Re: Indoor Flying with the O.F.F.C.
Posted: Wed May 02, 2018 11:42 pm
Legal Eagle was the O.F.F.C. contest for April and it was well attended with 11 contestants. The field quickly separated into two groups, the over 100 seconds crowd and the under 100 seconds crowd. Most of the designs flown were well known. The iconoclasts were myself and Dave Gee. Dave threw a new wrinkle into Legal Eagle with a scale (Well, sort of. It's standoff scale if you're standing far enough away.) model of a Spitfire that met the rules. I thought about this and suggested that maybe we should have a scale Legal Eagle competition in the future but I was shouted down on that idea. I flew my One Night in Jail, an idea that I have almost given up after the showing last month.
Anyway, the results were
Place Name Time in seconds.
1. Bill Watson 220.3
2. Joe Whiting 184.3
3. Don Butman 146.3
4. Pete Basone 104.5
5. Howard Littman 74.4
6. Dave Gee 63.9
7. Don Smith 59.8
8. John Buntin 44.0
9. Lowell Norenberg 35.2
10. Wynn Hammer 23.6
11. Stan Christopher 7.0
Part of the spread was due to some of the guys needing to build new models because the old ones are worn out and part of it comes under the old bit of advise, "Don't Crash!" However, everyone had fun as is evidenced by the smiling faces in the post contest group photo.
The May contest is P-18 "Hawk" one design. CD was making noises about requiring stock, per plan, front ends this time. We shall see...
Anyway, the results were
Place Name Time in seconds.
1. Bill Watson 220.3
2. Joe Whiting 184.3
3. Don Butman 146.3
4. Pete Basone 104.5
5. Howard Littman 74.4
6. Dave Gee 63.9
7. Don Smith 59.8
8. John Buntin 44.0
9. Lowell Norenberg 35.2
10. Wynn Hammer 23.6
11. Stan Christopher 7.0
Part of the spread was due to some of the guys needing to build new models because the old ones are worn out and part of it comes under the old bit of advise, "Don't Crash!" However, everyone had fun as is evidenced by the smiling faces in the post contest group photo.
The May contest is P-18 "Hawk" one design. CD was making noises about requiring stock, per plan, front ends this time. We shall see...