It is my pleasure, once more, to present the results of the 13 th. Worldwide Postal Competition, and to thank you all for your enthusiastic response. Participation has further declined this year with many events receiving little or no support. Whilst I hesitate to suggest that this 13 th. event is deemed ‘unlucky’, indeed, the Worldwide was never expected to run for so many years when it was first founded and the ongoing interest has always been encouraging; by and large there is a nucleus of enthusiasts who fly multiple events but the overall number of entrants has reduced of late and it may well be that the general concept of the Postal has almost run its course.
However, there have again been comments that some were handicapped by poor weather, no matter from which part of the world they reside, and that they expected to do better in the next Postal … and so many expressed appreciation of the opportunities to fly, and enjoyment of same, that I will carry on with a 14 th. event, though in a slimmer, revised version with fewer events, and I hope that you will continue to offer support with the same enthusiasm as in the past..
It is encouraging to see a number of younger people taking part; one such is Thomas Lee (14) who has been seen, elsewhere, to progress from novice to capable builder in little more than a year – to the extent that he flew a very smart own-design Embryo to three maximums in his first Wordwide involvement. Dave Aronstein’s family – Rita (11), Jesse (8) and Zebulum (6) are making their mark, together with teenagers Daniel and Ricky Millette. Some innovative entries also, from Joshua Finn – he ‘cobbled up’ a little helicopter based on the commercial Palm Flyer product, and also flew a tiny canard in the 20” class – the latter doing very well for its diminutive size. Last, but far from least, I’m proud to see my 5yr.old grandson, Christopher, firing various gliders up in Small CLG.
I am also pleased to welcome some new friends from Italy, flying gliders and also a pair of Embryos – the first of such known to be built and flown in that country.
Some remarkable flights are noted, especially with Cloud Tramps which – simple as they are - seem prone to thermalling at the least opportunity, as well as producing some consistently high scores on occasion, and almost half of the flights recorded exceeded one minute.. A notable achievement is that of the family team effort of Les and Jean Sayer who took 1 st and 3 rd places in that event, with their grandsons placing 9 th and 10 th.
I hope to accompany these results with details of the 14 th. WorldWide – failing which, they will follow very shortly. If you forwarded entries/scores on behalf of others, please ensure that they receive a copy of this report.Again, my thanks for your support and enthusiasm which makes running this event worthwhile – I hope you’ll be flying again in the 2005/6 event and that you’ll encourage others to join us, too
Small Catapult Glider (12”)
1. Alex Cameron UK 60 60 60 48 58 47 333 Mayday 2
2. Kevin Moseley UK 60 52 51 48 60 48 319 Let’s Roll 8” *
3. Peter Tolhurst UK 60 36 35 50 60 60 301 Mercedes-Benns
4. Kevin Moseley UK 42 46 40 24 41 47 240 WAD Tailless 2A
5. Stan Pearson UK 50 50 51 25 29 33 238 Worcraft ‘Star’
6. Stan Pearson UK 40 45 40 31 33 40 229 Doonie
7. Kevin Moseley UK 39 41 25 45 27 49 226 Mini-Roll 6”
8. Christopher Moseley UK 44 46 29 34 30 41 224 WAD Tailless 2
9. Kevin Moseley UK 27 39 27 30 37 40 200 WAD Tailless
10. Christopher Moseley UK 41 36 38 29 40 16 200 WAD Tailless 2A
11. Christopher Moseley UK 32 37 38 21 29 29 186 WAD Tailless
12. Joshua Finn USA 60 22 60 OOS 142 EasyMini 8
13. Harjinder Obhi UK 18 22 28 19 26 24 137 Knocked Up 10” o/d
Large Catapult Glider (+12”)
1. Lee Hines USA 60 60 60 60 60 60
+ 90 + 120 +63 633 Swee’cat 18-6
2. Les Sayer C 60 60 39 59 60 45 323 Straight Dan 1
3. Les Sayer C 50 60 27 60 60 41 298 Straight Up (modified)
4. Neil McDougall NZ 44 44 56 41 50 60 295 Winged Motors
5. Peter Tolhurst UK 60 34 47 60 42 47 290 Argus 16” o/d
6. Les Sayer C 29 36 60 60 42 47 274 DanMan Mk3 # 6
7. Les Sayer C 50 36 52 55 39 37 269 Straight Dan 2
8. Peter Tolhurst UK 41 46 51 35 42 51 266 Argus 2
9. Peter Tolhurst UK 40 47 46 41 38 36 248 Argus 1B
10. Les Sayer C 24 40 31 47 60 41 243 DanMan 1
11. Les Sayer C 58 21 30 37 48 49 243 DanMan 2
12. Neil McDougall NZ 42 36 35 38 36 39 226 1938 Mayn
13. Les Sayer C 35 32 31 33 60 31 222 DanMan Mk3 #7
14. Daniel Millette C 43 32 38 37 39 35 149 DanMan 1
15. Ricky Millette C 60 36 24 26 33 32 211 Danman 1
16. Chris Behr AUS 37 35 16 21 30 45 184 Shooting Star
17. Ricky Millette C 42 29 33 28 23 18 173 Straightup
1. Kevin Moseley UK 60 60 60 53 60 49 347 Sting 28 (?)
2. Kevin Moseley UK 60 60 60 52 60 39 331 Sting 24
3. Kevin Moseley UK 31 38 44 47 52 60 272 Sting 24
4. Kevin Moseley UK 55 52 41 36 25 36 245 Let’s Roll 8” *
5. Kevin Moseley UK 36 37 44 41 37 36 231 Mini-Roll 6”
6. Harjinder Obhi UK 27 32 48 35 42 31 215 Oopah 2 12”
7. Harjinder Obhi UK 29 33 27 31 51 31 202 Oompah o/d
P30 Rubber
1. Jim Moseley C 117 70 98 285 Marcus Maximus 3
2. Neil McDougall NZ 120 75 57 252 Teachers Pet
3. Les Sayer C 120 53 51 224 Majestyk
Embryo Endurance
1. Thomas Lee C 120 120 120 360 Shooting Star
2. Joshua Finn USA 112 118 120 Maxout IVb
3. Joshua Finn USA 96 90 120 Bonus pts 9 315 Maxout IV
4. Joshua Finn USA 66 83 120 oos …. 269 Maxout II
5. Daniele Vescovi I 70 74 81 Bonus pts 9 234 XLV Special
6. Tony Hall-Willis UK 106 72 39 Bonus pts 9 226 Mr. Malcolm
7. Jennifer Chassee USA 54 112 48 Bonus pts 5 214 Blackbird 12 *
8. Jim Moseley C 98 43 48 Bonus pts 9 198 Embryomatic
9. Vincenzo Canestraro I 41 42 50 133 The Dreamer
10. Justin Steedly USA 84 Bonus pts 9 93 Maxout IV
Cloud Tramp - * indicates discarded longest/shortest flights.
