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Skscrapers International
Lathe for sale
BFMA Forums at NFFS
F1Q in the Baltics
Skyscrapers International
Free Flighters,
Following input from several modelers, Dave Acton and I have updated the event schedule. Pee-Wee 30 (a small gas event) is offered on Saturday. Also P-30 is moved to Saturday to better balance the rubber event offerings. The updated schedule is below. Thermals, Andrew Barron
________________________________________________________________________ You are invited to the Skyscraper International Challenge at Barron field May 30-May 31, for FAI, AMA, NFFS, and FAC free-flight events. It is now an America's X-Cup Hartill Trophy contest as well as a regular America's Cup and National Cup event. The schedule of events is given below. FAI competitors, please carefully note the round schedule for Saturday and Sunday. Note also that F1H,F1G,F1J,F1Q are on Sunday. For AMA, NFFS fliers note the customary slate of fun events, with HLG and Catapult glider offered both days. There are FAC events run by Ed Pelatowski as also detailed below.
Remember also that the Wilber and Orville spring contest is June 13-14 and
the Skyscraper Annual is June 27-28 (both also at Barron field in Wawayanda,
New York). More information is at the NFFS web site freeflight.org
and at www.brooklynskyscrapers.org
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SKYSCRAPERS INTERNATIONAL CHALLENGE
Americas Cup and National Cup
FAI, AMA, NFFS, FAC
May 30 - May 31, 2009
Barron, Ford, and Shuback Fields
Wawayanda, New York
FAI EVENTS:
F1A (glider), F1B (wakefield), F1C/P (power).
Americas Cup and Americas X-cup competition
Saturday May 30:
Round 1: 9:30 - 11:00am Max 180 sec
Round 2: 10:30- 12:00
Round 3: 11:30- 1:00pm
Round 4: 12:30- 2:00pm
Round 5: 1:30- 3:00pm
Round 6: 2:30- 4:00pm
Round 7: 3:30- 5:00pm
Sunday May 31:
Round 8: 7:00- 8:30am Max 240 sec
Round 9: 8:00- 9:30am
Round 10: 9:00-10:30am
F1G (small rubber), F1H (small glider), F1J (small power), F1Q* (electric).
Sunday May 31:
120 second max (F1Q motor run 15 seconds).
Americas Cup and Americas X-cup Competition
Round 1: 9:30-11:00am
Round 2: 10:30-12:00pm
Round 3: 11:30-1:00pm
Round 4: 12:30-2:00pm
Round 5: 1:30-3:00pm
Flyoffs: 3:00pm --
Contest Director: Dave Acton 914-948-4234
Assistant Directors: TBA
Field Marshall: Andrew Barron 203-248-5386
Turn in scores between each flight.
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AMA AND NFFS EVENTS
National Cup Competition: (Note, all junior national cup events are included
as separate sanctioned events, and results will be reported as such.
Likewise for the various classic and nostalgia open events. The event
combinations shown below are for local award purposes. Hand Launch and
Catapult Glider events are available both days, with Sunday counting for
National Cup.)
Saturday May 30: 9am--5:00pm. [Awards at 5:15pm.] Hand Launch Glider,
Catapult Glider, 1/2A Classic, AB Classic, Electric B, Payload, AB
Nostalgia, Pee-Wee 30 gas, P-30 rubber, 1/4A Nostalgia Oldtime Replica.
Early Sunday:
Dawn Unlimited
Launch Window 6:30-7:00am.
Sunday May 31: 8am to 3:00pm. [Awards at 3:15pm.] Catapult Glider, Hand
Launch Glider, Classic Towline, Mulvihill, 1/2 A Nostalgia, AB Nostalgia,
E-36, Vintage F1C power.
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Open fliers pay $25 ($10 field use fee, plus $15 entry which covers
unlimited number of AMA, NFFS, and FAI events). Juniors and Seniors pay $15
total ($10 field use plus $5 entry).
Bryton Barron trophy for best junior performance by a model of the junior's
own construction.
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Flying Aces Club (FAC) Meet: Ed Pelatwoski, CD, 5 Belleview Terr., Ansonia,
CT 06401 phone: 203-735-9494 AMA membership required. Fee $15 ($10 field use
plus $5 entry) Fee good for both days and all events.
