CL Navy Carrier

By Melvin Schuette

The AMA Nationals is a time for people with a common interest to come together in friendly competition while renewing old friendships and making new ones.

This year, however, the Navy Carrier events, unfortunately, started on Tuesday, July 19, on a sad note. Longtime Navy Carrier competitor and volunteer Paul Kegal from Fargo North Dakota recently passed away. Paul will be greatly missed.

There were a number of people who had pre-entered the Carrier events, but due to medical issues for them and or a family member, or personal family obligations, were not able to make it to the Nats. One of these people had volunteered to do the tabulating for the Carrier events. This meant that besides doing the regular duties as the event director, it would add just one more job for me to do. We wish everyone a speedy recovery and we hope to see them next year.

All processing for the Navy Carrier events was done Monday evening. Both electric motor-powered models and glow motor-powered models in Profile Carrier events were flown on Tuesday. Both of the Profile Carrier events are divided into two different skill classes, Sportsman and Expert. Like the skill classes in the Control Line Aerobatics Sportsman, Carrier allows the beginner to compete against people of the same capabilities.

The results for Tuesday’s Carrier Events are:

Sportsman

Place Name          High Speed points      Low Speed Points        Landing Points   Scale Points   Total Points

1st Bob Heywood        71.6                       23.5                                100                       10                   205.1

2nd Mike Hazel             63.7                       16.5                                100                        0                    180.2

3rd Benard Suhamski   60.9                       21.6                                   0                          10                  92.5

Profile Carrier Glow Motor

Place Name           High Speed Points     Low Speed Points        Landing Points     Scale Points   Total Points

1st Peter Mazur           83.3                        111.06                            100                        10                    304.36

2nd Robert Hawk         55.48                      21                                    100                        10                    186.48

Profile Carrier Electric Motor

Place Name           High Speed Points    Low Speed Points        Landing Points       Scale Points    Total Points

1st Pete Mazur      102.1                           128.9                              100                          10                     341.0

On Wednesday, July 20, the Scale Classes of Carrier will be flown. The difference between the Profile events and the Scale classes of Carrier is that the Profile Classes of Carrier only have to resemble an actual plane that was intended to be used or was used on a carrier ship. While in the Scale classes of Carrier, the models must be a plus or minus 5% of the actual outline of a plane that was intended to be used on or was used on a carrier ship. 

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