Old Timer Contest August 4th 2007
The Cobra R/C Club put on our forth Old Timer Five
Minute Contest Saturday, August 4th. Weather … hot in the 90’s and
humidity was really high. Wind was about 18 to 20 MPH out of the
South East.
We had nine pilots enter the contest. Only four was
able to finish all three rounds. I believe the wind had a great
deal to do with that. Some had a little bad luck, one went in the
corn field, one broke the landing gear and one broke a wing.
Nothing was damaged to bad , I’m sure they will all be flying at
our September contest.- September 1st.
Several of us went to the Fish And Game Club for lunch,
one of my favorite things to do. It was just to unpleasant to cook
at the field.
Loren Blinde came up from Lincoln, always nice to see
Loren. Galen gave it a good try this time as did Howard Hough It
was just to windy for Howard’s plane, I think Howard was ready to
give it a good try, but I thought it was just blowing to hard.
Larry Puls had a very busy summer but was able to fly this time.
Larry Bailey had his hands full with his plane
( Dallaire ) with
the size of the wing in the wind he did a great job. I want to
thank everyone that took part in my contest.
Here are the scores for the day. A perfect score: 350
points per round, or 1050 for three rounds.
1st Tom Egbert 956 Completed Three Rounds
2nd Terry lamm 929 Three Rounds
3rd Dick Behrens 914 Three Rounds
4th Loren Blinde 896 Three Rounds
5th Ed Splittgerber 586 Two Rounds
6th Larry Bailey 281 One Round
7th Larry Puls 261 One Round
8th Galen Lillethorup 255 One Round
9th Howard Hough To windy for his plane.
George Eheman C.D.
gseheman@cox.net