Hi Pat, Thanks for the good input and please send photos because I don't have a clue what the AVA is. But don't think I'm opposed to anything that comes out of a mold. I'm a live and let live person wishing more people could say the same.
One point of clarification: Any proposal I make to AMA concerning a class for wood sailplanes will be done to try and help preserve attention to wood construction and will have nothing to do with my Wood Crafters competition tasks that we fly. I love the WC longest flight task, Don Harris won it last year with a one hour and twenty minute flight and I think he stood up the whole time, as you know, there are no bushes at the AMA flying site. The proposal will be for a class and not a task. Wood Crafters is already restricted to woodys with or without glass/epoxy/carbon/kevlar/spectra/ fiberglass fuses (whew) and you can be sure I will retain the format. We have 70 people signed up so far this May and I have room for a few more plus Team Entry (one or more flying on the same frequency). I should add that a few of last years entrants started flying competition after discovering it was fun flying with a bunch of guys. Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat McCleave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RCSE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 10:27 PM Subject: Re: [RCSE] For those that enjoy building and flying wood built up sailplanes > Ray and others, > > I did not attend last years event since I am the kind of guy who loves to > spend every possible penny I can on molded stuff, but from all of the posts > following the event, it must have been a great success. As I recall most > the event was basically fun flying and mostly lots of soaring. Why make it > an event and muddle it up with a bunch of rules that someone is going to > find ways around or ways to push the envelope to get that competitive edge. > I myself do not have the patience nor do I take the time to build woody > models but I marvel at the great ones like Jim Porter, the late Ed Harris, > Mickey Sullivan and many others too numerous to mention. Ray, I say keep it > a builders class and fly for bragging rights of who has the most gorgeous > airplane and who can have the most fun. We already have Nostalgia, and RES > that will allow woody builders to compete if they want to. Keep this thing > you started simple and fun and leave it at that. You probably had the > largest turnout for a fun fly as any soaring event in the country last year. > Don't blow it by making it just another contest format. BTW, will my new > AVA from Kennedy Composites qualify. It has lots of wood in it, and a > little carbon'kevlar and glass? I can send you pictures so you can see if > it will. :o) > > See Ya, > > Pat McCleave > Wichita, KS > > > > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off.
