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National Miniature Pylon Racing Association • Since 1965 • AMA Affiliated • December 2006
Presidential Notes
Hello everyone,
Well, this year is about done. I hope everyone had a goodThanksgiving; I trust you didn’t eat too much. Then there’sChristmas in just a few weeks – more food to consume andmaybe a new toy or two. I hope you get what you’rewishing for.
Then you ask what happened to the October newsletter?The August newsletter is the last one shown on theNMPRA website. Well, if you were a paying member as ofthe 1st of October, you received a special mailing of theNMPRA membership list with contact information and aballot for the election of the 2007 officers. For privacyreasons, we do not post members’ contact information onthe website. If you didn’t receive your mailing and youbelieve you were a member, please contact David Doyleand give him a chance to check it out. If you’re not acurrent member, please consider joining to support theorganization; we need you.
The 2006 NMPRA Q-40 Championship Race was asuccess; we didn’t have as many entrants as I had hopedto see, but the racing was very competitive.Congratulations to Dub Jett for winning first place; fast timewent to Mike Helsel. I did something a little different thistime so that no one went home empty-handed; eachentrant received a nice keepsake for the race; theresponse seemed positive so we will try it again next year.
In the August newsletter, I mentioned that the World F3Dcompetition will be held the week prior to our pylon event;I hope you can make it to both, even though it requires abig time commitment. I checked the AMA web site a fewdays ago and saw that it shows the current schedule forboth events; the AMA pylon schedule will be a bit changedfrom the past due to the World event. The dates are asfollows: F3D will be June 23rd thru the 28th and the AMApylon NATS will June 29th thru July 4th. July 4th is aWednesday; that’s different as we normally finish on aFriday. I look forward to seeing you there.
NEW MEMBERS
I want to welcome and recognize the following newmembers. If you know any of these people, please besure to thank them for joining the NMPRA and helping tosupport pylon racing. We are now over 200 membersstrong; that’s more members than we have had in manyyears. We need more members, both young and not soyoung.
Scott Causey of Springfield, MOJody Haack of Tacoma, WAJohn Lake, Jr. of Kingsland, GATony Matosich of Kissimmee, FLAlexandris, Russell of Chattaroy, WADan Uledahl of Kansas City, MO
I also want to recognize Lee Von Der Hey who isreturning after being out for about seven years. Lee wasat the Championship race in Medford and flying verywell.
Thanks for joining us folks.
RULES, RULES, RULES!!
We have rules for a reason, and we all need to follow therules; we all seek to find that little extra that will give usan advantage so that we can win, but to do so by notfollowing the rules is, well, cheating. May I remind youthat a few years ago we voted in the use of the APC propin Q-40; we have been using the APC prop in Q-500 forseveral years. In the August newsletter I mentioned thatmodifying the APC props is against the rules. Now I’mhearing that there may be a source of “carbon fiber”props other than APC; I haven’t been able to verify this,but you should be aware of the possibility that they mayexist. I must point out that the only AMA legal “carbonfiber” props are those produced by APC (LandingProducts.) In other words, if it is a “carbon fiber” injectedmolded prop (non-wooden) and it wasn’t manufacturedby Landing Products under the name of APC, it is NOTlegal in any AMA Q-40 or Q-500 contest. But then, Ishouldn’t have to tell you that, should I?
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NATIONAL POINTS
Joanne Coffey has submitted theyear-end results for AMA 422 and theQ-40 Championship Series for 2006,and Barry Leavengood has submittedthe results for AMA 424 and 428;those results are listed elsewhere inthis newsletter. I apologize that wedidn’t have them sooner, but therewas a problem in receiving somedistrict points. Congratulations to all,and thanks for competing.
NMPRA CHAMPIONSHIP RACESERIES FOR 2007
We will try another year with theseries; the dates for the series racesthat are firm are shown below.Something to consider: while at theChampionship race in Medford, BruceCoffey suggested that we considerincluding 424 along with theChampionship Series races. I alsotalked with Barry Leavengood while Iwas preparing this article, and his firstthought was that we should include428, but then agreed that 424 wouldbe good. I know with the number ofentries we get at Phoenix, we couldn’tadd 424 to that race, but it could workwell at the other races. In fact, we didinclude 424 at the 2006 series race inFort Lauderdale, and it worked verywell. Do you have any comments?Would you support it?
