SCAT Electronic News June 26 1999
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SCAT Electronic News June 26 1999
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Some Thoughts - Achterberg
Slanic salt caves destroyed - Hines
UK Nates - Gregorie
Some Thoughts
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To Whom It May Concern;
Are there any F1A,B,C, flyers" people who actually fly in contests"
complaining about the fly-offs? Why is it that people who do not fly the
events are the ones who write and complain about how our events are flown?
I'm I missing something here?? Who are the contests for? The contestants or
the organizers!!
The flyers love the fly-offs; that's what we are there for!! If the
organizers do not like running the contests for the flyers, because the
fly-offs might continue till dark; then it is an easy solution. DO NOT
volunteer to run the contest!! But then you wouldn't have anything to
complain about!!!
The people who fly these events need to start writing and telling people
what they like about their particular event,so we don't have to read all the
negative "grap" that we are constantly getting bombarded with. I believe if
we could start talking about all the positives more people would be
interested in joining our faternity of free flight flyers. The F1 flyers are
a very nice group of people to be associated with and for the most part
every one has a great time at the contests win or lose! It is just fun to be
associated with a bunch of people who have common aeromodeling interests,
even if you go just to heckle or" shoot the shit"!
If you are a flyer, write something positive!! If you don't fly our events
don't write anything at all. Do something positive, write your congressman
and bitch about government waste!! Just some thoughts!!
Thermals,
Michael Achterberg
Slanic salt caves destroyed
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An Assoc Press report(dated 6/23/99) sez "--- this week, overflowing
rivers that flooded farm fields
and cutoff villages in Romania also dissolved the salt caves at
Slanic-Prohova Mountain--."
Alas, another indoor site is lost --- and so it goes.
I wonder if Bud Romak and other F1D guys know this yet? Can you
possibly spread the news?
Lee
UK Nats -
Martin Gregorie
This was a decidedly mixed event this year. It was run, as usual, over
the three days of the second May Bank holiday, which is the last
weekend in May. This is a personal, illustrated account of the
weekend. We had an excellent entry this year; 290 contestants and over
individual 800 entries in the various events
[ Martin did supply some photos that we will look at either posting then
or mailing some later, we're in a rush to get to Lost Hills.]
Saturday, Open day
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This was a wonderful day, considering how unpromising Friday had been.
We had temperatures in the high 20s Centigrade, cloudless sky and
barely enough breeze for a glider flier. The lift was huge for most of
the day. Unusually, there were gliders flown in the Tailless event and
this was about the first time I've seen one go up in a thermal.
I had a bad day. I had a tow hook jam solid the previous evening, so
my first task was a spot of field repairs. It took me the morning to
replace it with a new Hatschek and then retrim the model from scratch.
As this was the model I knocked the tail off in the last Trials and
had only just completed the boom replacement, you can imagine it took
a hard morning's work to get it retrimmed. Then I had timer + battery
trouble. The model d/ted twice on the line for a zero - no apparent
reason. I swapped timers and found the NiCd had suddenly died so that
got swapped as well. The next two flights spun in for around a minute
each. Another trim session showed that the glide adjust was very loose
and apparently unscrewed 1/2 a turn from the *bang* of a decent launch
- after two successive launches I cottoned on, screwed it back where
it belonged and added Aliphatic to help lock the screws before
trimming out the other model. I was about to re-fly the first glider
when the breeze came up, it got cold and clammy, so I suspended
operations just before the flyoffs. Conditions got successively worse
until Open Rubber was run in a downpour, but this didn't stop Phil
Ball winning with a 12:52 time.
Open Glider - 60 flew, 19 in the flyoff
1 A. CAMERON 3:00 3:00 3:00 4:27 13:27
2 P. CHAMBERLAIN 3:00 3:00 3:00 3:20 12:20
3 D.J. OLDFIELD 3:00 3:00 3:00 3:06 12:06
Open Power - 16 flew, 8 in the flyoff
1 S. SCREEN 3:00 3:00 3:00 6:10 15:10
2 P. WATSON 3:00 3:00 3:00 5:43 14:43
3 N. ALLEN 3:00 3:00 3:00 5:11 14:11
Open Rubber - 54 flew, 32 in the flyoff
1 P.A. BALL 3:00 3:00 3:00 12:52 21:52
2 J. BAILEY 3:00 3:00 3:00 11:13 20:13
3 C.D.J. STRACHAN 3:00 3:00 3:00 10:21 19:21
Tailless - 8 flew, 3 in the flyoff
1 J. GODDEN 3:00 3:00 3:00 4:44 13:44
2 S. WILLIS 3:00 3:00 3:00 3:22 12:22
3 C.D.J. STRACHAN 3:00 3:00 3:00 3:08 12:08
Women's Cup - 3 flew, two in the flyoff
1 K. BEST 3:00 3:00 3:00 3:54 12:54
2 E. FLYNN 3:00 3:00 3:00 2:20 11:20
3 H. ARTHUR-FLYNN (J) 3:00 1:19 3:00 7:19
Frog Junior - 7 flew, 2 in the flyoff
1 R.A. JACK (J) 3:00 3:00 3:00 4:06 13:06
2 B. TAYLOR (J) 3:00 3:00 3:00 1:25 10:25
3 D. BILLAM (J) 2:00 3:00 3:00 8:00
Sunday, FAI day
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We had a very wet and windy night (nothing to do with the previous
evening's curry and beers I hasten to add) and the unpleasantness
stayed for Sunday. It was a cold day, no more than 9oC with a strong
wind and turbulence. The latter was mostly due to the direction, which
came over a large stand of trees and took big flights into a pig farm
off the far side of the field. It was spitting during the first round
so I didn't fly, thinking it would settle in to rain. Instead it
stayed dry and improved a bit during the day, but not by much. I was
in good company, as around half the entry left their models in their
boxes. There was no flyoff in F1A and only one needed in F1B/C, which
says it all about the conditions. The turbulence affected all classes,
but towing was particularly difficult in the rotors behind the trees.
