Todd,
You may have been too young to remember Don Curtis flying the prototype
Don Juan at one of the Hot Mac pattern contests in the early 70's but he won
D Novice class with almost perfect scores and repeated that feat a couple of
weeks later at the Thunderbirds meet in Fort Worth. Max may remember him.
Don was flying D Novice and out scored all the guys in D Expert including Steve
Helms. The airplane was just super smooth and so was Don's flying. He designed
the airplane when he was in college at Texas A&M and only built a couple of them.
The last version had 4 inches clipped from the wing span and the
fuse was stretched a couple of inches. I talked to Don last year and he still has the
airplane stored in his home and it is still in immaculate condition.

tommy s