How about some results of VSC????

Since I didn't make it again this year I would really like to here about the results. Thanks in advance

Can't remember all of the placings but this year's "Keeper of the Flame" winner is Charlie Bruce.

The weather from Monday through Sunday was great. Some 60 + in OT, 80+ in Classic. @ 10 in ignition. All kinds of beautiful and interesting airplanes. Fellow had some flying saucers. He flew one with twin 049 or 061 motors. It flew very well and was quite manuverable. Guy from South Africa was flying a take-apart Nobler on an MVVS 28 Glo running on diesel fuel. Charle Bruce flew a Drone diesel. First time I had seen one run. My stuff worked fine and I flew as well as I could. Saw a lot of old friends and made some new ones. Seemed to be more crashes than usual. I imagine the placings will be posted on the PAMPA website.

A glow engine running on diesel fuel? Now, that perks up my curiousity. I can make some guesses, but how? What do you suspect might be the reason for doing this. Can anyone suggest what, if any, advantage there might be in doing it?

Regarding the running of glow engines on diesel fuel...just do it! When a teen, we had a couple of OS Max III's that didn't want to light off the first time. For some reason, we had some diesel fuel and tried priming with it. Waaaaaa! Quit. Filled the tank, ran fine on diesel, and after a tankful, would run fine on glow fuel. I guess it was too cold a glowplug, but when we had ANY glowplug that glowed, we used it, ya know?
As to why the flier from SA would use diesel fuel in a glow engine, it might give better torque, fuel economy, etc. It doesn't sound like it was converted to diesel, but maybe it was. A lot of the diesel's torque comes from the high compression. Maybe the engine had increased compression to increase torque, running as a fixed compression diesel (which a glow engine is, really), with fuel to match? It would be interesting to get more details for those of us who like stinky fuel. Did they have a seperate pit area for diesel users? LOL! Steve

Finally recovering a little bit from the return trip from Tuscon and remembered a few more: Most Unusual Design- Tom Lay's recreation of the early 50's Ace Backwards canard, Spirit of '46- Lew Crane's Buckjumper-a design from down under,1rst place in Classic- Bill Werwage,2nd Paul Walker I think, 3rd? Larry Scarinzi won the most fun award. He was having a ball with his little .010 powered flying pancake and .020 powered biplane.

Just dawned on me I had a picture of the scoreboard with the results from Old Time 1rst-Kieth Trostle, 2nd-Bart Kaplinski, 3rd Ted Fancher. I think Fancher was flying a Ringmaster with a 4 cycle, Kaplinski a little Fleet biplane that really zipped along. and Trostle, can't remember for sure.