Never was, isn't now and never will be a pattern ship.

Pattern ship does not mean, "wing on the bottom". It is a specific type of aircraft that was designed for pattern competition and designed by a pattern pilot/designer - not a scale designer. I.E., Maxey Hester, Dave Platt, etc.

If we keep broadening the rules to accept even this type of aircraft, we might as well drop the word "Pattern" from the Senior Pattern Association title.


Ed Cregger