What is scale is an opinion. Going the route that tommy wants to see will kill the pylon racing that we have now. The rules in place have been working and growing the sport of racing warbirds. If you want to build a plane that you think is scale go ahead. There will always be someone who thinks it isn't scale. Like Tommy's P40 he races. Its a Kyosho ARF. It doesn't have flaps, the ailerons are wrong and the tail moment is longer to make it fly better. I don't go an complain about it though except in this post. I don't care as my main goal to promote the hobby that I love and racing that I come to enjoy. Maybe we should take the word scale out of the rules. I will also say that if we took any of these planes to a real model airplane "scale" contest we would be laughed at.

These look a like warbirds are disposable in that midairs happen or you dumb thumb them in the ground. When add a "scale" criteria to the planes most will not take the time to build a "scale" plane only to chance it on a race. Today's modelers don't have the time like we used too and this is where the ARF's come in today. There are cheap and easy to fly. If you make something complex or make an event complex you will not have that many that will do the event. Back in the days they used to judge quarter midget planes and over time that has gone by also. they used to judge these warbirds also and that has gone to the wayside. In both of those events the sport has grown.

As I have also stated before I would like to see Tommy get his CD from the AMA and then run a "scale" warbird racing event but he doesn't want to. Also all that I have said he isn't to attack Tommy either but a discussion and it was resolved by the SAM's club and the CD for the NATS.

Jerry fill free to email me at [email protected] I would be glad to help you out with some world models ARF's or other kits out there. It would be great to see you racing at the NATS. I think you will like it and then can take back to texas and start warbird racing at your local clubs.