Radio Control: Pylon Racing

I Pylon Racing 0 Dave Lane RECEIVED LETTER fellow New York area would like see racing anything goes event think instead stimulating interest thinks event would end up like FAI guys started come up exotic aircraft engines FAI event died FAI event has dropped Nats Another letter concerns Quickie 500 As know several areas allowing anything goes engine aspect Q-500s suggestion make Q-500 beginners classwhich original idea would done limit ing engine RC 35 K&B Torpedo Stallion engines provided hosting club individual clobbered engine during contest would pay contest management replacement price engine Everybody would racing same type stock engine assumed doing nonracing types will start Q-500 racing class cost Q-500 engines today going out sight attended third Air Race Seminar held Southern California Mojave Air port early April seminar qualification new pylon judges timers new pilots inter ested United States Air Racing Asso ciation sponsored two-day affair managed wrangle ride Jim Mott AT-6 Miss-Chief around pylons Let tell now know guys race big ones exciting exhilarating feel ings roar around pylons 180 mph 40 feet AGL pylons really come up fast speeds G-loads bad experi enced 25 Gs down-wind side course ever get chance go ride around pylons take can little hair raising Jim Mott gave another fellow ride after gone up forgot lower landing gear prior landing Jim said knew some thing wrong saw aluminum started flying past cockpit Jim finished laps around pylons made short approach field Runway 30 watched him make turn final still no gear started yelling Race Control over CR Race Control gone lunch Jim down six feet off deck now fig ured going make low pass saw flaps down could see him start settle usual wheel landing About time prop started kicking up dirt runway Jim poured coals pulled up about 15 feet lowered gear landed After taxied back pits looked prop 3 inches short er slightly bent Jim said needed new prop anyway Team Turkey new Formula bird called Wild Turkey same group raced old Ricky Rat modified Top Turkey plane modified Shoe string Wild Turkey all-new all-metal machine looks super fast should make very interesting model Formula boys little trouble bird flight weekend engine quit land cross wind landing broke off left main gear damaged right gear bent prop interesting thing about Wild Turkey wing using small high pect ratio outer panels mount large diamond-shaped center section problem modeling design will wing Current rules state wing must constant taper thickness center tip Wild Turkey wing tapers center outer panel joint tapers different ratio tip rules may have changed new Formula Ones seems F-I fraternity starting get away conventional designs am glad see get tired looking Formula Ones look alike except colors numbers Dave Lane 4477 136th Hawthorne CA 90250 22 Model Aviation Quarter Midget Nats first item Dave Lanes column last month based proposal running QM Nats unknown Lane two items approved due conflict AMA competition rules Daves column committed print before controversial points resolved 1 Prop re work will allowed per AMA rule bcokone blade balance purposes 2 slot will required exhaust extension used1h wide full length MA