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First Annual Rudder-Elevator-Spoiler Contest 6/28/02

No sailplanes with control surfaces on trailing edge of wing allowed - so we all flew old timey balsa built-ups. And had a ball! A perfect day, with little wind in the morning. Lift was light, small, and spotty, except the occasional incredible boomer. CD Antonio's report at the bottom with final scores and chart. No damaged planes!

BRASS RES CONTEST 28-JUN-02 - 7 Rounds
raw		---one	5		400	---two	7		520
1738	antonio	4	52	82	374	6	29	0	389
1710	dimi	4	55	25	320	6	52	78	490
2050	tom	4	58	87	385	6	53	0	413
1039	steve	1	59	0	119	6	58	92	510
875	regis	2	55	0	175	4	23	0	263
1095	bob	2	39	43	202	4	23	0	263
300	lew	4	0	0	240	1	0	0	60
1595	john	3	31	74	285	7	5	88	503
1660	millard	5	13	0	287	6	48	75	483
686	charles	5	1	0	299	3	18	44	242
		---three	7		520	---four	9		640
	antonio	6	49	60	469	9	6	40	574
	dimi	6	21	43	424	4	35	48	323
	tom	6	55	0	415	8	57	94	631
	steve	5	17	0	317	1	47	74	181
	regis	4	11	0	251	1	20	0	80
	bob	6	14	0	374	2	22	67	209
	lew	2	32	0	152	8	54	0	534
	john	7	4	86	502	9	0	33	573
	millard	2	2	87	209	7	49	0	469
	charles	1	57	74	191	6	0	72	432
		---five	7		520	---six	7		520
	antonio	3	50	8	238	6	48	0	408
	dimi	2	35	0	155	6	20	0	380
	tom	7	1	35	454	7	7	56	469
	steve	2	36	81	237	2	53	0	173
	regis	3	64	0	244	1	40	0	100
	bob	3	35	0	215	3	30	61	271
	lew	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	john	5	19	82	401	4	28	0	268
	millard	6	58	82	500	1	32	0	92
	charles	1	49	36	145	0	0	0	0
		---seven	5		400
	antonio	4	55	34	329
	dimi	5	11	76	365
	tom	4	58	31	329
	steve	0	0	0	0
	regis	1	33	0	93
	bob	2	24	0	144
	lew	0	0	0	0
	john	2	18	0	138
	millard	4	58	0	298
	charles	0	0	0	0
rank			norm	%max		max possible
3096	tom		100	88		2360
2781	antonio		90	79
2670	john		86	76
2457	dimi		79	70
2338	millard		76	66
1678	bob		54	48
1537	steve		50	44
1309	charles		42	37
1206	regis		39	34
986	lew		32	28

Antonio, contest director: I had a great time. It was hard staying ahead of Dimi, who proved that it ISN'T the pilot, but rather the plane - the Spirit100 flies great! Luckily (for me) it was the first time he'd ever flown it... (Antonio "shared" his 100 inch Spirit with Dimitri for the contest's duration) The air was tough at times, and then other times it was incredible. On one of the down-wind launch, windy rounds, I followed Tom towards the turnaround over the trees. The life was as strong as ANY i've ever been in. At one point I had full spoilers up, nose trimmed down, and I was still specking out to where I feared loosing sight of the plane.

Thanks to all who helped, specially the winch-wenches, Tom for setting up and tearing down while the rest of us lounged, Hedel and Marion for help score-keeping and doin' the math, Steve for motivation and web-site, Bob for the retriever, and everyone else for coming out, flying, ...

Here's the exciting round by round action: 7 changes of place in the last 3 rounds!

Eastern Soaring League Contest May 20-21 2002------------- Home

For ESL info see http://www.eclipse.net/~mikel/esl/esl.htm

This is our one big daddy contest of the year, Southernmost of the series flown from here to Massachusetts- with lots of out of town hot shots participating. It's the first East Coast contest of the season, giving us a chance to fly on our home field against competitors not yet honed by 8 months of contests. High Praise goes to Randy for driving for hours to get the contest equipment and repressing the constant assaults on his authority as contest director. Tom Broeski worked tirelessly to get the contest organized beforehand and has headed the Save our Flying Field effort. Mike Reno kept us fed and watered in a new highmark of catering. A number of out of town flyers spent 3 days traveling South down the Skyline Drive- slope flying overlooks and culminating Friday when Susan led a group to Brown's Mountain where they had 7 planes up at once on a SW wind!

Contest Saturday dawned wet and overcast but things started on time and proceded smoothly thanks to many energetic BRASS efforts (and Dale Hart's scoring). The 7th round wasn't completed because a violent thunder storm broke with several planes in the air. As tremendous wind knocked down shelters and a freezing downpour socked in visibility, two sailplanes managed to land barely on the field but Dimitri's Stork was spun away like a leaf. Blue sky and sun emerged within 10 minutes but no Dimitri. A few flyers crossed the road into a little neighborhood of closely packed houses looking for him. Residents kept pointing further down the street when asked about a downed plane. Rounding a corner, we saw a soaked Dimitri standing in an alley, transmitter in one hand, and barely blemished Stork in the other. Somehow it landed itself (with only a small knock on the leading edge) between two houses, apparently hitting a small tree with thin branches on the way in. Joedy flew his scratch built Magic all day, Antonio got his Stork flying and managed to land safely after a temporarily jammed aileron. Adam proficiently launnched his own plane all day and had great landings. Fred Atkinson flew and flew up at Brown's. A great time was had although Sunday was rained out.

