[RCSE] Nats and Other Thoughts
Well, we are in our downhill slide here, we have had everything from great conditions to some pretty tough stuff. George made comments about it, the humidity has not even been that bad, but George comes from that dry heat. Mike Smith has been flying great, Daryl and Mike Fox too, whats new right? The weekend had one pretty tough day, Saturday, and one of the most gorgeous days you could imgine Sunday. HL went very well, nine rounds there, and 2M had good weather too. As has been noted, yesterday was a tough day, high overcast, a few drops of rain, and the wind blew solid and steady. We missed the rain yesterday even though we had a few showers around us and a few drops on the field, but today looks rough rain wise. Hopefully it holds, but as I type this, it is raining now. For me, this has been a one of kind Nats, and one of the toughest I have had. When I take vacation, I am really not on vacation, and this week has been very busy business wise. I did finish my Level V Sunday with a great XC flight that went textbook, nothing lower than 1600 and as high as 2400, we could have kept going for a long time I think if that need to land to finish the task had not been in there. Ask Jim Deck about the trip. I am sure that more is to come from folks, will have more to say later myself. Marc Gellart Nats Event Director RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and unsubscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
[RCSE] Nats Sumthin
DP:is well DP, He's had a couple of real 'get away' flights but yesterday he really showed why he is a world champion on a consistent basis. First conditions WERE that difficult proof being one of his landings that should have been a walk in, and his plane just got pushed down onto the ground short of the tape. But he had a couple of rounds where a good part of the time was spent at less than 132.8 ' where he managed air so well that he managed to surf forward at near zero ground speed, never losing a 9" but always gaining 9.5"+ with the waves of small lift that rolled across the field down low. Josh is flying well, Mike Lachowski has been the usual artist of air we come to see at every contest. All top ten guys have taken a heavy hit yesterday. Some of the often under the top 10 guys are having the Nats of their lives. One of the downers was that Carl lost his Icon Man ship to a power failure of some kind. Destroyed. :-( A plane he had finally bonded with and was leading with yesterday. Rich Burnowski is quietly putting his plane up so high you can barely see it. Jeff Stiefel had a flight like that after having to find his plane way off in the bean fields, George Joy hooked one to a high so high it gave you a headache trying to focus. Nuther one ahead. Gordy
RE: [RCSE] Nats and Other Thoughts
This is the first year I've been to the Nats for a small competition (eg, not Unlimited, etc), and maybe that made a difference, but the Nats Team really seemed to go out of their way to make the experience enjoyable. I can't count how many different people talked to me, took pictures my and my ship, encouraged me - it had the feeling of the world's best run club contest. I'm sure that didn't just happen, and I really want to put out a big thanks to all of you involved. I flew in one of Dennis Adamisin's events, and I just have to say that he in particular really made for an enjoyable weekend. Same goes for Johnny Berlin, especially on Sunday when I'm fairly sure he was dragged out to launch a single flyer. I think I must thank him about every two months, but he earns it every day in his support of soaring. Great job to all, Brent * and we went 6 miles, not 4. It's embarrassing enough as is g RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and unsubscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
RE: [RCSE] Nats and Other Thoughts
Congratulations Marc on you LVL V. It has got to feel great to enter that very exclusive group. I have been attending the Nats more this year than in the past and I am amazed at how well organized it is and how well it is run. Being at the top (director) you would untimely take the blame if things weren't up to snuff so you deserve to receive the praise for you and your staff for a job well done. Keep up the good work (or should I say great volunteerism). John -Original Message- From: Marc Gellart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 6:45 AM To: Soaring Exchange Subject: [RCSE] Nats and Other Thoughts Well, we are in our downhill slide here, we have had everything from great conditions to some pretty tough stuff. George made comments about it, the humidity has not even been that bad, but George comes from that dry heat. Mike Smith has been flying great, Daryl and Mike Fox too, whats new right? The weekend had one pretty tough day, Saturday, and one of the most gorgeous days you could imgine Sunday. HL went very well, nine rounds there, and 2M had good weather too. As has been noted, yesterday was a tough day, high overcast, a few drops of rain, and the wind blew solid and steady. We missed the rain yesterday even though we had a few showers around us and a few drops on the field, but today looks rough rain wise. Hopefully it holds, but as I type this, it is raining now. For me, this has been a one of kind Nats, and one of the toughest I have had. When I take vacation, I am really not on vacation, and this week has been very busy business wise. I did finish my Level V Sunday with a great XC flight that went textbook, nothing lower than 1600 and as high as 2400, we could have kept going for a long time I think if that need to land to finish the task had not been in there. Ask Jim Deck about the trip. I am sure that more is to come from folks, will have more to say later myself. Marc Gellart Nats Event Director RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and unsubscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and unsubscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
RE: [RCSE] Nats and Other Thoughts
