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Welcome to 2006. I hope that Mrs. Claus was good to all of you.
I hope that you are looking forward to the coming competition season as much as
I am.
I’ve just mailed out the PAC proposals for 2006. By the time you receive this,
the committee will have voted on the 5 submissions. I’d like to bring your
attention to the two following: the proposed indoor schedule which consists of a
basic, intermediate and F3P schedules. If approved, I’ll include the schedules
in my next column. As well, the Victoria club would like to host the 2006 PAC
team trials. If any of you are interested in trying out for the team, let me
know…and look for the registration form which will be available early in 2006.
I’m expecting the 3 current team members to try out, as well as a number of
other competitors, so it should be pretty interesting.
Indoor flying is going well for me this year….repairs take so little time, I can
be back in the air almost immediately or at least by the next week. I’ve rented
a local recreation centre for Friday mornings and also go to Peterborough
Armories 2 Sunday evenings a month. I was also asked to run The Toronto Hobby
Show sponsored a Shoot-out in November which offered a $1000 first place.
Although I had hoped for more competitors it proved to be a great event. Next
year we hope for more to participate in this fun event
My new Twister wings should be arriving from France this month. After several
discussions with the manufacturer during the World Championships in France last
summer, I purchased a fuselage to bring home with me and ordered modified wings.
I’m looking forward to flying this new plane during the summer competitions.
Although I do not think that going electric will give me any great advantage
over my usual choice of YS motors, I have to give it a try and the Twister will
be built as an electric plane. Those of you who know me realize that I have
probably never built a plane without modification and the new plane will not be
any different. As I have the fuselage I am going to go ahead with it and make a
mould to reproduce the air outlets similar to the Oxai Beryll. (The Oxai Beryll
is the new plane designed and built for Roland and Wolfgang Mat).
Although electric airplanes are beginning to creep into the top levels of
Precision Aerobatics, I do not think that glow or even gasoline motors will
disappear for sometime. Some will argue with me, but I do not see a huge
advantage in going electric and cost is certainly not going to entice anyone.
For me it is new technology that draws me to give it a try. The biggest side
benefits I hope will not have to spend as much time maintaining the plane due to
a lack of vibration and not having to spend a lot of time cleaning it.
I’d better get back to building
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