Doug,

Sean McMurtry told me last year that is the EXACT reason he was flying the newer schemes with the curves. He is flying one of Narukes plane's also, so he didn't have much choice, but he told me that the Japenese and European's have been doing this for years simply because it can add questions to the judges heads. If you don't have straight lines on the plane, it is much harder to have reference points in which to see the true attitude of the plane, so that small errors are hidden. I would hope that for all judges this would make zero difference, but at the same time, I'm smart enough to know that there is probably a judge out there that looks at things like that. Whether this is true or not, I do not know, but that was the theory I was told last year

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