Thanks Tony I am sure you will like your Onas. As for wearing someone out it might just be the other way around. Marcelo has quite the work ethic. I think that in the past sometimes he was just spinning his wheels. What we have both learned from this adventure is that sometimes it is just necessary to travel, both him to the US and me to Argentina. If nothing else just to compare notes. I am certain that we will have at least 3 guest from here at next years nationals ,if not more. Marcelo, Javier, and George are coming for sure, and hopefully a couple more.

Anyway back to the Visa. The plane is flying great and we now have some video of Marcelo and I flying it that we are going to post on Utube in the next day or two. Since about the 4th flight when we locked the wings into place we haven't made any adjustments other then tweaing the rates. What we have been working on is the cooling system.

Don't get me wrong it has been acceptable since the first flights but not what I was hoping for until today. It wasn't until Gustavo (a racing engineer for Toyota) came from Cordova today that we really made some headway. We bounced ideas off each other all afternoon and tried a few configurations before we came upon the ultimate combination.

Basically what we ended up with was 2 Naca ducts in the nose, one on the bottom right and one on the top left as you look at the model from the front. Then we sealed off the area from the front of the top hatch to the tail ring former so that all the air has to go over the motor and then through the former before exiting in the rear. This lowered the motor temp 10 degree C, which is a huge amount. I want to do one more thing tomorrow before I say what the numbers are, but if it doesn't backfire on us I think this setup will make us all very happy.

Its late here so I am off to bed.

More tomorrow

Chip