US Scale Masters - 2000

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Here is where the butterflies come into play! Let’s say you are a contestant. Sure, you have flown your aircraft in your home field. You know all the possible anomalies: crosswinds, field conditions and club members providing support. Now you are at a strange flying location and the flight judges are looking for every mistake. It can be quite unsettling. I always say, "Practice makes perfect". One of my observations has been that the pilots who execute a good flight in the first round, impress the judges and spectators enough so that subsequent flights seem to score higher!

This MIG 15 uses a mini turbine for power

Team scale P-47 by Wayne Siewert & Jim Sandquist

The last thing a contestant wants to do is force the judges to run for cover during a shaky take-off or landing. For some reason the judges seem to remember this!

On the first day of flight judging there are going to be mishaps and this event was no different. There was a twin turbine F18 Hornet in Blue Angles markings that suffered a fatal impact. I should have anticipated this when I saw a 1-meter flame shoot out the tail pipe upon startup. The impact was accompanied by a large mushroom cloud and lots of flames. Another unfortunate mistake occurred when a large Beech Bonanza V35-B-2 rotated prematurely, did a snap roll toward the judges and crunched to the pavement inverted. No one was hurt, but plenty of scrambling went on.

Dan Pierson with his Beechcraft Bonanza V35-B. On his first flight, he rotated early and lost the model

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