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

dwaynenancy dwaynenancy at cox.net
Tue Feb 28 14:04:35 AKST 2006


Yep.  Winter Springs to be exact.  Dwayne

Dean Pappas wrote:

> I think that Louise is still living in the Orlando area. Ed's gone a 
> good ten years, now.
> She sure is good people.
>  
>  
>
> Dean Pappas
> Sr. Design Engineer
> Kodeos Communications
> 111 Corporate Blvd.
> South Plainfield, N.J. 07080
> (908) 222-7817 phone
> (908) 222-2392 fax
> d.pappas at kodeos.com
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     *From:* nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org
>     [mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org]*On Behalf Of
>     *mike mueller
>     *Sent:* Tuesday, February 28, 2006 3:37 PM
>     *To:* NSRCA Mailing List
>     *Subject:* Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Cost-participation-or some such
>     stuff
>
>      Ed Izzo that brings back some great memories. What was his wife's
>     name. She was his caller and always by his side. You don't see
>     that very often anymore.
>
>     */Dean Pappas <d.pappas at kodeos.com>/* wrote:
>
>         And the late Ed Izzo competed in Pattern with a stand-way-off
>         P-40. He won with it, too.
>          
>         Dean Pappas
>         Sr. Design Engineer
>         Kodeos Communications
>         111 Corporate Blvd.
>         South Plainfield, N.J. 07080
>         (908) 222-7817 phone
>         (908) 222-2392 fax
>         d.pappas at kodeos.com
>
>             -----Original Message-----
>             *From:* nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org
>             [mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org]*On
>             Behalf Of *Bill Glaze
>             *Sent:* Tuesday, February 28, 2006 3:24 PM
>             *To:* NSRCA Mailing List
>             *Subject:* Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Cost-participation-or
>             some such stuff
>
>             Hmmmm........ I can remember hearing about Red St. Aubin
>             winning a pattern contest in LAX with a Corsair (yes, a
>             model of the WW2 airplane) --of course, I DO have a couple
>             of years on y'all.
>             Bill Glaze
>
>                 ----- Original Message -----
>                 *From:* Mike Hester <mailto:kerlock at comcast.net>
>                 *To:* NSRCA Mailing List
>                 <mailto:nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
>                 *Sent:* Tuesday, February 28, 2006 11:01 AM
>                 *Subject:* Re: [NSRCA-discussion]
>                 Cost-participation-or some such stuff
>
>                 Your P-51 fetish is showing again =)
>                  
>                 -Mike
>
>                     ----- Original Message -----
>                     *From:* Gray E Fowler <mailto:gfowler at raytheon.com>
>                     *To:* NSRCA Mailing List
>                     <mailto:nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
>                     *Sent:* Tuesday, February 28, 2006 10:47 AM
>                     *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 giving 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????!!!!!"  I think not!  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 NEVE! R 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 (far 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
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