A trio of hand launch pilots from Milwaukee went to the 1.5 m Summer Fling near Madison, Wisconsin Sunday July 15, 2007
Hosted by the MARCS club the 2007 1.5 m HAND LAUNCH CONTEST was held at Paul’s Turf and Tree Nursery near Marshall, WI.
Tracy Brown and Greg Smith, founding members of MSG, as well as slope convert Michael Davidson made the hour and a half drive to the contest site where they were greeted with nearly perfect weather, a beautiful contest field and 8 other competitors for a total of 11 pilots.
The contest was flown man-on-man by rounds and usually involved activity by all competitors during each round as those not flying were timing for the pilots. We flew 6 rounds with some interesting tasks.
At the end of the day Tracy, with 5 x 1000 point rounds, took top honors with Ben Yahr 2nd and Steve Meyer from Racine, WI taking 3rd.
A few on-lookers came to watch which is interesting considering the out in the boonies nature of the field.
I look forward to it next year.
Complete results (Perfect score 6000):
1 Tracy Brown 5640
2 Ben Yahr 4947
3 Steve Meyer 4902
4 Chris Shubak 4858
5 Scott Zastoupil 4831
6 Greg Smith 4816
7 Steve Yahr 4584
8 David Suttie 3815
9 Brian Andreas 3657
10 Rob Scidmore 3353
11 Michael Davidson 1166