On this episode of Nats Demystified, AMA's Matt Ruddick chats with four time Free Flight Nationals Champion, Bob Sifleet, about how Free Flight models' engines are timed and turned off at the appropriate time and altitude.
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2019 Outdoor Free Flight Nats Recap
The 2019 Outdoor Free Flight Nats were held August 5-9 at the International Aeromodeling Center in Muncie, Indiana. See all the highlights of this year’s event and final results with our NatsNews 2019 Outdoor Free Flight edition.
August 13, 2019: RC Soaring NOS, RES, 2Meter
The 2019 AMA Nats Soaring RES, NOS, and 2 Meter took place August 9-10 at the International Aeromodeling Center in Muncie, Indiana.
Photos by Jenni Alderman, Matt Ruddick, and Ryan Woebkenberg.
August 12, 2019: RC Soaring F3J
The 2019 AMA Nats F3J Thermal Duration Soaring took place August 9-10 at the International Aeromodeling Center in Muncie, Indiana.
Photos by Jenni Alderman.
August 12, 2019: Outdoor Free Flight
By Rick Pangell (themaxout@aol.com)
Sitting in the motel “breakfast room,” with my eyes hardly open, a voice came out of the hallway … “Did you guys go to the Dawn Unlimited event?” Apparently, I did not, so there are no photos of that happening.
Gerald Brown put in an early morning flight of just over 6 minutes, with Robert Marier just 30 seconds behind. Dan Berry and Chuck Powell were respectively 3rd and 4th. It was Chuck Powell who found me in the breakfast room and asked.
