{"id":4146,"date":"2018-08-17T10:00:32","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/?p=4146"},"modified":"2018-08-13T12:25:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T16:25:15","slug":"4x-a-grand-champion-conclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/2018\/08\/17\/4x-a-grand-champion-conclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"4x a Grand Champion: Conclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bob Sifleet\u2019s<\/a> modeling career continued after 1976. He represented the United States on multiple teams for F1E and F1C competition on the international level, and managed three United States Junior Free Flight FAI teams. In 2003, he was World Champion for F1E (Free Flight Slope Soaring), and he placed 2nd in 2013. The other awards he won , both on the local, national, and international level, are too many to list (or remember!).<\/p>\n

Bob was inducted into Model Aviation\u2019s Hall of Fame in 2000.<\/p>\n

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Cover of the invitation for the luncheon celebrating Bob’s induction into the Model Aviation Hall of Fame in 2000.\u00a0 Click the image to see what was on he menu! Image from the AMA’s History Project files.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 2016, he donated his world champion F1E model to the museum.<\/p>\n

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Bob Sifleet’s champion F1E (Free Flight Slope Soaring) model in the National Model Aviation Museum. Part of the museum’s permanent collection, 2016.13.01.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bob\u2019s still going strong, traveling and competing, and helping to promote Free Flight and model aviation as a great, life-long hobby.<\/p>\n

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Bob Sifleet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bob’s 3 Grand National Champion trophies and 4 Open National Champion trophies<\/a> are in the museum as part of the museum’s permanent collection, and on exhibit until Labor Day 2018.\u00a0 Please stop by to see them in person!<\/p>\n

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\nFor more information on the National Model Aviation Museum, including our location, hours and admission fees visit: www.modelaircraft.org\/museum<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bob Sifleet\u2019s modeling career continued after 1976. He represented the United States on multiple teams for F1E and F1C competition on the international level, and managed three United States Junior Free Flight FAI teams. In 2003, he was World Champion for F1E (Free Flight Slope Soaring), and he placed 2nd […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[265,62,47],"tags":[261,263,60,262],"class_list":["post-4146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sifleetfriday","category-exhibits-2","category-museum","tag-4x-a-grand-champion","tag-bob-sifleet","tag-exhibits","tag-nats-summer-2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146","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=4146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4151,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions\/4151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}