SEN 2252 - 29 Jan 2017
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Table of Contents – SEN 2252
- Rubber for Fab Feb – Order immediately - Jones
- Lost Hills Update
- SWR Contest Report and results - Brocks
- Henry Cole's "The Fascination of Flight" - Terzian
Rubber for Fab Feb – Order immediately
"FAI Model Supply has received a number of orders for delivery at the Fab February Contests in Lost Hills. We would just like to remind you that if you would like any rubber or other items for pick up in Lost Hills to please send us an email (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). We will confirm back to you with an invoice indicating your total cost to be collected at Lost Hills when the products are delivered once we have everyone's shipment figured out.
We will need to receive your order prior to February 1, 2017 to guarantee delivery to Lost Hills. All orders received after that date can not be guaranteed to be ready.
FAI Model Supply - Charlie and Geralyn Jones Charlie Jones
Lost Hills Update
We did a field inspection yesterday and the field is in great shape. There is a green fuzz on parts of the field that will become grass. We will see how much grows in the next couple of weeks. There are a few muddy patches but nothing that cannot be avoided – take note Malcolm Campbell.
BUT
There was a Tule (pronounced too lee) Fog on parts the I-5 driving up. This happens at this time of the year so allow extra time if you are driving in the early morning. Also remember if you are staying in the town of Lost Hills that it may be foggy there but there is always much less fog , generally none at the flying site so do not sit at the hotel thinking there will be no flying. Drive slowly and carefully to the field.
And as always be careful when driving on the field because there will be soft places and small sink holes.
Finally respect our neighbors in particular the orchard and Holloway gypsum. If you model goes near the trees never drive between the trees and get help from an organizer if you model lands in a tree. Failure to do this will lead to expulsion from the field. More information will be published on this subject.
The 2017 FAI Southwest Regionals Model Airplane Championships
The weather for the SWR was not our usual blue skies Arizona weather which kept some of the regular flyers away from Eloy. On Saturday, Jan. 14, it had rained the night before but in the morning the ground was only slightly sticky, the temperature was 52deg and the wind at 5mph out of the SSW. Then the wind became calmer and variable to become stronger again in the afternoon when the temperature was at 63deg. For the fly-offs the wind was out of the ENE at 8-10mph. Sunday morning there was again a bit of rain which delayed the start until 10am with a strong wind from WSW at 9mph and temperatures around 55deg. Soon the wind became continuously stronger to 11 to 14mph, with lulls still above 10mph.
We had 31 sportsmen flying the 8 FAI events. The contestants were from AZ, CA, CO, NV, OH, OR, TX and UT. We again had Mike Woodhouse flying in from the U.K. and Siegfried Limberger from Germany. Enes and Jasminka Pecenkovic flew for their home country of Bosnia-Herzegovina. We had 4 ladies flying FAI events, Julie Parker (F1Q, F1S), Geralyn Jones (F1G), Tiffaney O’Dell (F1G) and Jasminka Pecenkovic (F1A) – and we also had one FAI Junior, Jace Pivonka (F1B, F1G).
On Saturday F1Q was won by Jack Murphy with Mike Pykelny in 2nd and Allan Mecham in 3rd place. F1C/P had only 2 entries with Faust Parker (F1C) beating out Mike Fedor (F1P). F1A had 12 flying. After 5 rounds there were 7 maxed out. The first fly-off was for only 4 minutes because of the wind. The 2nd fly-off for a 6min max was won by Mike McKeever, with Rene Limberger in 2nd and Enes Pecenkovic in 3rd. F1B had 9 sportsmen flying, 4 were clean after 5 rounds. It took also 2 fly-off rounds to decide the winners. Walt Ghio was 1st, Jace Pivonka (Jr) was 2nd and Blake Jensen 3rd.
On Sunday we flew F1G, F1H, F1J and F1S in very windy conditions which kept a few entered contestants from making flights. Because of the wind increasing it was decided after round 3 to fly only one more round to satisfy the America’s Cup requirement of 4 rounds. Mike Richardson won the F1G Bear by dropping only 4 seconds, Don DeLoach was 2nd and Mike Pykelny came in 3rd. Jim Parker was the clear F1H Bear winner by getting 4 maxes, Ken Bauer was 2nd and Blake Jensen with 2 sad attempts in the windy 4th round was 3rd. The F1J Bear was won by Faust Parker with 4 maxes with Mike Fedor in 2nd place. In F1S, the small electric event, we still had 7 flying in the wind. Allen Mecham dropped a total of 2 seconds for third place. Jack Murphy and George Morris both maxed their 4 flights. The fly-off on Monday was won by Jack who received the new F1S Bear trophy, George came in 2nd with a 3 second shorter flight.
A big thank you to all participants and to Tom Gaylor, Hermann Andresen, Elmer Nelson and my wife Brigitte who all made this contest a memorable event.