Phoenix, AZFebruary 23rd thru 25th
Ft. Lauderdale, FLApril 20th thru 23rd
Bowie, MDJune 8th thru 10th
I’m still looking for at least one morerace host plus a host for the Q-40Championship Race; theChampionship Race should be on theEast coast in 2007.
NMPRA OFFICERS FOR 2007
The votes are in; David Doyle hascounted them and Gloria Doyle hasverified the count. I will remain asPresident for another year; I receiveda few more votes than my opponentso I won, or did I lose? Anyway, I havethe position for another year, and I willdo my best to steer us in the rightdirection. As always, I am open toyour suggestions; in fact, I need yourhelp; let me know your thoughts andwhat you would like to see us do.
We also have two changes in thedistrict V.P. positions:
Dan Nalley won the district 2 positionby one vote over Matt Russell.Welcome aboard, Dan. Thanks foryour support, Matt.
In district 5 Dan Kane has steppeddown, and Bernie Vanderleest hasvolunteered to replace him. Thanks,Bernie. Thanks for your support, Dan.
All the other positions remainunchanged.
Did you know? Do you care? Of theover 200 members we currently have,only 42 returned the ballot; that’sabout 19% of our members voting.Pretty sad, wouldn’t you say?
NEW ITEMS TO CONSIDER
APC Q-40 Prop – I have just receivednotice that APC has produced a newprop and that it has been approved bythe chairman of the Contest Board.The new prop is designated APC 7.4 X7.5.
STARTING CLOCK – Pete Reedinforms me that he has been able tofind a source for the spring-woundmechanism for a starting clock. Petewill build a starting clock for your clubfor $85.00 plus shipping. The clockin the picture he sent looks great.Pete may be reached at (603) 532-8975 or [email protected].
TACHOMETER – I recently send myTNC tach to Mike Helsel, the maker ofthe new BB Wheels (nice wheels!).Mike sent it back after installing theinternal parts in a new case. The casehas a removal hatch for batteryaccess and an easy-to-press button toread the RPM. All in all it makes for anice package. See Mike’s adelsewhere in this newsletter forcontact information.
That’s it for this issue. I wish you thebest in your racing endeavors. I alsowish you a Merry Christmas and aHappy New Year!
Bob Brogdon
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District 1, Travis Flynn
Aloha District One!! I am writing alohabecause right now I am finishing myreport from my patio in Maui. I amhere for Randy Bridge’s wedding -who is now officially married to Shana.Congratulations!
It has been a few months since ourlast real article with a lot of racinggoing on. I will start by giving a littlerecap of my F5D World’s trip. DanKane, Gary Freeman Jr., Drew Telford,and I spent 2 weeks in Romaniaseeing a different part of the world. Itwas for sure an adventure and one wewill not soon forget. It all started withnot one of Danny’s luggage showingup. We spent the next few daysdriving back and forth to the airport tocollect all of his equipment. Yeah, canyou imagine flying over 14 hours to acompetition and not one of yourplanes was there, let alone anyclothes. Luckily, before thecompetition started, he collected all ofthe necessary stuff. In F5D before theworld’s begins, they have a pre-world’s competition to get all of theworkers accustomed to how the raceshould be run. This was a really goodthing because I was in the first heat,and the starter says to me, “Can I seeyour remote control?” He then tellsme that he has never seen a radiocontrol plane, let alone a race, and heis our starter. Needless to say, the firstday and a half was re-flown andactually restarted. So we really got ina lot of test flying which was a goodthing. At the end of the pre-worlds,Dan did the best, coming in secondplace only one second out of first.
Now to the actual world’s. Thiscompetition was run much moresmoothly now, and we got in 16 fullrounds over four days. All of us didreally well, but we could tell prettyearly on that the Germans had donetheir homework again and that wewould be fighting for second place. Bythe end of the fourth day, it wasofficial: Dan Kane came in 6th;I camein 7th,and Gary came in 9th,and as ateam we finished in the silver and gota very nice medal to take home. Allthree of us need to thank Drew for
being an awesome caller and walkingback and forth to the line over 75 timesfor us. I almost forgot to mention theGerman who won, Christian Roesler,had come in first by 30 seconds oversecond place, and in his last roundsturned a 56-second time.Unfortunately, he had one cut but witha 10 percent penalty he still turned a61-second time which is the record byover 5 seconds. His work for surepaid off.
