Hi Jim,
When you refer to the MWSC currently being held I
assume you are talking about the contest that was
CD'ed by Bob Warmann in the Armory in Champaign, Il
this year? If so I think the answer is clear, it is
not the same building.
Kurt
--- jim buxton <glider902003_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> <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
>
>
>
>
>
>
Kurt Krempetz
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