<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I also remember a Nats meeting in which flying by class, instead of by frequency, was discussed. Rick said (actually more like 'bellowed') that frequency conflict problems would make it unsafe and "nobody in the northwest would put up with it". We'd been doing it in the southeast for many years. Well, here we are flying by class.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Ron Van Putte </DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jun 7, 2007, at 5:59 AM, Bob Richards wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>I have to chuckle a little about the fixed gear Oly. Rick Allison designed the Olympian. Back in the early '90s I made the comment to him that I thought pattern planes would be better with fixed gear (and fat fuselages), and he told me in no uncertain terms that "Pattern planes would never fly right with fixed gear". It would "screw up the force arrangement". I thought he was going to burst a blood vessel.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Never say never!! :-)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Bob R.</DIV> <DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Ed Deaver <<A href="mailto:divesplat@yahoo.com">divesplat@yahoo.com</A>></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class="replbq" style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <BLOCKQUOTE class="replbq" style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <DIV>Piorun Olympian Medal with fixed gear and cheek cowls added.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">NSRCA-discussion mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion">http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>