<ddeloach_at_...> wrote:
> Jimmy
> You can easily look up the old record in the MA archives,
> www.modelaircraft.org <http://www.modelaircraft.org/>
>
Don, I am not so sure about "easily" but I did find the history, and
a great laugh. I checked out the NATS issue from 1987. I
temporarily posted a document under the root of the 'files' section
called '1987 AMA NATS' with pictures of three of us. What a hoot.
Anyway, here is the info about the folder records. First off Cat II
was anything under 100 feet back then. Bucky Servaites held the
record at the time that the folder eclipsed it in 1979. Bucky set
his record in a 95' site in Cleveland. (I wonder what site, and I
wonder if this is the cat III record that I took from Bucky in 1993,
as I know Richard Doig went through and re-classified all of the
records from the three categories to the FAI categories when they
were adopted...)
The first cat II record broken by Stan's folder was April 22nd, 1979
at Chicago's Madison Street Armory, with flights of 71.2 and 75.6
seconds. The ceiling was listed as 75', since the floor had been
raised a few years before 1979. This is not the site of the current
MWSC, correct? But perhaps the site Don knows of?
Later that year at the NIMAS record trials in West Baden, Stan upped
the record to an 82 and 77 second flight.
Interesting stuff. I would have to believe modern materials would
make it easier (but still not "easy") to build a reliable folder, and
admittedly it was Kurt mentioning his work on an outdoor foplder to
me at Kent that rekindled my interest in this model. Kurt, anyone
else, informal folder contest at the MWSC 2007, in honor of 30 years
since the folder was introduced? As you mentioned it makes the arm
less of a factor, maybe we can get some more people interested?
~Jim
Received on Mon May 08 2006 - 14:36:38 CEST