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You really created a great design, Nick. There were other smaller low wing sport planes around, even back then, but none of them had "It". PP has It.

I remember cramming my Ace Bantam Midget servos in there along with an Ace Commander 7 channel receiver and a 100 mah battery pack. One had to recharge that tiny battery before every flight, but it was worth it.

My PP was definitely the best exhibition aerobatics model that I have ever flown, if the gauge you are using is audience reaction. One fellow in the club, upon seeing PP emerge from my station wagon, would begin cursing to himself and immediately packing up to leave the field.

Keep in mind that I never over flew the pits, always kept the model at least 50' away and never let it approach the pit area head on at high speed. What got to my old pardner was the God-awful noise that PP made when performing high speed Lomcevaks. It looked and sounded like Armageddon when that 100 mph plus model tumbled end over end. Bunky just couldn't take it, for one reason or another.

I still smile today when I think of it. After a while, once I realized that it really got on his nerves (post traumatic stress syndrome? Korean War?), I wouldn't do the Lomcevak maneuver when Bunky was around. No one else had a problem with it and some of the kids of other modelers used to plead with me to do nothing but Lomcevaks.


Ed Cregger