This Worlds was definitely one of themost fun races I have been to. Wespent many of the nights drinking andtelling race stories with the Germans,Belgiums, Fins, and, of course, theCanadians. I want to thank all of youdistrict guys who helped support thisteam so that we could represent theUSA in Romania.
Now back home we had some moreracing. While I was gone, there was arace in Medford, Oregon, that I knowmany of our district guys went to. It isgreat to hear that you guys aretraveling and supporting races otherthan just the local ones. I don’t havethe results, but from what I understandthe new team of Matias Salar andScott McAfee did their part torepresent our district. These guyshave been practicing and reallyworking at it, so good job on yourfinishes.
The next race was the last race for theNMPRA season at the SepulvedaBasin on September 30th and October1st. This was a great race actually puton by the Whittier Narrows club sincetheir field was not available at thetime. We had about 50 entries for thethree classes, and we got in 5 roundson Saturday. With the shorter daysand that many entries we were forsure hustling to fly that many rounds.Thanks to all of the workers we got itdone. Here are the results from thetwo different days.
9-30-06424 Q5001st Dan Coe F/T 1:30:602nd Denis Lyon3rd Jim Padelt
428 Q5001st Fred Burgdorf2nd Gary Schmidt3rd Jim AllenF/T Travis Flynn 1:03:96
422 Q401st Jim Allen2nd Fred Burgdorf F/T 1:01:273rd Scott McAfee
10-01-06424 Q5001st Denis Lyon2nd David Gavin3rd Pietro PalumboF/T Martin Scott 1:37:23 (back inaction)
428 Q5001st Jim Allen2nd Gino Delponte3rd Travis Flynn F/T 1:04:56
422 Q401st Travis Flynn2nd Clark Leadbetter3rd Tim LimeF/T Jim Allen 1:01:94
My next contest was in Parker,Arizona, where I got an opportunity tofly in a Giant Scale Race. For those ofyou who have not seen it, they arereally very cool. These planes arehuge with wing spans over 10 feet!The plane I got to fly was a Cassutt F1built from scratch by Craig Greening.The plane flew absolutely fantastic.Another district one guy Tim Lime gotthe same opportunity to fly anotherscratch-built Cassutt. Also DougKillebrew was out there flying anunlimited Rare Bear with a 290ccengine. That thing was awesome.Their kind of racing is different fromours where you only race 6 laps in
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2007 Schedule
February 23-25 Phoenix, AZ
April 20-23 Ft. Lauderdale, FL
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District Newsfront of yourself. We all compete in 5rounds to qualify for the gold or silverfinal race. Tim and I made it into thesilver and got to duke it out for thesilver title. Our race was great, but wewere both a little too aggressive, andwith cuts it put Tim in second and mein fifth. Either way, it was a funexperience that I hope I can do again.The most important thing is by Tim,Doug, and I being out there, I think wehave convinced a few guys to comeand try some Q40 or Q500. In fact,the next weekend in Phoenix, MartinTreat, the USRA president, came outto that race and is now very interestedin flying with us.
Now to the next race which is the lastcontest for the West Coast Series andalso the last race for the year in ourdistrict. We again had over 50 entriesin the three classes finishing 5 roundson Saturday and 4 on Sunday leavingtime for the prize giving. The racingwas great as always, but I think thebest race was the fly-off in Q40 onSaturday between Matias Salar, ClarkLeadbetter, and Gino DelPonte.These guys had a great race for all 10laps with Matias coming out on top.Here are the results from the twodays.
