The fourth annual Space City RC Club’s Spring Pattern Classic event was held this past weekend. Many thanks to the club and the members who made it possible to hold a very successful event for the 4th year in a row. This event has grown each year in sheer numbers of participants attracting an incredible talent pool of competitors and contestant judging. We are fortunate to have access to some of the top flyers in the country participate along with an extremely knowledgeable and experienced list of current certified judges among those who compete.

Flying conditions were challenging, wind gusts on both days were in the high 20s according to weather reports however the level of flying was some of the best I've witnessed all classes. The last several weeks it has been very windy in this part of the country leading up to the contest. Competitors came very well prepared for the conditions. We had 34 compete on Saturday with 30 returning on Sunday. There were 12 FAI which is an unusually large turnout. FAI flew 3 rounds of P and 1 round of F throwing out their lowest P round. In addition our Intermediate winner was 14 years old plus and we had 3 other young men in their late teens early 20s participate…Pattern is alive and doing well in this part of the country. To my best recollection 16 out of 34 flew glow remainder was electric.

If you’re ever in Houston Texas around the first weekend in May be sure to bring an plane and plan to attend the Spring Pattern Classic at the [link=http://www.spacecityrc.com/]Space City RC Club[/link] located in Katy, TX a west suburb of Houston.

Also wanted express thanks to the event sponsors:

F3A Unlimited
Morgen Fuel
Randy's Hobbies (Ritch's Brew)
YS Parts and Service


Here are the results:

Sportsman
Willie Salvador 3000
Pep Peperone 1884

Intermediate
Brian Strachan 2965
Dean Nistetter 2942
Randy Hicks 2840
Nick Marson 2790
Ed Valls 2555
Wally Warren 2534
Mike Pascale 2520
Ken Thompson 2353

Advanced
Scott Mcharg 3000
Tuan Lam 2923
David Ashely 2846
Rene Grebe 2779
Max Blose 2512

Masters
Mark Hunt 3000
Lance Van Nostrand 2767
Chuck Hochhalter 2721
Donald Ramsey 2701
Henry Pham 2694
Keith Black 2668
Jim Thompson 764

FAI
Bret Wickizer 3000
Andre Bouchard 2988
Paul Villarrubia 2946
Todd Blose 2861
Bryan Hebert 2772
Earl Haury 2732
Adam Mendonca 2728
Michael Harrison 2676
Brandon Landry 2656
Stephen Byrd 1768
Ron Barr 1696
Dick Mundee 1523