61^st  Midwestern States Championships,  42^nd  Fall Oldtimers and 44^th FAI Invitational Contests.  Results from August 28 – 29, 2004 in Muncie, Indiana.

The Chicago Aeronuts annual weekend bash at the AMA’s International Aeromodeling Center was again blessed by good weather for the contest hours.  However, the regional forecast was quite gloomy and may have kept the numbers to one of the lowest turnouts for several years: 55 contestants including 3 junior-age and 2 seniors from 14 states and one Canadian Province.   A total of 641 official flights were recorded.  The recent Junior World Champion, John T. Lorbiecki, came to fly F1C, F1J and A-gas; setting a new national record of 30 minutes in the latter.   Another notable was Andrew Barron who flew in from a meeting he was at in Prague, Czech Republic to win F1A. 

As mentioned above, the contest day weather was about as good as it gets.   The Friday winds were a little too strong for effective testing until about 5 pm when several of us got to bring out our aircraft to see if any bugs had developed.  Even so, the numbers at the field were down quite a few from previous years.  Saturday had winds of 3 –5 mph from the south in the morning that gradually shifted to the WSW at 5 – 10 mph by afternoon. The sky was mostly cloudy and temperatures were warm and humid.  Thunderstorms held off until after the contest flights were over, but made it dicey for the F1B flyoff between Jerry McGlashan and Jim Bradley.  They decided to wait until Sunday morning.

However, the rains came down strongly early Sunday as we woke up and headed to the field.   Jerry declined to fly as he wanted to head back on his 12-hour drive to Ontario, but won the coin toss for the trophy mug.  Jim put up a token flight of 200 seconds before 8 am when the weather had cleared to win F1B.  He said it would have done at least 5 minutes.  It traveled only a few hundred yards.  The winds remained mostly calm, under 5 mph for the remainder of Sunday, changing from the W into the forecasted NNW as the day progressed.  The sky was heavily overcast and light drizzle occurred at times.  Some of the gas models disappeared into the overcast in their climb.  Bob Watson’s Mulvihill model disappeared into the high mist after about 3 min and wsn’t seen again until it had DTd after 6 minutes.  Too bad he was trying for the 5-minute flyoff max.   By 5 pm when were were packing up to leave, the wind had increased to about 10 mph and the drizzle was constant.

The nine F1G contestants had four in the flyoff.   We decided to try to settle that contest with a single flight so the max was set at 5 minutes.  However, no lift seemed to be available during the 10-minute flight window.   Tom Ioerger won his 4^th America’s Cup F1G contest with 2:24.  Junior John Shailor was close behind with 2:18 for second place.

This year we expanded the contest to include almost all of the National Cup events.  To help keep down expenses, engraved trophy mugs were awarded only to first place winners.  Even so, three mugs were not awarded:  B-gas, Jr 1/2A-gas, and Sr high point 3^rd place.   It is my observation that the National Cup competition does not provide a significant increase in participation.  From the proceeds of the contest, the Aeronuts provide support to the Junior World Championship teams (Outdoor and Indoor) as well as the NFFS Scholarship fund.  

Championship Winners:   Celia Golderg Trophy for 1/2A …….Keith Fulmer

                                          Carl Goldberg Tropny for Power ….. Keith Fulmer

                                           Rudy Schuh Trophy for Rubber ……Ed Konefes

                                           Gerald Ritz Trophy for Glider………Bill Schlarb

                                           Senior High Point…Paul Shailor and John T. Lorbiecki (Tie)

Thanks to Charlie Sotich for keeping the scoring and managing the tables.  Bob Johnson was the Oldtimer CD and was assisted by Ken Tillou, Lloyd Meyers and Jerry Keith.  This was the first contest in my memory when every round of FAI had the horn on time.

42^nd Fall Oldtimer Results, August 28, 2204.   Muncie Indiana

	SAM A-Gas			SAM B-Gas
1	Bob Edelstein	So Long/ Arden 19	245	Dan Harshman	Zipper/Torpedo 29	307
2	Dan Harshman	Alert	120	Don Diggs	Zipper/Forester 29	259
3				Bob Edelstein	Alert/Forester 29	257
4				Elmer Jordan	Zipper/O&R 29	243

	SAM C-Gas			020 Replica
1	Elmer Jordan	Sailplane/Ohlsson 60	303	Bill Schlarb	Stratostreak	316
2	Bob Edelstein	Amer Ace/Forest 305	178	John Oliver	So Long	284
3				Bob Kumferman	Kerswap	209
4				Paul Skelly	Ranger	109

	OT HLG/CLG			Nostalgia 1/2A
1	Ralph Schlarb	Vartanian	195	Elmer Jordan	Ramrod/Fox 049	321
2	Bill Schlarb	Vartanian	175	Hank Sperzel	Ramrod/Medallion	308
3	John Oliver	Vartanian	128	Bob Edelstein	T-Bird/Atwood	301
4	John Seymour	Huegelet	98	Gene Wicks	T-Bird/Medallion	291
5	Ryan Seymour /J	Vartanian	95	Keith Fulmer	SWAT/Medallion	289
6	JBM Griner		92	Bob Kumferman	Ramrod/Cox	160
7	Lee Campbell	Huegelet	35

	Nostalgia 1/4A			NOS Early 1/2A
1	Keith Fulmer	SWAT	329	Gene Wicks	Zeek/Cub	293
2	John Oliver	T-Bird	302	Keith Fulmer	SWAT/Cub	277
3	Gene Wicks	T-Bird	11	Bill Scharb	Zeek/Cub	257

