Jerry Nolin

EASY B is supposed to be a beginner's event, and it is. It's a lot of fun, too. That is, it's fun until you get stuck at the 10 or 12-min. level and nothing you do seems to help. I was stuck there for two years when a series of Easy B modifications resulted in a "breakthrough model" which flew far beyond my grandest expectations. The first time out the ship did 15 min., 42 sec. in a 55-ft. ceiling at the 1985 King Orange meet in Tampa. At Santa Ana 10 weeks later, it broke the AMA Cat. IV Easy B record with a 21:23 flight in cool March weather.