<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Well Ron, the older we get the better we were!<div><br></div><div>have fun!</div><div><br></div><div>Tony Frackowiak<br><div><div><div>On Jun 20, 2017, at 3:07 PM, Ronald Van Putte wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Yeah, but I live near the birthplace of SPA and they seem to be rabid about their (weird) rules. The SPA president lives in Tallahassee, FL.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We had a CPA contest at my club field two years ago and it was a ball. We even had Cliff Hiatt and his son come over from south Florida (I live in the panhandle). </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I flew a Conquest VI with a Hanno Special in it. It was good fun to swap lies about the good old days.</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 4:57 PM, Frackowiak Tony 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 style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class="">Hey Ron. If SPA was going on around here I wouldn't care about the rules. Our CPA contests are not really about models but about the fun of one maneuver per pass. We let just about anything fly. I really think this will be the only way to bring the better then average sport flier in to competition RC aerobatics. The vast majority don't have the cabbage for Pattern or IMAC and are being left out in the cold. Plus we do only 1-day contests and that also really helps them out.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Try it, I bet you'll love it. Whole different type of event and people.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tony Frackowiak</div><div class=""> <br class=""><div class=""><div class="">On Jun 20, 2017, at 2:46 PM, Ronald Van Putte via NSRCA-discussion wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div 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 class=""><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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