2000 Chapter Elections

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You’ve heard of the Y2k glitch – well here it is. All these officers have all announced their intention to run for re-election for the upcoming 2000 season. Anyone else interested in running for any of the positions (particularly the newsletter editor!) may do so by informing Hans Bok prior to January 31^st.

If you do not want to hold an office but want to get more involved in the chapter, PLEASE ATTEND THE MONTHLY BUSINESS MEETINGS AND CONTRIBUTE ANY WAY YOU CAN.

New Members

Chapter 35 welcomes Charles Schumacher and Joe Keenan to our group of active fliers. Charles was at the Springfield competition sponsored by Ron Burns. Joe flew in the Maytown contest. Charles flies a Pitts S1-T and Joe Keenan flies a Super Decathalon. Welcome, Charles and Joe.

Chapter 35 Sponsors 5^th Annual Judges School

Chapter 35 will once again host a Judges School this year. The Introduction to Aerobatic Judging School will be held on February 5 and 6, 2000 at East Coast Aero Tech located at Hanscom Airport (BED) in Bedford, MA . The instructor will be Ray Rose. This is an excellent way for starting competitors to learn the fine points of what the judges are looking for and keep in mind the entire catalog was re-written for CIVA compliance – LEARN THOSE CHANGES ASAP. Registration will begin at 8 a.m. on Saturday with class starting at 8:45 a.m. and ending at 5:00 p.m. The Sunday class will start at 8:30 a.m. and end at 2:00 p.m. Judges who are going to the school for recurrency need only to attend the class on Sunday.

There is one standard package available for the standard course or recurrency. Materials will be available for sale with the course (please indicate the materials desired when pre-registering):

COURSE or RECURRENCY - $40.00

NO FAI Aerobatic Catalogue

NO IAC Rule Book

IAC Rule Book Revisions 2000

Home Study Course

Student Handbook

Registration Form

Judges’ Log , School Analysis Form

1. FAI Aerobatic Catalogue 2000 (Insert and binder) * $35.00*
2. FAI Aerobatic Catalogue 2000 (Insert only) * $15.00*
3. IAC Rule Book $15.00*
4. 2000 Known Sequence Calling Primer (Audio Cassette Tape) $8.00

PRE-REGISTRATION IS NEEDED TO ORDER ADEQUATE MATERIALS

Space is limited to 30 participants

Contact Hans Bok by January 20, 2000 at 508-994-5957 or e-Mail: hbok@ici.net.

Checks or cash will be collected at the door. IAC Membership required for Certification.

Hotels:

Double Tree Guest Inn: (781) 890-6767

Sheraton: (781) 862-8700

Holiday Inn Express: (781) 861-0850

The following members have had their Hammerheads returned to the editor. If anyone knows their whereabouts please let me know at hammerhead35@home.com. Thanks, Dave

Jim Carroll Oakland ME

Barry Chester Boston MA

Ed Grossheim Wakefield MA

Richard Moore N. Swanzey NH

Gregory Ryan Sommerville MA

Chuck Yahrling Ogunquit ME

Monthly Newsletters – NOT!

We conducted an exclusive interview with Dave Watson the editor of our newsletter and got his answers to the most common questions from Chapter 35 members about the newsletter:

Q: When do you mail out the newsletter?

A: It’s a very complicated equation involving; the amount of newsworthy information, the availability of my time and the BOK TALK, and the price of stamps.

Q: How can the members contribute to a more successful Hammerhead?

A: Apply progressive right rudder and forward stick on the way up.

Q: OK smart-@$$. How can we improve the newsletter and keep the Chapter members informed.

A: 1) You can contribute to your newsletter! Although I enjoy doing it – I can’t be the reporter, writer, editor, and producer every month. This last year, only one article was submitted by a chapter member. 2) We can each take turns writing the BOK TALK – Hans has the same problem I do, He’s very busy and this is a voluntary position. 3) One more thing –

We can greatly simplify the production process and COST of the newsletter by providing us with your current e-mail address so you can receive the Hammerhead in its electronic glory. This will save the Chapter hundreds of dollars each year.

