Ryan, I would love to see your Paragon, Allegro Lite and many other wood wing planes flying at this contest. So much so, that I will match Ray's sponsorship offer of "$100.00, $75.00 and $50.00 for Cash awards to first thru third place in a woody class". That will make it real interesting for the wood wing flyers. If the powers that be will allow it, I think that it would entice the wood wing flyers out and give then a reason to fly. They could fly knowing that they are contesting for wood wing prize not just spending $75 for a few MOM launches. As you know Ryan, I am not a contest kind of guy and would be more of a hazard than a benefit as a contestant. Barring any conflicts I will be available for gofer, and worker bee service. That time of year we may not have the kids to run the carts and help set up so I can shag help and shag chutes like I did at the Nats (to relieve the kids for lunch and when it was too hot) and at our local OVSS contest. It's a great way to watch a contest.
John P.S. Maybe an up of the ante will convince you to "commit the time". -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of rdwoebke Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 9:58 PM To: John Subject: Re: [RCSE] LSF US Soaring Masters sponsored by Horizon Hobby and JR Radio Actually, when Ray posted the suggestion about the woody "class" I thought that was a pretty good idea. I almost replied saying I was in, but then I realized that with my family it is very difficult to commit to a 2 day contest, much less a 3 day one. But they sure are fun though. I think it would be great to see some guys flying woodies in the mix. I remember 10 years ago when I started contesting that it seemed every contest I went to (Cincy, Louisville) had at least one guy flying a sailaire or an Oly. Even back then the guys on top usualy had composite ships (but sometimes the guys flying the wood bent wings would take a place). These days it is a lot more rare, at least outside the club contests. Club contests almost always have a variety of colorful wooden gliders. So John, why don't you come on down from Ft. Wayne and join in the fun at the Masters? I'd like to join in as well, but don't know that I'll be able to commit the time away. But, I will be at at least a few OVSS contests this year with my woody (Allegro Lite or Paragon). Ryan 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. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
