Barry Pailet

DESIGNED AND BUILT during the winter of 1970/71 (mainly because Barry wanted to build and fly an airplane of "his own," rather than just a duplicate of brother Bruce's 1970 Nationals-winning Red Baron), the original "Streaker" is still going strong. Its latest achievement is the first official 1/2A Profile Proto flight, and national record, over 90 miles per hour: 91.80 mph on 9/15/74, using coupled-lines. We emphasize the use of coupled-lines because the Control Line Contest Board has since prohibited their use in this event and thereby voided that record. While we agree very much with the decision to prohibit their use in the 1/2A Profile Proto event and in other events normally flown on two-lines, we do feel that coupled-lines have been unfairly maligned by the C/L columnists who wrote negatively about them but who did not take the time and trouble to experiment with them as we did. As a matter of fact, the 91.80 mph record was really just a side result of that experimentation, and we want to take this opportunity to get our 2¢-worth expressed on the subject.