 Re: July 13th EMAC
EMAC
July 13, 2008
By Craig Hunter
Nineteen pilots came out to fly on our first Sunday event and were greeted by better conditions than our last event, at least in the morning. Once again, we had our traditional Basic and Sportsman classes and, for the second time, Intermediate.
Hairy chested lads that they are, the Intermediate flyers had a pretty intense little bash. Pedro Brantuas, with his monster Yak, won out over Tim Attaway who was flying his brand new Extreme Flight Extra 300. Tim’s plane is the new 58inch version that proved to be very light, able to fly with plenty of power on only 5s and, in Tim’s hands, proved to be very stable. Tim, our CD, has put these events on from their inception and never flown in one because, as an unlimited pilot, he had no one to compete against. His training of new pilots has been such a success that we now have a hot bed of interest and folks are moving up. It was nice to see him finally able to have some fun and give Pedro a hard time. Steve Dente, flying a prototype 74inch Extreme Flight Extra 300, was a close third and Ray Fulks, was next. Ray, “Santa” to most of us, had some handling problems, although’ some feel that, with the close proximity of the Over The Line tournament, with it’s hoards of scantly clad ladies, Ray may have been just a tad distracted.
Chris Boutelle, one of our Wunderkinder Platoon, had a terrific day, scoring an impressive victory, his first in this class. He had to be on because Steve Neu and Howard Philcher were breathing down his neck. Steve squeaked by Howard in one of the closest contests on record, 2939.25 to 2939.02. Howard, cool guy that he is, will be having a knee replacement down on July 22nd. He puts it down to his years of Motocross and general hell-raising in his younger years. Good luck, Howard, we’ll be thinking of you!
Basic was another Ho-hum win for Craig Bosworth although’ the rapidly improving Mike Eberle was a close second. Al Ramirez returned after a long absence and came in a respectable third over Steve Belknap. Clan Belknap was out in force again, nice to see the whole family out together like that. New pilot John Sigurson had a good first event and John Forester, flying his little bitty foam Extra had a hard time with the wind but, and this is not a joke, he survived the day with an intact plane and did a pretty fair job with a small, light plane in high winds---good job! The organizers have been chiding Craig about staying in basic and, with Mike Eberle starting to come on hard, maybe now would be a good time for Craig to move up.
A good time was had by all, we’ll be back for the next round in September.
Results:
Intermediate
Pedro Brantuas 3000
Tim Attaway 2868
Steve Dente 2769
Ray Fulks 1632
Sportsman
Chris Boutelle 2987
Steve Neu 2939.25
Howard Pilsher 2939.02
Randy Marsden 2803
Craig Hunter 2665
Lucas Worthen 2646
Basic
Craig Bosworth 3000
Mike Eberle 2886
Al Ramirez 2771
Steve Belknap 2731
Donnie Belknap 2561
John Sigurson 1591
John Forester 1072
Sean Belknap 712 |