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
Jerry, the warbird rules are just as defined as the EF1. The big difference is the EF1 rules have a list of approved airplanes while we give participants the option of designing and scratch building their own. IMO the EF1 airplanes are no closer to scale outline then most of our warbirds. Putting strict outline requirements would only reduce the number of participants and being that this is a new NATs event that would be the last thing we would want to do. Not to mention that there has not been a single scale racing event that required more then to meet minimum dimensional requirements. That includes F1, QM, Q40, unlimited, GT80 and EF1.