64th Midwestern States Championships and 2007 Hoosier Cup FAI Results
The Chicago Aeronuts sponsored contests were held on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 18-19-20, 2007 as an experiment to test acceptance of a three-day contest by the contestants. The outcome was encouraging as 28 of the final total of 49 contestants signed up on Friday. The weather for the contest weekend was about as good as could be expected for the Midwest in May. Friday was one of those rare light and variable wind days with extra strong thermals. Models were OOS after DT and found well off the AMA property. The chase fields surrounding the AMA property were friendly as crops were just beginning to sprout and the ground was dry due to a lack of recent rains. Even the mini-lakes on the AMA property that we were used to seeing this time of year were dried up so that problems caused by water landings did not affect us.
The mini-FAI events started at 3 pm EDT and rounds were overlapped. F1G was well represented, but only one flyer was present for both F1H and F1J. Gil Morris suffered a lost stabilizer mount on one of his test flights, but rigged something up to make the model airworthy and put in five flights. The aforementioned strong thermals played a role in F1G as Dave Sechrist’s model went off the field after DT in the first round and he didn’t get it back until after the contest was over. Paul Masterman’s F1G flew OOS with no DT evident on the forth round to drop him out of the running for first as the only flyer with a perfect score up to that time. He found it next day with the fuse unlit.
In the large FAI events, USA team member Bucky Servaites flew F1C, but set his DT at two minutes for all rounds to keep safe for the upcoming World Championships. Also present was the former Jr F1J World Champion, John Lorbiecki who will be competing in the Open World Championships along with the USA team. Two members of last year’s Jr World Championship team, Evan Simon and Paul Shailor flew F1B. Evan placed a close second to winner Charlie Jones
There was some drama in the AMA events too. In P-30, Jim Gerszewski edged out Dave Sechrist by 3 seconds. The electric event was settled as the closing horn sounded when Chuck Groth put up a max to beat Jim Jennings. In the Oldtimer/Nostalgia events, George Hilliard (all the way from Texas) spent a large portion of the day looking for his Lanzo large rubber model, not realizing that someone had brought it back to the flight line. He then proceeded to make the three-minute fly-off max to beat Ed Konefes. Jim Buxton showed up with his Buddenbohm kitted discus launched glider to edge Phil Sullivan in HLG. His demonstration launches gained impressive altitude.
High point winners were: Keith Fulmer (gas), Ed Konefes (rubber) and Phil Sullivan (glider). Keith also won the Celia Goldberg trophy again for high time in ½-A gas…this trophy has been maintained for 57 years. Senior High Point went to Evan Simon and Junior High Point went to James Jennings.
Thanks to all who helped make this a successful contest. Special thanks to Charlie Sotich who came down especially to help and to Chuck Bedwell who also manned the tables.
Large Oldtimer Rubber Small Oldtimer Rubber
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George Hilliard |
Lanzo |
540 |
Ed Sneed |
Gollywock |
540 |
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Ed Konefes |
Lanzo |
497 |
Bill Jackson |
Casano |
468 |
|
Guy Scott |
Korda Cabin |
334 |
Hank Sperzel |
Gollywock |
355 |
|
Bill Jackson |
Korda Stickler |
323 |
Jim Ferwerda |
Gollywock |
334 |
|
Ed Sneed |
Smith |
120 |
John Snobrich |
Stratometer |
328 |
|
Jim Ferwerda |
Lamb Climber |
107 |
Ed Konefes |
|
120 |
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Jim Gerszewski |
|
120 |
½-A Nostalgia Early ½-A Nostalgia
|
Keith Fulmer |
SWAT/Medallion |
340 |
Keith Fulmer |
Spareribs/Cub |
360 |
|
Elmer Jordan |
Ramrod/Fox |
324 |
Gene Bowers |
Zeek/Cub |
234 |
|
Charlie Harper |
Ramrod/Fox |
287 |
Gene Wicks |
Zeek/Cub |
234 |
|
Bob Placier |
|
61 |
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A-Nostalgia B-Nostalgia
|
Gene Wicks |
T-Bird |
840 |
Richard Covalt |
Zeek/K&B-23 |
480 |
|
Charlie Harper |
Ramrod |
472 |
Charlie Harper |
Ramrod/K&B-29 |
420 |
|
Keith Fulmer |
SWAT |
365 |
Gene Wicks |
T-Bird/OS |
333 |
|
Elmer Jordan |
Phoenix |
110 |
Bob Watson |
Hoosier Hot Shot |
348 |
|
Bob Edelstein |
Hi Fly |
110 |
Gene Bowers |
T-Bird/OS-29 |
174 |
|
Clark Darling |
Zeek |
|
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|
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C-Nostalgia ABC-Oldtimer Gas
|
Richard Covalt |
Zeek |
360 |
Bob Edelstein |
Interceptor |
218 |
|
Keith Fulmer |
SWAT |
348 |
|
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Gene Wicks |
T-Bird |
321 |
|
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Clark Darling |
Ramrod 750 |
120 |
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F1G-F1H-F1J F1A-F1B-F1C*
|
Ed Konefes |
F1G |
557 |
Chuck Markos |
F1A |
583 |
|
Charlie Jones |
F1G |
521 |
Charlie Jones |
F1B |
1168 |
|
Bill Jackson |
F1G |
498 |
Evan Simon (Sr) |
F1B |
1162 |
|
Paul Masterman |
F1G |
480 |
Paul Crowley |
F1B |
1100 |
|
Dave Sechrist |
F1G |
120 |
Greg Simon |
F1B |
1099 |
|
Chuck Markos |
F1H |
220 |
John Seymour |
F1B |
1081 |
|
Gil Morris |
F1J |
506 |
John Shailor (Sr) |
F1B |
999 |
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Jerry McGlashan |
F1B |
904 |
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Norman Poti |
F1C |
1080 |
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Bucky Servaites |
F1C |
966 |
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John Lorbiecki |
F1C |
660 |
*note max was 180 for first 6 rounds, 120 for 7th round.
Mulvihill Moffett P-30
|
Ed Konefes |
720 |
Ed Konefes |
516 |
Jim Gerszewski |
360 |
|
Jim Gerszewski |
614 |
George Hilliard |
472 |
Dave Sechrist |
357 |
|
Jim Ferwerda |
180 |
|
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John Schnobrich |
297 |
|
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Paul Masterman |
292 |
|
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Bill Jackson |
282 |
|
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Jim Ferwerda |
228 |
Handlanched Glider Catapult Glider Classic Towline Glider
|
Jim Buxton |
254 |
Phil Sullivan |
265 |
Bill Schlarb |
520 |
|
Phil Sullivan |
212 |
Bill Schlarb |
192 |
Guy Scott |
37 |
|
Bill Shailor |
154 |
Elvin Buchele |
159 |
|
|
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Bill Schlarb |
123 |
Guy Scott |
151 |
|
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Dawson Hubbard (Jr) |
37 |
J.B.M. Griner |
100 |
|
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J.B.M. Griner |
19 |
Dawson Hubbard (Jr) |
44 |
|
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½-A Classic Gas AB-Classic Gas CD-Classic Gas
|
Keith Fulmer |
360 |
Clark Darling |
672 |
Bob Watson |
345 |
|
Charlie Harper |
327 |
Hank Sperzel |
667 |
Hank Sperzel |
307 |
|
Elmer Jordan |
195 |
Bob Watson |
480 |
|
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Tom Kirsch |
164 |
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Electric AB (comb).
Chuck Groth 720
Jim Jennings 670
James R Jennings (Jr) 328