IE-30 Development
I hadn't been in that hangar since the 1963 Nationals. It must have grown in the last 30 years; it couldn't have been this big the last time I saw it! It's 158 feet high at the center rafters, and more than 1/4 mile long. And I knew that the Indoor Electric (IE-30) I'd been flying under a 26-foot ceiling needed a lot more height. So when Ken Johnson offered to get me into Santa Ana so we could find out what Indoor Electrics could do, I grabbed at the opportunity. But looking up, I began to doubt that I really needed all that room. I'd probably look a little silly even trying. At least I'd find out what an all-out Electric Indoor Duration model could do! Tony Naccarato and I have had many bull sessions about what times could be made under his experimental IE-30 rules: two 50 mAh Ni-Cd batteries, 30-inch span, six-inch chord limit, 50% stab.