1. Les Sayer C 151 204* 71* 180 163 494
2. Milan Pavik CZ 137 134 145* 122 101* 393
3. Jean Sayer C 101 207* 82* 131 142 374
4. Mike Thomas C 112 253* 101 88* 153 366
5. Joseph Pengilley USA 79 116 75* 1389* (!) 104 299
6. Richard Barlow C 61* 103 180* 109 76 288
7. Jim Moseley C 59* 83 90 107 158* 280
8. Henry Hill USA 63 60* 77 115 229* OOS …. 255
9. Daniel Millette C 76 74 141* 100 67* 250
10. Ricky Millette C 74 74 61* 105* 71 219
11. Mike Myers USA 43* 66 76 75 110* 217
12. Don Smith USA 58* 60 65 116 84 209
13. Ole Toregenson N 77* 63 71 61* 71 205
14. Bert Whitehead UK 65 73 65 62* 304* 203
15. Dave Rumball UK 33* 119* 42 62 95 199
16. Don Martin USA 53* 59 62 81* 65 186
17. Stian Gronsas N 57 54 51* 74 78 185
18. Tor Bortne N 65 52 52* 99* 68 185
19. Ted Smales UK 42* 57 60 67 58 175
20. Jack Phelps USA 81 90 57* 480+* OOS 171
21. Arthur Durose UK 53 60 61* 57 53* 170
22. Ken Norton UK 64* 51 62 56 37* 169
23. Bert Whitehead UK 53 52* 56 60 67* 169
24. Bud Matthews USA 109* 38 21* 78 48 164
25. Fudo Takagi USA 19* 72 134* 44 47 163
26. Neil McDougall NZ 67 39 54 27* 69* 160
27. Vegar Nereng N 33* 45 60 53 71* 158
28. Martin Ambrose UK 58* 49* 56 49 53 158
29. Chris Behr AUS 45* 60 48 47 66* 155
30. Art Swift USA 60 54 109* 30* 40 154
31. Roland Fridh SW 70* 42* 46 42 57 145
32. Ingvar Claesson SW 36* 56 38 50 93* 144
33. David Feather USA 53 55* 47 44 26* 144
34. Don Ratzlaff USA 58* 54 46 44 42* 144
35. Stan Pearson UK 40* 59* 50 42 50 142
36. Steinar Hesthagen N 33* 36 47 55 58* 140
37 Charles Primbs USA 30 41 123* 4 61 132
38. Ron Boots USA 39 37* 43 39 44 121
39. Kent Josefsson SW 32 32 45* 41 10* 105
40. Bengt Hoglund SW 32 34 38* 32* 37 103
41. Sven-Olov Lindén SW 42* 32 31* 33 37 102
42. Nils S Anderson N 37 31 32 46* 28* 100
43. Dan McLeod C 20* 25 34 39* 27 86
44. Mike Parker UK 19* 30 36* 26 30 86
45. Peter Olshefski C 15* 23 27 32 37* 82
46. Mik Mikkelson USA 81 62* 91* - - 81
Supporters: Bill Gillespie C 215 OOS
Jim Norfolk C 20 20
20” Rubber
1. Dave Aronstein USA 60 60 60 90 120 150 180
187 907 H.P.Sportster
2. Jim Moseley C 60 60 60 90 120 150 122 662 Tenspot 10”
3. Mike Thomas C 60 60 60 90 120 128 518 Tubby
4. Joshua Finn USA 60 60 60 90 120 390 Maxout IV
5. Rita Aronstein USA 60 60 60 90 103 373 Ballerinaria
6. Bob Stewart C 60 60 60 90 93 363 Veron Tomtit
7. Mike Thomas C 60 60 60 90 270 Found Cent.
8. Jim Moseley C 60 60 60 85 265 Pussycat
9. Tony Hall-Willis UK 60 39 60 159 Mr.Malcolm
10. Jim Moseley C 53 60 44 157 Cabinaire
11. Joshua Finn USA 40 52 50 142 Back Porch Pusher 8”
12. Joshua Finn USA 22 19 22 63 Palm helicopter
13. Rita Aronstein (11) USA 60 60 Minnow
14. Jesse Aronstein (8) USA 32 32 Skybunny
15. Jesse Aronstein (8) USA 32 32 Mini-Twin A-frame
16. Zebulum Aronstein (6) USA 19 19 Super Cub 95
25” Classic “Two-Bits”
