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Rusty Dose with Kasey and Valerie Johnson. They live in East Grand Forks, MN. Kasey has been flying for five years, and this is his first time at the NATS. He is 17 years old.

Competition resumed on Thursday morning for the final round of preliminary flights. Mother Nature, however, had other plans. The low cloud ceiling experienced on Wednesday returned, along with a quartering crosswind blowing in from the north-northeast.

 
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F3A Pilot Troy Newman of Goodyear, AZ with his Wei Yang Proteus Biplane.

Nineteen Masters-class pilots gathered at 8 am on Wednesday morning for their third and fourth rounds. However, the weather gods had other ideas as the clouds were low, and the ceilings were only 400 to 500 feet at the start time. After several flights to determine whether the clouds had risen high enough to enable competition flying to begin, it was finally okay to fly without constraint.

 
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Results from the competition rounds flown on Tuesday, August 19 can be seen on the National Society of Radio Controlled Aerobatics (NSRCA) website

 
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Santiago Perez flying his freestyle routine.

The final day of the 2025 IMAC Nationals at AMA Headquarters brought the contest to a strong finish after a challenging weather delay. Unfortunately, Thursday's schedule was completely washed out due to persistent rain and low ceilings throughout the day, forcing contest organizers to push the remaining rounds to Friday.

 

Nats Demystified

thermal hunting demystified

In our final episode of Nats Demystified, Matt Ruddick talks to Wally Adasczik and Bob Sifleet about hunting thermals in Soaring and Free Flight events.

 
windy conditions demystified

Join Matt Ruddick for another Nats Demystified where he talks to League of Silent Flight Secretary John Marien about how sailplanes are able to soar in windy conditions.

 
lost free flight model demystified

Matt Ruddick comes back for another episode of Nats Demystified to talk to four-time Nats champion Bob Sifleet about how free flight modelers find stray models.  

 
winch launch sailplanes demystified

In this episode of Nats Demystified, AMA's Matt Ruddick talks to League of Silent Flight President Wally Adasczik about sailplanes, particularly about on way these aircraft are launched into the air without the need for a propeller or tow-plane.

 

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