The 2010 Champs, 13 - 17 September
At the AMA International Aeromodeling Center in Muncie Indiana.

Updates; 18 July 2010

Dave Harding

Updates; 7 June 2010

With a little over two months to go you should be planning to send in your entries and book your rooms for this year’s Muncie SAM Champs.

Kerswap designer and 2009 FAI F1C World Championship US Team flyer Gil Morris has agreed to be our Banquet speaker. And he will be competing too, so watch out you free flight power guys.

Joan Walter has volunteered to host the Ladies Day events so plan to bring your other half to enjoy a day out with a fine lunch.

Yes folks, there is a Phantom Fury, it is a stick and tissue Comet kit and it is very different to the other popular Phantom, the Flash. SAM Secretary and event cosponsor Tommy Gray has an excellent build blog on the SAM 15 website; http://www.sam15.org/projects/phantomfury/phantom_fury1.html Co sponsor Karl Gies says you can build one in an evening, but when you bring yours along for the Tuesday 9 a.m. mass launch and brag about how easy it was to build you don’t have to tell us how long it took you. Just enjoy the flying.

Jim Hainen’s enthusiasm in sponsoring the Brown Jr. RC events has led him to assemble a clutch of engines that he plans to award as additional prizes. The current batch is seen here. Let’s make this the year of Brown Jr. resurgence.

Members have asked if there is a Champs Flyer they could distribute to their friends and fellow flyers. The answer is; "there is now". Click here to download a printable version.

Watch this space for future updates,
Dave Harding, Champs Contest Manager

Updates; 25 April 2010

It’s time to begin making your plans for the SAM 2010 Muncie Champs by registering with the Entry Forms, click here.

Luther Peters has produced another outstanding logo featuring the 2010 Models of the Year; the Kerswap and Gollywock, and the logo shirts and hats are on order.

Please remember when booking your accommodation at the HQ Signature Inn ( 3400 North Chadam Lane, Muncie, IN 47304-5272, (765) 284-4200 ) to ask for the SAM rate. You will get a better deal and SAM will get some complimentary rooms including use of the meeting rooms for Registration and the following President’s Hail and Farewell Reception. Please join us for this celebration for the departing SAM President, Jim O’Reilly and welcome the incoming President Elect Ed Hamler.

We have made arrangements for the rental of golf carts at the AMA field. The fee is $45 per day and we ask you inform us ASAP if you plan to rent one as they get booked early for competing events in the Indiana area.

Following Mike Myer’s 2009 Champs lead our “Bean Feed” will be a BBQ and, just like Bob Laybourne did for the 2002 Muncie Champs, we will hold it under a tent on the AMA site. Also following Mike’s lead we will offer some quality draft beer at $4 per person to include responsible refills. Let’s support some Indiana Microbreweries.

Please note we have changed the date for the Swap Meet from the date shown on the preliminary schedule. It will be held in conjunction with the Concours at the Horizon Center on Wednesday evening.

Our Awards Banquet will again be held in the excellent Horizon Conference Center. We will have a buffet meal with choice of entrees and a cash bar. Less you think these events are getting kind of expensive at $33 per person, consider that the meal costs incur a 30% service and State tax fee.

Our assistant Registrar, Tina Kime is exploring several alternatives for Lady’s Day activities. We will communicate these with you in the July-August SAM Speaks and on this website. Meanwhile we are looking for volunteers to manage this activity as Tina will be busy in her other role as a recorder for the RC flying.

Oh yes, there will be flying too! Following another Mike Myers lead we will hold a Mass Launch event at 9:00 am each day. This way you can plan to watch as part of your morning routine; Alarm, awake, stop at Starbucks for coffee, drive to the AMA site; fly or watch the Mass Launch. (Starbucks stop optional)

The plan is;

• Monday; Spirit of SAM RC Mass Launch

• Tuesday; Phantom Fury Free Flight Mass Launch

• Wednesday; Speed 400 RC Mass Launch

• Thursday; Twin Pusher Free Flight Mass Launch

• Friday; Compressed Air Free Flight Mass Launch

You will notice there are several special events on the program and we have to thank some SAM members for sponsoring them.

Tommy Gray and Karl Gies are sponsoring the Comet Phantom Flash mass launch, as they did last year. Karl says they will allow the model to use 3/32" longerons instead of the 1/16" shown on the Comet plan and also allow plastic props. He says you can build one in an evening, so why not? There were fourteen entries last year, let’s make it a couple of dozen this year.

Ron Boots will again sponsor the Compressed Air event including the mass launch. Ron is also managing the engine raffle again. This has been a significant fund raiser for the Champs and Ron is promising this to be the best ever. If you have an engine to donate, don’t hesitate; send it to Ron, it is for a good cause. Tickets may be purchased at the time you send your registration, it is on the form. But there will be opportunities to examine the engines and buy more tickets at each event throughout the week. The drawing will be held at the Banquet on Friday evening.

RC CD Don Bekins and SAM President Elect Ed Hamler are encouraging the RC Brown Jr. events; LMR and Texaco by relaxing the rules allowing any un-scaled Antique model with no wingspan limits and the same model can be flown in both events. Erstwhile Brown Jr. competitor, Jim Hainen has offered to sponsor these events and Ron Boots will donate a Brown Jr. engine as the top prize.

Woody Bartelt is sponsoring the Atoms-Only free flight event for any Atom 09 powered un-scaled Old Timer.

The Models of the Year, the Kerswap and Gollywock will be flown in the appropriate Rule Book events in Free Flight and RC but with special awards for best placement in each event, as we did with the Comet Models last year.