Peter Brocks, CD
RESULTS 2017 FAI SOUTHWEST REGIONALS AT ELOY, ARIZONA
Jan. 14-16, 2017 Peter Brocks, CD AMA Sanction #17/146
F1A 1 2 3 4 5 F/O F/O Total
1 Mike McKeever 180 180 180 180 180 240 212 1352
2 Rene Limberger 180 180 180 180 240 203 1343
3 Enes Pecenkovic B 180 180 180 180 180 240 185 1325
4 Jim Parker 180 180 180 180 180 240 152 1292
5 Ken Bauer 180 180 180 180 180 211 1111
6 Brian Van Nest 180 180 180 180 180 112 1012
7 Joseph Farmer 180 180 180 180 180 DNF 900
8 Peter Brocks 175 180 180 180 180 895
9 Siegfr. Limberger 180 180 180 180 162 882
10 Jim Farmer 180 56 180 180 180 776
11 Mike Fedor 179 180 180 82 DNF 621
12 Jasminka Pecenk.BI 180 180 180 0 DNF 540
F1B 1 2 3 4 5 F/O F/O Total
1 Walt Ghio 180 180 180 180 180 240 287 1427
2 Jace Pivonka 180 180 180 180 180 240 272 1412
3 Blake Jensen 180 180 180 180 180 240 270 1410
4 Jack Emery 180 180 180 180 180 240 243 1383
5 Charlie Jones 180 180 180 175 180 895
6 Mike Richardson 142 180 180 180 180 862
7 Mike Woodhouse GBR 180 180 180 118 180 838
8 Allen Ulm 180 176 108 169 2 635
9 Tom Ioerger 149 DNF DNF DNF DNF 149
F1C/P 1 2 3 4 5 Total
1 Faust Parker 180 180 180 155 180 875
2 Mike Fedor 180 180 180 180 141 861
F1Q 1 2 3 4 5 Total
1 Jack Murphy 180 180 135 121 180 796
2 Mike Pykelny 180 162 161 113 147 763
3 Allan Mecham 145 170 91 158 180 744
4 Julie Parker 90 126 145 125 93 579
F1G 1 2 3 4 Total
1 Mike Richardson 120 116 120 120 476
2 Don DeLoach 120 110 120 118 468
3 Mike Pykelny 120 120 108 98 446
4 Peter Brocks 120 100 120 DNF 340
5 Tiffaney O'Dell 120 120 96 DNF 336
6 Walt Ghio 120 DNF DNF DNF 120
7 Geralyn Jones 80 DNF DNF DNF 80
8 Jace Pivonka AT DNF DNF DNF 0
F1H 1 2 3 4 Total
1 Jim Parker 120 120 120 120 480
2 Ken Bauer 120 120 120 89 449
3 Blake Jensen 120 120 120 9 369
4 Mike McKeever 120 120 109 DNF 349
5 Brian Van Nest 105 120 45 DNF 285
F1J 1 2 3 4 Total
1 Faust Parker 120 120 120 120 480
2 Mike Fedor 120 120 94 120 454
F1S 1 2 3 4 F/O Total
1 Jack Murphy 120 120 120 120 119 599
2 George Morris 120 120 120 120 116 596
3 Allan Mecham 118 120 120 120 478
4 Julie Parker 111 120 120 120 471
4 Don DeLoach 111 120 120 120 471
6 Jerry Murphy 120 120 105 120 465
7 Elmer Nelson 74 DNF DNF DNF 74
Henry Cole's "The Fascination of Flight"
From: Fred Terzian
Roger, of interest to SEN subscribers is the announcement by the National
Free Flight Society that they have made available Hank Cole's extremely
interesting personal account of his seventy-plus years of free flight
aeromodelling. Readers will note that Henry was a very active participant
in all FAI free flight events and Team Selections into the early 21st
century. This past summer, Henry distributed a few spiral bound copies that
he printed and put together to some of his free flight friends. I suggested
to him that it would probably have worldwide interest, as noted in the text
below.
Details can be found here:
https://freeflight.org/product/the-fascination-of-flight/
Regards,
Fred Terzian
2017 Oakland Cloud Dusters President
August 23rd, 2016 -- "The Fascination of Flight"
"We had the pleasure to have Hank Cole attend our monthly club meeting last
Thursday and he gave us a personal account of his 70-year plus involvement
with free flight. Prior to that, he sent selected friends copies of his 100
page personal account as titled above.
Hank as you already know is one of those living legends in free flight that
encompasses the golden years of the sport. For him to be providing this
historical account at this time is incredible (he just turned 95 last
Friday), and I mentioned that there would probably be tremendous interest
for many free flight enthusiasts around the world.
This was a personal endeavor on Hank's part, having typed it up on his
computer over the last few years, scanning all of his magazine articles and
personal photographs (both B&W and color), then printing the 20 plus copies
on a color ink jet printer.
He did not know how to proceed because major distribution and printing
costs are out of his league (he is not doing this for profit). I suggested
that maybe it could be an NFFS or SAM special project and publication.
Distributed an offered by NFFS or SAM. Again, this is not a source of
income for him, so any profits would be to the benefit of NFFS."
Editor’s Note – Hank Cole is one of the great names of free flight in the USA. His book is now available from NFFS publications as per the note from the NFFS President John Lorbiecki in an earlier SEN