SEN- January 26 2000

News and Reports 2000 - First half
SCAT Electronic News 26 Jan 2000


      "SCAT - 40 Years of FAI Free Flight Competition"



Table of Contents
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SCAT 40 th Banquet
MaxMen Entries - reminder - - Slobat
Ode to a high flying Bird/King
SAN VALEERS 51st ANNUAL - Thorkildsen
Banjo musicians - Janke
Next World Champs ballardeer ? - Batiuk
Bob's mistake ? - Pisherchio

SCAT 40 th Banquet
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This Saturday lunch time ! ...


MaxMen Entries - reminder
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Roger, been receiving lots of Maxmen entries from flyers outside of
California, but very few locals. Maybe you could do a little reminder=
for me? I will bring extra entry forms with me Saturday, if anyone is
interested in taking care of it then. GB



Ode to a high flying Bird/King
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Responding to those discerning FF jazz lovers on this wavelength, I must
take this moment
to thank and applaud Mr. Peter King for the great sounds he has recorded
in the Charlie Parker
style. Mike Fantham gave me my first musical exposure to Pete's sound
in '95 when he=20
played "A Tribute To Charlie Parker" (CD on Continuum Group Records,
#19201-2). I was
blown away, to say the least, soon adding a copy to my jazz collection,
which is playing as I write this.
I highly recommend it to all other jazz loving SEN readers.
Thanks to Pete for the jazz web site listings. I bookmarked them
immediately!
You must please let us know when you are coming to the LA area for a
gig. I hope it's soon!
Ciao, Lee Hines



SAN VALEERS 51st ANNUAL
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Hi Roger
I don't know if I already sent you a copy of this contest flyer for our San
Valeers annual but it will be held on April 8 and 9th at Taft and will be a
National cup contest. We have F1A, F1B ,F1J, international postal coupe
along with our usual AMA and Nostalgia events. We always give great prizes
and anyone that is interested in attending and needs a flyer can send me an
Email request & I can E mail them or by snail mail if that is not available.

Thermals,

Terry Thorkildsen


simple ?! ASCII version of flyer below



SAN VALEERS 51st New Millennium ANNUAL
& 18th ANNUAL 7 ROUNDER
APRIL 8 & 9, 2000 TAFT, CA.
A NATIONAL CUP & AA SANCTIONED CONTEST
3 MILES EAST OF TAFT ON GARDNER FIELD ROAD
CANNON BALL RUN
SATURDAY 6:30 TO 8:00 AM
RULES:ANY GAS MODEL 7 SEC ENGINE RUN. TIME TO THE GROUND.
TOTAL OF BEST TWO FLIGHTS WINS!!!!! $3.00 ENTRY FOR UNLIMITED
NUMBER OF FLIGHTS.

AMA CAT II & NOSTALGIA CAT II(ALT*) (WEATHER PERMITTING)
SATURDAY 8 TO 5 SUNDAY 8 TO 3 BOTH DAYS
1/2A GAS A GAS P-30
B GAS D GAS CATAPULT GLIDER
C GAS MULVIHILL (ALL FLIGHTS SAME DAY
A-1 STRAIGHT TOW H. L. GLIDER FOR EACH ENTRY)
1/4A GAS(15SEC VTO,12SEC HL) A/B/C NOSTALGIA
1/2A NOSTALGIA INTERN'L POSTAL COUPE
SLOW GAS* (9 Sec) 1/4A Flyoff 7:30 to 7:45 AM (Slow gas
flyoff @ 5:30 PM)


F1A NORDIC - FIB WAKEFIELD - F1J SMALL POWER
SATURDAY 9 AM TO 3 PM
7 ROUNDER RULES: 1ST ROUND 9 TO 10 AM WITH 3.5,4,& 3 MIN.MAX FOR F1A,F1B,& F1J
RESPECTIVELY, AT CD DISCRETION(WEATHER PERMITTING) THEREAFTER, EACH ROUND WILL
BE ONE HOUR.(3 MIN MAX) (2 MIN MAX F1J) FLYOFFS WILL BEGIN AT 4 PM


