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they do tell how they did. if you read the last couple of paragraphs you would see it. but here it is if your too lazy like i would be. Among the other crowd- and judge-pleasers was David Shulman and Graeme Mears's F16C Thunderbird which flew flawlessly through all four of its competition flights. In the A-10's second competition flight, the landing gear failed to retract, the result of a pinhole that had developed in gear's pneumatic system. The leak was easily fixed, but the setback proved difficult to overcome. At the end of the day Sunday, the F16C had 194.712 points, compared to the A-10's 193.858 points. The F-16C had won the Team Class by less than one point. "Had we not lost the points for the mechanical problem with the gear," said Bill Davidson, "it could have gone either way. But we went home with eight trophies, and we're extremely satisfied with our jet and our flying."