Re: Re: Bostonians and No-Cals

From: Don Slusarczyk <don_at_slusarczyk.com>
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2012 12:53:19 -0400

> Maybe the event should simply be dropped from indoor competition.

So if you can't compete with the rest then delete the event? Interesting
thinking. I have seen indoor golden age models do 4+ minutes at the
Buffalo Bills field house by a well know Canadian FAC modeler in a
flyoff, so should that event be banned from indoor as well? How about
indoor dime scale models that fly 3+ minutes. Do you propose min weights
on indoor peanut scale, dimes scale etc? How about banning 3+ minute
indoor Phantom Flashes? So if you want to ban the event why not just ban
all FAC events for indoor and add more time for indoor duration events.

I understand the FAC rules are really meant for outdoor models but it is
naive to think that if the same event is flown indoors that special
models would not be made and special building techniques will not be
adapted by the people who will be flying the event, and those people ARE
indoor duration modelers. The reality is that the people who fly indoor
Nocal are those who are already going to the indoor contest and are
looking for another event to fly.

Indoor duration models are different from outdoor duration models so an
indoor Nocal is built different from an outdoor nocal just like F1D is
built different from F1B. What I see at many indoor meets is that those
flying the FAC events bring their outdoor models inside, and that is
their choice. So if that is all the effort they wish to put into the
event then so be it. But then they risk loosing to a model built
specifically for indoor flying. How many people can build a 5 gram
peanut scale Spitfire or Mustang? Jack McGillvray could do just about 3
minutes indoor with that model in WWII combat and won just about every
time I saw him fly it. Why did no one say Jack was ruining the event?
Jack had the first Cessnal Cardinal Nocal and cleaned out clocks at a
meet in Detroit with 7+ minute flights in Nocal? Why was it OK for Jack
to do all this stuff? I was under the impression Jack was highly
regarded in the FAC, seems to be a double standard here.


> As for grossly fudging outlines, that’s a disgrace. I saw a Lacy
> No-Cal built by a well-known indoor flier, now deceased, allowed to
> fly at West Baden years ago sporting a motor stick that protruded
> three or four inches beyond the model’s nose! Ridiculous!
>
This issue was addressed and is not allowed in the current Nocal rules.

Don S.
Received on Sat Jun 09 2012 - 09:53:27 CEST