Mowry Contest Rules

A.  Contests will begin at 8:30 AM and end at 12:30 PM.

B.  Entry fee is $0.25 per round, unlimited re-entry allowed.  High time in each event takes the Kitty.

C.  Two formats for wind conditions:

1.   Light or no wind: Three ninety-second maxes.  If tied due to maxout, then the tiebreaker is a one-minute precision flight.  The flier closest to one minute wins the event.  (For record-keeping purposes, flyoff time up to 60 seconds is added to the flyer’s total.  If the flyoff time exceeds 60 seconds, the time exceeding 60 seconds is subtracted from 60 seconds and the difference is added to the flyer’s total.  Flyoff time exceeding 120 seconds counts as 0 (zero).)

2.   Significant drift: Scratch contest or three one-minute maxes.  Tiebreaker as in C1.

D.  Points will be awarded for each event:

1.   First place is 5 points, Second place is 4 points, third place is 3 points, fourth place is 2 points, and all other places are 1 point.  DNF listed, but no points are given.

2.   At the end of the year, the flier with the highest point total wins the Small Field Champion title and receives the Walt Getsla trophy.  Juniors win the Junior Small Field trophy.

E.   Mini-Moffett:  Rules are the same as the regular AMA Moffett except that the total wing and stabilizer area can be no greater than 150 sq. in. (as viewed from above) with negative or positive dihedral in either.  This model class is approximately 75% of the area of a regular Moffett.

F.   Open Rubber:  Any design rubber-powered model with a wingspan thirty inches or less (projected) is eligible.

G.  OCD Catapult Glider:  This is a non-AMA class originating at the California State Fair in 1937 and traditionally flown by the OCD since then.  Rules allow a glider of any dimension and weight with a securely mounted launching hook to take the stress of up to 20 pounds of linear thrust generated by eight thirty-inch strands of ¼” rubber.  A round is composed of six consecutive flights.  Unlimited reentry is allowed.  Each re-entry starts a new round of six flights.  In the event of three consecutive max flights, the flier may fly one or more time-target flights provided the last max is not the sixth flight.  Winner is the flier with the highest total of three consecutive flights (plus flyoff flight) from any single round.  The OCD member with the highest total from the Mowry contests wins the OCD Catapult Glider Championship Trophy for the current year.

H.  ½ Coupe:  The airframe weight can be no less than 35 grams and the motor weight cannot exceed 5 grams.

I.    OCD Scale:  A model that is fashioned after a “real” airplane or looks like it could have been fashioned after a real airplane.   Rubber enclosed in fuselage.  No scale points are awarded.  Flying per C above.

J.       Fuse DTs are not permitted.

K.    All flight times count.  There is no provision for a minimum time for an attempt.

L.   Fly one - time one, so bring your stopwatch.