Unless I'm having another Sr momen, EZB started as paper covered. In fact former CL Jet speed Champ, Jim Richmond took up IHLG with his son. Later, to fill time from glider to awards time, they built EZB's. There was no AMA EZB event so they set records in Paper Stick, altho giving up size, hollow fuselage & bracing. FAI dropped span limit from 90 to 65cm. Jim scaled up the EZB (with mike, bracing & hollow) & won WC in 1968. No one could match his 0.6g wt so FAI put in 1g min wt. which led to the wide chords.
Original EZB covering was paper by gentlemen's agreement. Later as AMA event it was paper, anything & later plastic.
Charlie Sotich always pronounced EZB as HardB.
To: Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com
From: wcarneyjx_at_bellsouth.net
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:04:59 -0700
Subject: Re: [Indoor_Construction] New event ay USIC
I don't understand the prohibition against microfilm. The weight advantage isn't that much and it seems a skill we should cultivate rather than legislate out of existence.
Bill Carney
--- On Tue, 9/21/10, Mark F1diddler <f1diddler_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Mark F1diddler <f1diddler_at_yahoo.com>
Subject: [Indoor_Construction] New event ay USIC
To: Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, September 21, 2010, 5:55 PM
To those who have received the latest INAV, what do you think of Abram Van Dover's event proposal? He's instituting a one-design original 1960 Wally Miller "Easy-B" contest. $100 first place prize! (And cash down to 3rd place.) He stresses the only design exception is covering--no microfilm allowed, as the 1960 Easy-B was mic covered.
I wonder about the single hole prop hanger--wonder if there's a workaround for that.
MB
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