[NSRCA-discussion] Cost-participation-or some such stuff

Tue Feb 28 12:00:58 AKST 2006

Randy,

add some working guns to the LE too!....no more mid-airs right?

----- Original Message -----
From: Glenn Hatfield <randy10926 at comtekmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 10:07 am
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Cost-participation-or some such stuff
To: NSRCA Mailing List <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>

Lets 
see...&nbsp; I can put a big scoop under the pipe tunnel on the 
Insight&nbsp;I am building.&nbsp; Cover it AL with invasion 
stripes.&nbsp; Thats the joy of a $50K wood roach.&nbsp; You can 
personalize it.
&nbsp;Randy &nbsp; --- Gray E Fowler 
&lt;gfowler at raytheon.com&gt; wrote: &nbsp; From: Gray E 
Fowler &lt;gfowler at raytheon.com&gt; Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 
09:47:49 -0600 To: NSRCA Mailing List &lt;nsrca-
discussion at lists.nsrca.org&gt; Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] 
Cost-participation-or some such stuff I have never flown non turnaround pattern. When I first got in 
to pattern I saw all the comments flyin' around about how turnaround 
kills attendance. To this day I cannot figure out why the older guys 
(which if you flew non turn around you were either very young then or 
old now) wank so much about this change. Perhaps the decline of pattern 
from its heyday has more to do with with other RC interest than 
stinkin' turnaround changes. When I was young, we had 3 TV channnels, 
and when MASH came on EVERYONE watched, unless Nixon was givin
g us a speech, which was on all 3 channels, in that case we were all 
screwed.....Would MASH be so popular today competing with 150 other 
channels, INCLUDING "The Food Channel????!!!!!" &nbsp;I think not! 
&nbsp;Learn how to make a quiche......or MASH. As you can see this is 
quite a quandary. I will 
say that when I first investigated pattern and found out everyone had 
$550 engines instead of my $99 two stroke-I was flabergasted. I still 
might be. To me turnaround 
is the coolest and not the problem.....when does this argument end? I 
would guess in another 10 years, because at that time all that flew NON 
turnaround will be dead or quit due to age. When I started Ed Hurt was flying Masters at age 
75......He told me alot but NEVER told me that turnaround 
sucked........ Billion 
Dollar Batteries, Electric gear 
motors, $650 engines and pristine "works of art" scare the average 
sport flyer (by showing/thinking they cannot do that) much more than 
turnaround...... Scenario 
#56.....Sport flyer thinking about pattern......Lets see, No problem 
with powerplants costing 5-15X of my OS.45, just won't feed the kids 
for a week, 300 hours to build and paint a flying master piece, and of 
course $2500 for that kit -semi arf deal, then I gotta learn turnaround 
too!!!! No WAY.....Dealing with the French for the plane was bad 
enough, now I gotta learn turnaound too????...I am out for 
sure...... Now I am off in 
search of the perfect P-51 lookin'pattern plane.............I think 
that that bottom air scoop makes for better Knife Edges, increases 
rudder authority, slows the plane down better, increasing smoothness 
and gracefulness (thus increasing scores), makes snap entrances better, 
AND better throttle response (fa
r superior to ANY electric). I conducted these tests myself, collected 
data so I know I am right. I cannot believe that the rest of you have 
not seen the wisdom of a P-51 pattern plane. No wonder you find 
turnaround so difficult. Gray Fowler Principal Chemical 
Engineer Composites Engineering