Congrats to Wayne Mason at IRCHA scale competition in static

[wingtip]

Not having seen official results posted online yet, but have heard from the boss that Wayne Mason with our AH-64A Apache kit won the static portion of the scale competition with a perfect score!! Congradulations!!!!

Wayne was unable to compete in the flying portion due to 2 stripped servos..DOH.. We are certain next year he will be able to do even better!

This was Wayne's first entry in the scale heli competitions and he was very excited and intimidated at the same time. Apparantly a few others weren't too happy with the new kid on the block and made him feel a bit unwelcome...

Its hard enough to get pilots to enter the scale world without being put down and rejected by other scaler's... all I can say is way to hang tough Wayne. If this is how newcomers are going to be treated then it's no wonder there isnt more participation in the scale community.

this is what wayne entered... updated event pics to be posted soon i hope.

http://www.indyhelis.com/junk/lvilles10.jpg

[rotorblade17]

Awesome machine in person! Too bad we couldn't see it fly. By the way wingtip 582 is far from a perfect score. a 900 is a perfect score. What you saw is the scores after they were normalized (one's in parentheses) as they count for the 1st round of the contest as well. Still a magnificiant effort!

Wayne Mason 582, (1000)
Joe Howard 578, (993.1272)
Tim Dawson 569, (977.6632)
Boyce Wellmaker 489, (840.2062)
Emile Sheriff 487 (836.7698)
Darrell S. 423 (726.8041)
James Linder 359 (616.8385)
Rob Giles 131 (225.0859)

[wingtip]

you werent paying attention... in the STATIC portion he recieved a perfect score of 1000.....

:glasses2:

[Kinger]

Seeing those 4 or 5 Apaches sitting at IRCHA on display was really cool. The attention to detail on them was amazing.

[wingtip]

yeah mine will never look like that but i dont mind... im just sport scaling mine just so it flys..will still look awesome in the air... but i gotta replace a crown gear in it right now... which means taking the mechanics all back out yucckkkkkk.. :(

[Turbomoe]

So has this heli ever been flown? Can't wait to see pics of it in action.

The IndyHelis AH64 is on my wish list for sure, but I don't have a vehicle big enough to hall it around. lol.

[wingtip]

not sure if wayne has done anything more than hovering on his yet... his email address is on our website if you wish to contact him.

[WillJames]

I think I got pics of Wayne's machine at IRCHA before he flew it and he did more than hover. I will post them in the AM.

[wingtip]

awesome...

[vario]

you werent paying attention... in the STATIC portion he recieved a perfect score of 1000.....

:glasses2:
A perfect score is 900 points. He got 582. The 1000 points is after all scores are normalized. Are you familiar how the scores are tabulated?
Joe

[wingtip]

nope , not familiar with them it all... i was told was he got a perfect score on the static portion and all im saying is we at INDYHELIS are proud it was one of our products in its first ever entry into a competition.... whatever his score may be..

If we were told wrong then i apologise....

[WillJames]

His helis is AWESOME, there was a crowd around it the whole event. He asked us to take pics before he flew, so we did. A lot of people took pics and video, he has obviously spent a HUGE amount of time on it and it shows from a mile away.

[wingtip]

wow, if someone got vid i'd like to get a copy and permission to put on our website... can i use the photos you post will?

[vario]

Dave
Nothing to apoligize for. There is a total of 300 points to be had from each judge, and there are three judges, so there is the possibility to get 900 points, which would be a perfect score. After the scores are totaled, the person with the highest score is normalized to 1000 points, and then the other scores can be normalized against this figure. Wayne did a beautiful job, but i did not get to see it fly. I would like to see the video as well.
Joe

[WillJames]

Here are the photos I took, they are not great but If you want any of them Dave, I can send you the full quality ones (8MP) without the watermark.

This machine is SWEET!!

[wingtip]

those are great will zip them up and send them on over, davet@insightbb.com ... put in a few heli freak images and i will add a the link to our page as well while im at it...