60^th Midwestern States Championships, 43^rd FAI Invitational and 41^st Fall Oldtimers Contests Results. August 23-24, 2003, Muncie, Indiana

The annual tri-contest sponsored by the Chicago Aeronuts had near-perfect Free Flight weather for the weekend. A cool front had moved through central Indiana on Friday morning before the contest and conditions were quite breezy for those who came early to practice or test fly their models. However, on Saturday we had a light NE wind in the morning that freshened to about 10 mph mid-day. The FAI max was dropped from 180 to 150 to make sure that most of the models stayed on the field. If models were in the air for more than 5 minutes, they were in the bush. The Oldtimer rubber flyoff max was capped at 4 minutes rather than increasing to 5 and 6 and 7 minutes…..for the same reason.

On Sunday, the weather was even better, but a little warmer than Saturday. Light drift from the SE gave way to dead calm at times. Chuck Groth was able to set a new Electric-A record with fifteen 2-minute maxes and he chased on foot for all his flights. The last four flights were made after the contest ended with Lee Campbell helping to time the record setting effort.

We had only 61 entrants this year in spite of the good weather. The timing of this contest between two America’s Cup FAI weekends in Geneseo, NY and Ontario, Canada kept a few regulars away. But the big effect was due to the SAM Champs in OK starting on Monday. The Oldtimers entries were down because most of our regular contestants were driving South. Oldtimer entries numbered 24, FAI 31 and AMA 39. Contestants came from 12 states and made 764 official flights, 43 more flights than last year from 71 contestants, probably because we did not have a thunderstorm come through in the afternoon as in the previous three years.

The high total time in a rubber event was accomplished by David Sechrist flying a Moffett model. He beat the times of F1B (7 rounds) and Mulvihill even though that event had longer maxes. The rubber max on Sunday was capped at 5 minutes to avoid lost models and long searches in the corn.

It was encouraging to see 6 Senior-age (less than 19 years) and 5 Junior-age contestants this year. Last year we had no Seniors at all. The FAI Jr team selection brought three of the Seniors to the contest and the outcome will have a significant bearing on who will represent the USA in the Jr WCh next year.

Jr High Point: 1. Kyle Jones Sr High Point: 1. Peter Barron

2. John Shailor 2. Jonathon Moore

3. Shane Steinbach 3. Jason Poti

Celia Goldberg trophy for 1/2A: Keith Fulmer

Carl Goldberg trophy for Gas: Gene Wicks

Rudy Schuh trophy for Rubber Ed Konefes

Gerald Ritz trophy for Glider Bill Schlarb

41^st Fall Oldtimer Results, August 23, 2003. Muncie Indiana

	SAM A-Gas			SAM B-Gas
1.	Hank Sperzel	Kerswap/Elfin 2.49	315	Gil Morris	Kerswap/Ohlsson 23	360
2.				Elmer Jordan	Zipper/Ohlsson 29	299

	SAM C-Gas			020 Replica
1.	Don Diggs	Clipper/OR-60	309	Gilbert Robbins	Foo 2 U 2	270
2.	Elmer Jordan	Sailplane/OR-60	103	Bill Schlarb	Stratostreak	258
3.				Elmer Jordan	Kerswap	247

	1/2A-Nostalgia			A-Nostalgia
1.	Gilbert Robbins	Lucky Lindy	562	Gene Wicks	T-Bird	840
2.	Jack Marsh	SWAT	354	Norm Poti	T-Bird	735
3.	Gene Wicks	Zero	333	Richard Covalt	Zeek/ 0.19	719
4.	Don Diggs	Ramrod 250/Killerbee	314	Hank Sperzel	Ramrod/OS 19	697
5.	Lee Campbell	Zeek/Cox Production	299	Keith Fulmer	SWAT/OS 19	362
6.	Keith Fulmer	SWAT/Medallion	297	Bob Watson	T-Bird/OS-19	180
7.	Hank Sperzel	Ramrod 250/Medallion	82

	B-Nostalgia			Small OT Rubber
1.	Gene Wicks	T-Bird	572	Ed Konefes	Casano	540
2.	Keith Fulmer	Kerswap/OS29	463	David Lacey	Gollywock	482
3.	Richard Covalt	Zeek/.201	460	Ed Sneed	Gollywock	360
4.	Bob Watson	T-Bird/Fox .201	429	Nancy Sneed	Homesick Angel	334
5.	Jack Marsh	SWAT/.23	338

	Large OT Rubber			OT HLG/Cat Glider
1.	Joe Williams	Lamb Climber	970	Bill Schlarb	Vartanian	299
2.	Roy Stewart	Hi Ho	780	Ralph Schlarb	Vartanian	266
3.	Ed Konefes	Lanzo Stick	747	Guy Scott	Vartanian	170
4.	Ed Sneed	Noonan Diamond	360	Phil Sullivan	Vartanian	114
5.				J.B.M. Griner	Vartanian +	76

	Nostalgia Wakefield			Twin Pusher “Mass Launch”
1.	Ed Konefes	Lili	300	Ed Konefes	Simmers	93

The contest director for the Oldtimer/Nostalgia contest was Bob Johnson, ably assisted by Jerry Keith and Lloyd Myers. They also took care of most of the entry procedures for both days as only 9 entrants were processed on Sunday. Charlie Sotich again spent both days doing all the hard work of recording and adding scores. He also made sure that everyone followed the correct registration process starting with checking for AMA membership cards.

