RE: Peppermint Pattie
Nick, there is something I wanted to say, while I'm thinking about it.
Had you introduced the Peppermint Pattie .15 today as an electric, you would have gone down in history as creating a "classic" model. You were a bit ahead of your time in the late Seventies/early Eighties. Radio gear small enough to fit in PP was a real problem back then. Today - piece of cake.
As far as I'm concerned, PP IS a classic.
The PP is the only model that I have ever flown that would do an easily repeatable, tumbling end over end, Lomcevak. And it did it at sufficient speed to make an awesome whooshing noise that would make the troops that weren't paying attention run for their cars, time after time after time. I was called many an expletive for doing Lomcevaks when folks weren't paying attention. That'll teach'em. <G>
Ed Cregger