Al,
We would love you to rejoin RCCA. We need as many voices as possible for our sport.

Slow and Survivable Combat (SSC) or Nerf does indeed work for us gray hairs, but it also works well for almost everyone as well.

Last year we quit practicing with our Open B planes, because we always broke them practicing. We confined flying them to contests. This was kind of stupid because without practice we weren't improving and we actually went backwards.

With SSC we don't break airplanes. Becaue they are slower (about 50 mph) your vision tends to widen and you can see planes coming at you and also see more planes to go after.

SSC was all about "what if one plane would last an entire contest, or two last a season?". I think most CDs will go easy on all the rules except prop and rpm max; minimum weight, and minimum wing area.

I have gone back to building "scale" like airplanes for SSC. If they last longer I don't mind taking the time to build a nice looking WWII fighter. I'm just finishing up a KI61 with 60" wing for SSC. It should fly great with its 540 square inches of wing area.

Please give Don Veres my best regards and I hope to meet you at the Mid West Nats in September in Menominee Falls, Wi.