Re: Details and background

From: <tim.haywardbrown_at_gmail.com>
Date: 30 Apr 2014 04:35:26 -0700

Hello Andras - thank you for compiling this response regarding the F1D rules issue.
 I was reading an old Aeromodeller article the other day that mentioned a competition at Debrecen Tech College in 1960 - one year before the first W/Chs - and one year before I was born :-)
 

 As a great fan of the history of this discipline, I know that those involved over many years as flyers, organisers, volunteers etc all want to see it continue.
 

 I feel very privileged to have flown and represented my country at Belgrade and Slanic - I would like to fly at Lakehurst or Tustin one day also! (just a suggestion)
 

 It would be good for those involved to imagine where the F1D aircraft might be in say 5 or 10 years. Does the rubber weight continue to go down and the frame go heavier? What does success look like in the near future?
 

 One of my flying buddies back here in Aus asked me what were the big innovations at Slanic 2014 - what was new...
 

 I thought for a while and said... well I didn't notice anything that different... same shapes, same rubber, a bit more carbon creeping in... winding harder to get to the ceiling of course. But maybe there is room for some innovation and change to stimulate thinking.
 

 I am hearing that the active flyers would all like to be involved in what the sport looks like in the future and don't want it to die.
 

 On a similar (OT) topic, I had a long conversation with Ivan Treger while in Slanic. And might give magnet steered gliders a go too.
 

 cheers
 Tim
 
 




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