If you want to be an electronic subscriber please e-mail Dave W. at hammerhead35@home.com and put "electronic subscription" in the title.

Think of the fun you can have with an electronic copy – put your picture on the cover – winning the nationals. What ever you want !!!

Following on the success of the last year’s banquet, Bill Crawford is again organizing the annual banquet. At the time of Hammerhead production, there were no details except that it will be held in March or April and that you don’t want to miss it. Contact Bill Crawford (phone number and e-mail on cover) for details.

Here Comes the JUDGE!

At the Long Island competition, during the rain delay, Dave Watson subjected himself to a grueling interrogation from Bob Minkus (co-author of the rule book) and Guenther Eichhorn (someone who likes to throw the rule book at pilots) for his oral judges exam (talk about and acid test). It took several other chapter 35 members to bring Dave out of the coma at the end but rumor has it he passed – Dave’s first words – "So where’s my $50.00". You too can have this exhilarating experience by simply going to this February’s judges school, taking the written test, getting in the minimum assists, and passing the oral exam– a deal at $50.00 (it works out to about $.50 per hour).

Tax Deduction Needed?

Chapter 35 is in need of a 10 –12 foot enclosed trailer to store all of our tables, chairs, box markings etc. Since we will be holding two competitions each year we need to be mobile. If you know of a way we can obtain one cheaply (spelled free) please let Hans know. Of course the contribution is fully tax deductible.

Wet T-shirt Competition!!!!

Yes, the ink is wet. We are going to print T-shirts for our Orange competition this year and need ideas for the design. Some of the ideas that came out at the last meeting were: 1) a red, white and black starburst Super Decathlon going ballistic, 2) a red, white and black starburst Super Decathlon doing a snap, or 3) a red, white and black starburst Super Decathlon inverted over a resemblance of the newsletter editor. If we don’t get any other contributions we will have to vote on one of these outstanding suggestions. Bring your artwork or idea to the next chapter meeting! We do have a volunteer to do the graphics layout – we are just looking for the idea! The person providing the winning artwork will get 10 points added to their Orange competition results.

Held August 21-22, 1999

IAC Chapter 35 would like to thank all those folks who attended and helped make the 1999 Green Mountain Aerobatic Championship in Springfield, VT a successful and fun contest. We started the weekend with wonderful weather on
Friday for the setup and Practice. First Time Contest Director George Coy was at the airport early with everything we needed. First time registrar Marge Butterfield stepped up and did a great job with all the IAC paperwork
required to run a contest. Everyone who arrived Friday had at least one chance to fly in the box.
On Saturday the sky was overcast and thingswere wet from the overnite rains, but we held the briefing and waited for the clouds. By 9:30 the sky was 4000 overcast with unrestricted visibility. We were ready to start but we didn't
have enough judges. a few phone calls and Poof...Bill Sconce, Dick Bovey and Kathy Huelet appear from the sky and the contest is on. We flew till 3pm when the rains started again but in that time Sportsman had flown twice,
Intermediate and Unlimited once. We then retired to a relaxing afternoon and great banquet at the Hartness House.

We tried to fly Sunday morning but the low clouds did not let us get the second Intermediate and Unlimited flights in. It did breakup about noon and let everyone except Canadian Roy Ramsey from PEI to depart that afternoon (everyone had GPS isssues). Roy got out Monday. The folks at Springfield were great to us again thanks to airport manager Steve Buckingham.

It was a small contest but fun and relaxing. Hope to see you all back next year as we plan to do it again on the same August weekend.

