2005 - pictures and stories
SSCAvenger and its bigger brother the Avenger. Eric uses OS engines and has
excellently prepared equipment. He scored 3,600 points in six rounds of SSC and
over 3,000 points in Open B. That is over 5 cuts in every round. Eric does not
engage an opponent in the furball instead he waits till his target clears the furball
and then goes after its streamer.
and Irvine in Open B. A new trend is the number of Open B flyers using the Webra .25. Mike Willcox's
Webra .25 is shown on the left. The next engine is George Cleveland's FORA .29, a de-stroked version of
his FORA ,36 used in CL combat. The third and fourth engines are Mike Willcox's Nelson .15 and George
Cleveland's FORA .15. These engines were used in Open B. I think Mike's airplane was the fastest Open B
ship. With these four ounce motors both Mike and George were able to field planes weighing 2 lbs 4
ounces.
Hat Trick and his ME109 shown in first two photos below. Cash "Rabbit Leader" Hargett with his YAK-9,
and Ed Kettler's twin engined ME110
Kettler with one of his many P51 fighters and RCCA Vice President Bob "Boiler" Loescher with his newly painted fleet of
P40s.
One of many nice planes they brought to the contest.
Michael "Mad Dawg" Sugamele's very nice Sureflite
P40. This was the first time I had seen the kit close
up and it looked very good both on the ground and in
the air.
Houston Texas
Waller doing RPM
checks
rudder plane
35 entrants, 4 heats were flown
per round. Up to 9 planes were
up each time. Here is what they
looked like.
Dirt Patch
Squadron they
can't fly
Warbirds in
SSC. Here are
their planes
Arizona
flew Open B on Sunday
pitted for his son Trent and
flew as well. Shown here
preparing a Team Seaholm
Avenger
photo op to show off his legs
while wearing shorts. Joe, it was
cold and windy I don't how you
could stand it.
