University Daily Kansan / Monday, October 15, 1990
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Model plane club sponsors annual flying competition
Sixteen participants enter planes in five skill areas; wind makes flying difficult
By Wes Denton Kansan staff writer
The Jayhawk Model Masters Radio Control Club played host to its fourth annual Fun-Fun contest yesterday at Clinton International Model Airport at the base of the Clinton Lake dam.
About 300 people attended the contest.
Richard Ballard, president of the club, said that 30 people brought mud names to the contest but that only 12 had done so.
The skill events included a "dead-stick land," in which pilots kill their engines and glide their planes back to the runway, and a "balloon-bust," in which five balloons are placed on the runway, and each contest tries to break the bridge.
"Lots of people didn't fly because it was too windy." Ballard said.
"The balloon-bust usually results in broken planes instead of balloons." Hallard said.
The other events were "limbo," in which pilots try to fly the lowest under a ribbon; "bomber," in which an object, aimed at a mark on the runway, is dropped from a plane; and "loop-and-land," in which pilots engage in a maneuver above the air.
Darrel Cordle, safety officer for the club, said there was only one accident during the contest.
we really had some high-class flying." Cordle said. Dave Seuerling, Shawnee sophomore, who crashed his plane, said he almost decided not to fly his plane because of the high winds.
But it was interference, not wind that caused his wreck during the balloon-bust, Seufering said.
Seuerling retrieves his homemade radio-controlled plane. It crashed in the grass upon takeoff.
Seefurling has been flying radio-controlled planes for about a year.
"It will take me about an hour to fix the wreckage to my plane," he said.
about a year.
He said he planned to enter another contest this
Each pilot was competing for the shortest take-off time and the fastest speed while performing stunts.
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