Thank you for all,

Craig "yakboy" Lesinski

Rank Pilot Chapter TBLP Tot %p

1^st Neville Hogan 35 1999.5237 76.32

2^nd Dave Klingebiel 52 1946.4796 74.29

3^rd Dave Watson 35 1912.9233 73.01

4^th Peter Bacon 35 1898.3116 72.45

5^th Bruce Green 35 1897.3544 72.42

6^th Kevin O’Shea 1159.2732 44.25

7^th Charles Shumacher 35 966.1027 36.87

Rank Pilot Chapter TBLP Tot %p

1^st Larry Bashore 58 1519.6097 80.40

2^nd Ron Burns 35 1464.6135 77.49

3^rd Ray Moorman 35 1364.0759 72.17

4^th Roy Ramsey 35 1101.7883 58.30

5^th Sigrid Baurmann 35 1073.7828 56.81

Rank Pilot Chapter TBLP Tot %p

1^st Craig Lesinski 35 2236.5000 69.46

2^nd Guenther Eichhorn 35 2205.1667 68.48

Special Awards:

Grassroots Award - Dave Watson

Congratulations to Guenther who qualified for his Unlimited with Stars Achievement
and now has completed all 10 IAC Patch awards.

Chapter 35, Green Mountain Award Winners (L to R): Guenter Eichhorn, Ron Burns, Craig Lesinski, Neville Hogan, Ray Moorman, and Dave Watson. Note: Spectacular Super Decathlon in background.

Held September 10-12, 1999

The remains of hurricane Dennis on Thursday and Friday prevented a lot of pilots from being able to make the trip to the Catskills to participate in this year's IAC Chapter 52 annual contest, the Kathy Jaffe Challenge. Nevertheless, after the weather cleared 24 pilots representing 6 different chapters were able to take up to the beautiful skies and compete in 3 flights each on Saturday and Sunday. Gorgeous weather, my personal favorite - Top Gun soundtrack playing over the speaker system, good food and wine and nighttime dancing made it an excellent and a very enjoyable contest. A big Thank You goes to all competitors and volunteers who made this year's contest a success. See you all again next year!!!!!

Contest Director - Ron Chadwick

(Results calculated using TBLP w/ min.weight threshold at 1.2 std.dev. – 3 flights)

Rank Pilot Chapter TBLP Tot %p

1^st Steven Cook 52 1045.4492 79.20

2^nd Alex Belov 52 1031.8580 78.17

3^rd Kaye Curtis 109 1011.2191 76.61

4^th Olga Mitchell 52 982.4289 74.43

(Results calculated using TBLP w/ min.weight threshold at 1.2 std.dev. – 3 flights)

Rank Pilot Chapter TBLP Tot %p

1^st Dave Klingebiel 52 3291.8897 83.76

2^nd Stephen Seidel 52 3287.7658 83.66

3^rd Ron Chadwick 52 3222.8246 82.01

4^th William Green 52 3205.8058 81.57

5^th Neville Hogan 35 3170.4963 80.67

6^th Peter Bocon 35 3166.0404 80.56

7^th Karen Greenfield 58 3119.3544 79.37

8^th David Watson 35 2984.4922 75.94

9^th Charles Schumacher35 2861.3836 72.81

10^th Leigh McCue 58 2458.4897 62.56

11^th Karen Bulluck 52 1668.1622 42.45

(Results calculated using TBLP w/ min.weight threshold at 1.2 std.dev. – 3 flights)

Rank Pilot Chapter TBLP Tot %p

1^st Mike Herbert 11 4014.7611 81.77

2^nd Harley Carnes 52 3982.1536 81.10

3^rd Ron Burns 35 3859.7974 78.61

4^th Larry Wilson 52 3782.2572 77.03

(Results were calculated using Straight Average – 3 flights)

Rank Pilot Chapter TBLP Tot %p

1st Ron Saglimbene 52 5940.5000 82.16

2nd Ron Spencer 52 5810.8000 80.37

(Results calculated using TBLP and Straight Average – 3 flights)

Rank Pilot Chapter TBLP Tot %p

1^st Guenther Eichhorn 35 8404.5266 72.14

2^nd Charles Kalko 52 7784.2653 66.82

3^rd Michael Cutshaw 98 5886.3587 50.53

Special Awards:

Pitts Trophy - Dave Klingebiel

American Champion Trophy - Karen Greenfield

Grassroots Award - Karen Greenfield

Good Sportsmanship Award - Ron Chadwick

Kathy Jaffe Spirit of Aerobatics Award was presented to Larry Bashore (President IAC Chapter 58).