10-04-06424 Q5001st Tom Skavinski F/T 1:39:742nd Jim Padelt3rd Greg Clifton
428 Q5001st Fred Burgdorf F/T 1:08:202nd Tony Lopez3rd Scott McAfee
422 Q401st Matias Salar2nd Clark Leadbetter3rd Gino DelponteF/T Fred Burgdorf 1:02:37
10-05-06424 Q5001st Tom Skavinski F/T 1:35:762nd Don Leonard3rd Greg Clifton
428 Q5001st Fred Burgdorf2nd Tony Lopez3rd Gary ScmidtF/T Gino Delponte 1:09:34
422 Q401st Gary Schmidt2nd Gino Delponte3rd Mike TallmanF/T Matias Salar 1:04:29
This being the end of the West CoastSeries there were some great prizesgiven away to all of the top finishers,and I am sorry but I don’t have theresults for all the winners, but I doknow that Gino Delponte was thechamp in both 428 and 422. Greatjob, Gino!
Well, that’s about it for now and thanksfor electing me to be your district VPagain for the 3rd year. Oh yeah, I wasthe only one running. LOL!!
Keep practicing!!Travis Flynn
District 2 - Matt Russell
Well Folks,
The people have spoken. We have aCongress and Senate controlled byanother party, and so do we have anew but familiar influence in District 2.Congratulations to Dan Nalley onhaving won his bid for District 2 V. P.I’m sure Dan will serve you well.
Most of what has happened in District2 this year has been coveredelsewhere. The unfortunate thing hasbeen the cancellation of 3 differentrace weekends due to lack of supportfor the schedule. I would really like tosee a formal program for schedulingraces on both a national and local
level. We already have conflictingrace dates in District 2 and District 3 in2007. This won’t help attendance ateither venue. I have asked forplanned race dates from varioussources and received little response.For those of you that have responded- Thank You!
If you have read my earlier posts, youare aware that the NWPRA inSpokane developed a wireless racecourse system. I have been workingwith Jim Allen in an effort to produce asystem for the AMA to use at theWorld Championships and the Nats.Our goal has been to refine thesystem, reduce the parts count, andhave something that could beprovided to other clubs. We have hadfair success with the Spektrum radios,but have always envisioned a systemwhich utilizes wireless modems and aminimum of electronics. We areworking toward that goal and haveidentified components with a provenhistory in the field and are hoping tohave a working system to run at one ofthe races in Phoenix this winter. If youare interested in our work, let me knowand I will send you a documentregarding our progress.
Although I won’t be writing forNMPRA, I still have lots of things to doas I have partnered with BrucedeChastle to bring the GR-7 to marketin the U.S. Check it out atwww.russellracin.com. My daughterand I are looking forward to racing afull schedule this year. Hopefully we’llsee you at a race somewhere.
I hope you all have a safe and happyholiday season.
Wish us luck!
—Matt Russell
509-869-6300
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District NewsDistrict 3 - Richard Moldenhauer
Racing season is definitely over. As Iwrite this, the thermometer outsidereads -22 degrees C. Not much elseto do but reminisce over the goodtimes we had during the past racingseason.
This season the top honors for highestdistrict points in the Quickie eventwent to Russ Bouchard of Regina.Second place was Cecil Graval ofCalgary, and third went to DougHouston of Calgary. The fastest timein Quickie this season was set byRuss Bouchard with a ten-lap time of1:05.15 set at the districtchampionships in Saskatoon. Keep inmind that we race on the two-mileshort course and run the Webra Qpylon motor and the Nelson Quickiemotor with non-tuned expansionchamber muffler.
Top honors in the Quarter 40 eventwent to Doug Houston of Calgary.Second place was Murray Hamula ofCrossfield, AB, and third went toRichard Moldenhauer of Saskatoon.The fastest time in the district thisseason was set by Randy Smith with aten-lap time of 1:04.11 set at thedistrict championships in Saskatoon.
The overall Grand Champion for totalcombined Quickie and Q40 points wasCecil Graval. However, I didn’t realizeit until adding up points for this article,but Doug Houston was only 0.9 pointsbelow Cecil out of a total of 545 totalpoints!!! That’s incredibly close. Goodracing, boys.
