TOM HAD AN ISSUE WITH THE ORIGINAL LINK. HERE IS A NEW LINK
Tom Hallman has assembled another great selection of FAC photos for the 2019 calendar. You can find it in his FAC CafePress site – and all profits go to the FAC! You can see all of the monthly photos below.
The FAC’s own – Oliver Sand – has been awarded two scholarship awards by the Academy of Model Aeronautics! Well done, Oliver – and best of luck at Brown!
Immediately following teh Thursday/Friday FAC outdoor Champs was the Saturday/Sunday Ted Dock contest. We had just over 30 people registered and flying – a great turnout. Here are the Kanones – more details to follow in the Newsletter.
2-Bit Plus 1: George Bredehoft – King Harry
Dime Scale: Gary Morton – Chambermaid
Embryo: Jim DeTar – Freshman
FAC Rubber Scale: Wally Farrell – Me.609
FAC OC non-Winners’ Flying Horde: Ted Allebone – Vega Starliner
Golden Age Combined: Wally Farrell – Cessna Airmaster
Greve Race: DJ Ruhland – Folkerts SK-2
Jet Cat: Gary Morton – P-59
Jimmie Allen: Pat Murray – Skokie
Modern Military: Wally Farrell – Nomad
NoCal: Mark Rzadka – Mr Smoothie
OT Fuselage: Pat Murray – Jabberwock
OT Stick: George Bredehoft – Wanderer
OT Dawn Unlimited: Pat Murray – Jabberwock
Phantom Flash: Wally Farrell
Simplified Scale: Wally Farrell – Trojan
Thompson Race: Wally Farrell – Cessna CR-2
WW-I Dogfight: Pat Murray – Fokker D.vii
WW-II Combat: Wally Farrell – Heinkel He.100
DJ Ruhland with his Greve-winning Folkerts SK-2 AFTER his 10+ minute flight!
As we gathered in Muncie last Wednesday, several of us received an email from Marcy Green letting us know that Orv Olm had passed away.
Orv was known, if only by his nickname, throughout the Free Flight world. He changed the way that many, many Free Flighters prop their rubber planes and adjust their thrust settings.
He suffered in the last several months with what turned out to be some sort of cancer, with lung cancer being the secondary cancer (he chose to stop research and treatment when they realized there was “more”).
I don’t know what to say…I’m sure most are already aware of his passing, but I feel we need to acknowledge what he meant to us – which was a lot.