F3A Biplanes have a future!

[Jerry Budd]

Chip Hyde's crashed about a minute into the first flight due to a 
structural failure of the wing(s).

>What other biplane has crashed due to wing failure besides the one I
>reported?
>
>Peter
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jerry Budd [mailto:jbudd at QNET.COM]
>Sent: Wednesday, 14 May 2003 12:16 AM
>To: discussion at nsrca.org
>Subject: Re: F3A Biplanes have a future!
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>>That makes three (publically known) biplane projects going on right now.
>>Just when you think you've got the best.... ;>  Time to spend more money.
>
>Two of which crashed on their first flight due to structural failure
>of the wings.
>
>More money is right.
>
>>
>>I'm rather torn on this biplane issue.  Should FAI add a new rule that
>>outlaws them?  On one hand, I'm sure they will improve our flights, but on
>>the other I don't want them to be advantage over the planes we have now.
>>Kind of like changing the 2m size limit to 2.5m.  The guys with the big
>>factories behind them will have an advantage, while the rest of us will be
>>alienated.  Going to biplanes might be no different than going to 2.5m,
>only
>>it isn't against the rules.  Or, it might be like the switch to 2m planes
>>from the .60 planes.  I would hate to go back to a 0.60 after flying a 2m.
>
>Pattern will die before we go back to 0.60 sized airplanes.
>Pandora's box was opened a long time ago.
>
>>
>>That said, I want a biplane.  I do expect they will fly better, which is
>>certainly a good thing, and someone has to develop them before I get to fly
>>it.
>
>When someone can properly define what "flying better" is, then we
>have something that can be debated.  Until then this is just
>marketing.
>
>Jerry
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