National Building Museum – A report by Glen Simpers
April 7, 2013
“We had 17 flyers for Freeflight, and 8 for RC. There was a lot of visitor interest in the flying, some of whom took plans and intend to build models. Walt Collins and Abram Van Dover drove up from SE Virginia to spice up the A-6 and Limited Pennyplane flying. Sally Otis as the new director of family programs for the National Building Museum was very interested and supportive of the flying and we can look forward to future events for 2014.
Grand Champ was John Murphy. His win in the hotly contested WW-II Nocal event vaulted him into the lead in points as there were 11 entrants. Two trophies were awarded for Phantom Flash with one going to Stefan Prosky as the winner and another to John Murphy as the highest ranking flier who had never won the event previously. Stefan graciously provided two $25 gift certificates to Hobby Hanger with one going to a FF flier and another to an RC flier.
Bruce Foster brought his very interesting rubber band powered ducted fan and for these interesting flights he received the award for most unique and creative model.
Special thanks go to Mike Escalante and Doug Griggs for discussing models with visitors. Mike allowed visitors to wind and fly a number of his models heedless of the risk to his competitive models. Doug spent the afternoon explaining model airplanes to a never ending circle of visitors. Thanks go out to those helping kids in the Delta Dart program. The kids at my table invented new ways to cut out the model involving cutting through the structure and inside the structure (other helpers didn’t seem to have these problems).”
CONTEST EVENT RESULTS
4g. Bostonian ML (4 entrants)
1 John Murphy Pup
2 Bobby Russell B.P.
3 John Coeyman Pup
Peanut Scale ML (5 entrants)
1 Bobby Russell Ganagobie
2 Stefan Prosky Dornier D-I
3 Dave Mitchell Vagabond
Phantom Flash ML (5 entrants)
1 Stefan Prosky –
2 John Murphy –
3 Mike Escalante –
WW II No-Cal ML (11 entrants)
1 John Murphy P-39
2 Mike Escalante Dauntless
3 John Appling FW-190 D9
Parlor Fly ML (8 entrants)
1 John Appling –
2 Dave Mitchell –
3 Stew Meyers –
Dime Scale ML (4 entrants)
1 Dave Mitchell Waco ARE
2 Stew Meyers Luscombe 50
3 Jim Coffin Curtiss Falcon
ZAIC Z-15 ML (4 entrants)
1 Ray Rakow
2 Sharon Appling
3 John Murphy
Limited Pennyplane (2 entrants)
1 Walt Collins 6:07
2 Charlie Coeyman 3:16
FAC NoCal (3 entrants ) – total of three flights
1 Dave Lacey Baka Bomb 287
2 Mike Escalante Dauntless 236
3 Dave Mitchell Avenger 225
Helicopter (1 entrant)
1 Jim Coffin :37
A-6 (4 entrants)
1 Paul Buck 4:55
2 Walt Collins 4:20
3 Dave Lacey 2:52
Tortoise and Hare RC ( 5 entrants)
1 Jin Woo Choe Franken Bulldog
2 Chris Morrison Mini Vapor
3 Dennis Adams Palmz
Tortoise and Hare Maneuvering RC (5 entrants)
1 Rich Gillis Night Hawk
2 Dennis Adams Palmz
3 Chris Morrison Mini Vapor
Most Beautifully Crafted RC
1 Rich Gillis P-40E
Most Unique/Creative
1 Bruce Foster rubber-powered ducted fan