Hello; I went down to our lake today, there were 8 planes there altogether, only one had a two stroke in it. There was only one crash, a nice Beaver touched a wing tip on take off then cartwheeled in. One fellow had a BTE Flying King with flaps, great flyer, it looked like a lot of fun to fly slowly. The only two stroke was on a LT 25 trainer the pilot pretty much kept it at full throttle the whole time, while all the other fellows used the throttle throughout the flight. One fellow had an OS 70 on ignition in a goldberg cub. Most flights were pretty scale with the odd loop thrown in.

I don't have any two strokes anymore, and haven't for nearly ten years now, and I notice that it's a rare occasion to see a two stroke anymore. The dedicated scale flyers use four strokes exclusively. I doubt that I influenced this four strokism, but these guys have been modelling for nearly 40 years each. Is it a general trend away from two strokes?