Cool photos and planes ... thanks for the link.

Do you know if they had a fiberglass fuselage?

I think my next "pink foam plug" project just changed.

Now I have to get more familiar with the SWRA rules. I read them completely a while back, but the static judging part bothered me some. Probably because what I saw happened with F1, and that was just for takeoff position.

I see mufflers hanging out ... does that hurt the static judging? If not, a muffled tuned pipe would be the ticket for a Q-500 engine powered plane.

How about the airfoil? If it's radically different, does that cause a problem with the judging?

BTW, thanks for posting in the Non-AMA racing classes and the NMPRA topic in the NMPRA forums ... I started to respond, but wanted to leave someone's name besides mine as the last post.