<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I might be doing SPA right now if the rules weren’t so messed up. No retracts or pipes, but you may use .90 cu in+ 4-strokes! Many of the Daddy Rabbit, Intruder and Dirty Birdy airplanes have dimensions that are in excess of the allowable discrepancies from the original models, particularly the fuselage length. A friend had a Curare and a Super Curare, but only the Curare was acceptable and the only real difference was in the canopy area. Go figure.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I walked away from the SPA more than 20 years ago, but, even with the messed up rules, I might go back.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ron Van Putte </div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 20, 2017, at 4:32 PM, Wayne Galligan via NSRCA-discussion <<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org" class="">nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: ArialMS; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><div class="">SPA is doing that now... there are 5 SPA contests in the DFW area alone. I couldn’t do 5 AMA Pattern events within 3-6hrs of here now.</div><div style="font-size: small; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; display: inline;" class=""><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-family: tahoma;" class=""><div class=""> </div><div style="background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><div class=""><b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org" class="">Frackowiak Tony via NSRCA-discussion</a></div><div class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tuesday, June 20, 2017 2:26 PM</div><div class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="obergc@cox.net" class="">Curt Oberg</a></div><div class=""><b class="">Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org" class="">'General pattern discussion'</a></div><div class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [NSRCA-discussion] LONG conversation with Joe Walker on NATs,sequence proposals, and other NSRCA issues.</div></div></div><div class=""> </div></div><div style="font-size: small; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; display: inline;" class="">We can only dream, can't we.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><div class=""> </div><div class="">Tony Frackowiak</div><div class=""><div class=""> </div><div class=""><div class="">On Jun 20, 2017, at 11:29 AM, Curt Oberg wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite" class=""><o:smarttagtype name="City" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" class=""><o:smarttagtype name="place" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" class=""><o:smarttagtype name="PersonName" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" class=""><div lang="EN-US" vlink="blue" link="blue" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="Section1" style="page: section1;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';" class="">If we're not careful, perhaps AMA pattern will evolve back into Curare's with retracts and a screaming piped .61 glow powered engine up front with a single maneuver each pass. 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