This is our story and we are sticking to it.  This years Tangent Classic provided a wonderful day for flying the bigs and brutal conditions for the minis.  The weather on Friday for the bigs was overcast and cool with good, although sometimes tricky air so models were doing three minutes and landing softly in the grass stubble on our primary field through five rounds.  The breeze picked up in round six putting us across  the road and not it a great place to land so we moved the line for round seven and cut the max to 120 seconds to make sure the models landed undamaged in our secondary field and over the "Ken Bauer" autographed high tension power lines.

The F1 A battle came down to max outs for Jim Parker and Mike McKeever to enter the morning fly off.  Don Zink missed only round three and round two collected drops from Pierre, Norm and Lee.  Mike and Jim put on a great show the next morning with Mike coming out on top, collecting the Wayne Drake trophy as well as top Americas Cup points.  Note, the conditions for the fly offs were good early in the morning but would change as the day progressed for the minis.

Five F1 B flyers were clean through four rounds but round five claimed Jack Emery dropping seven seconds and Blake Jensen having a terrible flight.  This left the three "Max Men", George Batiuk, Rich Rohrke and Marty Schroedter trying to make the fly off and all three did.  Marty shot a test before the start of the fly off which did not look great when the model did not stay in the turn during power then stalled.  Then he could not get the model apart to reload but stayed cool with George helping to get the old rubber and hook out.  A few tweeks on the trim and Marty was our winner in F1 B with Rich coming in second and George third...neat flight.

There were three bone heads entered in F1 C all trying desperately to do something stupid.  Ron started us off with an off song engine not yet warmed up resulting in a first round drop.  Eddie came back in round two with an engine run that went lean leading to huge loss of altitude and a drop.  I changed models in round four due to a cracked tailboom on my # 1 model, then short DT ed because I had not checked the timer since an overhaul, however, I had the least of the mistakes for the win.

Mini day was brutal with the breeze really kicking up and lots of sun creating boomer thermals for the light  weight models.  We quickly moved the line as the models were drifting well into the secondary and adjoining fields.  Mark Belfield and Tiffany O'Dell put up max after max through six rounds.  Mark crashed his primary model in round seven but stayed cool and patient with his second model and maxed as time got close.  In the morning fly off Mark did not get clean burn through on the down stab line so the model kept pushing down after launch for a very short flight.  Tiffany, on the other hand, had a perfect flight doing over four minutes for the win.

F1 H was another Parker, McKeever dual to the end.  Both Norm Smith and Jon Davis had drops but Jon's was really bad giving Norm third.  The morning fly off had Mike running after Jim as they both tried to find air and advantage.  Jim found the better air to pull off the win with Mike second.  Eddie Carroll won F1 J, and Frank Pollard F1 Q.

Here are the numbers:

F1 A

1.   Mike McKeever                1432

2.   Jim Parker                        1404

3.   Don Zink                            1190

4.   Lee Hines                          1168

5.   Norm Smith                       1090

6.   Pierre Brun                         961

F1 B

1.   Marty Schroedter              1519

2.   Rich Rohrke                       1477

3.   George Batiuk                   1429

4.   Jack Emery                        1193

5.   Mark Belfield                      1075

6.   Gene Jensen                      1027

7.   Blake Jensen                       994

8.   Al Ulm                                   637

F1 C

1.   Mike Roberts                      1180

2.   Ed Carroll                            1154

3.   Ron Mc Burnett                   1099

F1 P

1.   Dave Parsons                       728

F1 G  

1.   Tiffany O'Dell                        843

2.   Mark Belfield                        630

3.   George Batiuk                     240

F1 H

1.   Jim Parker                            786

2.   Mike McKeever                    756

3.   Norm Smith                           538

4.   Jon Davis                              527

F1 J

1.  Ed Carroll                               391

2.  Dave Parsons                        120

F1 Q

1.  Frank Pollard                          211

And thats the news from the Great White North.

Mike & Ron