Rubber Champion

[Ed Hardin]

Can someone tell me how the Rubber champion at the NATS is determined? Is it total time of the five events, Moffett, Mulvihill, F1B, F1G and P-30, or are points awarded for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.?
Thanks,
Ed

[DAN BERRY]

Points by place.

[Anonymous]

Hello Ed and Dan,

This reminds me of an amusing anecdote that began at the 2005 SAM1066 Eurochamps held at Middle Wallop in England.

I won the Large Rubber class using my Bienenstien “Challenger” with a stunning 8 minute fly-off time.

At the prize-giving I was delighted that David Baker had the Winner’s Trophy engraved “World Champion”.

You have to understand that David Baker, the virtual No1 founder of the SAM UK movement had a quirky but unique style of fun and presentation.

Well, some months later I had occasion to visit my favourite hospital consultant who was always interested in my Model Flying exploits and he wanted me to bring him up to date, so I did.

Later in the consultation he brought in a group of medical students to share his diagnosis and delighted in introducing his patient, me, as

“World Champion – Large Rubber”.

There were two young American girls in the group who started giiggling, then the whole room just fell about laughing. ❓ 😯 The tears rolled down for the rest of the consultation.

Read about the whole 2005 Middle Wallop Eurochamps in the PDF to be found at this link:

http://www.vintagemodelairplane.com/pages/Downloads/CRB_Tasters/2005euro01.html

Who said visiting hospital could not be fun?

There loads more stuff on my website to tickle your fancy!!

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