	Nostalgia A			Nostalgia B
1	Hank Sperzel	Ramrod/OS 15	598	Keith Fulmer	SWAT	600
2	Keith Fulmer	SWAT	363	Gene Wicks	T-Bird/OS Max	580
3	Gilbert Robbins	Eureka/OS 15	325	Charlie Harper	Ramrod/K&B 29R	459
4	Carl Rowland	Texan/OS 19	230	Don Diggs	Spacer/K&B 29	422
5	Bob Watson	T-Bird/OS 15	201
6	Charlie Harper	Kiwi/OS 15	196

Twin Pusher mass launch:  1^st Ed Konefes, 2^nd Ken Fryling

	Nostalgia - C			SAM Lg Rubber
1	Richard Covalt	Zeek	821	Ed Konefes	Lamb’s Climber	763
2	Gene Wicks	T-Bird/OS Max 35	445	Bob Watson	Red Buzzard	698
3	Keith Fulmer	SWAT/OS-35	433	Ed Sneed	Smith Mulvihill	478
4	Hank Sperzel	Ramrod/Veco 35	338	Roy Stewart	Hi Ho	470
5	Bob Edelstein	Spacer/K&B 35	106	Joe Williams	Lanzo Stick	353

	SAM Sm Rubber			NOS Rubber/Wake
1	Ed Konefes	Casano	532	Jean Andrews	Bilgri	424
2	Joe Williams	Crusader	496	Ed Sneed	Herb’s ‘52	413
3	Ed Sneed	Double Feature	343	Roy Stewart	’51 Unl	376
4	Jean Andrews	Jabberwock	78	M Chamberlain	Ranger	360

61^st Midwestern States Championships Results, August 29, 2004, Muncie, Indiana

	Junior HL Glider		Junior Catapult Glider		Junior P-30
1	Evan Simon	63	Evan Simon	97	Evan Simon	273
2	John Shailor	58	John Shailor	54

Junior ½-A gas:  No Entries!

	½-A Gas		A-Gas		B-Gas
1	Keith Fulmer	600	John T. Lorbiecki	1800	No Entries!
2	Jack Marsh	468	Richard Covalt	692

	C-Gas		D-Gas		AB-Electric
1	Richard Covalt	750	Richard Covalt	360	Charles Groth	335
2	Hank Sperzel	120			Bob Kumferman	320

	½-A Classic Gas		AB-Classic Gas		CD-Classic Gas
1	Jack Marsh	340	Charlie Harper	733	Jack Marsh	720
2	Bob Kumferman	282	Jack Marsh	720	Hank Sperzel	667
3					Don Diggs	341

	Mulvihill		Moffett		P-30
1	Walt Tomash	826	Joe Williams	766	Ed Konefes	299
2	Joe Williams	781	Ed Sneed	748	Chris Matsuno	294
3	Bob Watson	728
4	Ed Sneed	262

	Handlaunched Glider		Catapult Glider		Classic Towline Glider
1	Don Diggs	155	Bill Schlarb	245	Bill Schlarb  (A-1)	356
2	Bill Schlarb	128	Ralph Schlarb	221	Robert Sifleet  (A-2)	349
3	John Oliver	111	John Oliver	157	Jean Andrews  (A-1)	268
4	Paul Shailor (S)	109	JBM Griner	85
5	Greg Simon	63
6	JBM Griner	10

44th FAI Invitational Results.  August 28-29, 2004.  Muncie, Indiana
	F1A	Rd 1	2	3	4	5	6	7	FO	Total
1	Andrew Barron	180	126	180	180	60	180	175		1081
2	Chuck Markos	109	155	180	180	148	180	122		1074
3	Bob Sifleet	151	118	180	112	30	180	100		871
4	Lee Campbell	75	165	57	102	69	180			648
	F1B
1	Jim Bradley	180	180	180	180	180	180	180	200	1460
2	Jerry McGlashan	180	180	180	180	180	180	180		1260
3	Bill Shailor	180	171	180	117	180	180	180		1188
4	Evan Simon (J)	180	180	156	180	99	180	180		1155
5	Paul Shailor (S)	180	180	180	180	180	120	102		1122
6	Greg Simon	180	180	180	132	108	180	156		1116
7	Paul Crowley	180	125	180	110	95	180	180		1050
8	Chris Matsuno	127	180	160	86	114	131	141		939
9	David Lacey	147	87	180	115	81	180	149		939
10	Joe Friebis	180	102	44	108	96	127	88		745
11	Thomas Ioerger	180	180	84	68	119				631
12	Fred Blom	90	148	110	118	82				548
13	Guenther Nowak	147	140	88	58	60				493
	F1C
1	Bucky Servaites	180	180	180	180	180	180	170		1250
2	John Seymour	180	162	180	163	180	142	166		1173
3	John T. Lorbiecki (S)	180	180	180	180	100	180	141		1141
4	Gil Morris	180	180	175	108	180	180			1003
	F1G	Rd 1	Rd2	Rd3	Rd4	Rd5	FO		Total
1	Thomas Ioerger	120	120	120	120	120	144		744
2	John Shailor (J)	120	120	120	120	120	138		738
3	Greg Simon	120	120	120	120	120	121		721
4	Ed Konefes	120	120	120	120	120	120		720
5	Chris Matsuno	120	120	113	120	120			593
6	George Clowes	91	120	120	74	120			525
7	Evan Simon (J)	120	113	57	120				380
8	Fred Blom	120	120						240
9	David Lacey	99	92						191
	F1H
1	Chuck Markos	120	120	120	92	120			572
2	Robert Sifleet	120	120	120	120	63			543
3	Bill Schlarb	82	80						162
	F1J/F1P
1	John T. Lorbiecki (S)	120	120	120	120				480