Nats Celebrates 100 Years of Competition

By Rob Kurek rkurek@modelaircraft.org Photos by Matt Ruddick 01. The winner of the 100th Mulvihill Trophy was a newcomer to the event, Hope Finn. One hundred years ago, a handful of model aviation enthusiasts gathered for an event in St. Louis in what would become known as the National Aeromodeling Championships, commonly referred to as the Nats. That one-day event has grown into three disciplines: Free Flight (FF), Control Line (CL), and RC, and 14 event categories, with multiple model competition classes often included, and spread throughout four weeks. …