Competition Events

Initial Contest Results
Final Contest Results

Contest Photos

MWRC 2000 was held over the weekend (April 21-22). The weather wasn't the greatest as everyone knows. Kudos to everyone who came out and flew the meet under some difficult and challenging circumstances. We had 13 contestants, 2 in A division, 10 in C and 1 Team entry. So the Team (Chedar-1) had to fly against C division. We also had a number of members who did not enter, but still came out to support the club, assist in range set up and tear down, timing, and other duties. Thanks everyone. It's great to see such a good turnout of club members on such a weather poor weekend pull together and make an event like this work. Visitors to the meet (both competitors and non-competitors) came away very impressed. Special thanks to Fran Miller for serving as check-in/RSO for the majority of the weekend and doing a great job. Thanks also to everyone else who assisted including Dave, Mark, Mike, Dean, Fred, Kevin, Brian, Scott, Kurt, Brent and anyone else I may have forgotten! As an added treat we had some cub scouts show up on Saturday and Brian, Scott, and Fred kept busy assisting them with their Alpha IIIs. Countless flights were made with the venerable models (we can't go yet, we still have engines left).

For the contest, Open Spot proved a challenge in the brisk winds. Dave Lyle took first with his Skywinder which just barely managed to deploy the blades before touching down a mere 2 meters from the upwind spot. Dan Wolf took second flying a Hi-Jax on an A8-3 with nose blow recovery. Those who used streamers or chutes landed much farther away. Kevin Wickart and Paul Smith took 35r and 4th in C/T with 32 and 39 meters respectively. Everyone else was "far" (greater than 50 meters) or DQ'ed for separation. In A division, Sarah Wolf took first flying a Firestreak on an A8-3 with streamer recovery for 24 meters while her sister Mary barely avoided the being "far" with 48 meters.

In Random Duration, the target time was 35 seconds. Kevin Wickart flew an original Astron Drifter with a long streamer on a B6-4 to a perfect 35 seconds. Paul Smith had to settle for 2nd, with an excellent 32 second flight. First time competitor Brent Lillesand grabbed 3rd with a 41 second effort with Mike Vande Bunt close behind in 4th at 26 seconds. In A division, Mary and Sarah had a "ladies" agreement to only use A8-3 engines in the event due to the wind. Mary's Custom Rockets Redliner with crepe paper streamer barely edged out Sarah's Firestreak 12 seconds to 11 seconds.

In flex-wing, Chedar-1 took first, mainly because they were the only ones to put up two qualified flights. It was also due to the many "cut and try" and practice flying sessions they did before the meet before they finally got their flexies working. Paul Smith only made one flight, but it was good enough for 2nd place. Dan Wolf managed 3rd after his first flight DQ'ed for no glide as it came in straight. On the second flight Dan pulled out a flexie that had worked in the past, but had a tendency to stall. It did so again, but the glider still managed to do 45 seconds. In A, Sarah Wolf's glider started to fly straight down, just like her Dad's, but it pulled up a couple of times into a glide long enough for the RSO to qualify the flight of 24 seconds. Mary Wolf had to settle for "chump change" when her flexie, a veteran of NARAM 41, glided beautifully in a nice circle, even pointing dead into the wind at one point for several seconds. It was still as high as it was when it ejected when last seen in the sky over the swamp southwest of the park.

Future/Fiction scale had a nice assortment of models. Kevin Wickart took first with a beautiful model of the "Fafnir", a model from G. Harry Stine's science-fiction writing. But he had to work to do it. On the first flight, a wind gust as the model cleared the rod caused it to weathercock into cruise missile mode and it wasn't able to pull up prior to ejection. Kevin managed to put the pieces back together and the second flight flew straight and true to give Kevin a well deserved first. Dan Wolf took second flting the old Estes Star Wars X-wing fighter on a C6-3. CHEDAR-1 took 3rd flying a Goddard concept rocket, the V-2ish looking Modell B. Mike Vande Bunt's Fried from the black and white sci-fi movie "Frau in Mond" (fly to the moon) was one of the most interesting entries. Mike flew it on an F62 Darkstar and it boosted well initially, but started to fall back to earth after burnout, crashing into the runway and totally destroying one of the fin units. A sad ending to a neat model that the club has been able to see as Mike has been bringing it to club meetings for show and tell as his work on it progressed. Mike vows to repair it and try to fly it again.

The final event was to have been D Dual Eggloft Altitude. The altitude flying started at 3:30 PM Sunday and after first a D21 powered egglofter and then even a D12 powered draggy model (Estes Scrambler II variant) penetrated the clouds, CD Dan Wolf cancelled the flying. The plan is to fly this final event on May 19th at 14AL-2001, pending approval from the contest board. 

(ed. - WOOSH did in fact fly the D DEL event on May 19th.  The end results can be found above.)