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- From: msjohnso@donald.WichitaKS.NCR.COM (Mark Johnson)
- Newsgroups: rec.models.rockets
- Subject: Re: 2 questions
- Message-ID: <53625@donald.WichitaKS.NCR.COM>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 17:49:28 GMT
- References: <1992Nov5.152605.16012@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> <58oVVB1w165w@csource.oz.au> <19921106073243.Roger.Wilfong@umich.edu>
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- Roger.Wilfong@umich.edu (Roger Wilfong) writes:
- >And not to be forgotten are Mac Donald's Happy Meals (Apogee's former editor,
- >Bob Hegwood, coined the name "Kaplow's Disease' to describe the
- >uncontrollable urge to fly plastic food containers). Bob claimes that he
- >got the idea at a NARAM that included PMC as an event. There were so few
- >entries that he figured he could place in the event by just entering.
- >MacDonald's Happy Meal came in a plastic flying saucer at the time, and the
- >rest is history.
-
- History repeated itself this year. At NARAM-34, there were very few PMC
- entries in the team division. The Space Happy Meal made an encore appearance.
-
- It received a grand total of 15 static points out of a possible 800,
- divided as follows:
-
- 3 of 500 for craftsmanship
- 12 of 300 for degree of difficulty.
-
- I don't have the flight points...I only have the static breakdown because
- my wife was one of the PMC judges, and wrote it in one of my notebooks
-
- If memory serves, at its first appearance it got only 5/800 on static judging.
- Unfortunately, I don't have those figures.
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