Hi Jim,
I am excited about the prospect, but we have to do something about the rampant "tweaking" of the old designs.
The rules for the 1975 cutoff event have been bent to the point where it is dominated planes that were never originally intended to be flown without pipes and/or retracts, and are now often modified with longer tail moments, clipped wings, and the "wrong" number of landing gear legs.
Either we are flying a "nostalgia" event, or we are just flying non-Turnaround with designs that pretend to be nostalgia driven.
It amuses me that because there was a version of Don Lowe's Phoenix that had flown before '65 that now P-8s are SPA legal.
I can live with either approach.

Locally, I would like to see several classes: one on line with the more puristic approach taken by VRCS for designs before '65.
I believe we need allowances just for readily-purchasable powerplants and the real-life noise environment today, and this would make those planes dual-purpose.
The other class would be the proposed BPA. That's where I believe there will be plenty of participation.

later,
Dean Pappas