2002 BRASS OPEN					EX=	Expert
Saturday					SP=	Sportsman
Combined Standings as of Round # 6
Sorted by Overall Score
					Overall	Place by
Contestant	Score	Off-Max	Percent	Class	Place	Class
-------------------	-----	-------	-------	- -----	-----
BROWN, RICK	2549	331	100	EX	1	1
GRENOBLE, BILL	2507	373	98.35	SP	2	1
LUCKENBACH, TERRY	2473	407	97.02	EX	3	2
HART, DALE	2358	522	92.51	EX	4	3
WETSLING, REINER	2344	536	91.96	SP	5	2
VIGOUR, JOHN	2325	555	91.21	SP	6	3
CHATMAN, BOB	2318	562	90.94	SP	7	4
BROESKI, TOM	2287	593	89.72	EX	8	4
SWANSON, STEWART	2238	642	87.8	EX	9	5
KATRAMATOS, D.	2231	649	87.52	SP	10	5
GUIDE, TONY	2196	684	86.15	SP	11	6
COCHRELL, KERRY	2171	709	85.17	SP	12	7
MAIZE, DENNY	2124	756	83.33	SP	13	8
BATES, RON	2119	761	83.13	SP	14	9
HAYMAKER, BILL	1942	938	76.19	SP	15	10
SCHLITZKUS, PETE	1891	989	74.19	SP	16	11
RIGBY, BILL	1835	1045	71.99	SP	17	12
MARTINEZ, ANTONIO	1621	1259	63.59	SP	18	13
DRULIA, JOEDY	1380	1500	54.14	SP	19	14
SYROTIAK, STEPHEN	1217	1663	47.74	SP	20	15
RENSI, RICK	1209	1671	47.43	SP	21	16
SMITH, RANDY	961	1919	37.7	SP	22	17
SIEBKEN, ADAM	907	1973	35.58	SP	23	18
WHITE, REGIS	699	2181	27.42	SP	24	19

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January 5, 2002 Now this contest was an endurance contest but for January it was pretty nice weather although windy. Notice that the landing task changed with every round- thanks, Randy!

Dimitri  actually broke a stork wing in the air with his monster power-launch - but by the next weekend had it all fixed.

BRASS January Club Contest January 5, 2002
	Contest Director, Randy Smith
	Round 1 180 Seconds IN/OUT 50 Points
	Time	Overage	Landing	Raw	Normalized	Standing
Randy	180	-7	50	223	96.96%	3
John	180		50	230	100.00%	1
Adam	150		0	150	65.22%	8
Tom B	161		0	161	70.00%	7
Ed	180	-12	0	168	73.04%	6
Tom P	175		50	225	97.83%	2
Uwe	180	-11	0	169	73.48%	5
Dimi	180	-11	50	219	95.22%	4
	Round 2 300 Seconds AMA Landing					Standing
Randy	297		0	297	84.14%	4
John	299		0	299	84.70%	3
Adam	179		0	179	50.71%	7
Tom B	249		88	337	95.47%	2
Ed	300	-5	0	295	83.57%	5
Tom P	217		0	217	61.47%	6
Uwe	300	-14	67	353	100.00%	1
	Round 3 300 Seconds IN/OUT 50 Points					Standing
Randy	226		50	276	99.64%	2
John	268		0	268	96.75%	3
Tom B	184		50	234	84.48%	4
Ed	220		0	220	79.42%	5
Uwe	277		0	277	100.00%	1
	Round 4 300 Seconds AMA Runway					Standing
Randy	241		92	333	92.50%	2
John	255		18	273	75.83%	4
Tom B	300	-2	0	298	82.78%	3
Ed	123		0	123	34.17%	5
Uwe	300	-13	73	360	100.00%	1
	Round 5 420 Seconds IN/OUT 50 Points
Randy	162		50	212	51.46%	5
John	175		50	225	54.61%	4
Tom B	250		50	300	72.82%	3
Ed	327		0	327	79.37%	2
Uwe	420	-8	0	412	100.00%	1
Totals	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Average %	Norm. Av.	PLACE
Randy	96.96%	84.14%	99.64%	92.50%	51.46%	84.94%	89.69%	SECOND
John	100.00%	84.70%	96.75%	75.83%	54.61%	82.38%	86.99%	THIRD
Adam	65.22%	50.71%	out
Tom B	70.00%	95.47%	84.48%	82.78%	72.82%	81.11%	85.65%	FOURTH
Ed	73.04%	83.57%	79.42%	34.17%	79.37%	69.91%	73.83%	FIFTH
Tom P	97.83%	61.47%	out
Uwe	73.48%	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%	94.70%	100.00%	FIRST
Dimi	95.22%	out