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1. Skyscraper International Challenge Results
2. Who gave Pin the meter for Henning?
3. Reminder for Skyscrapers, this weekend.

Skyscraper International Challenge

Dear Free Flight Friends,

  Here are results from the FAI events at the Skyscraper International Challenge last month.  Highlights were the F1G battle in which Tom Vaccaro edged Kathy Radziunas with last flight drama, as both were maxed out heading into that round. In F1B, Ron Felix maxed out to finish ahead of Aram Schlossberg, while last flight woes pushed back Tom Vaccaro and Sarah Radziunas and prevented an anticipated flyoff.  In F1Q Dave Lacey had an impressive performance maxing out for the win, ahead of Rich Ivers for whom damage to his model prevented continuing his string of maxes.  In F1C Andrei Kirilenko continued his steady flying with a max-out, likewise for Brian Pacelli with a max-out in F1P.

  I wish to acknowledge Bob Hatschek, a driving force and commanding presence for many years of Skyscraper Challenge organization and flying. In this last year he has needed to cut back on his flying and it is the first year in my recollection that we have not had the dynamic of him at the flight-line in the hunt for F1G or other events.  What is that dynamic of Bob Hatschek in Free Flight? Consider part of his 1962 poem in which he writes that Free Flight is ''A thrill, a challenge, a puzzlement. It's other guys like you, the world around, striving for the same graceful beauty of flight.  It's comradeship across all human barriers. It's bull sessions through the wee hours. It's fierce competition with the highest of sportsmanship...  'Free as a bird' describes God's most unchained creation. Man's is a model airplane soaring birdlike in a thermal... Vicariously you soar with it...with its freedom.''

Here are the FAI results for the challenge this year.

 
 F1B
 1. 240 180 180 180 150 150 150 1230 Ron Felix
 2. 226 180 180 136 150 150 150 1172 Aram Schlosberg
 3. 240 180 166 180 150 150 096 1162 Tom Vaccaro
 4. 240 180 180 180 150 150 030 1110 Sarah Radziunas
 5. 240 180 120 088 ... ... ... 0628 Carrol Allen
 
 F1A
 1. 240 180 174 180 150 129 150 1203 Andrew Barron
 2. 240 180 180 129 150 133 150 1162 Igor Fradkin
 3. 188 180 180 180 150 130 103 1111 Timothy Barron (Jr)
 4. 240 180 180 054 126 085 150 1015 Ranan Lachman
 5. 240 180 180 115 150 020 024 0909 Peter Barron
 6. 133 072 070 086 150 ... ... 0514 Gina Barron (Jr)
 
 F1C
 1. 240 180 180 180 180 150 150 1260 Andrei Kirilenko
 
 F1G
 1. 120 120 120 120 108 588 Tom Vaccaro
 2. 120 120 120 120 089 569 Kathy Radziunas
 3. 027 120 120 114 120 501 Don Rousseau
 4. 120 106 116 120 004 466 Carrol Allen
 5. 120 120 000 ... ... 240 Bill Buss
 
 F1Q
 1. 180 180 150 150 150 150 150 1110 Dave Lacey
 2. 180 180 150 150 150 150 ... 0960 Richard (Rich) Ivers Jr
 3. 162 180 091 143 032 060 009 0677 Aram Schlosberg
 4. 114 052 150 150 150 046 004 0666 Richard (Dick) Ivers Sr
 
 F1P 240 180 180 180 150 Brian Pacelli
 
 F1H 00 53 56 58 82 Gina Barron
 
 F1J 105 120 95 Alan Abriss 

Thermals!

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