60^th Midwestern States Championships Results. August 24, 2003. Muncie Indiana

	Junior P-30		Junior 1/2A Gas		Junior Catapult Glider
1.	John Shailor	303	NO ENTRIES!		Ryan Seymour	68
2.	Kyle Jones	297
3.	Shane Steinbach	226
	P-30 Senior/Op		Moffett		Mulvihill
1.	Jonathon Moore (Sr)	573	David Sechrist	1380	Bob Perkins	1060
2.	Chris Matsuno	352	Anthony Avallone	1372	Steve Sova	1018
3.	Lee Campbell	348	Ed Konefes	1008	Vince Croghan	778
4.	John Seymour	344	Walt Tomash	780	Joe Williams	772
5.	Paul Shailor (Sr)	265	Vince Croghan	754	Roy Stewart	650
6.	Steve Sova	85	Joe Williams	240	Walt Tomash	293
6.			Steve Sova	240

	Handlaunched Glider		Catapult Glider		1/2A-Gas
1.	Paul Shailor (Sr)	287	Tom Jones	402	Keith Fulmer	694
2.	Phil Sullivan	258	Phil Sullivan	325	Jack Marsh	670
3.	Greg Simon	209	Joe Mekina	320	Hank Sperzel	419
4.	Bill Schlarb	191	Ralph Schlarb	293	Jason Poti (Sr)	331
5.	Don Diggs	170	Bill Schlarb	289	Bob Johnson	255
6.	Tom Jones	176	Jason Poti (Sr)	234	Chris Steinbach	95
7.	Bob Sifleet	114	Bob Sifleet	221	John Seymour	81
8.	Shane Steinbach (Jr)	93	Guy Scott	192
9.	Jason Poti (Sr)	55	Anthony Avallone	172
10.	Kyle Steinbach (Jr)	42	Mike Avallone	140
11.	J.B.M. Griner	17	J.B.M. Griner	110
12.			Chris Steinbach	79

	AB Classic Gas		B-Gas		D-Gas
1.	Jack Marsh	600	Richard Covalt	750	Jack Marsh	849
2.	Don Diggs	461	Guy Scott	688	Richard Covalt	827
3.	Bob Watson	356	Hank Sperzel	526	Bob Watson	822
4.	Hank Sperzel	303			Don Diggs	317
5.	Gilbert Robbins	240
6.	John Seymour	65

AB-Electric

1. Charles Groth 1320

Thanks to all who came to enter and fly. Special thanks to Charlie Sotich for keeping things in order so I could do some flying of my own. We will do this again next year at about the same time.

Chuck Markos

43rd FAI Invitational Results August 23-24, 2003 Muncie, Indiana
F1A
	Max	180	180	180	180	150	150	150	Total
1	Peter Barron (Sr)	180	180	180	180	150	150	150	1170
2	Michael Avallone (Sr)	180	177	180	160	150	150	150	1147
3	Tom Jones	180	180	180	180	83	150	150	1103
4	Chuck Markos	180	152	180	180	130	126	146	1094
5	Robert Sifleet	180	180	180	61	150	150	150	1051
6	Andrew Barron	138	180	170	122	150	150	135	1045
7	Kyle Jones (Jr)	180	180	169	57	150	150	150	1036
8	Bill Schlarb	154	77	50	128	42	96	93	640
F1B
1	Bill Shailor	180	180	180	180	145	150	148	1163
2	Paul Crowley	180	172	176	180	150	150	150	1158
3	Charlie Jones	180	180	180	145	150	131	150	1116
4	David Ellis	180	180	180	119	150	150	150	1109
5	Vincent Croghan	180	180	148	180	144	150	124	1106
6	Greg Simon	180	111	142	180	150	150	150	1063
7	Chris Matsuno	178	180	180	122	96	147	150	1053
8	John Seymour	109	180	180	180	150	150	82	1031
9	Fred Blom	132	180	180	180	78			750
10	Paul Shailor	180	180	143	180				683
11	Tom Ioerger	180	180	147					507
12	Dave Lacey	147	87	180	82				496
13	Tom Jones	180	10						190
F1C										FO-1	FO-2	Total
1	Bob Gutai	180	180	180	180	150	150	150	1170	300	365	1835
2	Bucky Servaites	180	180	180	180	150	150	150	1170	300	358	1828
3	Norm Poti	180	180	180	180	150	150	150	1170	261		1431
F1G
1	Fred Blom	120	120	120	120	120	101	213	914
2	Chuck Markos	120	120	120	120	120	101	127	828
3	George Clowes	120	120	120	119	120			599
4	Tom Ioerger	116	120	120	120	120			596
5	Ed Konefes	120	120	115	120	120			595
6	Paul Crowley	120	120	114	120	120			594
7	Dave Sechrist	120	120	120	120	109			589
8	Charles Jones	120	120	120	104	120			584
9	Tom Jones	117	95	120	120	120			572
10	Chris Matsuno	120	120	81	120	120			561
11	Greg Simon	120	93	96	92	120			521
12	John Shailor (Jr)	77	120	77	120	120			514
13	Dave Lacey	85	120	83	100	75			463
F1H
1	Robert Sifleet	120	120	120	120	120			600
2	Kyle Jones (Jr)	73	97	120	94	55			439
3	Lee Campbell	0	64	49	0	31			144
4	Bill Schlarb	36							36
F1J
1	Bob Gutai	120	120	120	120	120		300	900
2	Jim Haught	120	120	120	120	120		217	817
3	Norm Poti	120	120	120	120	120		191	791
4	Amanda Barr (Sr)	120	120	120	120	120		166	766
5	Bucky Servaites	120	120	120	120	120		153	753
6	Gill Morris	120	120	120	120	120		119	719
7	Joe Mekina	120	120	113	100	93			546
8	Jason Poti (Sr)	120	109	120	120	120			589