1. Jim Moseley C 60 60 60 90 120 71 461 Mini-Hobbies 1*
2. Joshua Finn USA 60 60 60 90 120 68 458 Zephyr
3. Jim Moseley C 60 60 60 90 82 352 Morgan ‘Spirit’
4. Jim Moseley C 60 60 60 90 OOS …. 270 Mini-Hobbies 2*
5. Jim Moseley C 60 60 60 86 266 Hump 2
6. Les Sayer C 60 60 60 180 Cloud Tramp 2
7. Ricky Millette C 60 60 60 180 Cloud Tramp
8. Stan Pearson UK 58 60 60 178 Veron Fledgling
9. Jean Sayer C 60 56 60 176 Cloud Tramp
10. Neil McDougall NZ 58 51 60 169 FA Moth
11. Jim Moseley C 42 54 60 156 Chad 20
12. Bert Whitehead UK 24 22 22 68 Veron Jr. Snipe
13. Peter Spalding UK 30 30 Fledgling
30” Vintage/OT Rubber
1. Dave Aronstein USA 90 90 90 120 147 537 Farthing Ltwt
2. Dave Aronstein USA 90 90 90 120 146 536 Bowmore ‘3rd Prize’
3. Mike Thomas C 90 90 90 120 390 Skokie
4. Jim Moseley C 90 90 90 118 388 Supa Dupa
5. Les Sayer C 90 90 90 103 373 Hoppity
6. Graham Lovejoy NZ 90 90 90 67 337 Ajax
7. Les Sayer C 80 90 90 260 Hepcat
8. Les Sayer C 90 90 180 Condor Clipper
42” Vintage/OT Rubber
1. Jim Moseley C 120 120 120 150 180 156 846 Senator
2. Howard Gostelow AUS 120 120 120 150 146 656 Senator
3. Tony Taylor NZ 120 120 120 150 510 Mick Farthing
4. Neil McDougall NZ 120 90 120 330 Gollywock
5. Tony Taylor NZ 86 120 120 326 Senator
6. Les Sayer C 82 120 120 322 Northern Star
7. Les Sayer C 118 120 82 320 Loates Wake.
8. Jim Moseley C 120 61 120 301 Sceptre
9. Dave Aronstein USA 120 (lost .. over 8 minutes). 120 Smith Mulvihill
1.5cc Diesel Slow Power
1. Lynn Rodway NZ 120 120 120 150 510 Big Brit/MVVS
2. Jim Moseley C 120 120 120 76 436 Applehoney 320/PAW
Small Towline
1. Maurizio Sagnotti I 18 17 15 50 Movo M.9
Classic Rubber
1. Neil McDougall NZ 133 150 131 414 Yardstick
‘Baxter Tribute’
1. Jim Moseley C 85* 62* 65 68 72 205 Pussycat
Vintage/OT Scale
1. Fudo Takagi USA 52 56 60 (12 minutes OOS into Mexico!) 168 P40 - Stahl.
2. Les Sayer C 48 49 60 157 Rearwin Speedster
Vintage/Classic Glider
1. Richard Barlow C 90 90 90 120 78 468 Lulu
2. Neil McDougall NZ 68 90 90 248 Aiglet
3. Daniel Millette C 90 90 56 236 Lulu
4. Tony Taylor NZ 90 54 90 234 Corsair
5. Maurizio Sagnotti I 55 56 114 225 Pinguino
6. GianCarlo Wesseley I 46 79 38 163 Lulu
7. GianCarlo di Chiara I 23 47 56 126 Lulu
8. Curzio Santoni I 43 34 29 106 Lulu
9. Les Sayer C 90 90 Lulu
10. Jim Moseley C 82 82 Lulu
11. Chris Behr AUS 32 36 68 Lulu
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Abbrev: AUS: Australia C: Canada CZ: Czech Republic I: Italy N: Norway NZ: New Zealand SW:Sweden
UK: United Kingdom USA: United States of America
(Strictly speaking … ‘UK’ for United Kingdom is no longer correct as that designation has now been officially given to the Ukraine; however I’ll continue to use same until such time as an entry is ever received from that part of Eastern Europe!)
