2nd Intergalactic Streamer Chase Shoot-Out
Bill Osborne Field, Alameda, CA
Sunday Nov 2, 2008
NOTE: Daylight Savings Time ends Saturday night/Sunday morning, so don't forget to turn your clocks back an hour.
Eligibility: Any AMA licensed pilot residing in the Milky Way, Andromeda, and assorted smaller galaxies in the Local Group.
Members of the Jive Combat Team are eligible to enter flying left-handed, blindfolded, and hopping on one leg. No entry fee.
Streamer Chase is the lastest in a series of fun-oriented novelty events invented by the Nuts of the Alameda Aeronuts Club. We had so much fun at the first Streamer Chase event that we decided to impose it upon our fellow modelers once again, in a new, improved form.
The goal of Streamer Chase is for the contestant, flying a Chase plane, to score as many cuts as possible on a streamer towed straight and level by a Drone plane. The winner is the contestant with the most cuts. The Drone plane and pilot are supplied by the contest. An attempt lasts as long the engine on the Drone continues to run (approx 7 minutes) and ends when its engine stops.
The contestant chooses which plane is launched first. The contestant chooses the altitude at which the Drone flies, between 10 feet and 45 degrees. A pit stop to refuel and restart is allowed if the Chase plane runs out of fuel before the Drone. A cut counts whether it is caused by the Chase plane's propeller, wing, lines, etc. Cutting the string attached to the streamer (known as a "kill" in that OTHER commonplace event) counts as one cut.
The Chase plane may be of any design flying on AMA legal 60-foot lines (measured center-to-center). This year the contest will also provide a Chase plane which may be borrowed by contestants who prefer not to provide their own Chase planes. This plane is a battle-scarred FP40 powered Midwest profile Messerschmidt ME-109 in full German battle regalia. We will set the engine on the ME-109 at a speed we think best for maximum scoring opportunities, but the contestant is free to adjust the needle setting if desired.
Also this year the contest will provide optional in-circle coaching to help the contestant, for example, to align his prop with the streamer, to assist newbies to two-up flying, etc. Our aim is to make scoring as easy as possible. More scoring = more fun.
Contest flights will be mixed in with general aviation. The big circle will not be reserved for the contest.
ED:
Kim Mortimore
kim dot mortimore at hp dot com
408-447-3673 Day
408-209-0992 Cel
Bill Osborne Field, Alameda, CA
Sunday Nov 2, 2008
NOTE: Daylight Savings Time ends Saturday night/Sunday morning, so don't forget to turn your clocks back an hour.
Eligibility: Any AMA licensed pilot residing in the Milky Way, Andromeda, and assorted smaller galaxies in the Local Group.
Members of the Jive Combat Team are eligible to enter flying left-handed, blindfolded, and hopping on one leg. No entry fee.
Streamer Chase is the lastest in a series of fun-oriented novelty events invented by the Nuts of the Alameda Aeronuts Club. We had so much fun at the first Streamer Chase event that we decided to impose it upon our fellow modelers once again, in a new, improved form.
The goal of Streamer Chase is for the contestant, flying a Chase plane, to score as many cuts as possible on a streamer towed straight and level by a Drone plane. The winner is the contestant with the most cuts. The Drone plane and pilot are supplied by the contest. An attempt lasts as long the engine on the Drone continues to run (approx 7 minutes) and ends when its engine stops.
The contestant chooses which plane is launched first. The contestant chooses the altitude at which the Drone flies, between 10 feet and 45 degrees. A pit stop to refuel and restart is allowed if the Chase plane runs out of fuel before the Drone. A cut counts whether it is caused by the Chase plane's propeller, wing, lines, etc. Cutting the string attached to the streamer (known as a "kill" in that OTHER commonplace event) counts as one cut.
The Chase plane may be of any design flying on AMA legal 60-foot lines (measured center-to-center). This year the contest will also provide a Chase plane which may be borrowed by contestants who prefer not to provide their own Chase planes. This plane is a battle-scarred FP40 powered Midwest profile Messerschmidt ME-109 in full German battle regalia. We will set the engine on the ME-109 at a speed we think best for maximum scoring opportunities, but the contestant is free to adjust the needle setting if desired.
Also this year the contest will provide optional in-circle coaching to help the contestant, for example, to align his prop with the streamer, to assist newbies to two-up flying, etc. Our aim is to make scoring as easy as possible. More scoring = more fun.
Contest flights will be mixed in with general aviation. The big circle will not be reserved for the contest.
ED:
Kim Mortimore
kim dot mortimore at hp dot com
408-447-3673 Day
408-209-0992 Cel