The only thing that comes off is the elevators and wings. Rudder goes between the two front seats (bend the right armrest back and under) and the final touch, take out the back (fold up) seats and the wheels rest on either side of the spare tire (storage) while the two seat belts (in the rear seats that face backward) work beautifully in securing the landing gear. That way the 3-blade prop clears the back window. You do have to tile the rear view mirror about 30 degrees to clear the top of the rudder.

But it saves about $30K worth of van costs!

Picture attached (during assembly)

P.S. take a look at the unknowns at www.squareloop.com

Don

A sound bite on Andrew Jesky--

Yes, I remember this kid came up to me during the Toledo show in 2000 asking a lot of questions about pattern and just hanging out. I asked him if he wanted to go to the TOC and he said yes. I sensed that he was very motivated at that time. He was flying advanced Pattern in 2001, won. Masters in 2002, won. FAI in 2003, placed in the finals (top 10).

A memorable part of the Masters was when Jason Noll flew between the trees during his freestyle (overall, quite spectacular freestyle if you get the Propwash video, particularly Friday evening when it was dead calm). Anyhow, so what does Andrew do? Not to be outdone, he flies between the same two trees, but in knife edge!

These two were pretty much rivals the whole week. In the Qualifying on Tuesday and Wednesday Jason won most of the knowns, but Andrew took the unknown; since they both tied in freestyle Andrew came out on top.

They battled back and forth during the competition as well, with Andrew coming out on top (by two places) in the end.

By the way, the Masters is unique- its part invitational, part open qualifying. If you want to give it a shot, its worth it (I saw a lot of names mentioned in this forum) Get them to come out and give it a try. To have someone like Andrew come out just about cold (had just got his Carden Extra flying before the contest) and finish 5th is outstanding.

I had a long discussion with Pat Hartness about the philosophy of the event. He wants the Don Lowe to be challenging, and pull in the best pilots to determine the world champion. Kind of like a true competition. The absence of prize $ puts the focus on flying and away from the high stress associated with those big bucks. An interesting concept. I assure you that if you go you will be treated like a king, whether you finish first or 20th.

Cheers,
Don

I talk to Andrew pretty frequently on the internet through instant message and always talk about how he does at the meets and competitions. Andrew for one is very humble and NEVER brags.

I mean I will ask him how he did, he tells me "I did good", I say, "well how good", he says, "first place"...

He competes every week it seems during the flying season while not in school yet still has time for his schoolwork when he is not flying. I know how that is because I too am in school.

As for him going against the best in FAI I think that this is going to be a good hard challenge for him. He sets his goals and he does pretty dang good to get them and I bet 99% of his r/c flying goals have been achieved. He has won ssssssooooooo many meets, if not all that he has been to so I think this FAI will finally get him some serious competition.



Steven

The 2003 "Don Lowe" was a great time this year. The quality of pilots definitely jumped up a notch from the 1998 "Masters" which was the last time I was there. The one thing that stood out the most to me was how eager everybody was to help each other. You can never have enough of that. I have to say, I was absolutely shocked when I saw Andrew Jesky fly. For being in his first contest with a gas airplane he did extremely well, and is fun to be around. Another person I was very impressed with was Don Sczcure. Don is a super nice guy that everybody in the modeling industry should meet. Congrats' to Don for Second place at the Masters (only 4 points from 1st).

-Jason Noll

Hey bryan u used to fly at millis too, i used to too until i moved to ct, me and my father, todd lapointe have been long time friends of John and his dad peter.

Josh