[NSRCA-discussion] Scale Pattern?

[Bill Glaze]

Bob:
No 42% airplanes for me either.  I can't stand the idea of ~$6000 floating around the sky waiting for a catastrophic failure.  Of course, in 1999  
 I had a catastrophic failure when the DOW went................well, that's another story! :^(

Bill Glaze

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bob Richards 
  To: NSRCA Mailing List 
  Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 9:52 AM
  Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Scale Pattern?


  Bill,

  Thanks for the kind words.

  I agree with you, I think a lot of the pattern planes are ugly. Kinda reminds me of the old Buck Rogers rocket, hanging on a string, sparkler up the tailpipe. I like planes that look like a real plane, that is why I flew a Cap21 for two years in pattern. And, FWIW, I LOVE the looks of the Focus. It looks like a stretched Cap.

  All this talk about a P51 in pattern. Hmmm, I've thought about a stretched P47 myself. Invasion stripes -- how appropriate!!!

  Speaking of IMAC, I'm going to fly at my first IMAC contest this year. Not sure yet what I will fly. I've toyed with the idea of flying in Basic, just so I can fly a pattern plane. :-)  I've got a 27% H9 Extra 260 I'm working on. No 40% models in my future.

  Bob R.


  Bill Glaze <billglaze at triad.rr.com> wrote:
    I flew a CGB Sukhoi for a long time in IMAC until they decided to go to 
    these outsize "models." Thanks to Bob Richards and John Ferrell I got 
    interested in Pattern flying at one of Bob's Pattern Primers. I went to a 
    couple of pattern events, and got turned off by the airplanes that I felt 
    were "ugly." In fact, I wasn't going to go any further until I saw a Dick 
    Hanson Excess, (Extra 300 semi-scale.) So, I became highly interested in 
    pattern, but I felt the airplanes didn't look good, (except for Hanson's 
    design) and I'm a sucker for a good looking airplane. (No smart remarks, 
    please!)
    I even took the Sukhoi to Muncie in 1997 to the Pattern Nats', and did 
    better than I thought I would. I truly loved flying the Sukhoi, (still do) 
    and had the opportunity to ask Dave Patrick how he came up with such a great 
    flying d! esign. His answer: "I just drew it up, and then I stretched it 
    until it looked like a pattern model." Hmmm......... O.K.
    Than, after a serious talking-to by Gary Harris and Ed Bailey, I was 
    convinced that a full-blown pattern ship was required. Fortunately, Dick 
    Hanson had brought out his EMC^2, and with a lot of help from John Ferrell, 
    it was ready for the 1998 Nats.' Even now, I prefer flying a pattern plane 
    for just "fooling around" at the local field. Why? Because they fly so 
    much better, and are much easier to fly well.
    If we could get somebody who is truly a prospect to fly a pattern airplane, 
    (and I don't mean for 5 minutes or so) out at the local field, it would go a 
    long way toward inculcating him with our sport and our sporting appetites. 
    O.K., I agree:some who evidence interest do so out of politeness or mild 
    curiosity. And, as it has been said, some won't be interested; the "gallon 
    of fuel a year" types will tend to thi! nk we're kind of crazy, (which we 
    probably are)
    One thing I learned as a salesman: You've got to know who is truly a 
    prospect, and who is "just looking."
    Thanks for reading my ramblings.

    Bill Glaze



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