We plan to award every competitor with a 2010 SAM Champs Competitor’s plaque. And for each event in which you place you will receive a stick-on plate. For those keen competitors aiming for the Championships and Perpetual Trophies, work hard as we will have these trophies for presentation at the Banquet allowing unique photo opportunities; that should give you extra incentive.

Meanwhile, get on with your Champs planning and take care in completing your Entry Forms, remembering to make your money orders and checks payable to SAM or The Society of Antique Modelers, and don’t forget to send a copy of your current AMA membership card.

See you in Muncie, The Champs Management Team:
Dave Harding, Dave Meriwether, Tina and Chuck Kime, Carl Bakay and Don Bekins.

Dave Harding
2010 Champs Contest Manager
dhaerotech@comcast.net
610-872-1457

Contest Management Team

Our Contest Management team is in place and includes Chuck and Tina Kime. Tina has been an RC scorer for the last two Champs and Chuck an RC competitor. Here are RC Scorer Tina and Chuck with SAM Hall of Famer Eut Tileston at the 2009 Champs scoring table.

Dave Meriwether has also volunteered to be on the team. He was this year’s Registrar and assumed the full job as Contest Manager at the Champs when CM Mike Myers had to depart due to a family situation. Registrar is a tough job, especially when the Contest Manager has his size 15s on your desk. Dave deals with eventual Electric Champ Dick Bartkowski.

Contest Directors

The 2008 Champs Registrar Carl Bakay has volunteered to be our Free Flight CD. Here he is promoting a prior activity as editor of Indoor News and Views at the West Baden, Indiana, indoor meet.

Former SAM President, SAM Hall of Fame member, many times RC Champion and Champs RC Contest Director Don Bekins has volunteered to be the RC CD.

Models of the Year

The models of the year have been selected as Wally Simmers Original Gollywock for FF Rubber and Gilbert Morris’s Kerswap for RC and FF . Both are quick builds and good flyers.

Gollywock Definition by Gene Wallock. 11/5/09

• Original 1939 release with bamboo stab and wing tips and 1/16 sheet balsa fin and sub-rudder.
• 1941 production release with sheet balsa wing tips, a rectangular stab, stab tip plates and a built up fin.
• 1991 Gollywock II with sheet balsa wing and stab tips and a 1/16 fin and sub-rudder.

The Vargo-Wock and the 1944 AT version are not eligible (scaling problems).
The models must have a two bladed folder with a maximum diameter of 13.5 inches.
Any amount of rubber may be used.

Jim O’Reilly is preparing drawings for the three versions and two are currently avalable. Bob Holman has short kits from these plans. Plans are also available from Aerodyne.

Sergio Montes' Free Flight Quarterly has an edition devoted to the Gollywock. Click on the link and scroll down to that edition;

The Great Gollywock Saga is a  book devoted exclusively to the history, development and construction of this amazing model and its close brothers: the Jabberwock and the Dynamoe.  The 60 pages in  two-column format familiar to readers of Free Flight Quarterly  contain eleven chapters  that include:  Origins, Versions, Trimming and Flying, Motors and Propellers,  Timer installation, Airfoils, and Rival Designs.
Many people contributed generously of their time and expertise in the writing of this book.  Among them Gene Wallock describes his system of hinge construction for perfect folding, Al Pardue has written and illustrated a chapter on building, finishing and decorating a Gollywock, while David Mills examines a possible sibling to the Gollywock: the Ray Smith Mulvihill, adding  his recollection of an evening with Wally Simmers, and discoursing on the Simmers Dynamoe, and its excellent performance in the Moffett Trophy.

The book also includes a new full size plan for the Gollywock II version in three A3 sheets.

The price is $23 US airmailed to your address or $25 AUD in Australia or NZ.   It can be ordered from the website or from the Free Flight Quarterly editorial offices.

Gollywock by Mark Sexton

Kerswap definitions by Gene Wallock 11/05/09

The Gas Special Event model, at the 2010 SAM Champs, is the Kerswap. The design is from Gil Morris and he was kind enough to verify that the 42 inch span plan (no.P60450) that the AMA sells is correct. Jim O’Reilly is working up a drawing and laser parts and Aerodyne has the drawing.

• Left inboard panel is washed out 1/8”. The other three panels are flat.
• CG 4.25” behind the LE (57%).
• Stab TE is 3/16 higher than LE (Model will dive with stab level as shown on drawing).
• 3 degrees of down thrust. No side thrust.
• Rudder tab straight.
• Flies right-left.
• Weight all up with O&R 23= 17.3 oz. (16 oz required for FF)

Here are Hank Sperzel and the late Ted Dock with their Kerswaps.

The Kerswap RC program will consist of points scored for in each event . The model may be scaled to different sizes for the various events. Indeed, you could build two or three and fly in many events; a small one for ½ A Texaco and Speed 400, a bigger one for A or B LER, LMR, ETexaco and A Texaco, or an even bigger one for C LER. Plans and short kits are available in various sizes from our usual suppliers.

This is Craig Limber's Speed 400 version at 288 sq inches wing area.

Perennial Champs competitor, Aussie Allan Laycock has accepted the Three-Day Kerswap challenge from 2009 CM Mike Myers. Click here to see the progress.

Dave Harding, 2010 SAM Champs Contest Manager
4948 Jefferson Drive, Brookhaven, Pa, 19015
610-872-1457
dhaerotech@comcast.net

Dave and Crew Chief Chuck Kime with the Boehle Giant at the 2008 Muncie Champs

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