Gid Adkisson

WITH CHARACTERISTIC enthusiams, Ted Fancher offered to write an introduction for this article. And so: "Gid Adkisson and his Laser . . . what a great combination! If you've followed the Nats results for the last couple of years, you're most likely familiar with the big, red Bud Light Special Laser as flown by Bob Whitely to a `skin of his teeth' second-place finish in 1986 and a very strong seventh in the monster winds of Lincoln in 1987. This is clearly a semiscale Stunter which can really fly the pattern. Not since Al Rabe's magnificent Sea Furys and Mustangs has a near-to-Scale Stunter been so competitive at