Fellas, Just to set the record straight about the NATS and RES Skegs... RES was a classification sent to the AMA and voted upon by YOUR sailplane RC Rules committee. There is one guy per district... This new RES classification, contained the no skeg rule in it. The supposed reason was " that nobody in the old days used skegs..Horse POOP!! Every one of my contest ships had a piece of boot, tire, sand paper and the alike on it for skeg purposes and every contest that I went to in the 70's and 80s people were running shegs...unless of course you were flying in the sticks somewhere. I think the rule is crap, but it is the rule, and is evidently what you all wanted...
Skegs forever !!! BTW, the Rc soaring rules committe has just had a major change, with the addition of a new body and now a new chairman..... Jack Strother >From: "Tim McCann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "RCSE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [RCSE] One more comment on skegs. >Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 20:40:15 -0600 > >Just install a backing plate and it only takes 30 seconds to remove or >install my skegs which brings >up something that has bugged me for years. It sure would simplify things if >the sailplane >manufactures would install a skeg backing plate. As far as I know, only the >Nats RES event (???) has >prohibited skegs. >Tim McCann >[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.superskeg.com >Unbreakable Polyethylene Landing Skegs and Skids >Winch Kits and Turnarounds > > > > Good evening all. As someone else observed, we have been through all >this > > before. That said, the thing that bugs me is that some contests accept > > skegs while others, like the AMA Nats seemed to have banned them. So >what > > is a balsa builder to do?? Do I start making two sets of ships, one with > > skegs and one without? Will there be an end to this debate.. > > The answer to both questions is........who knows! > > >RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and >"unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Jack Strother [EMAIL PROTECTED] LSF President LSF Level IV Loveland, OH _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