F1A Glider - 26 flew
1 A. CAMERON 88 150 150 117 150 655
2 J.H. COOPER 114 150 150 150 86 650
3 P. CHAMBERLAIN 150 80 117 150 148 645
F1B Wakefield - 19 flew, 3 in the flyoff
1 B.W.C. ASLETT 150 150 150 150 150 300 1050
2 B.R. PEERS 150 150 150 150 150 283 1033
3 P. MARTIN 150 150 150 150 150 122 872
F1C Power - 7 flew, 2 in the flyoff
1 P. WATSON 150 150 150 150 150 300 1050
2 S. SCREEN 150 150 150 150 150 288 1038
3 P.R. HARRIS 150 150 150 130 150 730
E30 electric duration - 15 flew, 6 in the flyoff
1 J. GODDEN 2:00 2:00 2:00 7:03 13:03
2 R.W. BRIGGINSHAW 2:00 2:00 2:00 6:41 12:41
3 P. LANG 2:00 2:00 2:00 5:21 11:21
Vintage - 17 flew, 6 in the flyoff
1 E.L. CHALLIS 2:30 2:30 2:30 3:43 11:13
2 C.J. CHAPMAN 2:30 2:30 2:30 3:32 11:02
3 J. O'DONNELL 2:30 2:30 2:30 3:23 10:53
Junior Kit - 4 flew
1 D. BILLAM 1:30 1:30 1:30 4:30
2 B. TAYLOR 1:30 1:30 1:14 4:14
3 B. PAGE 0:13 0:14 0:27 0:54
Windrush (junior single design glider) - 8 flew
1 H. ARTHUR-FLYNN 1:08 0:49 1:21 3:18
2 B. PAGE 1:10 1:30 0:26 3:06
3 D. BILLAM 0:50 1:30 0:38 2:58
Monday, mini day
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This was lovely again - calm, initially sunny, and nearly as warm as
Saturday. Later it clouded over, but didn't cool off until the
flyoffs. I flew my 12 year old 1/2A Train on sagging Cox power. I hit
4 huge patches of lift and 90 seconds (though I d/ted early out of one
big one - stupid!) and no flight went more than 400 m. I flew all 5
flights in under 2 hours without hurrying. We were using new rules - 7
seconds for F1J and 10 seconds run for plain bearing 049 models.
Overkill - even my soggy, overweight thing found it easy to max on 10
seconds and as for the F1Js! We were flying SLOP simultaneously and
Staff's new Cyclon 06 model, basically a small carbon F1C, was easily
outclimbing the hottest SLOP by 30-50% despite SLOP's 10 sec run. I
think we'll be on 5secs / 7secs next year!
One of the more interesting models on the field was Phil Ball's new
SLOP - all carbon structure, Ikarex covered and fitted with a K&B 20.
It flew beautifully and has a really excellent structure.
F1G Coupe d'Hiver - 57 flew, 10 in the flyoff
1 G.M. STRINGER 120 120 120 120 120 585 1185
2 I.M. DAVITT 120 120 120 120 120 464 1064
3 J.E. BILLAM 120 120 120 120 120 187 787
F1H A/1 Glider - 27 flew, 4 in the flyoff
1 R.E. AUDLEY 120 120 120 120 120 211 811
2 R. TWOMEY 120 120 120 120 120 153 753
3 S.R. PHILPOTT 120 120 120 120 120 129 729
F1J 1/2A Power - 17 flew, 8 in the flyoff
1 S. SCREEN 120 120 120 120 120 471 1071
2 C. HICKMOTT 120 120 120 120 120 363 963
3 P. WATSON 120 120 120 120 120 314 914
CO2 duration - 18 flew, 9 in flyoff
1 C.N. WESTERMAN 2:00 2:00 2:00 2:00 2:00 5:10 15:10
2 J. O'DONNELL 2:00 2:00 2:00 2:00 2:00 4:32 14:32
3 P. GIBBONS 2:00 2:00 2:00 2:00 2:00 4:28 14:28
Hand Launch Glider - 34 flew
1 M.J. PAGE 60 60 60 60 60 60 58 60 60 538
2 K. BROWN 60 60 60 60 50 48 60 45 50 493
3 J. WALKER 46 60 60 57 60 41 58 58 45 485
Mini-Vintage - 50 flew, 15 in the flyoff
1 N. ALLEN 2:00 2:00 2:00 2:00 2:00 3:51 13:51
2 E.L. CHALLIS 2:00 2:00 2:00 2:00 2:00 3:50 13:50
3 R. KENWARD 2:00 2:00 2:00 2:00 2:00 3:27 13:27
P30 rubber - 29 flew, 4 in the flyoff
1 J. BAILEY 2:00 2:00 2:00 1:53 7:53
2 D. BEALES 2:00 2:00 2:00 1:42 7:42
3 P. SEELEY 2:00 2:00 2:00 1:40 7:40
Slow Open Power - 43 flew, 12 in the flyoff
1 S.G. SHACKLOCK 3:00 3:00 3:00 11:20 20:20
2 G.W.A. CORNELL 3:00 3:00 3:00 6:56 15:56
3 I.M. WILKINSON 3:00 3:00 3:00 4:40 13:40
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Roger Morrell
