He might have been flying the Galaxy radio instead of F&M Digital 5. I think he was directly involved with it. Besides, the F&M had the Bonner closed gimbal sticks.

I saw him fly at the Nat's in Lincoln one year. The MB-5 he flew in both scale and pattern. The judges made him mad, saying that he flew too low on his scored passes in the first round. So he flew them higher and the unscored passes were the lowest I have ever seen doing knife edge and rolls.