Marc, CONGRATULATIONS! Great job. Mark V#115 -Original Message- From: Marc Gellart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 12:45 AM To: Soaring Exchange Subject: [RCSE] Nats and Other Thoughts Well, we are in our downhill slide here. I did finish my Level V Sunday with a great XC flight Marc Gellart Nats Event Director RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and unsubscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
[RCSE] Receivers wanted
Title: Receivers wanted Im looking for a couple of Airtronics old style plug receivers, with 5-8 channels. If you have some for cheap, please let me know ASAP. gv
[RCSE] RX request upgrade
Title: RX request upgrade I need FM receivers. Thanks. gv
RE: [RCSE] NATs
Sheldon, Those kids did a wonderfull job again this year, as did all of the volenteers. and I thank them all :-) George Sheldon-YNT uDesign [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: George (and everyone at the NATs), I'm normally at the NATs, playing Head Turnaround Toll but I was unable to make it this year due to my real job (for some reason, they just don't understand). Please do me a favor and mention to everyone there to keep an eye on my Trolls to make sure they stay safe and also, ask people to say thanks to the Trolls personally...It REALLY does mean a LOT to the kids when a pilot tells them they appreciate that they're doing such a good job for them! TIA, -Sheldon- Head Turnaround Troll (in absentia) Matrix Magician 2006 Soaring Nats -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 9:34 PM To: soaring@airage.com Subject: [RCSE] NATs Hi All, 2 Mtr finished yeaterday, Lost my bird :-( Open started today. Conditions today were different than I have ever flown in. Cloud cover almost all day, windy and very humid. I spent 4 of 6 rounds working wind waves and not getting the full 12 minutes, nd so did MANY others. These LSF volenteers have been doing a fabulous job all week, things have run like clock work. THANK YOU for your services. I'm ahead of Gordy :-) C U All Later RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and unsubscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and unsubscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
[RCSE] NATs
Hi All, As I said in an earlier post, welcome to the 2006 Mike Smith NATs :-) Open has just finished, and it was another gruling day. Rain, overcast wind was the rule for today, More broken planes, off field landings, even one over shot landing into the pilots flying area, for a zero round, sorry Don Richmond :-( Congrads to the top guys, you earned it. 1st Mike Smith 2nd Richard Burnowski 3rd Josh Glaab 4th Daryl Perkins 5th Mike Lachowski 6th Peter Goldsmith 7th George Joy 8th Mike Fox 9th Larry Storie 10th John Diniz Off to the banquet Type to you later George RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and unsubscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
[RCSE] 2006 F3B Team Select
I am resending this message with Phil's correct e-mail address and a few other changes. To F3B Team Selection entrants and possible new entrants, Please send your names and primary frequency choice with two backups to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] as Phil has graciously offered to construct the flight matrix for team select this coming aug 23rd through the 27th. Please note that all aircraft frequencies are available for this event. Frequency assignments are based on first come, first served. I suggest that you should have your frequency choice sent to Phil by August 15th, 2006 to allow Phil enough time to construct the matrix and get it distibuted to Jack Iafret, myself and our scoring guru, as yet unnamed officially. As usual, please be prepared to change your frequency as an occasional conflict may surface and the CD may ask for help in this. I have two industrial strength photo tripods with the aluminum blocks that support the sighting wires that I will ask Jack to bring to Muncie for sighting at base A B. Some of you have seen these before and they are much easier to use than the current strings and poles. Jack will bring these with him Also, there is a serious need, as usual, for field support. Base A B and other very important jobs on sight for the effective operation of this event so we can again provide a top notch team representing the US. I can't be there this year to help pull the herd ,as I had planned, so I am looking to the soaring community step up to the pump and support this very important event. If you read this while you are at the Soaring Nats, and want to sign up as a worker, please see Marc Gellart and he will be more than glad to take your name and probably get you lined up with some assignments. Regards, Dave Corven. SentMail: Email 1 of 39 Move to Folder INBOX Draft Screened Mail SentMail Trash addresses Next ยป RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and unsubscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
[RCSE] The heck with World F3B Wins, DP gets last 2m award
Yep its official, the last AMA LSF 'king of 2m" award was handed to a very humble, but dashing Daryl Perkinshaving won this years 2m event with a borrowed V tail Duck. The award was handed to him at the Nats Banquet tonite along with the High Point award, but the show was stolen by little Lee, the 10 year old from Louisville who had put a hurt'n on some of the big dog Duck pilots during 2m. He flew his all wood RES ship both days in Unlimited to the dismay of some Supras, Pikes, Icons, Sharons :-) While Lee ended up near the bottom of the score sheets, due to some bean field zeros, his plane is still in perfect conditionshigh winds and all. Tonite he was awarded the Spirit Of Soaring award, but I have to tell you guys, the award should have gone to Ed Wilson Pres of the Louisville Soaring Society, because it was Ed who has mentored him, built him planes and spurred him from D's in school to B's. Lee is about hip tall, dark short hair and dark eyes.which makes him the spitting image of DP, but I checked and Daryl swears he hasn't been to Louisvillestill awful suspicious that the kid is a natural stick:-) By the way, Ed mentored another young boy years back...Bruce Davidson. Food was good and the LSF team really on top of their game tonite. Lots of smiles and a ton of laughterwhile some thought I was incredibly witty tonite, I have to admit, its just that I stayed at Holiday Inn Express last nite. Gordy
[RCSE] Full NATS Unlimited Scores!
