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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Bob:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>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 </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial> I had a catastrophic failure when the DOW
went................well, that's another story! :^(</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Bill Glaze</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=bob@toprudder.com href="mailto:bob@toprudder.com">Bob Richards</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, March 01, 2006 9:52
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Scale
Pattern?</DIV>
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<DIV>Bill,</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Thanks for the kind words.</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>All this talk about a P51 in pattern. Hmmm, I've thought about a
stretched P47 myself. Invasion stripes -- how appropriate!!!</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>Bob R.</DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Bill Glaze <billglaze@triad.rr.com></I><!
/B> wrote:</DIV>
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flew a CGB Sukhoi for a long time in IMAC until they decided to go to
<BR>these outsize "models." Thanks to Bob Richards and John Ferrell I got
<BR>interested in Pattern flying at one of Bob's Pattern Primers. I went to
a <BR>couple of pattern events, and got turned off by the airplanes that I
felt <BR>were "ugly." In fact, I wasn't going to go any further until I saw
a Dick <BR>Hanson Excess, (Extra 300 semi-scale.) So, I became highly
interested in <BR>pattern, but I felt the airplanes didn't look good,
(except for Hanson's <BR>design) and I'm a sucker for a good looking
airplane. (No smart remarks, <BR>please!<G>)<BR>I even took the Sukhoi to
Muncie in 1997 to the Pattern Nats', and did <BR>better than I thought I
would. I truly loved flying the Sukhoi, (still do) <BR>and had the
opportunity to ask Dave Patrick how he came up with such a great <BR>flying
d! esign. His answer: "I just drew it up, and then I stretched it <BR>until
it looked like a pattern model." Hmmm......... O.K.<BR>Than, after a serious
talking-to by Gary Harris and Ed Bailey, I was <BR>convinced that a
full-blown pattern ship was required. Fortunately, Dick <BR>Hanson had
brought out his EMC^2, and with a lot of help from John Ferrell, <BR>it was
ready for the 1998 Nats.' Even now, I prefer flying a pattern plane <BR>for
just "fooling around" at the local field. Why? Because they fly so <BR>much
better, and are much easier to fly well.<BR>If we could get somebody who is
truly a prospect to fly a pattern airplane, <BR>(and I don't mean for 5
minutes or so) out at the local field, it would go a <BR>long way toward
inculcating him with our sport and our sporting appetites. <BR>O.K., I
agree:some who evidence interest do so out of politeness or mild
<BR>curiosity. And, as it has been said, some won't be interested; the
"gallon <BR>of fuel a year" types will tend to thi! nk we're kind of crazy,
(which we <BR>probably are)<BR>One thing I learned as a salesman: You've got
to know who is truly a <BR>prospect, and who is "just looking."<BR>Thanks
for reading my ramblings.<BR><BR>Bill Glaze<BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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