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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