Blackbird 2 http://www.smallflyingarts.com/Free_Plans/free_plans.htm
Let’s Roll 8” http://www.windandwavemodels.com/Postal2003.html
Mini-Hobbies http://www.theplanpage.com/st.htm
Palmsized Helicopter http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=184432&page=1&pp=15
TenSpot http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/TRUMP/images/jim_m_ten_spot_plan.jpg
Comments from the flyers….
Dave Aronstein : We had several incomplete entries this year… will try to do better next year. Appreciate the extended flying season, and some years there are a lot of good flying days outside of the regular “season” but not this year, at least not in Wichita! It was a good year for Rita’s Ballerinaria, and for my Johnson High Performance
Sportster, which almost exactly duplicated last year’s performance.Jesse’s “Mini-Twin” is a 12” A-frame twin pusher, for which he even carved the propellers. Look for some good flights from this one next year!
Bert Whitehead: Pete Spalding and I managed to get out late this afternoon, on this the last afternoon of your comp. Freezing wind and snowing, hence low scores. Too cold to continue.
Joshua Finn; The flights for embryo were made a couple weeks ago. The 20" entries were today, the last day of the postal That last flight for the 20" somehow found some lift in the damp windy air. I lost sight of it at 2:38 and later found it in the bottom branches of an oak tree. Easy recovery, I thought she was gone forever. This last entry is from a modified Back Porch Pusher. It's all basswood right now) will all the sheet surfaces built-up to try to save a tad of weight from the heavy wood. The flights are slow and relaxing, so I like it. Span is a mere 8", but it's really long and has a pile of wing area.
Harjinder Obhi: It was a strange day today. Occasional snow fall, sunshine and a breeze. It was a bit like one of those typical spring days, but freezing. As you can imagine, there was convection, but it was difficult to work out what was going on. I was standing in a light snow fall and watching a bird effortlessly thermal soaring above the veil of snow along the edge of a cloud street. Weird! The OOMPAH, nevertheless, still nearly maxed out today! It was so satisfying to see it fly. For the longest flight, the model circled 2 or 3 times after launch without really losing any height at all, possibly even going up a bit. I thought it was going to go OOS over the woods but then it circled smoothly down
Martin Ambrose : The flights took place on sunday 20th Feb. It was hot, 29C in Christchurch and the flying site is 30km further inland so could have been warmer there. Here are the times; 1. 2m 49s 2. 3m 01s 3. 5m 38s (Lucky to get it back, the DT had jammed) 4 2m 47s DT'd early, unfortunately. Our free flight site is a bit restricted with blocks of trees in all directions so one has to pick a relatively wind free day.
Neil McDougall : Although the weather has been warmer lately we have still been troubled by wind and the Levin site is not good in wind. Tony Taylor was not been prepared to try for the 3 minute flight in the conditions we have had. I got one flight in with my new Senator but it has been too windy since to continue.
Daniele Vescovi
This is my first participation in W.P.C: yesterday, the three contest flights of my Embryo Endurance model 'XLV Special': short flights (too freezing weather) but good sensations for the next competition, in summer
Christopher Moseley (via Kevin): the scores that CJ did were with me holding the stick but he pulled back …and pulled back …until he decided to let go... at the time I was just praying he WOULD let go. Chris really wanted to make the flights when I toldhim they were for acompetition that you were doing and he was very excited about this. Apologies that there are no more, it got dark and started to rain when we left.
Kevin Moseley: All HLG flights to the 60 secs max All those that did the 60 was just over - tended to dt in between 60 and 90 secs - very little drift and most flights landed within a hundred feet from launch. All launches made from a redundant cricket square that has astro turf on top of concrete.
Lee Hines : Large Catapult Glider event. I realized that a string I started at the Nats in August was still open and needed closing. The first five maxes were my scores which won the 2004 US Nats on August 4th. After returning to CA, 3 more flights were taken on August 22, also maxes. At that point we left for our usual Sunday nosh and I just closed the string with 63 sec at Perris this morning.
