similar design

[Jason]

I was told by an FAI pilot that after a NATS, he was told, by a JUDGE, the
he might have done better if he were flying an "European Design". So what's
the motivation to fly American designs if the judges are gonna start judging
design instead of the pattern at hand?

Jason

----- Original Message -----
From: Nik Middleton <middletn at spinmail.com>
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 8:30 AM
Subject: RE: similar design


> Interesting list,  one thing stands out though,  there don't seem to be
that
> many new US designs these days.  Not trying to be contentious here, merely
> making an observation.  At this year's Euro champs, I didn't see one US
> designed plane out of 150 aircraft,  yes I know it's Europe, but you would
> have thought there'd be one or two.
>
> I'm aware that the Focus is a great flying plane, functional etc, but no
one
> could say it was stylish.  Where have all the good looking US designs
gone?
> I'm not saying there aren't any out there, but how many new for this year?
> There seems to be a tremendous growth in the manufacture and design in
> Europe, PL and ZN seem to be releasing at least two new designs every
year,
> and they're been sold as quickly as they're been made.
>
> Comments?



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