Leonardo Silva (L) versus Ed Brzys. Did Leo's lines pull off Ed's safety thong? This is the oddest photo from Sunday.
AMA Control Line (CL) Combat fliers like stability. They know that when they come to the Nats, there will be a lot of competitors and the contest will always be well run.
The Class 1 Mouse Race winners (L-R): Patrick Hempel, the author, Bill Bischoff, Doug Mayer, and Mike Hazel.
Day one of official racing was greeted by perfect weather and a perfect flying circle facility. It was a day of victories as well. For many, just completing the long and arduous travel was a victory.
Today, Sunday, August 4, I open the 2024 history book to the first page. As a new dawn breaks and the sun starts to illuminate the words on the page, I find that it is the start of the Beginner and Intermediate events at the 2024 AMA Control Line (CL) Precision Aerobatics Nats.
The first day of the 2024 AMA Control Line (CL) Speed Nats is over. Speed was busy with 51 total attempts and 31 official flights. We flew Perky Speed, 1/2A Speed, and 1/2A Proto Speed.
Daniel Underkofler calling for Chris Hogue under a stunningly beautiful sky during the Masters finals on Friday. Photo by Bob Kane.
The final day of the 2024 AMA RC Precision Aerobatics (Pattern) competition didn’t disappoint. It was a well-run event with great staff supporting it. All of the finals rounds were mapped out, and all classes got their flights in between the low cloud cover and pop-up showers. It made for a long day, but everyone managed to get their flights in
Patrick Hempel, of Rochwall TX, has his two Cox-powered Class I racers ready to rock (after some earlier frustration).
Good morning, race fans! With a few days of prior rainfall, it looks like the freshly paved and marked Control Line (CL) Racing circles are squeaky clean and just asking to be broken in.
This is ARCCHS’ first running of the AMA Nats/US team selection.
The 2024 AMA Nats has been in progress for several weeks. This week, at the International Aeromodeling Center in Muncie, Indiana, model helicopter pilots are arriving from all around North America to compete with model helicopters in a variety of classes and difficulties.
Well, all of the fliers are coming into Muncie, Indiana, getting ready to fly some AMA Control Line (CL) Speed over the next four days. We will be starting off Sunday morning by flying 1/2A Speed, 1/2A Profile Proto, and Perky Speed. It’s amazing that those little .049-size motors can really get up and go.
Pete Athans (L) with a foam F2D model and Ed Brzys with a well-worn Speed Limit model. Pete and his teammate, Chris Gay, were the only two pilots flying foam models in F2D Fast. They took first and second place. Advantage foam?