In August, our Canadian electric pylonracing team traveled to Romaniaminus toothpaste, mouth wash, and lipbalm in their luggage but managed avery respectable team placing of 4thplace out of eight international teams.This is a huge improvement over 2004when the Canadian team finisheddead last. Great job, guys, a realimprovement for sure. I’m sure 2008
could see Canada on the medalpodium. Congratulations to RoyAndrassy and Peter Thannhauser ofCalgary, Terence Palaschuk ofRegina, and Delbert Godon, teammanager, from Airdrie, AB. The bestCanadian individual performancecame from Roy Andrassy flying aclean set of 16 rounds without anyheat disqualifications or equipmentfailures. Roy placed 11th out of 22pilots.
More with respect to internationalcompetition, the Canadian F3D teamselection trials were held at theRegina Windy Flyers club field on theweekend of Sept. 9-10, 2006 for thepurpose of choosing a team for theworld championships scheduled forJune 30-July 4, 2007 to be held inMuncie. Earlier in the year, HaroldSattler and Jeremy Voth gave noticeof their intention to attend the tryout.Murray Hamula announced hisintention in July.
[Editor’s note: According to the AMAwebsite and F3D website, the worldF3D is scheduled for June 23 – June28.
The trials were held on a cold, windyfall day but enough official flights werecompleted to meet the requirementsfor selecting a team. The fastestqualifying time was posted by Haroldwith a time of 64 seconds. Jeremyplaced second and Murray qualified inthird place.
There were some problems withstarting the engines in the coolertemps and keeping them running untiloperating temperatures were reached.Mechanical problems wereencountered that are certainlydifferent from those we normally seein Quickie or Q-40. The team willneed to overcome these with morepractice and de-bugging time.
Randy Smith
L to R: Terence Palaschuk, RoyAndrassy, Peter Thannhauser, and
Delbert Godon (rear) represent Canadain the F5D Electric Pylon Racing world
championships in Pitesti, Romania.
L to R: Murray Hamula, Harold Sattler, andJeremy Voth will represent Canada in the
F3D Pylon Racing world championships inMuncie, Indiana in 2007.
District 4 - John Williams
no article submitted
District 5, Bernie Vanderleest
The 2006 racing season is now over inDistrict 5, but there are still severalraces to report on.
The Toledo Weak Signals club held atwo-day 424 race on July 29 and 30.This is an excellent site for pylonracing, and 14 pilots competed onboth Saturday and Sunday. Theweather was extremely hot for thispart of the country with temperaturesin the 90s and high humidity bothdays. All of the pilots and workerswere very grateful for the freeGatorade and soft drinks. Jeff
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District NewsAdamisin was as hot as the weather,taking home first place and fast timehonors on both days.
CAPS - Toledo, OH - July 29
1. Jeff Adamisin – FT: 1:37.682. Mark Warning3. Bill Johanson4. Darwin Larson5. Bernie Vanderleest6. Mick Warning7. Jim Nikodem8. Dave Carpenter9. Fred Johanson10. Kevin Matney11. Peter Johnson12. Ben Martin13. Ray Blake14. Dave Keats
L to R: Mark Warning, Jeff Adamisin,Archie Adamisin – CD, Bill Johanson
CAPS - Toledo, OH - July 30
1. Jeff Adamisin - FT: 1:33.302. Kevin Matney3. Mark Warning4. Bill Johanson5. Darwin Larson6. Fred Johanson7. Jim Nikodem8. Bernie Vanderleest9. Dave Keats10. Ben Martin11. Dick Peebles12. Peter Johnson13. Dave Carpenter14. Mick Warning
L to R: Bernie Vanderleest, MarkWarning, Kevin Matney, ArchieAdamisin – CD, Jeff Adamisin
The Calumet Flyers Club held a 424race in Hilbert, WI, on August 26.Mick Warning provided the followingreport:
WIPRO - Hilbert, WI - August 26
A total of 9 pilots were ready to go forthis event, but it got off to a slow startdue to foggy and misty conditions. Afew “brave” pilots managed some trimflights by keeping their planes withineyeshot, and eventually it wasdetermined that this was as good asit’s going to get….let’s go racing! Thiswas a day of few mishaps, which wasin sharp contrast to last year when wediggered about 8 planes.
