Control Line: Aerobatics
BACK to business! Now that the Nationals and the FAI team tryouts have come and gone, along with all the outstanding flying and bench-flying associated with these events, I'm going to pick up where we left off in the October 1983 issue and conclude the series on painting tips supplied by Windy Urtnowski. With next year's Nationals supposed to happen in Reno, NV which is at a high elevation and which "enjoys" high temperatures, the hangar-flying centered on the need for creating a special "Nats-84" Stunt plane which will have to be light, light, light-with a very powerful engine. Some suggestions heard were: "Build a Gieseke Nobler with a ST .46 engine!" and "Build a 650-sq.-in. Stunt plane, cover it with silkspan, forget the finish, and put a ST .60 or OS Max .45 FSR on it, hope for 50 oz., and take three dozen different props to Reno!" Well, let's conclude Windy's ideas and be thinking about a "High-Tech, superlight Stunter for '84" as we go.
Control Line: Aerobatics
Readers may be wondering what has happened to our regular CL Aerobatics Contributing Editor, Wynn Paul. He's still alive and well! We have been experiencing a mysterious problem with the U.S. Postal Service: Wynn's columns have been lost in the mail for the past two months! By the time it has been realized what has happened, it has been too late (too close to our publication deadline) to do anything about the situation. So, as insurance that CL Aerobatics would be covered this month, we've asked Lou Dudka to write a column.
