.
I missed the first round in F1H but Blake made it interest flirting with a double attempt in a switchy breeze period. He towed his way to victory.
At 1 pm we did FAI awards for the contest and I was able to give out some of the 2020 Am Cup awards to Mike McKeever F1A, Blake Jensen F1B and Tiff O’Dell F1G. AMA flying was schedule to 4 pm.
Nostalgia Wake was fun to watch as Larry Norval and Ates Gurcan stuck many maxes. Larry damaged his model on the fifth round as did Ates. Ates was able to repair his and put up a winning max. Guy had 3 maxes but did not fly more--- perhaps a loooong chase for his wayward Nostalgia A flight. Glen Schneider won Nostalgia A.
Finishing off the contest was Art Chmielenski flying P-30, Ben Tarcher Classic Glider, Bill Gannon Hand Launch glider and Jim Luekin beat Henry Feistel (jr) in catapult glider.
At 2:30 the western wind machine was turned on--- not terrible but enough we put our models away and packed up We gave out trophies at 3 pm.
And like that Mike and I were alone at LH enjoying pork chops, potatoes, salad and conversation. That night it rained and blew. Fortunately not so much rain to get stuck. 8am it cleared up – perfect flying conditions!
Thanks to Tiff O’Dell and Tony Accurso for their great Face Book SCAT Annual photos. Even thanks to Randy Secor, not thinking the weather would improve on Saturday morning, he left for Laguna Seca with Bud Romack, great F.B. photos--- who wouldn’t want to go to a race track with Bud Romack?
2021 SCAT Annual, Lost Hills, CA
March 13-14, 2021
CD: Jim Parker
High Time Jr Glider
Liad Friedman 870 sec
High Time Jr Rubber
Ittia Kohavi 334 sec
20 Something Award
Taron Malhkasyan 150sec
1 2 3 4 5 FO1 F02
F1A 150 180 180 180 180 360 600
Enes Pecenkovic 150 180 180 180 180 360 354 1584
Jim Parker 150 180 180 180 180 360 253 tbs 483
Mike McKeever 150 180 180 180 180 360 219 1449
Guy Goldstein 180 180 180 180 360 dnf 1230
Ken Bauer 150 180 180 180 180 360 1230
Liad Friedman (j 150 180 180 180 180 tbs 871
Shlomi Rosenzwei 180 180 180 180 785
Guy Menanno 92 180 180 180 782
Pierre Brun 127 110 180 180 180 690 777
Anat Goldstein ( 150 180 180 0 180
F1B 150 180 180 180 180 360 600 1236
Larry Norval 150 180 180 180 180 360 tbs
Bill Booth 150 180 180 180 180 360 tbs 1235
Mike Davis 150 180 180 180 180 360 261 1491
Walt Ghio 150 180 180 180 180 360 261 1491
Blake Jensen 150 150 180 180 180 180 360 258
Jerry Fitch 150 180 180 180 180 tbs 859
Tomer Obligenarz 150 180 180 180 169 815
Sevak Malkhasyan 150 125 180 180 180 334
Ittia Kohavi (jr 150 180 4 dnf dnf
F1C 150 180 180 150 150 150
Taron Malkhasyan 150 dnf dnf dnf dnf
F1Q 150 180 180 180 180
Ben Tarcher 150 155 180 180 180 845
F1G 120 120 120 120 120
Jerry Fitch 95 120 120 117 120 572
Tiff O'Dell 120 91 120 120 115 566
F1H 120 120 120 120 120
Blake Jensen 12 108 120 120 120 588
Jim Parker 0 120 87 120 120 447
F1J
Glenn Schneider 120 120 120 120 120 600
David Johannes 120 120 105 120 120 145 585
Mike McKeever 23 120 2 dnf dnf
F1S 120 120 120 120 120
Clint Brooks 120 120 120 120 120 600
Guy Menanno 120 120 75 120 55 490
Bill Gannon 74 120 48 77 52 371
Ben Tarcher 18 dnf dnf dnf dnf 18
Nostalgia Wakefeild 1260
Ates Gurcan 120 180 240 240 240 240 1020
Larry Norval 120 180 240 240 240 dnf
Guy Menanno 120 180 240 dnf 540
Nostalgia A
Glenn Schneider 96 180 180 456
Guy Menanno 180 dnf 180
Nostalgia 1/2A
Buck Murry 1 2 3 6
P-30
Art Chmielenski 120 74 194
Classic Glider
Ben Tarcher 120 120 120 360
Catapult Glider
Jim Luken 33 120 120 273
Henry Feistel 18 49 37 13 27 6 113
Hand Luanch Glider
Bill Gannon 25 10 10 45
Famous names on the [ebay] photos
From: Urs Schaller
Famous names on the photos:
Dave Kneeland, Silvio Lanfranchi, Alan King, Cliff Montplaisir, Bob Hatschek, Gillespie, Blanchard,
just to name a few!
Urs Schaller