I had these at 4:19 PM ready to go to the web, but my lil' laptop just wouldn't connect to the AMA's excellent WiFi network that covers the entire field! Anyway -- http://louisvillesoaring.org/tmp/20060727-nats-unl-01-day_two_scores.jpg http://louisvillesoaring.org/tmp/20060727-nats-unl-02-day_two_scores.jpg Absolutely terrible thermalling weather made for an absolutely excellent contest! Lots of fun and a real education on one of the best soaring sites in the world. ben wilson louisville area soaring society (home of the 2006 Spirit of Soaring award!) RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and unsubscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
[RCSE] Full NATS Unlimited Scores! See how I raged up the list! :-)
Many came to earn their "I Beat Gordy at the 2006 Nationals" buttons butwhen I pulled out the Worlds Heaviest Carbon Supra, faces fell...it wasn't going to be the usual walk in the Park this year! Some were driving to multiple zeros, in their attempts to earn one of those buttons, working the smallest possibilities, ending up in the bean fields...out of bounds. The deal was best me for the day and you earn yourbadge, about 28 yesterday, and only 11 qualified today. There were MANY Supra's flying this year, easily the most popular ship of the NATS and I doubt that anyone of their pilots were disappointed in the Supra performances. For those of you have one, install you ballast tubes! :-) We had some wind both days and if you had a glass version, about 16ozs seemed to be the sweet spot, for the carbons about 8ozs seemed to work just fine. That's about what I had in mine, half a stick of steel. I have to say that this was one of the most fun Nats I have been to, the atmosphere was more like Visalia than the Nats. We had none of the landing nazi mentality of the past, even though it was the same great guys doing the work, everything was done with a smile and bent toward everyone having an enjoyable Nats. Jim Thomas, Martin Downey, Steve Siebenahler, all the 'bosses' were extremely supportive of the pilots and cordially kept idiots like me moving along :-). (by the way, Jim and Steve has some incredible flights!). Man on Man format has proven to be the most exciting format, that turns soaring into a spectator sport. From the moment prior to the first launch in a group, everyone is watching to see who's gonna go where on the ping. Some chose to always pick their own air...guys like Mike Smith, DP, even myself, enjoy that far more than following the pack. At the end of the flight, good time or bad, we know it was our own decision and that the price is worth it, good time or bad. Sure wish you guys all could have been there! Gordy
[RCSE] I pity the fool hasn't ordered his Sharon!
Two years in the row...Sharons have dominated, but those weren't the first wins there Everyone knows that Sharons are no good in windy weatheryet both years with wind and cold dark skies, Sharons have been the least likely to take a zero from landing in the beans. Team Futa has chosen the Sharon to be their ship this season, for a good reason. Mike Smith has campaigned his Sharon to two Nats Victories. One place we saw the Sharon crush the others was in approaching wave liftthey would just elevator up where the other ships would just rise, putting the Sharons up a good 200' higher. Mike Fox flew his Sharon to a top ten spot, with very few prior flights on it. There were lots of Pikes, Supras and Icons, but the other standout ship was in the hands of maybe the top wind flier in the USA, Rich BurnowskiMueller's new Espada...a full blown F3B ship, we watched Rich (Finished 2nd by the way) spec out and work way down wind lift like his ship was in a tornadoliterally. I wasn't a believer in the ship having flown against Rich in Iowa and Cincy, but I am now. He has bonded with this tiny ship (127" :-) and this may become the best year of Rich's many contest seasons. OVSS pilots are gonna have to get their Icons and Perfects and Supra and Sharons in top condition to have a hope against it, because at 64ozs all up weight and after burner energy efficiency, wiggled by Rich, its success is gonna have to be earned. Now if you are currently a less than usual top 10 finished pilot, don't think you are gonna get that performance, the Espada is an advanced ship and Rich has been training for years to get the most out of a ship like the Espada. The Sharon? Well we've seen a bottom 50, over 60 pilot move up into the top 10 ranks this season campaigning a Sharonthat's a plane that can add those minutes and landing points to your existing skills. I own one :-) Gordy
[RCSE] NEW in box Sharon Pro 3.7 X-tail Yellow Blue!
yes, it's true, Who will be the next NATS winner with this baby!!! Yellow and Blue, SHARON 3.7 PRO X-tail!!! Let me know who wants her! Act quickly, not waiting around to get this one! Edgar The Soaring Junkie __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and unsubscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
