vertical grimmace

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Lots of great pics here https://www.flickr.com/photos/modela...7645220425460/

OldScaleGuy

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Those are great pics. Thanks for the link.

Steve Percifield

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where are the results??

OldScaleGuy

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Typically the results are posted in the daily Nats News but not this year.
They should be posted here sometime in the future. http://www.modelaircraft.org/events/...s.aspx?yr=2014

M_Callahan

Hey Steve, here another link to NATS pictures, this one they took pictures of the scores.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/99965155@N02/

Mike

Chad Veich

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Great to see Platt was there with the Mohawk but I don't see any scores or flight shots. Did he not compete?

Steve Percifield

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thanks, Mike

vertical grimmace

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Not sure he was allowed to. I was told he did not have a proper safety thong or the right sized lines for his model.

Chad Veich

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Control line?

vertical grimmace

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As far as I know, CL and FF are all he does now. He is probably about as fed up with mainstream RC as I am.

Chad Veich

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Thanks for the info VG. I read an interview in one of the mags where he had stated he was done with RC scale and had gone back to FF but I had no idea he was a control line flyer as well.

3136

That's a bit of a worry! Why so?

TFF

I think he is getting to the point he cant handle the over the top high end model he can build. He has customers willing to pay pretty good for his planes so why crunch them at a contest. He probably does not like the idea of team scale for himself too.

Chad Veich

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Actually I believe Platt's objections were centered around the notion that too many competitors were buying their models rather than building them. Either competing with highly prefabricated models or with models they had custom built. At least that is what I took away from the interview that I read.

vertical grimmace

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I honestly cannot comment on His views, I just saw in an article that he did not like the direction the hobby has gone. I have my own observations myself. It had stated he flew mostly FF and CL. I was very glad to have met him a couple weeks back, but I did not ask him about that. We talked about building on glass, and the types of glues we use. His model looked very nice.

3136

Sorry, wasn't being clear enough, that query was directed at you vertical.

vertical grimmace

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Oh, well, don't worry about me. I am not going anywhere. Although I do love CL, I have many, many RC projects lined up. I will continue to do my modeling in spite of what is going on around me.