Hans performing a high performance slip on final at a recent practice session at Plymouth- NOT.

The Northeast Aerobatic Championships were held at Gabreski Airport, Westhampton NY on October 7 - 10. Attended by 40 pilots, the contest was running smoothly until Sunday mourning when the rains arrived. Even though the contest was ended early, all categories flew twice except Basic and Sportsman. There are so many people who helped to make this contest a success.

Sponsors - Mike Mancuso of Gyroscopic Obsession and Jan Burden of Malloy Air East.

Chief Judges - John Cornwell and Ray Rose

Assisting the Chief Judges - Andrew Cornwell, Karen Minkus and Lois Rose.

Volunteer Coordinator - George Cole.

Starter - Kevin Cavallo and Scott "GORDO" Gerber.

CO-Contest Directors - John "TACO" Caccavale

And Diana "SUPER D" Latham.

Rank Pilot Chapter TBLP Tot %pp

1^st Tim Dahlen 91 363.0173 82.50

2^nd Steven A. Cook 52 346.1292 78.67

3^rd Margie Giering 11 343.2584 78.01

4^th Joe Llinas 91 324.1344 73.67

5^th Margaret Boyd 91 310.4446 70.56

6^th Lee Champigny 91 299.5791 68.09

7^th Mark Benton 52 281.1720 63.90

8^th Tom Duff 91 275.3690 62.58

9^th Olga Mitchell 52 234.8889 53.38

Rank Pilot Chapter TBLP Tot %pp

1^st Diana Latham 91 1085.6587 82.87

2^nd Dave Klingebiel 52 1035.9063 79.08

3^rd Bob Minkus 58 1026.2856 78.34

4^th John Nagy 58 1024.6588 78.22

5^th Kevin Cavallo 91 1003.6323 76.61

6^th Karen Greenfield 58 995.0729 75.96

7^th Craig B. Wisman 58 976.7454 74.56

8^th Bruce Green 35 963.7647 73.57

9^th David Watson 35 926.0342 70.69

10^th Neville Hogan 35 523.3069 39.95

11^th Terri Nagy 58 268.1266 20.47

12^th Leigh McCue 91 252.4638 19.27

Rank Pilot Chapter TBLP Tot %pp

1^st Ronald Burns 35 3155.3459 81.53

2^nd Bill Crawford 35 3147.8750 81.34

3^rd Larry Bashore 58 3099.8425 80.10

4^th Mike Herbert 11 3029.8058 78.29

5^th John Caccavale 91 3015.6218 77.92

6^th Mark McKibben 11 2949.4747 76.21

7^th Sigrid Baumann 35 2849.7999 73.64

8^th Richard Pinkowski 52 2803.3691 72.44

9^th Bob McAndrew 58 1367.8347 69.25

10^th Carl V. Hunt 11 2539.8339 65.63

11^th Vinny Nasta 91 2512.2471 64.92

12^th George Cole 91 1005.3120 25.98

Rank Pilot Chapter TBLP Tot %pp

1^st Jim Reiher 91 4380.4504 84.08

2^nd Ron Saglimbene 52 4049.3597 77.72

3^rd Scotty Gerber 91 4042.6451 77.59

4^th Ron Spencer 52 1697.0497 32.57

Rank Pilot Chapter TBLP Tot %pp

1^st David Windmiller 91 6180.5210 80.48

2^nd Guenther Eichhorn 35 5755.6770 74.94

3^rd Craig Lesinski 35 5655.3118 73.64

The Northeast Championship Awards were presented at the Northeast Championships. Is this a redundancy? No not really. These very special awards are given to the pilots who have the best three finishing places in the 5 "local" competitions (Orange, Maytown, Kathy Jaffee, Green Mtn., and Northeast contests). The 1999 Northeast Champions were:

