Hope everyone who can make it will come out for this event. Chip has really put something special together that I think is going to be remembered for quite some time.

If you haven't registered yet, please do so. And if you're going to fly Classic, get the word to Chip so he and Mike Greear can get everything ready. If you're going to race Gee Bees, drop me an email at [email protected] and let me know what day you'll be there.

I thought I'd give a run-down on what I am planning for the Gee Bee racing. We are going to race on Friday starting around 5:00 and also on Saturday after the pattern flying is done. The course is about 200 feet long and we will fly 8 to 10 laps. Right now the plan is to fly three in each heat but if we get a lot of entrants we will do 4 in a heat. I dentification of the models will be with some black tape stripes put on the top of the right wing. Each heat will have a model with no tape, one with one stripe and one with two stripes. If flying four one model will have two stripes on the right wing and one on the left. The course is a two-pylon course that will be on the north edge of the runway. Pilots will be to the south at the center of the course. The race will start from a standing still take-off, no pushing by the callers. There will be one official who will start the race, count the laps and end the race. That official will call out the placings. There will be a cut-judge on each pylon. They will call out cuts. For instance, "Cut on one stripe" or "Cut on no stripe". If you cut once you have to fly an extra lap. A second cut you are DQ'd. To be clear, you don't have to fly around the pylons, but you have to fly past them.

Winning a heat will get you 3 or 4 points, depending on how many we race in a heat. Second, one less point, third one less point and 4th would be one point. If you DQ you receive a zero. The top racers from Friday and Saturday will race in the Gold heats on Sunday. I'm going to try to get everyone as much racing as possible but we will be on a tight schedule. The main goal is to have a blast! This should really be a lot of fun.

BTW, I'd have a couple of extra batteries available as the heats may come pretty quickly. I'll have a few extras but I suggest everyone get one or two more.

Can't wait for this to begin!