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NFFS NOTES: The National Free Flight Society has announced its choices for the 10 models of the year for 1989. They are: AMA Large Power-Hummin Bird by Charles Caton; AMA Small Power-Booger II by Glenn Schneider; AMA Large Rubber-Bandwagon by Roger Gregory; FIA Nordic-S-11 Allround by Stefan Rumpp (W. Germany); FIB Wakefield-Fantasy by Stafford Quinn; FIC Power-Silhouette by Stafford Screen (Gr. Britain); Indoor Scale-DO-X Flying Boat by Don Srull; Indoor Intermediate Stick-Symphony by Earl Hoffman; Special Publication-Building and Flying Indoor Model Airplanes by Ron Williams; Special-Series of over 40 Peanut Scale drawings of French civil aircraft by Emanuel Fillon.
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GOLLYWOCKS GALORE: Alabama resident Tom Hepler sent me the photo of the "Gollywock Gang" taken at last summer's MACH (Model Airplane Club of Huntsville) meet. He says that the event was run as a mass flyoff, with the winner being O.C. Stewart. Carl Loehle sponsored the event with some nice merchandise obtained from Midwest Products Co., which once produced the fine Wally Simmers design in kit form. Check the photo caption for the names of the Gang members. The site for this particular contest was the Old Huntsville, AL Airport, but future events are to be relocated to the larger Old Courtland Air Base, which is about 55 miles distant.
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NFFS NEWS: The month of June looms as a busy one for the National Free Flight Society (NFFS) with a June 1-4 kickoff at the University of Tennessee Minidome (116-ft. ceiling) in Johnson City, TN with their annual U.S. Indoor Championships. There will be 20 official events and a host of unofficial ones as well. Area hotel and dormitory facilities are excellent. Indoor buffs can send a No. 10 SASE to USIC, 1655 Revere Dr., Brookfield, WI 53005 for an informative, three-page contest packet and begin to plan their vacations accordingly.
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1989 NATS: I received a last-minute report from Sandy Frank, the Free Flight representative who functions with the Nats Management Committee, who indicates that a stake has been driven to establish the 1989 edition of the week-long, unified AMA Nats. The '89 Nats is to be held in the Tri-Cities area of Pasco, Kennewick, and Richland up in the extreme southeastern corner of the State of Washington. The dates are July 15-23, and the following pertinent information with regard to the Free Flight portion should be of interest to prospective attendees. The selected Outdoor Free Flight locale is a gently rolling desert of open space one mile by two miles surrounded by a mile or so of overflight area, all contained by an interstate highway, a mountain, and some scattered housing. It is about 15 minutes from anywhere in the Tri-Cities complex.
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BASIC YELLER: The best of the Pee Wee-30 designs of the 1987 Midwest contest circuit was undoubtedly Bill ("Ole Yeller") Hale's diminutive yellow bird. His was the first and only PW-30 model to max out in area contests throughout the year. Using the transparent body of a small hypodermic syringe for a fuel tank, he logged consistent engine runs of between 14 and 15 sec. Bill's lifelong passion for the color yellow has earned him the handle of "Ole Yeller," and since the finishes of all of his models (and most everything else he owns) are located in that same color spectrum, it is most appropriate that we label his simple little model, "Basic Yeller."
