Month: August 2024

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CCA#5 Results

Our 5th Common Club Airplane (CCA) event occured on August 24th and the scoresheet has been updated and re-posted here:  CCA Results

A cumulative score sheet is being maintained on our web site if you want to see the current season leaders. Remember the best 5 scores of the seven events will be used to determine a season champ so there is still time to get involved!  There is a link to it on the event page as well.

The event had 14 pilots competing in a climb and glide contest in our usual double elimination style.  Dave Hart had his first victory of the season going undefeated on the day and while many matches were close, Dave’s last flight was very impressive… Easily the longest flight of the day by a big margin!!

Our next CCA event is scheduled in just a couple weeks on September 7th.

 
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“Lifting Levitation” sponsored by the Indianapolis RC Modelers finish in first place!!

The Indy RC Modelers club, led by Mr. Jeff Thomas, sponsored a team in the AMA Heavy Lift challenge this season and our team took first place!

Click here to see the AMA announcement or here to go to the YouTube video taking you through the entire process. 

A big “Congratulations!!” to our team consisting of:

  • Liam Doffin
  • Eli Meurer
  • Noah Meurer
  • Kane Penniston

They did a great job.  Special thanks to Noah Meurer for his excellent video editing and compiling and IT skills that helped make their submission look very professional. 

 

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CCA#4 Results

Our 4th Common Club Airplane (CCA) event occured yesterday and the scoresheet has been updated and re-posted here:  CCA Results

There is a link to it on the event page as well.

The event had 12 pilots competing in a timed flight contest in our usual double elimination style.   For the second event in a row, the final bracket required 2 flights to determine a victor!

The ability of the pilots to fly for a set amount of time and land on the runway as close to the elapsed time as possible was tested but the pilots proved they had this one in the bag as there were half a dozen or more heats where the winning pilot landed within one second of the time alloted!  Some heats were decided with less than 2 seconds seperating the pilots with one on each side of the landing target time.  Very impressive.

Come out and check out the fun at our next event!  Thanks to the organizers and volunteers who helped make it happen.  Even with all of that, we finished up in just over 2 hours.