RCDENT,

Did you by any chance fly in the Houston or Dallas areas? I was active in the early to late eighties. Mainly flew the MK Curare, MK Arrows, Bridi XLT and Escape, and later the MK Joker when turnaround was being phased in for F3A. Used a lot of OS VF's on the Arrows with one Rossi and later a YS on the Escape. As I recall the Rossi was the real powerhouseof the group. Imainly competed in the Frisco, Dallas, Houston, Texas City areasand Oklahoma occassionally. I remember one flyer that flew the Bootlegger very well. He was pretty well inactive by the time I got to the expert and masters level. I met Ron Chidgey once and competed with him in the Frisco contest (NorthDallas R/C) in the later 80's when F3A pattern was being phased into turnaround and the 4 stroke limit was raised to 120. He hada TT with a YS 120. Good flying plane and very fine gentleman. I am very glad SPA and BPA are reignighting the interest in the old style pattern events. I hope they come to the Texas area. Hope to fine a good example of the Southern R/CTT as well, as I prefer to build all wood planes.

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