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Formula Forum @2002
VOLUME XIII
NUMBER 2
BILL ROGERS
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CONTENTS
David Hoover
3. President's Page
Scotty Crandlemire
4. VP Page
Bill Rogers
5. 5tr Column - Editorial
6. Les formules de la France
8. Marketing and Promotions Anita Infante
Bill Rogers
9. Procedure Rules Report
10. Odds and _
I 1. For Sale
President's Page
David
Hoover
We held up this issue to allow the results
of the Presidents meeting with the Reno
Air Racing Association to be included.
Will Dennis and I attended the Fourth
Annual Class Presidents meeting in Reno
on March 6tr and 7tr. We got the State of
RARA report, which detailed the actual
2001 losses, andthe year2002
projections. Here are some of the
highlights. The actual cash loss from
2001 was $1.2 million dollars. RARA
was expecting profits of roughly
$300,000+. 2001 was to set records in all
areas: attendance for the week 200,000+.
Community impact $40 to S50 million,
and a total purse of 5875,000. We were
told that if this had happened in 1997,we
would not be racing this year. It takes
about $2 million dollars in up front costs
to host the event.
This year their profit goals are $210,000.
The total purse will be $748,000, the
same as the year 2000. Formula One's
purse amount will be S70,000.00.
Cannon Insurance will again donate
$1000 to the fastest qualifier in each
class. RARA will add $52,000.000 to the
total purse as a bonus if they meet their
projected goal of $1 million dollars in
ticket sales by July 3l't. Formula One
will get an additional $2000 added to our
purse if this happens. Everything else
this year should be business as usual for
all the classes. The meeting was very
upbeat and positive. The future of Air
Racing looks healthy.
that your name has been omitted in error
let me know right away, otherwise you
will be required to attend the PRS this
year. Also, if you attended the PRS last
year and paid the full amount of $500
did not bring your Formula One, you
will be credited or refunded the $200
you overpaid. Your actual cost should
have been $300, so contact me so I can
pass this information along to RARA.
The only students that need to pay the
full amount for the school are the ones
that will be bringing their Formula One
planes up to the school and flying on the
race course. Otherwise, you will only
need to pay the lesser amount for the
ground school. Scotty Crandlemire and I
both plan on bringing our two-seaters
again this year to the school. We will be
taking those students out on the race
course that do not have their own planes
up there.
From early projections it looks like we
should fill the field again. We might
have an additional two or three rookies
this year. Remember, only the top 24
planes that qualify get to race. For those
of you that think that you will be "on the
bubble" it's time to start thinking about
what it will take to make your plane
faster. 2002 may be a banner year for
RARA and Formula One.
David
Pilots currently eligible for Reno 2002:
Information about the Pylon Racing
All pilots
Seminar was discussed as well. The dates
axe June2Tn through the
30tr. If you plan to attend, please let me
know as soon as possible or call the Air
Maynard Crosby
Ray Debs
for this year
Race office at775-972-6663 to get an
entry packet. You will see below a list of
all the eligible Formula One pilots who
can race at Reno this year. If you think
entered at Reno 2001 plus:
Larry Hardy
Roger Keeney
Flip Miller
Birch Entriken
Tom Hallendorf
Ib Hanson
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Joe Young
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VP Page
Scoffy
Crandlemire
I had this page composed, and it became
a casualry somewhere in cyber space. As
I recall, my main topic was talking about
the up-coming "PRS" (Pylon Racing
Seminar) slated for mid-June. Now is a
great time to contact either David or
myself to give us an early indication
who will be attending so we can gauge
how large the class may be. There is a
fair amount of preparation that goes into
the event, and any "heads up" from you
or someone you know that is planning to
attend would be well appreciated. So
far, Formula One has had the largest
pilot participation over all other class's.
This has certainly been noteworthy to
our group, and we are sure to RARA as
well. At any rate, it is an excellent
program hosted by RARA, extremely
valuable and incidentally, mandatory if
you are a rookie or a retuming veteran
race pilot who has let his or her race
pilots license expire.
Not much else to report here, really been
busy on the race plane however. I was
able to corral two eastern block
countries' finest aeronautical engineers.
With their help we have developed a
piston with a unique "power slide"
mechanism that lengthens the piston at
4200 RPM to imitate 1 1:1 compression.
So far in the early flight test phase we
are experiencing mind blowing results.