David Feather: Light winds, Sunny day, One of our Tramps flew away!!! (Few words, much enthusiasm! JM)
Don Ratzloff: I am very proud of my Cloud Tramp because I built it entirely from plans off the internet and with no other help or guidance. It was my fifth airplane that I built this year and a better flyer than the others which were AMA Darts (2 of them), US Sam, and a Carnarsie Canary. (The only other planes I've flown were the Guillows models when I was a kid over 45 years ago). I've built a few other planes since then but so far my favorite is my Cloud Tramp. It does a beautiful ROG and several days after the postal ended I had several flights just over one minute. Just over a week ago I nearly lost it because it was after sunset when the wind carried it about 500 feet and it was too dark to see exactly where it went down. Had to search in the tall grass and weeds for 15 minutes before it was found. I certainly would not have put forth all the effort to even make the Cloud Tramp had it not been for the encouragement of MIMLOCT and the Postal event. Do it again next year and I hope to interest several more flyers from my area here in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Peter Tolhurst: Me and my timer went to Perivale Park early yesterday morning (circa 8 am) when it was calm. It was raining when we arrived, but the shower soon passed. The weather was cool, overcast and damp, but with no wind, I could avoid the model eating trees. The model flown was my Argus 1B. Because of the conditions I just fired off the model one flight after another, with no attempt to select good air. I thought I was on to a cert max on the last flight, with the model quite high & still rising, but it appeared to hit turbulence near some trees and just stalled down in the space of a few seconds. All part of the fun. There was not a lot of thermal activity at that time of the morning, but I'm limited to a max wind speed of 2-3 mph or else it means tree climbing, which I'm getting a little old for. . My timekeeper now demands money for his services(including getting out of bed early), but refuses to be bribed !!
Dan McLeod: Cloud Tramp - Flight 2 landed high in a tree and a young boy who was watching all this fun, climbed up and retrieved it. Flight 3 landed in a tree and was retrievable. Flight 5 , the longest, drifted and landed on a 4 story building and took 3 days to retrieve. All this on only about 500 turns. These were basically trimming flights, but ended when CT was lost on the roof. Lesson learned: find a bigger park as this CT model can fly pretty well.
Pavel Heran: I am modeller from Czech Republic and my the most interest is free fly models and vintage models. Flying with Cloud tramp is very good relax, but even model is very simply, flies beautifully. I and my friend Milan tried to join this year postal competition. My results will be later on, because my CT gone away and I have to make a new one.
Joseph Pengilley: always a pleasure to take part in your Cloud Tramp postals. The weather was warm 100F 11:00 seemed to have good lift so I headed out for the field. I started out with a couple of practice flights and preceded with timed flights. The first three went ok then came the fourth flight and WOW it flew for 23 minutes and 9 seconds. It flew away from me and back several times and at the 20 minute mark I just wanted to hit the 30 minute mark but didnt make it. Was hoping for a good 5 th flight but the good air must have moved out.
Fudo Takagi: last flight of my Stahl P.40 was 12 minutes into a cloud, headed for Mexico. Launched into a huge thermal – too bad, as I was just getting the model trimmed.
Daniele Vescovi and Vincenzo Canestraro flew Embryo’s in low wind, 0C and with ‘ice everywhere’ The Italian glider flyers mostly flew High-start launches in very low winds
Bob Stewart :You may recall my adventure with my chainsaw to rescue my TomTit after it nested in a large Tamarack. That was my third "60 sec" flight that was actually 128sec. Never had that kind of time again. I took the model to a larger field & succeeded in getting a 4th flight of 90 sec ( actually 98). Knew I couldn'tget 120 without some help from "Hung" but he was not cooperating. 5th. flight was only 93 sec. Enjoyed entering your event. Maybe next year will build something more competitive.