Results:  62^nd Midwestern States Championships, 43^rd Fall Oldtimers and 45^th FAI Invitational Contests.  August 27-28, 2005.  Muncie, Indiana.

The Chicago Aeronuts sponsored annual weekend at the AMA’s International Aeromodeling Center attracted 42 contestants from 12 States and one Canadian Province.  The conditions for Free Flight over the weekend were much better than the forecast had indicated.   Winds were generally light and the only rain came early on Saturday morning well before the eight o’clock starting time.  Because of the favorable conditions, the contestants were able to record a total of 443 official flights.

Many thanks to Bob Johnson who directed the Oldtimer and Nostalgia events, Charlie Sotich who recorded and totaled all the flight scores and Jerry Keith who helped with registration and collecting entry fees.  

Four of the six FAI events went to fly-offs before the winners were decided.   In F1G, Fred Blom won the fly-off over John Clapp by making the 5-minute max.  Both flyers agreed to go directly to a long flight so that the chances of settling the contest would be improved.   In F1J, the fly-off was essentially settled on the first 3-minute flight because Jim Haught’s model landed in the corn under the power lines where his locator radio was compromised.   By the time he made it back to finish the contest, he was too exhausted to make the next flight.  For the F1B fly-off, Greg Simon edged out Paul Crowley and Dave Lacey for first.  Paul would have made the 5-minute max, but his model stalled in the glide.   In F1C, only Norman Poti made the 5-minute max to win the fly-off.

 In AMA gas, Keith Fulmer again showed the way in ½-A by putting up 8 max flights before dropping the 9^th.  His score was chased by Norman Poti who did much of his flying in between F1J rounds and after the fly-offs.  It appeared he flew the same model in both events.  Jack Marsh outlasted Guy Scott in B-gas with 6 maxes. 

Oldtimer large rubber was won by John Clapp with a Korda model.  Ed Konefes put up three maxes (2-, 3-, and 4-minutes) in Nostalgia Rubber with a Hoffmeister Stick model.

Charlie Harper won Nostalgia B with three maxes using a Ramrod 600 and Gene Wicks won Nostalgia C with a T-bird and three maxes.

Chuck Markos

Oldtimer/Nostalgia Events

SAM A - Gas				SAM B-Gas
1	Bob Edelstein	Interceptor	316	Elmer Jordan	Zipper/Elfin	293
2	Dan Harshman	Alert/Shilling 19	203	Bob Edelstein	Amer Ace/Forester	137
3	Jack Sheehan	Ranger/Arden	166
SAM C-Gas				020 Replica
1	Dan Harshman	Zipper/Torp 32	205	Elvin Buchele		223
2	Bob Edelstein	Ranger/Rogers	45
SAM Large Rubber				SAM Small Rubber
1	John Clapp	Korda	520	Fred Blom	Jabberwock	174
2	Roy Stewart	Hi - Ho	334
3	Ed Konefes	Climber	240
Oldtimer Catapult Glider				Twin Pusher
1	Fred Blom	Vartanian	187	1.  Ed Konefes
2	Elvin Buchele	Belsky	185
3	Lee Campbell	Comet Streaky	101	1/4A Nostalgia
4	John Seymour	Vartanian	83	1. Keith Fulmer	SWAT	317
5	J.B. Griner	Vartanian	75
Early 1/2A-Nostalgia				1/2A-Nostalgia
1	Gene Wicks	Zeek/Cub 049	313	Keith Fulmer	SWAT/Medallion	360
2	Keith Fulmer	Spare Ribs/Cub	301	Bob Watson	Ramrod/Medallion	323
3	Jack Marsh	Zeek/Cub 049	254	Gene Wicks	T-Bird/Medallion	294
4				Elmer Jordan	Ramrod/Fox	281
5				Hank Sperzel	Geef/Space Hopper	264
A-Nostagia				B-Nostalgia
1	Charlie Harper	Ramrod/OS-Max	350	Charlie Harper	Ramrod/K&B 23	360
2	Hank Sperzel	Ramrod/OS-Max	303	Gene Wicks	T-Bird/OS-Max	338
3				Hank Sperzel	Ramrod/OS-Max	232
C-Nostalgia				Nos Rubber/Wakefield
1	Gene Wicks	T-Bird/OS-Max	353	Ed Konefes	Hoffmeister Stick	540
2				John Seymour	Roth Wakefield	444

AMA Event Scores

1/2A-Gas			A-Gas
1	Keith Fulmer	1186	1	Charlie Harper	462
2	Norman Poti	864
3	Jack Marsh	498
B-Gas			C-Gas
1	Jack Marsh	750		No Flights
2	Guy Scott	684
D-Gas			AB-Electric
1	Hank Sperzel	307	1	Charles Groth	356
			2	Jim Jennings	218
1/2-A Classic Gas			AB-Classic Gas
1	Jack Marsh	357	1	Jack Marsh	600
2	Bob Watson	353	2	Charlie Harper	577
3	Roy Stewart	240	3	Hank Sperzel	303
			4	Roy Stewart	294
CD-Classic Gas			Mulvihill
1	Jack Marsh	360	1	Roy Stewart	102
Moffett			P-30
1	Lee Campbell	246	1	John Clapp	490
			2	Bill Jackson	331
			3	Chris Matsuno	323
			4	Paul Skelly	40
Catapult Glider			Handlaunched Glider
1	Lee Campbell	185	1	Lee Campbell	66
2	J.B. Griner	139	2	J.B. Griner	19
3	Jason Poti	131
4	Fred Blom	99
				Senior High Point	Peter Barron
Classic Towline Glider				Glider High Point	Lee Campbell
1	Guy Scott	404		Rubber High Point	John Clapp
2	Lee Campbell	192		Gas High Point	Jack Marsh
				Celia Goldberg 1/2A	Keith Fulmer

FAI Event Scores

F1A									Total
Jones, Kyle (J)	180	167	120	120	120	120	120		947
Barron, Peter (S)	157	180	120	94	120	120	120		911
Barron, Andrew	180	123	120	120	120	120	120		903
Markos, Chuck	147	112	120	54	63	120	120		736
F1B
Simon, Greg	180	180	120	120	120	120	120	276	1236
Crowley, Paul	180	180	120	120	120	120	120	265	1225
Lacey, Dave	180	180	120	120	120	120	120	144	1104
Jones, Charlie	180	180	120	120	120	114	120		954
Simon, Evan (S)	180	180	87	120	119	120	9		815
Clapp, John	141	71	120	120	120	120	120		812
Matsuno, Chris	69	154	120	120	104	120	120		807
Seymour, John	174	114	120	34	120	120	120		802
McGlashan, Jerry	173	142	24						339
F1C
Poti, Norman	180	180	120	120	120	120	120	300	1260
Morris, Gil	180	180	120	120	120	120	120	250	1210
Servaites, Bucky	180	180	120	120	120	120	120	72	1032
F1G
Blom, Fred			120	120	120	120	120	300	900
Clapp, John			120	120	120	120	120	13	613
Jones, Charlie			120	120	101	120	120		581
Konefes, Ed			120	120	120	120	94		574
Crowley, Paul			92	105	120	120	120		557
Lacey, Dave			115	81	109	120	119		544
Matsuno, Chris			107	82	120	108	114		531
Simon, Evan (S)			81	31	53	46	67		278
F1H
Jones, Kyle			120	120	120	120	120		600
Markos, Chuck			85	78	120				283
Campbell, Lee			6	45	50				101
F1J
Kerr, Tom		120	120	120	120	120	180	154	934
Haught, Jim		120	120	120	120	120	180		780
Poti, Norman		120	120	120	120	120	175		775