Mark Warning had flight problemsright out of the box, and after zeroing3 rounds, he finally discovered that thehinge line tape on the tail was comingloose and messing up the tail aero.No problems after the tape wasremoved! At the lunch break it lookedas if the race would be determinedamong 4 guys. Darwin Larsoneliminated himself from the runningafter a takeoff midair with MalcolmReynolds. Jim Nikodem lost to BernieVanderleest before lunch, but thenredeemed himself twice in theafternoon. Jim also edged MickWarning in their only match, whichended up handing the overall victoryto Jim. The results ended up like this:
1. Jim Nikodem – FT: 1:31.42. Mick Warning3. Bernie Vanderleest4. Darwin Larson5. Orv Steinmetz6. Malcolm Reynolds7. Mark Warning8. George Reynolds9. Dan Steinmetz
L to R: Mick Warning, Darwin Larson,Jim Nikodem, Mark Warning, Bernie
Vanderleest, Carl Dvorak
The second annual CAPS IndyShootout was held at the AMA flyingsite in Muncie, IN, on September 9 &10. The race was well attended withmost states in District 5 beingrepresented. We also welcomedseveral competitors from outside theDistrict. The CAPS format of 424 &428 on Saturday and 424 & 422 onSunday provided plenty of action forall racing interests.
CAPS - Muncie, IN - September 9 - 424
1. Archie Adamisin Jr. – FT: 1:46.262. Bernie Vanderleest3. Darwin Larson4. Archie Adamisin Sr.5. George Reynolds6. Nick McKee7. Jim Nikodem8. Mick Warning9. Ray Blake10. Scott Causey11. Donald Haney12. Ben Martin13. Malcolm Reynolds
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L to R: Bernie Vanderleest, ArchieAdamisin Jr., Darwin Larson
CAPS - Muncie, IN - September 9 - 428
1. Terry Frazer2. Jeff Berg – FT: 1:13.683. Ed Smith4. Archie Adamisin Jr.5. A.J. Seaholm6. Jeff Adamisin7. Jim Nikodem8. Mike Eden9. Ray Hendricksma10. Mike Spencer11. Gary Helton12. Tom Scott13. Kevin Matney14. Dan Ulledahl15. Mike DeNeve16. Graig Grunkemeyer
CAPS - Muncie, IN – September 10 - 424
1. Bernie Vanderleest – FT: 1:37.462. Jim Nikodem3. Kevin Matney4. Darwin Larson5. Mick Warning6. Scott Causey7. Archie Adamisin Jr.8. Nick McKee9. George Reynolds10. Dan Ulledahl11. Donald Haney12. Archie Adamisin Sr.13. Malcolm Reynolds
CAPS - Muncie, IN - September 10 - 422
1. Tom Scott2. Dan Kane3. Craig Grunkemeyer – FT: 1:04.664. A.J. Seaholm5. Mike Spencer6. Terry Frazer7. Mike Eden8. Ray Blake9. Gary Helton10. Jeff Adamisin11. Jim Nikodem12. Ben Martin13. Ray Hendricksma
The Wisconsin & Illinois Pylon RacingOrganization closed out the 2006 424racing season at the Fox Valley AeroClub field in St. Charles, IL, onSeptember 23 and 24. Final resultsare as follows:
WIPRO - St. Charles, IL -September 23
1. Bernie Vanderleest - FT: 1:38.02. Mick Warning3. Mark Warning4. Jim Nikodem5. Darwin Larson6. Orv Steinmetz7. Keith Begin8. Alan Galle9. Steven Nikodem10. George Reynolds11. Jim Hagner12. Norm Johnson
WIPRO - St. Charles, IL –September 24
1. Darwin Larson – FT: 1:41.02. Mick Warning3. Bernie Vanderleest4. Jim Nikodem5. Keith Begin6. Mark Warning7. Steven Nikodem8. Alan Galle9. George Reynolds10. Norm Johnson11. Jim Nikodem12. Wayne Waller
L to R: Mick Warning, Darwin Larson,Bernie Vanderleest
The NCPL group in the Twin Citiesheld a first-time 422 race in Amery, WI,on September 2 with the followingresults:
1. Dave Norman2. Jerry Bednark3. Jerry Elert4. Kent Haas5. Randy Etken6. Pat Garlarneault7. Jesse Platt8. Lee LaValley9. Phil Zuidema10. Dan Norlin
The turnout was good for the NCPLshootout on 10/7/06 - finishing order:
Expert:
1. Dave Norman2. Randy Etken3. Chuck Eldridge4. Ron Gage5. Kent Haas6. Anthony Hemken7. Don Luce8. Dan Norlin9. Jesse Platt10. Jerry Bednark11. Jerry Elert12. Lee LaValley13. Pat Garlarneault14. Al Schwartz15. Richard Steine16. Del Berryman17. Greg HemkenL to R: Bernie
Vanderleest,Jim Nikodem,Kevin Matney
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District NewsStandard:
1. Neil Fogelsong2. Don Granlund Jr.3. Bill Hemple4. Bill Ervin
More information on District 5activities can be found at
CAPS www.capsracing.comNCPL www.ncplracing.orgWIPRO www.q500424.com
Regards,
Bernie
District 6 - Steve Baker
In the time that has transpired sincemy last column, several races wereheld in District 6. The following areresults submitted from the NEPROgroup. Fast times for each raceappear in bold type.
