.:Saturday, July 21, 2007:.
NATS Adventure: Day Nine Awards Ceremony
| District 6 dominated the 2007 Nationals, hands down! Way to go D-6!!!!! Can't wait to do it again next year! The final standings for the various classes are as follows: Advanced:  1 ERIK J NEWSHOLME 2 RYAN M SMITH  3 CHARLES A HOCHHALTER GO D-6!!!!!  4 ANTHONY B PAGE 5 JON A LOWE 6 ROBERT B GREEN 7 EUGENE VILLA 8 DENNIS BODARY 9 WILLIAM J SHEFFIELD GO D-6!!!!! 10 LUIS A RODRIGUEZ GO D-6!!!! 11 DAVID JOHNSTONE 12 BILL R MITCHELL 13 FRANK DEL GIUDICE 14 JOSEPH E ZEIGENFUS 15 CARLOS M BARRERA GO D-6!!!! 16 JARVIS R JOHNSON Intermediate: 1 MARCIO A JORGE 2 RUOHAN (JACK) LI S 3 GARY R COURTNEY O 4 BRANDON C LANDRY J GO D-6!!!! 5 RICHARD A ROSINSKI II 6 EDWIN M MANSON 7 MATTHEW C LIPRIE GO D-6!!!! This was his first ever NATS!!! 8 JOHN KONNEKER 9 JON R MARTIN GO D-6!!!! 10 AUSTIN WINGO 11 LARRY L KAUFFMAN 12 ROYCE W DORSETT 13 TIM R TIPTON GO D-6!!!! 14 BRUCE M GINN 15 MICHAEL GREEAR 16 DYLAN FORNEY GO D-6!!!! 17 DEAN FUNK Masters:  1 GLEN H WATSON GO D-6!!!!  2 ARCH J STAFFORD GO D-6!!!!  3 GEORGE ASTERIS  4 JEFF W CARDER GO D-6!!!!  5 JERRY BUDD  6 MARK C HUNT GO D-6!!!!  7 LANCE VAN NOSTRAND GO D-6!!!!  8 STEVE A MILLER 9 KENNETH G VELEZ 10 BYRON W PONDER GO D-6!!!! 11 ROBERT G SATALINO 12 DALE S ARNOLD 13 EMORY S SCHROETER 14 VERNE L KOESTER 15 BILL S GREGG 16 JOSEPH M LACHOWSKI 17 RUSTY FRIED 18 MICHAEL LOSARDO 19 JOE A DUNNAWAY 20 CHRISTOPHER J MOON 21 DONALD R RAMSEY GO D-6!!!! 22 VINCENT BORTONE 23 JUAN R ROMERO 24 JOHN RON LOCKHART 25 JONATHAN L CARTER 26 JAMES V HUBBARD 27 MIKE D HESTER 28 THOMAS G GILKEY 29 LAWRENCE W AUER 30 ROBERT E KANE 31 ANTHONY T ROMANO 32 RICHARD T WALLACE 33 CLAUDE J WEIMER 34 JOHN D FUQUA 35 DAVID STODART 36 LYNN W BURKS 37 LAMAR BLAIR FAI:   1 JASON A SHULMAN  2 QUIQUE SOMENZINI  3 ANDREW R JESKY  4 SEAN M MCMURTRY GO D-6!!!! 5 GORDON D HYDE 6 BRETT M WICKIZER GO D-6!!!!  7 DONALD J SZCZUR 8 DAVID K LOCKHART 9 PETER A COLLINSON 10 CHAD NORTHEAST 11 BILLY CUNNINGHAM GO D-6!!!! 12 TROY A NEWMAN 13 TODD A BLOSE GO D-6!!!! 14 EARL J HAURY GO D-6!!!! 15 ALBERT C GLENN 16 ANDRE J BOUCHARD GO D-6!!!! 17 MICHAEL S HARRISON 18 WILLIAM C AHRENS 18 SCOTT C COVEY 19 JOEY A HAYES 20 DAVID F SNOW 21 CAMERON R SMITH 22 BRYAN P HEBERT 23 TERRY J DARR 24 RAIKO A POTTER 25 DEREK L KOOPOWITZ 26 DEZSO VAGHY 27 RUSTY DOSE 28 DAVE REAVILLE 29 MARK P ATWOOD 30 RYAN P MCLAUGHLIN 31 RONALD S BARR GO D-6!!!! 32 MARK BYRNE 33 HARRY W ELLS 34 NEDIM BEK 35 ROBERT M MAIRS 36 STEPHEN H LELITO They also presented the Squire Award to the person, over the age of 60, with the highest scores in each class!  Advanced: Luis Rodriquez GO D-6!!!! *not pictured/wasn't at ceremony* Intermediate: Tim Tipton GO D-6!!!!  Masters: George Asteris  FAI: Earl Haury GO D-6!!!!  On top of that, they also presented Glenn Watson from D-6 (GO D-6) with the Futaba Flight Achievment Award  Jeff collecting his $50.00 gift certificate to Central Hobbies & a DVD production from Higher Plane Productions for placing as the runner up in the 2007 Concours d'Elegance Award! Way to go Jeff!  Oh yeah, Raiko Potter won the 2007 Concours d'Elegance Award with his pre-built but very impressively cool paint job on his Impact!  *Drumroll please* Now, introducing the new, USA World Team, that will be representing us in Argentina for the Word Championship!!!!   In first place and the new leader of the team, Jason Shulman. Coming in second is Quique Somenzini. And last, but far from least, Andrew Jesky. And the very last two pictures taken in Muncie, IN!!!   I'm so very proud of you Jeff! I love you! |
NATS Adventure: Day Nine Finals
| The airplanes and camper are completely packed up and ready to hit the road after the anxiously awaited awards ceremony in a couple of hours. The weather has been beautiful all day, which is quite a nice change from all of the cold rain that we have had all week long out here. We didn't even have to use the sweatshirts and blankets this morning to stay warm! YAY! Jeff did a bang up job today flying and is super happy with himself and his performance. He just keeps saying that he doesn't remember the last time he had so much fun flying at a contest! That makes me incredibly happy. He refused to look at the scoring as they brought it out after each flight, but I didn't have that much will power! Tehehehe. I had to run and grab his score sheets the second they came out! He got hosed on the first two flights by one of the judges, who has now been added to my "hit list"! MUwahahahaha. I'm sure that some drama on the forums will blow up about that though and the guy that did it will pay the consequence by not being allowed to judge anymore. Or at least I hope anyway. All in all though, both Jeff and I feel very confident going into the awards ceremony. And after all, this is about having fun right? Tehehehehe....Jeff would say yes.......as long as he places well anyway! *laughs* Anywho, here are a bunch of pictures from flying today!                     And without futher ado, the last first flight of the day for NATS 2007!  More to come shortly! |