What a HOOT; Yes I blew off my holiday, normally reserc=ved for a trip to the house boat, to fly in Muncie, For a first contest, held at the Nats site other than the NATS, it was well organized, and well run. I can't thank Marc Gellart and the LOFT organization as well as the AMA support people (Steve Kaliuf and team), enough. As previously stated, the competition was tuff both days, with less than mear points seperating the top 5 flyers. The weather was great, both days, You missed it. What a way to finish up the OVSS series. A Big Thanks to the raffle sponsors, Airtronics, Futuba, Sig, Laser Concepts, and too many others to remember. Thanks to all Jack Strother Loveland, OH -----Original Message----- From: James V. Bacus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 06, 1999 3:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Marc Gellart Subject: Re: [RCSE] Fall Round Up Results At 11:45 AM 9/6/99 -0700, Marc Gellart wrote: >The field and weather were nearly perfect all weekend, we set the winches on >Friday and never moved them again. But just because the weather was great, >lift was a bit finicky and many a good flier was hung by fickle fate. I met miss fickle fate personally on Saturday and Sunday, but I am still smiling, what a great contest and a fitting wrap up to the OVSS series! Marc Gellart has done a fantastic job of coordinating the OVSS series this year, I was able to road trip to make just 4 contests necessary for a series this season, and I had a ball at each contest. Highlights I remember from the weekend: * The AMA winches and site were real sweet to fly from... again! * Popping off in the very first round on Sat. with my Stork and flying it out to max. 8-) * Popping off in the "money" round on Sat. with my Stork and not flying out to a max. 8-( * Free flight models D/T'ed and still going up in air followed by cornstalks! * Observing what the following sink cycles would do to a round... OUCH! * Stunt C/L flying, had to go watch that a bit... * Having 3 SOAR pilots make the "money" round on Sunday in unlimited, and all 6 of us out there each teamed up with a pilot. And that last round on Sunday had extremely difficult air with some very skillful displays of flying. I think half of the flight group did not max. a 8 minute round, and these pilots had been max'ing all day to make it to this round in the contest. * Flying with the friendliest and most competitive midwest unlimited pilots with two days of perfect weather, and a really smoothly run contest on both days. * Having my name pulled three times at the raffle... hoo hah, could I become a Stylus boy now? * The OVSS Series Championship travelling trophy is just beautiful, and I'm sure Mike Remus will display that proudly for the next year. * Paul and Rudy Siegel doing scale aerotow after the contest on Sunday. Rudy tugged Paul's new Multiplex ASH-26(I think?), it was really a sight. I need to finish my scale sailplane up! Another round of thanks to Marc Gellart and everyone else that pitched in and made the OVSS series what it was this year. That includes all the Sponsors too, there was a heck of a raffle at the end, and the only way you got your name entered was that you got an entry for every contest you flew in the OVSS series. Very cool. Still smiling, Jim P.S. I hope that SOAR can host a contest in the OVSS Y2K series. Jim Visit my R/C Soaring Page at http://www.mcs.net/~bacuslab/soaring.html Visit the S.O.A.R. club page at http://www.mcs.net/~stmeyer/SOAR/index.html RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