First we have the results of a 2-day,424 race featuring Standard andExpert classes, flown August 12 and13 in Ellington, CT.
Saturday’s results for the Standardclass were as follows:
Saturday’s results for the Expertclass were as follows:
Sunday’s results for the Standardclass were as follows:
Sunday’s results for the Expert classwere as follows:
The following are results from the 424Hadley, MA, race held on Sept. 17.These are combined Standard andExpert classes; however, the CD kepttrack of the positions of StandardClass competitors and annotated thereport to show that Russell Levy took1st, Ken Roberts took 2nd, and MikeDerosa took 3rd in the Standard class.The overall results are as follows (Ihope I got this correct, guys):
Last but not least, the PGRC held theNMPRA District 6 Championship Raceon October 14. Unfortunately, thecalm morning air turned into anabsolutely howling gale by latemorning, and the 428 racing had to becancelled due to lack of willingcontestants.
At any rate, here are the results for the424 racing:
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District NewsFor now, the racing season in theNortheast is over for 2006. I wasunable to make it to the SouthCarolina race, and I’m curious tolearn how it went. Maybe next time,Marcus.
For 2007, my goal is to build ormodify an existing 428 Quickie tocarry one of the lightweight videocameras and race with it in actualheats. If anyone beats me to it,please send me a link or the file toview the footage.
As a follow-up to my last update onthe status of the PGRC Field, theMaryland National Capital Park andPlanning Commission finally tookownership of our site, and we are inthe process finalizing our new leasewith them. We anticipate things to goon seamlessly from now on and farinto the future.
That’s it for this installment. Untilthen, guys, be good to your wivesand kids because Christmas iscoming and they know what you like.
Steve BakerDistrict 6 VP
District 7- Tom Dobyns
With the completion of our final racefor the 2005-2006 season held in Ft.Lauderdale by the Markham ParkPilots Association, we then movedright into our first three races of thenew season. We look forward to agood season again this year with newadditions to our racing schedule andattendance slowly climbing at eachrace. But first I will tell you whofinished on top in our district. Aftermany close and exciting races, manyclose calls, and several midairs, thefinal results are
424:
1st) Jack Fehling
2nd) Charlie Kline
3rd) Scott Smith
4th) Tony Matosich
5th) Lindwell Bradley
428:
1st) Stephen Vaclav
2nd) J.D. Glass
3rd) Matthew Fehling
4th) Dennis O’Brien
5th) Tim Yousey
422:
1st) Randy Bridge
2nd) Gary Freeman Jr.
3rd) Gary Freeman Sr.
Congratulations to them all as well asto the rest who competed in many ofour few races held this past season.Several of our 424 racers havechosen this past year to move up outof 424 and take on the daunting taskof flying 428 and beginning thelearning process all over again. I’msure we will start seeing their namesat the top of the winners list soon.
The Imperial R/C Club held our firstrace of the season in Mulberry, FL.They did another outstanding job andeveryone had a good time. We lookforward to racing there many moretimes in the future. The results can befound in our district newsletter, but thetop five in each class were:
424 Saturday:
1st) Doug Jones
2nd) Scott Smith
3rd) Jack Fehling
4th) Doug Bebensee
5th) Dan Warner
424 Sunday:
1st) Dan Warner
2nd) Rick Ruede
3rd) Jack Fehling
4th) Doug Jones
5th) Allen Sale
428 Saturday:
1st) Gary Freeman Jr.
