Originally Posted by
jstaff
As a guy sitting in Texas and going to the Nat's in 2016 and looking for an additional Pylon event to run I was thinking War Bird may be it. Now I'm not so sure. Looking at some of the planes posted on different places calling some of these semi scale, stand off scale, somewhat scale, kind of like scale, is a stretch. One event I will run is EF 1 and I think some of the guys who brought this event forward Danny Kane, Jerry Small, etc. did a good job about what is legal and what is not. Looks like for a national event a little work is in order.
Jerry Stafford
So if I am understanding your point, what you're saying is that in your opinion, some of the planes that are allowed to compete do not meet with the spirit of the event in their scale outlines?
Or is this a misunderstanding of your post.
In any event, I will try to encourage you to go ahead and give the warbird racing event a try.
A properly reinforced world models mustang 46 or the new world models racing spitfire with a YS 115ws on 60% nitro can be just as competitive as any of the "optimized" planes you will go up against. Your racing against the clock to stay within the breakout time more than you're racing against the other pilots and planes.