I am currently flying a vintage pattern plane and am interested in the pattern sequence(s) flown at the 1964 NATS. Anyone have information on these sequences? The plane is a "Candy" designed by Cliff Weirick in 1963 and flown by designer in '64 when he won the NATS. I recently flew the plane in Sportsman at a contest - not particularly well suited to today's sequences. My plane was produced as a kit by Glas Kraft or World Wide Models - fiberglass fuselage. Hope someone can help

nice airplane. Is it all paint?
Greg

I came across a diagram for the FAI sequence used in the late '60s in a magazine the other day. If that's of interest to you I can scan it for you. I have no idea what year US pilots started using the FAI patterns.

David

http://www.vintagercsociety.org/info.html

Hello to the University of Delaware! After the link you gave above, where does one go for the 1964 sequence asked for in the original question?

Didn’t they score landing pattern, landing (landing scoring didn’t stop until the aircraft stopped on the runway, so a straight roll out counted), and taxi back to the hanger (a square marked on the side of the runway?

airbusdrvr try here http://www.vintagercsociety.org/maneuvers.html. The pattern sequence is here: http://www.vintagercsociety.org/patternseq.html

8178: Landing pattern and landing are judged as two separate maneuvers. The taxi back to the hanger is not part of the landing maneuver and is not scored.

But if the engine quit after the landing, roll out and stop and it could not taxi back to the hanger didn’t that impact the score? Seems like I remember that but it was a long time ago. There was also a starting box, and then taxi to the end of the runway for takeoff, right?

8178 you are correct, that was a part of the early to mid 60's patterns. I wrote the pattern sequences currently used for the VRCS back in 2001 by studying AMA rule books from 1959, 1965 and 1969. The earlier two were used to develop the Class 1 and Class 2 sequences and the '69 used to create the Class 3 sequence. In VRCS there is only one skill level per class, ie no sportsman, advanced, masters, etc. Pattern in VRCS is pretty informal so there was a need to have enough maneuvers to make it interesting but not too challenging or nobody would enter...
Those sequences give the flavor of 1960's AMA events but are not direct copies of any one complete sequence.

Wow! I love the knowledge that gets shared here.

I will check out the website. I have spoken to a number of people who flew pattern back in the day. Most of them don't remember much, but they all said the thought that take off and landing were precision maneuvers.

Greg G To answer your question - the plane is all paint. When I purchased the plane the wing/stab were white with black and red stripes. Ailerons operate on a single servo, and the bell cranks and rods were binding some. I had to cut into the underside of the wing to make necessary repairs. I loved the burgundy color of the fiberglass fuse, and thought the tan color would make a nice contrast. I stripped the wing down to bare wood, primed and painted, followed by clear coat.

Rainedave - if you could post the diagram that would be great!


Thanks for all of the info!