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Sir Dale Kirn Knights’ Joust Report, Aerobatics Segment.

Hot, definitely hot. And on Sunday, the bitey bugs were out in force. Other than that, a good time was had by all. Sadly, the attendance was pretty thin as most of the Arizona contingent, and a fair number of locals were unable to attend. The good news is that we have FIVE new judges who participated for the first time. Thanks to Bill Barber, Scott Dinger, Milton Graham Steve Harris and Joe Hildereth for being brave! The other judges were: Joel Chesler, Frank Martin, Larry Renger, Eric Rule, Lee Strickland and Stan Tyler. Tabulation and registration were provided by Alice Hildereth and Sylvia Strickland. Sally Lally pitched in as a runner, and Dennis Coleman doubled as CD and Chief Cook.

Thanks to our Pit Bosses for the Aerobatics part of the contest. They were: Ray Ebert, Matt Shorey and (I think) Al Shorey. Sorry to be unsure about the third Pit Boss.

Surprisingly, the major event turned out to be Expert! More entries in that than any other! The turnout was pretty thin, and we had a lot of events, so there were trophies that went un-awarded. Gloom. And the winners were:

There were special awards:

Pilots’ Choice: Phil Juarez – Stiletto

Best Leprechaun: Scott Dinger – Baby Flite Streak

B.A.R.F. * Matt Shorey – Brodak P-40

Two pilots moved up a class at this meet. After Matt Shorey won Intermediate – again – we booted him up to Advanced. He decided to try it, since the event was the next day. As you can see, he may not stay in THAT class very long! Stan Tyler chose voluntarily to move from Advanced to Expert, and again you can see that it did him little harm. Good show, both of you guys. As far as I recall, there was only one crash, and that was only a very repairable high-speed inverted landing. You know who you are…. In addition to Aerobatics, the event included speed, carrier and scale. Perhaps the EDs of those events will download their information.

Results of the Sir Dale Kirn’s Knight Joust Carrier contest

The weather was extremely hot and humid, quite like Muncie except very little wind.

Eric Conley again came down from Reno and showed everyone how it should be done. Too bad he hasn’t made it to the NATS. He and his planes would do quite well there, too. His winning flights in 15 and 36 AMA Profile were smooth, solid and without any problems. Can’t say the same for the rest of us. Dave Dawson’s Melton Guardian may now get retired – finally. He rebuilt it after I crashed it and has been flying it regularly. It is tired and needs to be put out to pasture.

Two new fliers came out with their un-tested planes but elected not to enter this time. .Robert Wright had a very nice Sea Fury with an RJL 15 and Dave Hull had a Perry MO-1 Profile with a Magnum 36. Dave Hull is a noted Speed and Racing flier who showed no interest in Carrier even though he was always there to help at our contests. He somehow placed his plane in the pits without anyone noticing. I’m sure he enjoyed all the comments and guesses as to who had built it. It is one of the nicest MO-1’s EVER! We thought it must have been built by a Stunt or Scale flier because it was so nice. He got us! Welcome to the Carrier event, Robert and Dave!!!

Ron Duly

Speed -- from Larry Regner

I got the results from the speed circle. And very impressive they are! Speed is run on the basis that the placings are set by the percentage of the record speed for a particular class of model. As such, a ½ A Proto Speed model has as much chance as a DynaJet.

Howard Doering was the event director for speed.