posted Oct 12th, 2017 - The NSL News has covered the history of the Arizona Airspeed lineups several times in the past years, and the story on 3 June 2016 had evaluated the Airspeed roster more in detail. The roster overview was showing that the eleven years between 2007 and 2017 have been the most successful ones domestically, even though the lineups have changed more frequently than in the earlier years.

The time period between 1994 and 2003 was covered by only two different lineups, beginning with the original Airspeed members Jack Jafferies, Dan, BC, Mark Kirkby and Kirk Verner, with John Lemming on camera, and it still produced more FAI gold medals than at any other Airspeed time.

In fact, the original lineup is still the one with the longest time together (six years) and the only one that won two sets of gold medals for the U.S.A. There is only one Airspeed member who was in every lineup that won gold medals - Mark Kirkby (1995, 1997, 2001, 2008, 2012).

Mark Kirkby is also the leader by far as of years in the Airspeed lineup. He missed only three years between 2004 and 2006 until he left the Airspeed franchise for good after the FAI World Meet 2014 in Prostejov. He had trained and competed with Airspeed for 18 years, excluding the 3-year break.

Arizona Airspeed members between 1994 and 2017

Once again, all four original Airspeed members were actively involved at the USPA Nationals 2017, and even John Lemming, videographer of the original lineup, visited in Perris, even though he did not get in the air.

Player coach Mark Kirkby was back with a different Arizona Alpha lineup in Perris. He and David Wybenga had competed with Alpha in Eloy 2016 and now had Tracy Bohm and Laurence Garceau in their lineup. He also brought 8-way Advanced Class team Arizona Azul to Perris for the USPA Nationals.

His original team mate Jack Jefferies attended this year's national championships only in 8-way, where he joined forces with other Airspeed members of different generations. Dan BC was the second member of the oldest Airspeed generation in this year's 8-way lineup, which included all current 4-way members and 2017 videographer David French.

Josh Hall represented the world champion lineup of 2012, which also had Niklas Hemlin in the inside center slot. Chris Farina completed the 8-way lineup in Perris, Airspeed member of 2013 - 2015. Airspeed's 8-way team won the USPA silver medals, as Fly-In Machine 44 and Qatar Tigers competed as guest teams.

USPA Nationals 2017			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	8-way Open		G,22,1	9,6,2	D,7,17	8,J,C,K	Q,B,14,20	19,15,4	A,10,13	12,M,N,P	H,O,3,16	5,21,11	Total	Avg
1	Golden Knights	US	22	17	16	19	21	22	19	21	28	17	202	20.2
G	Fly-In Machine 44	BE	23	16	17	16	15	21	16	20	26	15	185	18.5
G	Qatar Falcons	QA	16	12	15	12	15	16	13	17	20	13	149	14.9
2	Arizona Airspeed	US	17	14	11	15	15	17	14	13	18	13	147	14.7
G	Amphibious Attack Tigers	US	18	12	13	10	13	18	14	16	15	11	140	14.0
6	SDC Rhythm XP8	US	12	11	12	13	11	15	12	15	14	12	127	12.7
7	Paraclete XP8	US	13	11	10	11	12	14	12	11	14	10	118	11.8
8	Spaceland Gummies 8	US	11	11	8	7	10	12	9	10	10	9	97	9.7
G	Perris Spider Pigs	US	5	7	4	5	6	5	7	5	4	7	55	5.5

Dan BC competed in 4-way, as well. He teamed up with three Golden Knights (Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld, Brian Krause, Jeshua Stahler, Andrew Starr) for the GKBC lineup, with Christian Cody on camera.

In 16-way, Dan BC joined the Perris locals (Perris Teamsters Union) who were not eligible for USPA medals. He completed his nationals sweep in all four categories with the Perris 10-way team (Perris Sweet & Salty).

The 4th original Airspeed member, Kirk Verner, skipped 8-way and 10-way. He finished in 2nd place in the Advanced Class as the player coach for Fast4ward, who could not win USPA medals with Canadian Andrea Greening in the lineup.

However, he was back in the 16-way gold medal lineup of the Golden Knights with GKXP. The Golden Knights have joined forces with several XP members for the 16-way competition in the past years, and Kirk Verner has won 16-way medals at previous events. The lineup also included John D'Annunzio and SDC Rhythm XP members Steve Lefkowitz, Doug Barron and Andrew Happick.