Thought we might have heard, I know some have come down from Knoxville, but I'm wonderin' did ya'll get it in?? Any Pic's or results?

A GREAT weekend in Gadsden, AL. Go to:
www.seniorpattern.com

Click on Contest
contest results 2008
Results and loads of pictures on there.

Several guys have prepared "slideshows" and put "links" to them on the
SPA Discussion List. I can't recall the LINKS right off hand but you may
obtain them, I am sure by going on the SPA Discussion List (you may join
from within the SPA website at:
www.seniorpattern.com
and inquire. Thanks for asking and "best wishes",
Bruce Underwood SPA 15 Guntersville, AL
[email protected]

Bruce,
I went to the Senior Pattern Association website per your instructions, and it seems as if the contests are a "Daddy Rabbit" convention! Whats up. Why the apparent domination of one plane?

I've never flown a Daddy Rabbit, so my comments have nothing to do with how it flies, but I'll bet the reason that so many were there was because it was designed and campaigned by a local boy (southerner) and that lots of fellows cut their pattern eye teeth while flying the model. What say ye?


Ed Cregger

I know that Dennis Hunt at Zimpro in Oakridge Tenn. is Kitting the Daddy Rabbit. You can find him thru the KCRC Web Site. He'll do one to what ever stage that you want it.

It was the only kit you could find for a while, I think. It was famous before the Kaos, but never kitted in such large numbers. When the Intruder came out there were a lot of those for a while. But that is not as robust as the Daddy Rabbit.

Looks to me like there were a lot of different planes there. I saw Tipo's, Curare's, a panzer, just a lot of different planes. I didn't get the impression of a "Daddy Rabbit" convention at all from the pic's I looked at??????

The Deception and the Peppermint Pattie short kits are around !! See some of the prior posts or send a email to [email protected]


spa239

To me, it looked like a World Models Intruder event. There were at least 4 of them in the photos. Wish I lived a lot further south!

FB

LOL!! Well you COULD move!! LOL!!! Once you live down here you'd never move back!

it's true, there's a lot more yankees down here than there are southerners up north.

david

It was just the opposite right after WWII. My southern family migrated to NJ in order to find work after the war. All of the war manufacturers closed upon in southwest VA after the war.


Ed Cregger

Enough of the Southern heritage must have taken hold!! LOL I see that you have re-traced your steps!!LOL!

Yep. I like it down here.


Ed Cregger

3:15 PM CDT Friday Apr. 25......sorry, just didn't get to check back til now.....yes, LOTS of Daddy Rabbits because, as some pointed out,
Dennis Hunt at Zimpro makes them available as nice shortkits, or all the way for that matter. They perform all the 1965 to 1976 maneuvers
so nicely.

The INTRUDER is so popular since it is an ARF and can be assembled so quickly and is so very economical.

Scott Anderson has the Deception and Panzer in an ARC or "shortkit" version...he is in Knoxville, Tn near Dennis in Oak Ridge, TN.

The PHANTOM-1 which I flew in Gadsden last weekend is "scratch-built" from RCM plans (1973 RCM)...was designed by the late
Bob Klineyoung of Huntsville, AL. Randy Roberts of Cullman, AL also flew a PHANTOM-1. It is a nice performer as well, just a
bit more difficult to construct due to it's fuselage being deeper in the area behind the canopy area back to the vertical fin.

Several of the KAOS planes were used and Les Smith of Corinth, MS flew his SUPERDUCK design by Dean Koger. Again, I
apologize for not getting back sooner, but I just don't frequent this thread as often as I do the SPA Discussion List....I enjoy it
immensely, just overlook checking it as I should. Thanks for the input and the interest, if any additional info needed, don't hesitate
to e-mail me directly at:
[email protected]

Dan Hinds at Carolina Custom Aircraft has neat glas and foam kits of many of the SPA birds like the Intruder, T2A, etc. Eureka
"shortkits" some as well. I am a bit "squeamish" of listing kit providers for fear I will leave one or more out, but, goodness knows
I don't mean to do that....for the "more the merrier"...and we just love the enormous interest and growth in the SENIOR PATTERN
ASSOCIATION the past two years as a result of National Magazine writers discovering us and doing features on SPA, we are
so very grateful. Best wishes.

I would love to! But the wife has other ideas.

Bruce, thanks for the write up. I'm so jealous that you guys have so much SPA activity and good turnouts for events. I used to call for my father from about '65 to '75 when he was active in pattern. He's gone now, and I find SPA a nice connection to the past and some good memories.

FB