The flyers who were on the Eloy field on Friday had beautiful Arizona weather, blue skies, light winds and a temperature of 75 degrees. John Clapp came from Pennsylvania, Paul Crowley from Michigan, Eddie and Marleen Vanlandingham from Texas and 'our' Canadian snowbird Peter Allnutt from Taft, CA.. Plus there was a good crowd from California who wanted to have some goodflying competition or to get some of the last America's Cup points of the year.

Saturday morning was cool with 45 degrees and light winds when the first F1A/B round started. Too bad that in that round Aimee Raymond, CA flew her Wakefield into a 'very rare' tree for a 178s flight. Around noon the westerly wind picked up with gusts up to 17 mph. Together with some monster thermals this made for some long retrievals so that that after round 5 the contest was put on hold and later in the afternoon stopped after condititions did not improve.

Sunday morning at sunrise it was cold, not much above freezing. With the sun soon warming and a very light wind it made for nice F1A/B fly-off conditions. These were won by Pierre Brun, OR (F1A) and Paul Crowley, MI (F1B). Remarkable was the circle towing and flying by our own Ryan Archer
(Jr) who placed 3rd in the F1A fly-off. The F1G/H competition started with light westerly winds, with thermals getting stronger. After the good rain that we had earlier in the year in the desert the retrieval was not always easy in the plentiful Russian thistle bushes. Hopefully they will soon roll into the sunset as tumbleweeds. After 5 rounds there were 5 each still clean in F1G and F1H. After 2 fly-off rounds in F1G and 3 fly-off rounds in F1H in breezy conditions we had the winners: Peter Brocks (F1G) and Mike McKeever (F1H).

The Phoenix Model Airplane Club and the Tucson Freeflight Club thank all flyers who came to fly with us and hope to see you all again for the Randy Archer Invitational and the Southwest Regionals on Jan, 13 and 14, 2006.

RESULTS ARIZONA FAI FF CHAMPIONSHIPS DEC. 3, 4, 2005

F1A
1. Pierre Brun, OR 180 180 180 180 180 330 1230
2. Jim Parker, CA 180 180 180 180 180 299 1199
3. Ryan Archer, AZ (Jr) 180 180 180 180 180 285 1185
4. Peter Brocks, AZ 180 180 180 180 180 279 1179
5. Mike McKeever, CA 180 180 180 180 180 271 1171
6. Jim Farmer, AZ 180 180 180 180 180 DNF 900
7. Sam Farmer, AZ (Jr) 180 180 180 180 140 860
8. Lee Hines, CA 180 180 180 121 180 841
9. Don Zink, CA 180 180 180 180 114 834
10. Brian Van Nest, CA 180 180 180 087 180 807
11. Peter Allnutt, CN 180 180 078 180 115 733
12. Norm Smith, CA 180 091 180 041 037 529

F1B
1. Paul Crowley, MI 180 180 180 180 180 264 1164
2. Elmer Nelson, AZ 180 180 180 180 180 250 1150
3. Eddie Vanlandingham, TX 180 180 180 180 180 235 1135
4. John Clapp, PA 180 180 180 180 180 150 1050
5. Aimee Raymond, CA 178 180 180 180 167 885
6. Martin Schroedter, CA 180 180 180 137 180 857
7. Dick Wood, AZ 180 180 102 180 133 775
8. Bill Booth, CA 180 180 009 180 180 729

F1G
1. Peter Brocks, AZ 120 120 120 120 120 180 240 1020
2. Paul Crowley, MI 120 120 120 120 120 180 182 962
3. Elmer Nelson, AZ 120 120 120 120 120 180 143 923
4. Eddie Vanlandingham, TX 120 120 120 120 120 173 773
5. John Clapp, PA 120 120 120 120 120 162 762
6. Aimee Raymond, CA 107 120 120 120 120 587
7. Alan Petersen, AZ 120 120 080 120 120 560

F1H
1. Mike McKeever, CA 120 120 120 120 120 180 240 300 1320
2. Jim Parker, CA 120 120 120 120 120 180 240 160 1180
3. Brian Van Nest, CA 120 120 120 120 120 180 240 154 1174
4. Ryan Archer, AZ (Jr) 120 120 120 120 120 107 707
5. Norm Smith, CA 120 120 120 120 120 091 691
6. Pierre Brun, OR 120 120 120 084 085 529
7. Peter Allnutt, CN 018 120 000 120 120 378
8. Lee Hines, CA 120 105 DNF DNF DNF 225