To all those interested in the Senior Pattern Association who are in the North East, We are now planning on having an SPA contest on October 6th, 2007.
We are planning to host the event in Freehold,Nj at U fly Hobbies. This will be a one day event that will entail an SPA contest for Novice, Sportsman and Master classes. This event will be an "Open" event, meaning that SPA members and non-SPA members may participate. The SPA rules and guidelines will take place. For information on the rules and guidlines refer to the SPA website www.seniorpattern.com

If anyone has any questions please feel free to contact me at [email protected] with any questions you may have. I will be providing more information within over the next few weeks, but please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions.

I really look forward to having this event and I am positive that it will be a great time! Anyone who has attended any SPA event can tell you that it is a lot of fun and a great experience!

Jim Hamilton

Jim, Keep us informed on it! My Pop lives out on Long Island and would probably be interested in attending.

I moved to Georgia in May of 1998 and have not been back to NJ since then. This might be a good time to visit the relatives/friends and attend an SPA contest. I like it being held in October too. No 90 plus temps to deal with.

Keep us posted on the progress, please.


Ed Cregger

I don't have a SPA-legal plane right now, but I'll gladly come and watch or help.

Any plane is legal in the Novice class. Grab a plane and fly. It's a hoot.........

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Grab a Tower Kaos ARF or an Intruder 90 ARF by World Models. I'm going with the Kaos first. I need some place to run all of these Enya .45CX engines I have accumulated.


Ed Cregger

You can use any plane or engine in novice class, so bring what you have and fly!

Just to give some updated info for the North East SPA event;
We are planning on Oct. 6th,2007
The event will be held at U fly Hobbies in Freehold Nj.
The address is: 403 Georgia Road, Freehold Nj 07728
Three Classes of SPA will be flown: Novice, Sportsman and Expert
For information regarding the manuevers and judging download the Judges and competitors guide for the Senior Pattern Association website www.seniorpattern.com
Presently I am working on information with regards to hotels and local accomodations.
Additionally we are working on prizes and raffles, and we plan to have a cookout type lunch the day of the contest.
For any questions please feel free to contact me via email!
Thanks,
Jim Hamilton

Sounds great Jim

Couldn't you arrange to move N.J. a little closer to Asheville?

Still hoping you, (and everyone on this thread), will be able to come to the Masters in mid Sept in Knoxville. Knoxville is a nice site with scenery ALMOST as nice as Asheville It will be worth your while to see and experience one of the best run contests within SPA.

Duane

OK, maybe I'll bring Peppermint Pattie .15 - how are you going to judge t/o with a hand launch?

Also, I'm doing a Sr Falcon w/ my son - it was around in the late 60's, but is not on the SPA list. Probably not competitive in Expert, but will you allow the design?

So, can I fly in 2 classes?

After reading your post regarding the Senior Falcon, I went to APPROVED planes on the Sr. Pattern website and
in the Prior to 1965 or Antique class: (Cut & Pasted)

FALCON 56 FALCON SENIOR

These airplanes, with proper power, should do the NOVICE maneuvers nicely. I recall having lots of fun flying a
Falcon 56 powered by a Veco 19........and then later, a Senior Falcon with an Enya .60 in its' nose. Nice performers.
Jim and the New Jersey Chapter are going "All-Out" to make this initial NE SPA contest a "doozy".

Best wishes, Bruce Underwood SPA 15 Pres. Guntersville, AL
[email protected]

The Senior Falcon is a definite SPA airplane, I fly one myself with an OS .46FX and it is one of my favorite airplanes ever! (In my opinion it is truly one of the great legendary designs in R/C). I believe that it would be a great plane to fly in novice class and you could have a lot of fun flying it in SPA.

I understand the field will be open on Friday Oct 26 for practice?

OK, made my hotel reservation. Residence Inn, Cranbury, NJ looks like about 15 miles away. The closer ones were booked, some kind of show going on near the shore.

So, contest in 4 days, who's coming?

From CT we have 3 of us

WEDJ (Nic) - Sr Falcon
Free Bird (Rick) - Skylark 56
Mad Man Marko (Mark) - Intruder

Excellent!! Hope you guys have a Big Time!!!

Please let us know how it goes!!

Is there a raindate for this event ? The forecast isn't promising.

Guys,
I hate to say it but the weather looks pretty poor today and Saturday. For right now I am unable to re schedule a date right now, but I would like to have a rain date set up because I know alot of folks seem to be quite interested in this event, and I believe it is important to reschedule it. Please contact me by email at [email protected] because I would really like to get some personal input from everyone interested in SPA.

Re: post #15 - cancel that!