RE: .65 "sport speed" - the doodling has begun.
"Good info, thanks Dave. Didn't a junior win the Nats a couple of years ago with a regular tail aircraft? Yeah that's only one data point in the junior cat, I was just curious if I remembered correctly is all.
MJD"
It would have been more than a couple years ago, I believe you are thinking of Nick Maxwell, and that was 2001. Steven Baker may have won (Senior) with their conventional stabbed low wing, but that was more than 5 years ago also. The open class has been dominated by v-tailed aircraft since 2000'. Had some of the better pilots flown conventional tailed aircraft the results may have been different, but it was right about then that just about everyone converted to the V-tail and it took over as the standard in National competition.