2nd) Gary Freeman Sr.
3rd) Jonathan Perdue
4th) Vern Smith
5th) J.D. Glass
428 Sunday:
1st) Gary Freeman Jr.
2nd) J.D. Glass
3rd) Gary Freeman Sr.
4th) Stephen Vaclav
5th) Tim Yousey
One thing that makes it easier to holdraces at new fields that want to trytheir hand at racing is the fact that wehave a portable race system whichcan be transported to new sites, andtherefore the club does not have toexpend a large amount of money toget started in racing. This system wasbuilt by the MPPA group in Ft.Lauderdale. We are constantlychanging/upgrading the equipment tomake it better and more reliable. Ifyou or your club wants moreinformation on this equipment anduse, contact Jim Perdue [email protected].
The Jedburg Flyers in Summerville,SC, held our second race. This racemarks the first time in over 8 years thatwe have held a district race outsidethe state of Florida! I would like tohave more races outside of Floridaand hope to have another racescheduled in Summerville. Hopefullythey will not lose their field before thenas rumors have suggested. This wasa 2-day one-race event, and we had
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District Newsmany entries from some of the nearbydistricts which was great and whichmade for a spectacular turnout! OnSaturday night the club held a cateredBar-B-Que that was great even as thecold weather moved in again for thenight. The final results from the racewere posted on the NMPRA website,but here are the top 5 in each class:
424:
1st) Neal Rehm
2nd) Scott Causey
3rd) David Grubb
4th) Adam Grim
5th) Doug Bebensee
428:
1st) Gary Freeman Sr.
2nd) Randy Bridge
3rd) Gary Freeman Jr.
4th) Tom Scott
5th) Bill Johanson
The next race is one that is annuallyheld the 2nd weekend of December,but due to a scheduling conflict in theclub was moved to the first weekend,December 1st through the 3rd. Therewill be three days of racing with 424having a separate race each day, 4281/2 day Saturday, and 422 racing 1/2day Saturday and finishing on Sunday.It looks to be a good race that almostwasn’t until the Freemans stepped into help push it along and get it set up.Thanks, guys.
We are currently trying to finalizeplans for races after the New Year andhope to have them finalized andcommitted before Christmas. I will getthe dates out to everyone and postedon the NMPRA web site. Hopeeveryone has a wonderful and safeholiday season!
Tom Dobyns
District 8 - Dennis Cranfill
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Championship Race, Houston October 29th & 30th 2005District 8. 6Phoenix Race, November 5th District 1. 17Phoenix Race, November 6th District 1. 21Tangerine Race, Apopka December December 9th,10th &11th District 7. 20Championship Race, Phoenix, February 24th,25th&26th. 65Championship Race, Florida, April 23rd & 24th. 33Sepulveda Race, April 22nd District 1. 14Sepulveda Race, April 23rd District 1. 12Spokane Race, May 20th District 2. 8Spokane Race, May 21th District 2. 8Ohio - MoonShot Race, June 10th & 11th. 9Whidbey Island Race , June 17th District 2. 7Whidbey Island Race , June 18th District 2. 7Sepulveda Race, June 24th, district 1. 12Sepulveda Race, June 25th, district 1. 8Nationals July 2006 All Districts. 63Regina, SK, Canada, June 11, District 3. 13Swift Current, SK. Canada, June 25, District 3. 15Amery Race, July 29, District 5. 11Calgary, AB, Canada, July 30,. District 3. 20Shelton Race, August 12, District 2. 6Medford Race, August 19th, District 2. 13Medford Race, August 20th, District 2. 12Saskatoon, Canada, August 27, District 3. 14Swift Current, SK. Canada, Sept 24, District 3. 12Championship Race, Wichita Falls, Sep 16&17, District 8. 19Scobe Race July 1, District 8. 4 (does not make a race)Whitcha Falls August 1, District 8. 6Shelton Race, September 23, District 2. 6Shelton Race, September 24, District 2. 7Sepulveda Race, September 30, District 1. 14* Did not have 3 races in home District.
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