Mirage and FAItality
THIS IS the month in which all you Combat freaks out there have really hit it lucky-two competitive airplanes for the price of one! The primary portion of this article will deal with my AMA Combat design, one which has been quite successful for the last five seasons, and the additional part will cover an FAI Combat plane which has appeared in the last four Nationals. The AMA plane has appeared in a few slightly different versions over these past five years; these centered around construction techniques alone, and have not affected the design characteristics of the plane. At the same time, it has flown under a variety of names. The current name, Mirage, needs some explanation, particularly to northern competitors. A mirage is a warm-weather phenomenon, appearing only occasionally in cooler places (Chicago, Oshkosh, Dayton)-generally, only once a year in August.
