Hansen Trophy Race
EACH Labor Day weekend, the City of Cleveland hosts the Cleveland National Air Show. Of all the spectacular aircraft performances staged for the 100,000-plus daily spectators, one of the most popular is the finals of the Hansen Formula I Trophy Race. While watching these aircraft in the final heat of the 1979 race, an idea was born in the minds of a few RC fliers for capturing the
Quarter Scale Racing Now Four-Stroke Racing
TIRED OF BURNING HOLES in the sky or practicing day after day for a Pattern meet? Would you like some excitement in your flying, but you don't have time to get involved with high-tech racing? If any (or all) of these things are true, read on. I think you will be interested in what I am about to tell you. Four-Stroke Racing. This is an event that has been set up for Quarter Scale models that are standoff-scale in appearance-with rules structured to make all the models fly as close as possible to the same speed. If you read my article in the August 1983 Model Aviation, you may remember the reasons why Quarter Scale Pylon Racing was started:
