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Metrolina Control Line Society

AMA Club # 1811

Flying Control Line Since 1981

Updated Oct 21

Next Club Meeting : MCLS will hold their monthly club meeting at KOI contest in Florida we will also send out Zoom meeting invites to club members , Contact will davis for more info

Next Contest

Canton GA Results

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Don Jenkins 2025

Advanced National Champion and”Concours d’Elegance”

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MCLS Members

1. Max Flowe, AMA: 304050

2. Everette Shoemaker, AMA: 233621

3. Jo Shoemaker, AMA: 233622

4. Kermit Payne, AMA 169717

5. Jerry Glier, AMA: 209032

6. Sonny Williams , AMA: 6491

7. Watt Moore, AMA :10040

8. James Duckworth , AMA: 97403

9. Don Jenkins, AMA: 982482

10. Will Davis, AMA: 270764

11. Scott Seiler , AMA 506645

12. Stan Powell, AMA: 17223

13. Ray Copeland, AMA: 902150.

14. Gustavo Uterby, MAAC

15. Wayne Robinson, AMA: 5847

16. Phil Bailey. AMA

17. Buddy Barbie. AMA

18. Fred Brigeman. AMA

19. James McKinney, AMA: 95545

20. Larry Hilliar. AMA

21. David Nyce AMA

23. Steve Sobel .. AMA

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MCLS OFFICERS

President ••• Will Davis

Vice President ••• Max Flowe

Sec Treasurer ••• Don Jenkins

Safety Officer ••• James Duckworth

Membership ••• Everette Shoemaker

•• MCLS News ••

Metrolina Control Line Society

Metrolina Control Line Society Meeting Minutes from 27 September2025

Metrolina Control Line Society (MCLS) held their regular monthly meeting via ZOOM due to inclement weather. He following joined in the meeting: Will Davis, Don Jenkins, James McKinney and James Duckworth.

The meeting was brought to order at 2:00 PM.

Financial Report:

The club remains financially stable and has the funds available to supportcontrol line modeling for another year. The meeting minutes from our meeting in July were read and approved by those in attendance.

President’s Report:

1. If you fly at Waymer Field, purchase a park pass and join PAMPA!

2. WACAMA conducted a meeting in last week, and all is going well with no new issues.

3. Here is a listing of upcoming contests and events:

• Nall in the Fall (no contest) at Triple Tree, 3-10 October

• Canton, GA contest, 10-12 October

• KOI SE Regionals, McAlpin, FL, 24-26 October

Old Business:

1. The flying circles need some work to keep them useable.

New Business:

1. MCLS 1/2A Day will be 22 November at Waymer Field.

2. Next year in September will be the 45th Anniversary of MCLS. We need to start planning to determine what we will do to celebrate this significant event for our club.

The meeting was adjourned at 2:34 PM.

Respectfully,

Don Jenkins

Secretary and Treasurer

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Oct 24,25,26 —-King Orange ,KOI SE Regionals .. ••• Wayne Smith , Mike Waldron

2026 Control Line Contest Schedule :

2026 AMA Nats Schedule

July 5 -July 11 ••• Stunt

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MCLS

YOU CAN GO HOME AGAIN …… SORT OF

By Fred Brigeman

If you followed my last dissertation regarding my going home again, you will recall that I am starting from scratch. I have a set of plans that a great supplier, Tom Dixon, has provided that has all of the key measurements of the Kenhi Wildcat. Interestingly enough, the Kenhi Bobcat wasessentially the same design without flaps. Hmmm …… very interesting! More on this later.

Have you seen the price of balsa these days? Holy scamoly! I called some of the purveyors of balsa and was basically blown away by what I heard. Even good contest grade wood is available but if you accept the price per sheet, the shipping is, well, out of the realm of us old guys who remember a different time. Now you know why even Baby Flite Streak from Brodak costs as much as it does ($87+ now vs. $1.97 in the olden days). What a learning process!

So what to do? I do have a “stash” of wood that I have acquired over the years so maybe that would be a good place to start to look for what I need. Turns out that the several boxes of balsa I have acquired from hobby shops past but never gave much thought to really look at it was a surprising source of the very material I can use. Even better, it was purchased when I was younger and the price per piece in those days was darn cheap. It makes you shake your head in disbelief when compared to today.

Then there is the hardware issue. I’ll bet each of you has an amazing quantity of model airplane stuff you have amassed over the years. I know I do. As I look through my treasures, I find I spent a lot of money on buying things I thought I would need or could use “someday” in the future. Well, the future has come and the time to use stuff from my modeling related collection is now. I have probably got most, if not all, of the hardware I should include in this project right here front of me.

As I look at Tom’s drawing showing the Wildcat, I am preparing to start on subassemblies using my supply of sacred, never before used, balsa sheets. I can’t tell you how happy I am to not have to sell a kidney to buy stuff for my objective. So …….. I will start cutting the ribs (details on my “old school” approach to doing this will be found in my next part of this series).

I have included a picture of the Wildcat plan as supplied by Mr. Dixon. I think that the photo of the overall drawing is kind of hard to make out any of the details. I took another shot of the front part of the plan so you can make out at least some of what I intend to cut and glue.

Since it won’t be too much of a stretch, I might cut enough subassembly material to put together a Bobcat as well. Don’t know if there are any pictures of an actual Wildcat but I’m pretty darn sure (almost 100%) that there aren’t any pictures whatsoever of its sibling, the Bobcat. Amazing that there would be a flapped version and a non-flapped version of near identical design, both qualifying for old, oldtime stunt.

We shall see how the project develops. Don’t know what a Kenhi kit looked like or how my Dad put his together but I sure am excited to try to duplicate his efforts of so long ago. It’s my quest to at least try to “go home again”.

So, until next time ………………….. tight lines!

…….. but there’s more to come.

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MCLS Club meeting pictures

MCLS December club meeting

November Club meeting

Don Jenkins , Will Davis , Scott Seiler and Max Flowe with their Brodak SV 11 models

Carolina Gang at Golden Oldies Control Line Contest. Roanoke Rapids ,NC

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1/2 A Day 2023

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Club Meeting •••

MCLS Club Meeting •• Next Club Meeting of MCLS will be 2:00 pm Oct 25 at KOI Contest and by Zoom , invite will be sent out at 1:50 pm

Social Media •••
Facebook pages that might be of interest to control line flyers below

• Metrolina Control Line Society
• PAMPA Facebook page
• Control Line flying
• Brodak Hobby

Contest Season •••
I updated the list of control line events that members attend from the southeast .

If your organization has a control line event scheduled , let me know and I will add it to our web site.

PAMPA •••

The Precision Aerobatics Model Pilots Association, Inc. (PAMPA) is recognized by the Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) as a Special Interest Group (SIG) representing Control Line Precision Aerobatics (CLPA) enthusiasts on a national and international basis.

The mission of PAMPA is to promote and improve control line precision aerobatics events.