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<\/a>These three clubs found a common place and date to fly and held their contests on the same day: \u201cThe first of the series of model aeroplane contests for the Aero Club of America prizes and the Henry S. Villard Trophy took place at the (central location) August 22nd.\u00a0 The contesting clubs were as follows:\u00a0 The Gray Club represented by Rudolph Funk, Egbert P. Lott, C.V. Obst and G.A. Cavanagh.\u00a0 The Red Club represented by T.H. Hodgman, Jr., Ralph Olsen, L.J. Bamberger and Walter F. Bamberger.\u00a0 The Yellow Club, represented by Harry Schultz, Alfred K. Barker and John Barker and George Bauer.\u00a0 Some very promising models were seen at the event and in spite of the 35-mile-an-hour wind some exceptional flights were made.\u201d (\u201cModel News Column,\u201d Aerial Age Weekly<\/em>, August 30, 1915).\u00a0 And there’s a picture:<\/p>\n<\/a>#FantasyFreeFlight Report:\u00a0 Wallace A. Lauder has set a new world record for Hand-Launched Distance models!\u00a0 3,537 feet!\u00a0 If you had Lauder as part of your club, not only have you earned the 4 points for his 1st place win, but 1 advantage point for the world record.\u00a0 Congratulations! How did […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,54,126,47],"tags":[255,178],"class_list":["post-2427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fantasyfreeflight","category-free-flight","category-game-time","category-museum","tag-fantasyfreeflight","tag-villard-trophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2427"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2440,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions\/2440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>For the Green Club, \u201cWinning flights in the National Model Competition distance finals went far beyond the expectations of enthusiasts.\u00a0 First and second distances of 2875 and 2410 feet were made by Mr. Arthur Nealy and Ellis Cook respectively.\u00a0 An exceedingly strong wind, together with perfect directional control accounted for the great distances.\u00a0 Mr. Nealy passed his old American and world record of 2400 feet in a 130 second flight and probably sets a new American record for distance models.\u00a0 The day was excellent for flying and plenty of power and speed were the order of the day.\u00a0 As early as 11 o’clock , members of the distance team had arrived on the field and commenced tuning up their models.\u00a0 From then until dark practice flying continued, each flyer being chary of taking official flights until absolute control was obtained.\u00a0 The two great flights of the day came late in the afternoon.\u00a0 Mr. Nealy\u2019s flight of 2875 feet was made about 4 o\u2019clock, and the measuring of this required approximately 65 minutes.\u00a0\u00a0 Mr. Cook\u2019s flight of 2410 feet came even later in the afternoon and was not measured until 6 o\u2019clock.\u00a0 Mr. T. Hall, of whom much had been expected earlier in the day, experienced trouble in directional control, but succeeded nevertheless in making an excellent three flight average.\u00a0 Mr. Ward Pease\u2019 model, meant for the calmest of calm days, was over-surfaced and cold not remain up long in the great wind.\u00a0 The big lesson learned from this meet, was that although the Green Club has individual experts, it has not practices enough team work \u2013 and that adjustment counts.\u201d (\u201cModel News Column,\u201d Aerial Age Weekly<\/em>, September 13, 1915)<\/p>\n<\/a>Henry though, isn’t a member of the Indigo Club – his results were reported twice in Aerial Age Weekly, once for the Long Island Model Aero Club, which he was a confirmed member of, and once for the Indigo Club.\u00a0 And, since these clubs are not located anywhere near each other, he couldn’t have been competing for another club.\u00a0 Henry, you loose a point!<\/p>\n<\/a>For the Orange Club, \u201cWallace A. Lauder, using his light double-surfaced model, which was described and illustrated in the issue of May 31 sprang the surprise of the afternoon by flying his model 3537 feet at the first trial, establishing a new world\u2019s record for hand-launched distance models.\u00a0 This flight was remarkable, the model rising to a height of about 500 feet before the power gave out and then gliding for just two and one and one-half minutes, the glide was really longer than the actual flight.\u00a0 The other contestants, who all made very creditable showings, were Henry Herzog, Carter Tiffany and Curtis B. Myers.\u201d (\u201cModel News Column,\u201d Aerial Age Weekly<\/em>, September 13, 1915)<\/p>\n<\/a>\u201cThe Purple Club held their final contest August 29th for hand-launched models for a distance. Leon Dover had the misfortune of breaking his model in trials before the contest began, and as Frank Barney, the substitute was not on hand, he had to compete with a patched model.” (\u201cModel News Column,\u201d Aerial Age Weekly<\/em>, September 13, 1915)<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
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