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2007 Electric Texaco Postal Competition Results

The 2007 Electric Texaco Postal competition had only two competitive teams; SAM 76, the Propstoppers of Delaware County Pennsylvania and SAM 27 of Napa California.

SAM 76

Four flyers from SAM 76 of Delaware County, Pennsylvania met on September 7, 2007 to make a flight for the 2007 E-Tex Postal contest. It was a cloudless 80 degree day. The flyers and their planes were: 

Richard Bartkowski flying a 72” Record hound @ 37 oz powered by 8x800A NiCad cells driving a geared Speed 400 motor Dave Harding flying a 108” Stardust Special @ 72 oz powered by 2sLiPo 1800 pack driving a geared brushless Neu motor
Chuck Kime flying a 60” Miss America @ 33 oz powered by 7x800A NiCad cells driving a geared speed 400 motor Rick Grothman flying a 70” Playboy @ 36 oz powered by 2sLiPo 900 pack driving a geared Feigao brushless motor

Recorded times (min: sec) were;

 Harding              38:33
Bartkowski        28:24
Kime                  21:42
Grothman          17:11

SAM 27   ELECTRIC TEXACO POSTAL NEWS 

Thursday 13 September 2007 at Lakeville

 

 The event is flown to the future 2008 SAM rules which require much smaller batteries to make the flights shorter.

A relaxed event flown on a beautiful cumulus  day.

The Team, left to right: Andrew Tickle (Bomber), Nick Kelez (Airborn), Dick Irwin (Airborn), Ed Hamler (Airborn), Loren Kramer (Playboy).       Mike Clancy photo

 

 

 

 

2007 INTERNATIONAL ELECTRIC TEXACO POSTAL RESULTS

Here are the times for our 8 September flyoff:

PILOT

AIRCRAFT

Best time

Dick Irwin

Airborn

17:40

Ed Hamler

Airborn

29:59

Andrew Tickle

Bomber

21:20

Nick Kelez

Airborn

22:11

Loren Kramer

Playboy

15:50

The conditions were windy with late clearing overcast and some weak thermals. Most of the flight time was spent motoring into the wind just to stay in place, with brief S-turns when rising air was found.

Our times were significantly less than during practice. The team’s decision is to refly (as allowed by the rules) on Thursday 13 September if conditions on that day look better than last time.

Here are the times for our 13 September refly:

PILOT

AIRCRAFT

Best time (of 2)

Ed Hamler

Airborn

32:14

Dick Irwin

Airborn

30:13

Andrew Tickle

Bomber

28:22

Nick Kelez

Airborn

27:51

Loren Kramer

Playboy

18:45

The forecast was lousy but fortunately dead wrong. We had a sky full of cumulus which is unusual for us, and a light breeze. We all had much better flights. 

The time we submit to SAM 76, this year's host,  is the sum of the three highest individual scores (Hamler/Irwin/Tickle) which is 90 minutes 49 seconds.

Happy thermals,    Andrew                                   Mike Clancy took both individual and team photos.

 

Andrew Tickle

 Ed Hamler 

 Dick Irwin

 

 

 

Nick Kelez 

 Loren Kramer

 All of Us

 

 

SAM 27 input by Andrew Tickle  

Results

Sam 27 had their best performance on September 13 under a blue sky with plenty of lift clouds.

SAM 27 had a Score of 90 minutes & 49 sec

SAM 76 flew on September 7 on a cloudless 80 degree day.

SAM 76 had a Score of 88 minutes & 39 sec.

This year’s winner is: SAM 27 who will sponsor next year’s contest!

 

Dick Bartkowski, SAM 76 CD

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