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Rob Glover took the first day, Glauco Lago the second and the overall (both days) to win his first OVSS contest.
Photos, scores and flight reports on the 2007 Mid-American Soaring Championships page.
TRAVEL UPDATE: River Road will be shut down to LOCAL TRAFFIC ONLY on SUNDAY. More info on the Mid-Am Champs page!
For the first time in it’s 30-plus years, the Mid-Am Champs is coming to Louisville. Normally held in Lexington, the BSS Club has given us the opportunity to host this storied competition. We’re making a slight change, though - this year the Mid-Am Champs will be fully man-on-man, just like the rest of the Ohio Valley Soaring Series (OVSS) competitions. Don’t know what “man-on-man” competition is? Check out this: Basic Guidelines for True Seeded Man-on-Man competition.
We’ll be holding this year’s Mid-Am at the site of last year’s Mid-South Soaring Champs - beautiful Hays-Kennedy Park in northeast Louisville, right by the river.
RES on Friday and then two days of Unlimited on Saturday and Sunday. All the info you’ll need is here:
2007 Mid-Am Soaring Championship
That’s right, folks! It’s time for the 2007 AMA/LSF Soaring Nationals in beautiful Muncie, IN at the AMA Headquarters. There are 4 pilots from Louisville competing in this week-long marathon of RC Soaring! Handlaunch is Sunday, along with Nostalgia. Rudder/Elevator/Spoiler (RES) is Monday, 2-meter is Tuesday and Wednesday, Unlimited is Thursday and Friday and F3J is Saturday and Sunday.
Ben Wilson is covering the Soaring NATS for the AMA’s NATSNews daily publication.
View our 2007 NATS Photos (updated daily, hopefully!)
Live(ish) updates on RCGroups: The Road to the 2007 NATS
Update: Ryan Woebkenberg has made a report on the NOS NATS: 2007 Nostalgia Nationals.
Update: Unlimited Final Scores. F3J Preliminary and Final Scores.
Ben is currently putting together a new Onyx JW from SoaringUSA.com! He’s documenting it in an RCGroups Build Thread: JW Onyx (Louisville Area Soaring Society) .
The first 2007 LASS Club Contest is in the bag! Gordy Stahl was the CD and we did 4 rounds. 1st round was a warmup and then the remaining rounds were an 18-minute add-em-up with an 8 minute max per round.
In the end, Ben Wilson was victorious by a hair over Tony Utley and Bruce Davidson. We had 8 guys show up to compete, and we’ll be adding more dates (hopefully one every two weeks) very soon.
You can check out the contests section of the site to take a look our club contests results and the new 2007 Mid-American Championship contest that we’ll be hosting in August.
It’s been a while since I have submitted something for the LASS web site. Ben has done such a good job I have been letting him do most of the work. Thanks Ben!
As a way of catching up let me start with some of the more recent activities and go backwards in time. As of today (11/26/06) our own Gordy has completed his LSF level 5 contest wins. The well traveled Gordy got both of his last two wins flying in the Tangerine soaring contest in Florida over Thanksgiving weekend. He took first both days flying in unlimited class. Congratulations go out to Gordy for completing what is to most people the hardest task toward achieving Level 5.
Gordy got his wins the same weekend the rest of the club stayed home and flew in the dark in our annual “UFOs over J-Townâ€. We had seven pilots meet in the dark at Vettner. Three pilots were from the Lexington club just to prove the Louisville guys are not the only ones that are a little unscrewed at the socket.
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We had a decent crew of pilots (Ed, Tony, Ben, Gordy) at the inaugural World Soaring Masters this past September. It was an amazing 4 days of soaring, and LASS member Ben Wilson captured his thoughts into day-by-day reports, and even had round-by-round reports of the 6-round finals at the end of day four. Those reports have been compiled by Bill & Bunny Kuhlman into the November 2006 issue of the RC Soaring Digest. You can more issues of the RCSD here: RCSoaringDigest.com.
The round robin had brought this special contest back to Louisville again for the fourth time. The Mid-South Championship has always brought some of the best from both the north and the south for a head to head meeting of some of the best pilots around. This year there were some challenges for the pilots to work through besides trying to meet the usual flying task. The biggest change was the new site for the ‘06 contest. Leaving Tom Sawyer Park behind, where all the previous Louisville MidSouths have been flown, A polo field inside of Hayes Kennedy Park was chosen to use for this years contest. This field was adjacent to the Ohio River. The micro weather effect this great body of water could or would challenge the pilots was a great unknown. This included the local club as no one had ever flown there before.
All the winches have new line, new landing tapes are marked, trophies are in order, and the LASS crew members are restless! The 2006 MidSouth Soaring Championships are only a day a way and we are excited!
The weather looks to be excellent for this weekend with 10-15MPH southwest winds and sunny/partly cloudy all weekend.
Walk-up registrations are more than welcome - but get there early to avoid the rush. Plenty of frequencies are still open - but bring an alternate just in case!
See ya there! Watch the website for photos and scores.
The Cincinatti Soaring League hosted their annual “Memorial Contest”, the first contest in the Ohio Valley Soaring Series.
Ed, Ron, Gordy, Tony (and son Graham) took part, and Tony took some photos, which I have posted in the 2005.05.21 - Cinci Contest gallery.
The scores haven’t been posted yet, but I do know that our own Ed Wilson took top prize in the overall for both days! Congrats, Ed!
Also of note is that Tony got his second 15-minute LSF Level II flight in, so now he’s only lacking some landings and contest points. Keep up the good work, Tony!
Update: Ed has sent in a full report of the action at Cinci this weekend! Read on for the whole thing!
Further Update: Jim Bacus has posted a number of great photos from the contest in his OVSS #1 2005 gallery.