Category Pilot Chapter

Basic Margie Giering 11

Sportsman Dave Klingebiel 52

Intermediate Mike Herbert 11

Advanced Ron Saglimbene 52

Unlimited Guenther Eichhorn 35

As a result of his score at the Green Mountain Championships, Guenther Eichhorn finished his collection of patches with the Unlimited with Stars Award. This also qualified him for the All 5 Patches with Stars Award and the All 10 Patches Award. Guenther accomplished this while flying his 200 hp Pitts S1-A. When Guenther was asked how he going to follow-up such an achievement next year he told the Hammerhead that he "will be flying a Clipped -wing Cub next year in an attempt to defend his Unlimited Northeast Championship and win the Grass Roots award simultaneously.

Congratulations Guenther.

There was this competition way the hell down in Virginia that Bill Crawford flew to late in October. Rumor has it that he got lost on the way and logged enough time in his plane getting there that he got proficient flying it. After the long flight, he arrived and opened up 3 cans of whup-ass and won all three Intermediate flights. He came home with the 1^st place trophy and the determination to fly Advanced next year.

Congratulations Bill.

The year has come to an end. The year started tragically with Kathy Jaffe’s untimely death in her Pitts while practicing. The consensus is that she entered a cross-over spin and never realized she was in an inverted spin. She will be missed by all that knew her. Unfortunately, accidents like these only emphasized the need for proper training. For those of you who have not had spin training, please do so. It can save your life.

We sponsored two contests this past year. Both contests were safe, well run and were enjoyed by all those who attended. Jim Ward did an excellent job running the Orange Contest while George Coy and Craig Lesinski did an outstanding job with the Springfield Contest. The Springfield Contest was truly an International Contest as Roy Ramsey flew down from Canada in his beautiful Pitts S1T. By the way, Roy is a Chapter 35 member.

I want to particularly congratulate Guenther Eichhorn for his persistence in flying Unlimited in his Pitts S2A. It was, at one time, considered to be an unlimited capable machine, but not today. While most people feel that the Pitts is being displaced by more powerful monoplanes, Guenther showed us what can be done with smooth flying.

This year, we had several critique sessions available so every chapter member had an opportunity to practice and improve. I want to thank Craig Lesinski, Neal Frangesh, Charlie Ryan, Bill Crawford, Ryan Watson, and others for their help in making the sessions a success by sitting in the field and patiently providing feedback to the pilots, flight after flight. I also want to thank Bill Crawford for graciously letting us use the C.R.A.P. Center and his car for several of the sessions. I also want to thank Craig Lesinski for the use of his car during the practice sessions as well. Our intent is to continue to hold these sessions next year. Any one who is interested in participating, please give me a call or send me an email. We will try to hold sessions over the winter as the weather allows. The sessions are not on a regular schedule and we try to notify people usually a week or so before they take place.

It was also enjoyable to watch people improve over the year. One that comes to mind is Bill Crawford and Ron Burns. Bill trained steadily during the season, which culminated with a win at the Virginia contest in the Intermediate category by winning all three flights. Outstanding. Did I hear "move up"?

Ron placed in the top three places in Intermediate for all the contests he entered this year except for one. He also won the category at the Long Island Contest, the last contest that he entered. Great Flying!

Running contests over the years can be a grueling amount of work. Jim Ward has handled the brunt of the work for the Orange Contest for the last several years. Recently, Jim indicated that he would not be running the upcoming Orange Contest. I want to thank Jim for the effort and time he has invested in the past. One cannot appreciate what he has done until you see how much work it takes. His shoes will be hard to fill.

As mentioned elsewhere in the newsletter, we will be holding our annual banquet in March or April. Look for upcoming details in the next newsletter. We look forward to seeing you there.

Safe Flying !

Hans

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