Re: Bostonians and No-Cals

From: paul <gollywock01_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:00:47 -0000

Fred: Bostonian is not a FAC event . FAC rules are at this link. http://flyingacesclub.com/1213facrules10.pdf
Paul Grabski

--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "Bob Clemens" <rclemens2@...> wrote:
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> Fred Rash mentioned:
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> “Bostonian is both a FAC outdoor event (14g minimum weight) and an official AMA Indoor event (7g minimum weight).”
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> Fred, Bostonian is strictly an AMA event, with outdoor (who flies this redundant version?) and indoor weight rules as you said. The somewhat similar event from the FAC is Embryo Endurance. There is no weight rule for Embryo, which is very seldom flown indoors.
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> In line with all the discussion re. weights, I’d like to see indoor Bostonian (one of my favorite events back in the day) gain a few grams. It’s not easy to build a good-flying Bostonian to 7 grams. Why not at least 8, maybe 10? Must all indoor events be difficult or over-challenging to build to weight? If someone wants to fly a fuselage model under lighter weight minimums, there’s always Manhattan Cabin. Also, I’d back a proposal by the late Bob Meuser that would require the rectangular fuselage box to be in the vertical orientation (this proposal was quickly shot down by an indignant Indoor Contest Board some 20 or more years ago). The “flying flounders” that have dominated Bostonian for years have stagnated the event and go against the grain of the intent of the event as stated in the AMA rule book: “...to promote indoor flying of realistic...models of a size and complexity which are suitable for small buildings and limited skills.” The term “limited skills” and “realistic models” certainly doesn’t accurately describe the current crop of Bostonians- or their builders.
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> As for No-Cal, if the handful of fliers who can successfully build them as disguised penny planes want to do away with the weight rule, knock yourselves out. That will really help increase in No-Cal competition. But how about keeping the 6.2 gram rule and limit the fuselage length? Or do we want two or three guys flying monster Hosler Furies to keep on walking away with the event at the UISC and other big meets? As for me, I’ll keep flying it competitively, but mostly outdoors as it was originally conceived.
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> Bob Clemens
> Ready for the inevitable brickbats
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Received on Fri Jun 08 2012 - 06:00:48 CEST