I had to chuckle, TV antenna is great!

I'll let you say "designed" with the setup on the Datotel. Your choice of the angles did change the fuselage angle and does indeed change the inertial coupling that come with it in a roll and other maneuvers. It may not be much but in a game of good airplanes and pilot,s all the edge you can get helps. Too bad Dave was getting old by then and had lost it :-)

Does Dave ever read these things? The last time I saw him was at last year's XFC and I challenged him to a drag race, my three wheel scooter against his four wheel machine. We are both falling apart - like an old rusty car going down the road and dropping off a part now and then - I won't discuss what comes out of the exhaust system....

I remember when Hanno P. won with a Datoel, but then he won with a lot of different airplanes. I wish I could have seen him fly. I have a Curare in my hangar. It is an interesting good flying airplane.

Ben