As you travel the soaring circuit, you'll notice that many people just gotta fiddle with the norm. Sailaires with flaps, Gentle Ladies with bullet-proof wings, etc. While I admire the purists -- I fly a dead-stock Sailaire whose wing is as light as they get, and nearly touches tip-to-tip on a winch -- I also admire the seekers out there who express themselves and their curiosity with little tweaks here and there, just to satisfy the "what ifs" that occur from time-to-time. Recognizing both sides of the coin, I offer the Sailaire One Design contest at the Cincinnati Soaring Society field on September 8th. The main class is stock, NOS-legal Sailaires. However, the second class is for those "modified" NOS planes, the stepchildren of curious builders. Come on out and see some NOS oddities for yourself, e.g., Dick Pratt's "Sailaire" with the long tail boom -- this one may have inspired the Logic (<g>), or Bill Friend's Sailaire with huge flaps -- you won't believe how this plane can come down, much like a Mantis -- and Ed Franz' Sailaire, acquired from Jack Strother, you know, the big orange pig with a wing you could use to send infantry across a river! Join us on the 8th and fly with both the sinners and saints of NOS. It's 15-minutes tasks all day with runway landings. Just imaging those big old Sail-Pigs sliding in for a 100 landing, or trimmed out for hands-off thermaling. It's a laid back good old time where the winches loaf all day long. See you there, Rudy RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