SATURDAY: 9:00 to 4:00
Embryo W.W.I. Biplane Mass Launch
GHQ Peanut Scale
No-Cal Scale
FAC Dime Scale
*. FAC Scale (either day)
*. FAC Jumbo/Giant Scale (either day)
*. Towline Scale (either day)
SUNDAY: 9:00 to 3:00
W.W.II. Mass Launch
Golden Age Civilian & Military Combined Thompson and Greve Combined Mass
Launch
FAC Sport ("2 Bit plus 1 old time rubber")
Flying Horde
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The field is on Orange County Route 12, in Wawayanda, six miles south of
Route 17M near Middletown, NY. Nearby airports include Newburg, NY (30 min
from field) or White Plains, NY; Hartford, CT; Newark, NY;
Wilks-Barre-Scranton, PA; Albany, NY; or LaGuardia or JFK, New York, NY (all
of which are not more than 2 hours from the field).
For directions, list of hotels, and field rules go to
www.brooklynskyscrapers.org
Camping on field is encouraged.
Lathe for Sale
Hi everyone,
As I have recently switched to a CNC capable lathe, I am selling my old lathe (which can also transform into a vertical milling machine). The lathe is a Unimat product, Austrian made, very small, used by me but no problems or defect of any kind. I am asking $250.
If anyone is interested please send me an email. I have pictures available.
Chris
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BMFA FF Forums available from NFFS
This is to announce that the BMFA FF Forum for 2009 has just been released and copies will be available in the USA thanks to special arrangements made through the BMFA and NFFS. The US copies will be printed on standard USA sized paper and bound with a plastic "comb type" binding. I expect delivery of the 09 FF Forums by late May. Interested USA buyers may wish to send a check and be the first in line when they are available. The cost of the 09 Forum is unchanged from 08 and can be yours for $25 plus $5 shipping in the US. I still have a few copies of the 08 FF Forums in stock at the reduced price of $20 per copy. I can ship both Forums in one envelope for the same $5 price.
For further information, contact Bob Stalick, NFFS Publications Services <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>. If you send a check for one or more of these books, send to NFFS Publications Services, PO Box 1775, Albany, OR 97321.
F1Q at Baltic Cup / Estonian Cup
On May 1st & 2nd these two World-Cup contests were held at Lithuania. The first event was plagued by strong winds on blue skies, bearable in the first round, strong in the second, horrible in the third ... fourth delayed until evening with only strong wind. No fifth round due to time running out, flyoff after round four. F1A ended with Cibulskas (LTU), Kulmakko (FIN) and Berzinsh (LAT) in 1 to 3, F1B had Luman (EST), Ivancikas (LTU) and Skibicki (POL), F1C had Wlodarczyk (POL), Burek (POL) and Roots (EST), and F1Q Salzer (AUT), Lindner (GER) and Assmus (GER) in the top places.
On the second event the flying was perfect, still clear skies and low to
moderate wind made flying wonderful. F1A had 15 in the flyoff, F1B 7, F1C
and F1Q 2 each. Winners in F1A were Findahl (SWE), Sauter (GER) and
Halbmeier (GER), in F1B Vivchar (UKR), Peers (GBR) and
Mackus (LTU), F1C Burek (POL), Vasiliev (BLR) and Roots (EST), and F1Q
Lindner (GER), Salzer (AUT) and Mackus (LTU).
Both contests had a lot of Juniors - male and female! - from the host
contries LTU and EST, as well as from LAT and POL.
F1Q had some interesting developments. Lindner and Assmus had largish,
F1C-like planes with tremenduous climb potential, alas with stability
problems at long runs, so Lindner flew mostly less than 10s motor run to get
nearly as high as myself with a spiral climb on 20s! The motor run reduction
in the flyoff thus did not hurt him as much as me ... we agreed to use a
5s-run immediately for the flyoff! Roland Mackus (LTU) also flew a spiral
climb pattern with a F1P-like plane which might have used a more powerful
motor. The stable climb probably allowed me to win in the turbulent
conditions of the first contest, while in the stable conditions of the
second day I had no chance.
Another clear indication that the rules in F1Q have to be changed ... how is
still not clear!
Regards Klaus W. Salzer
..........
Roger Morrell