ORIGINAL: tommy s
I fly turnaround pattern now because it's the only game in town. Funny how everyone follows the herd.
It seems at every contest there is a discussion among some of the pilots about how much fun the old
AMA pattern was and how much more enjoyable and cheaper the old .60 size ships were to build and
to fly but no one does anything about it. Don't get me wrong, I like pattern as it is today but somehow
it seems we had more fun back then. I think if there were as many contests today with the AMA patterns
instead of turnaround there would be a lot of people switching over. What I really would like to see is a
separate class for AMA maneuvers at the current contests. Seems that would make everyone happy.
tommy s
captb :
I like the 4-strokes, that power and torque is addictive but I agree with you about the electrics. While
it's interesting, there is something that doesn't feel right about them. Kind of takes some of the fun out
the whole thing. There's nothing like the smell of Nitro in the morning !!
I'm still waiting for 4 Strokes to evolve, I've had a few but found them to be expensive and complicated for the power to weight they produce on low nitro fuel, in the sixties we had pushrod motorcycles that revved to 6k rpm and not enough hp to talk about, now we ride DOHC engined bikes that make 180hp and rev 11k and some smaller engines to 16k, so while the 4 strokes have their place they could move into the future with double overhead cams, big carbs and take them to the next level.