BOB HUNTER MEMORIAL
RULES:ANY GAS FREE FLIGHT AIRPLANE. 15 SEC. VTO, 12 SEC. H.L.
HIGHEST SINGLE FLIGHT TIME (NO MAX) SUNDAY MORNING 6:17 TO 7:17 AM
ENTRY FEE ($1.00 PER FLIGHT) SPONSORED BY MIKE THOMPSON
PERPETUAL TROPHY : A PERPETUAL TROPHY FOR THE HIGHEST TIME IN
ANY AMA GAS EVENT WITH AN ORIGINAL DESIGN FLOWN BY THE
DESIGNER OF THE MODEL
(PREVIOUS WINNING DESIGN NOT ELIGIBLE) SPONSORED BY RALPH PREY
*SLOW GAS RULES: No builder of the model rule, no auto
surfaces, single bypass stock engines only(except TD's.049-
.051),15% nitro max, three maxes and one flyoff to the ground.
BOM RULE enforced on AMA and Nostalgia events except as noted
above.
*Nostalgia per rulebook no. 7 except motor runs which shall
be:10sec HL,13secVTO 1st 3 flights,8 & 11 on 4th flight, 6 & 9 on 5th and all
other flights

*****Free Raffle for K & B 3.5 for all gas power flyers*****
MERCHANDISE AWARDS (engines, kits, fuel, rubber, wood, etc) TROPHIES FOR JRS
CD: TERRY THORKILDSEN (805)495-6135 ASST. CD: RALPH PREY
(310)671-8695

REGISTRATION $4.00 ENTRY $4.00 JRS FREE
JUNIOR EVENTS: CATAPULT GLIDER, H.L. GLIDER, 1/2A GAS, P-30
********JAY SLOAN ON THE FIELD DINING HALL ALL WEEKEND********
"JUST BRING YOUR MODELS AND SLEEPING BAG AND HAVE FUN"


Banjo musicians
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Roger,

I too have a musical story to tell. It happened at the Eloy, AZ meet in
1993, with Hardy and Don Chesson.

I was flying an older wakefield to which I had added auto surfaces. The
monofilament lines ran very prominently along the top of the motor tube.
Hardy made a crack about my model being "strung like a banjo", or something
to that affect. Later in the meet I did some serious damage to my model
rendering it unflyable. Soon thereafter Hardy broke the DT line on his F1C.
In spite of a time crunch, Hardy went back to the hotel to get the stuff to
run a new DT line. Don and I were concerned about his ability to be ready
before the end of the next round. So while Hardy was gone we pulled two
lines out of my wake, tied them together and ran them all the way along the
outside of the fuselage from the stab to the timer. Unfortunately we
couldn't hook the line to the timer so we rigged up a fuse DT. Hardy was a
bit skeptical about our repair but flew it anyway. If I remember correctly
it got him through one or two rounds and into the first flyoff... which he
dropped with a short fuse.

With much respect,

Banjo

Next World Champs ballardeer ?
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Roger, Actually, Andriukov is a very accomplished guitar player and folk
singer, although you who be hard pressed to get him to admit. We have spent
several late evenings at the Andriukov abode being serenaded by Alex, after
a few dips in the bottle, of course. But please be aware that they are
usually Russian folk songs! George Batiuk

[Now that Alex has been here a while - will we see him performing on
the stage at the next world champs with Andy Crisp and Dave Roundsaville?]


Bob's mistake ?
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Dear Roger,

More on musicians......Bob Piserchio is a pianist and Don Zink is great
on the trumpet. Bob was a music major until he changed his major to
physics.


Thanks, Connie Piserchio

[Does this mean that if Bob had stayed with music he
would have done better in the contest results ?]


.......
Roger Morrell