Re: [RCSE] Nats News...

2003-07-11 Thread Jack Iafret
The days of entry level ships in RES has been over since day one. Any time there is a competitive event with only a limited restriction on the plane (one-design is an example of a restricted event) the event will quickly progress to a more money, more experience event and it should. I do not

Re: [RCSE] Nats News...

2003-07-11 Thread Jim Bacus
At 12:21 PM 7/11/2003, Jack Iafret wrote: Bacus, I was out Wednesday with the RESQ I picked up from Ben in Louisville and because it was a rare calm day in Michigan kept thinking how easy this was compared to the moldies. Took the E4 out for practice and got tense all over again. If I could land

Re: [RCSE] Nats News...

2003-07-11 Thread Rick Eckel
At 10:57 AM 7/11/2003 -0500, James V. Bacus wrote: I wonder why all these strong pilots fly RES, and why it's popularity is growing? Jim, I dunno I think its because its another chance to compete. And lets remember that RES is unlimited in wingspan so you don't have to be as quick to find

Re: [RCSE] Nats News...

2003-07-11 Thread Jim Bacus
At 12:30 PM 7/11/2003, Rick Eckel wrote: Just to be contrary, I don't really see any hi-tech RES ships out there. The Bubble Dancer and its side kick the AVA are good examples of high tech RES in my mind. Not only for the construction techniques, but the entire design of these models are quite

Re: [RCSE] RES

2003-07-11 Thread Bill Swingle
I wonder why all these strong pilots fly RES, and why it's popularity is growing? ...I dunno I think its because its another chance to compete. Dudes, I'm a sloper. Yet, even I find pleasure in thermaling a polyhedral! I consider thermal and polyhedral to be almost synonymous. What

Re: [RCSE] Nats News...

2003-07-11 Thread Jack Strother
Look Again, Joe Wurts and Larry Jolly are coming.. At 09:56 AM 7/11/2003 -0400, Jack Iafret wrote: Just checked it out. From the quick scan I did it looks like Don Richmond is the only person west of the Mississippi other than Clark from Japan. I do not know about the ones from Canada, could be

Re: [RCSE] Nats News...

2003-07-11 Thread tony estep
--- Jack Iafret [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...I was out Wednesday with the RESQ I picked up from Ben in Louisville and because it was a rare calm day in Michigan kept thinking how easy this was compared to the moldies. Took the E4 out for practice and got tense all over again. If I could

[RCSE] Re: FS: Lots of slope planes! More gone.

2003-07-11 Thread Greg Smith
Psychos are now gone too. The culled list below shows what is still available. -- Greg From: Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 08:31:33 -0500 To: RCSE [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [RCSE] FS: Lots of slope planes! Slope planes for sale: Shipping will be quoted based on