Re: Indoor Flying with the O.F.F.C.
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2019 10:27 pm
Wednesday, March 27, 2019, the scheduled March O.F.F.C. contest, Build On Site Delta Darts was held. Everyone coming to the meeting was given their choice of Delta Dart materials, skins printed with various national insignia, sticks, motor sticks, glue sticks, pins, prop assemblies, CA and kicker, and rubber all supplied courtesy of the CD, Dave Gee. The meeting was spent building the models (with very few expletives) and at the end of the meeting we went out into the gym to fly. The contest was the best two of unlimited attempts and an end of contest mass launch.
To everyone’s surprise, since the motor sticks were, apparently, too short, they all seemed to fly well! Most of the flights were in the 30 second range. There were some flights that were dramatic with the plane bouncing off the walls and various other obstructions but, even those had decent times. Dave Gee had a 39 and a 41 second flight for the win. Bill Watson had a 40 second flight, Stan Christopher had a 41 second flight and Don Butman and I had 43 second flights. I thought I had it in the bag when I got the 43 second flight and was winding for another one when I broke the motor, and proceeded to break two more motors in a row. Someone made the remark that I had fallen prey to competition lust. By that time I had to put another motor in for the end of contest mass launch.
The end of contest mass launch was a riot with two models being flown right and the rest left, but amazingly no collisions! There was a video of this but it hasn't been posted yet. Bill Watson's Delta Dart was the last one up so he won the mass launch.
The results were:
(Total of best two flights)
1. Dave Gee 80 seconds
2. Don Butman 79
3. Bill Watson 77 (Winner of end of contest Mass Launch)
4 . Howard Littman 77 (tie broken by time of next best flight)
5. Stan Christopher 50
6. Barry Daugherty 32
7. Pete Basone 31
8. Don Martin 22
9. Don Smith 15
There were a couple of others that were broken test flying. The results might have been quite different if some of the members test flying had called for a time.
To everyone’s surprise, since the motor sticks were, apparently, too short, they all seemed to fly well! Most of the flights were in the 30 second range. There were some flights that were dramatic with the plane bouncing off the walls and various other obstructions but, even those had decent times. Dave Gee had a 39 and a 41 second flight for the win. Bill Watson had a 40 second flight, Stan Christopher had a 41 second flight and Don Butman and I had 43 second flights. I thought I had it in the bag when I got the 43 second flight and was winding for another one when I broke the motor, and proceeded to break two more motors in a row. Someone made the remark that I had fallen prey to competition lust. By that time I had to put another motor in for the end of contest mass launch.
The end of contest mass launch was a riot with two models being flown right and the rest left, but amazingly no collisions! There was a video of this but it hasn't been posted yet. Bill Watson's Delta Dart was the last one up so he won the mass launch.
The results were:
(Total of best two flights)
1. Dave Gee 80 seconds
2. Don Butman 79
3. Bill Watson 77 (Winner of end of contest Mass Launch)
4 . Howard Littman 77 (tie broken by time of next best flight)
5. Stan Christopher 50
6. Barry Daugherty 32
7. Pete Basone 31
8. Don Martin 22
9. Don Smith 15
There were a couple of others that were broken test flying. The results might have been quite different if some of the members test flying had called for a time.