It takes a mere 2 minute cool down for
the piston to re-collapse back to 135cc
cylinder volume for tech purposes. The
only negative encountered thus far has
been some slight pre-detonation, an
interior fuel cell (which presently is in
design) fabricated to accommodate 30
ounces of an ADI mix should cure the
problem.
Hope to hear from any ofyou reference
"PRS". My cell phone is 208-371-7530,
or email at [email protected]
Blue Skies from
Idaho,
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Where are they now? This pretty yellow Cassutt, owned by Canadian Eric
Matheson, last raced in 1999 (Eric has been busy flying water bombers)
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Bill Rogers
Editorial
For the first time in a long time, rules
changes have been approved that can
make a physical difference to the aircraft
configuration. The numbers rule will
require a few people to do some
masking and a little spray painting, but
so long as you clean off the wax, and
pick the right paint system, it should not
be much more than a nuisance. The
above does not apply to those ofyou
with art directors.
The change that can really have a
significant impact is, of course, the
smaller tire. It is lighter and of smaller
diameter, permitting a reduced height on
the wheel pants. The width is still fixed
but new pants should weigh less, and
have less frontal & wetted areas. Given
the similar performance of the top
airplanes, any racer who is serious
cannot ignore these advantages, and has
no choice but to make the changes.
There is obviously cost and time
affected. There are a few middle of the
field racers that are not Cassutts and
would stay with the Pro series. They
would probably fall farther behind the
pack if they did not pay the price of
these upgrades.
Surely one of the strengths of Formula
One is the fact that it is a Spec. Class
with all racers using as an identical
engine as possible, and airframes
restricted in a similar way. Lets face it,
this is actually a pretty low cost way to
race compared to other motorsports,
although complaints about the cost are
cofirmon. Aircraft qualified, flightrated, FAA certified engine components
are, of necessity, expensive. Any
requirement to incorporate these
upgrades could well drive out some less
well-heeled competitors. Of course you
do not HAVE to install newer
components, but closer racing is a goal
of the organization.
involved in implementing this change.
Most will not worry about this,
of
course, and slower planes will not notice
much improvement an).,way.
Scotty Crandlemire in the last issue of
the Forum proposed consideration of
In my view, the focus at present should
be on building better airframes. There
are several people capable of building
top of the line engines, so a winning
package must include a new airframe.
This is difficult, but several people are
stepping up to the challenge
incorporating technology more recent
than 1935, like fuel injection, electronic
If in the future, as the 0-200 and OEM
parts start to became unavailable, then
ignition and trick high-compression
pistons, into our engines. Each of these
would be the time to evaluate
are doable at some (possibly quite large)
cost and with some effort. One would
assume some performance advantage, so
once again all the racers would have to
a
upgrade whether they wanted to of not.
thriving Cassutt Sport Racing
feeder series would make this easier,
since clearly they would not want to be
Certainly
whole
new engine package, notjust a few bolton hot rod parts.
a
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Bill
Les Formules
de la France
Pierre Franck - CP80 F-PYBP
William Lobet, French Champion until 1998 and in 2000 - Cassutt
Special F-PYIY "Largardo
Xavier Beck - PiloUConstructor of BKSUT, F-PXAV
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Chambley 2A01
1999 French Champion, Vincent Martinez - Cassutt 1 1 1M
F-PCMV
Martinez' Cassutt at the demo at Chambley 2001
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Beck's highly modified Cassutt also at Chambley
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Marketin
Anita
lnfante
& Promotions
New
IFI Logo Contest:
The press
releases have been sent out to the
aviation Media and the information on
the contest has been posted on the IFI
Web site. Since many of the April issues
of the monthly aviation publications
were closing the end of February as the
releases were going out, I have extended
the entry deadline until May 31,2002.
Phoenix Regional Airport: The site at
Phoenix Regional Airport still looks
good for arace. Theyhavejust finished
getting things in order for the
Copperstate Fly-in which has moved to
their site. They are continuing to build
the airport infrastructure. As soon as the
first building phase is done they want to
begin an event program and IFl is first
on their list.
IFI Race Demonstration at Nellis Air
Force Base: Plans are still going forward
for
IFl
to provide a race demonstration
at the Nellis 2002 Air Show (Las Vegas)
on October 5th and 6th,2002.I will be
in Las Vegas next week for meetings
with the Air Force. As I have
mentioned, there is a restriction that
prohibits competition at Air Force Bases
so we will only be able to demonstrate a
race. My thought is to introduce IF1,
talk about its history, pilot requirements,
safety, and perhaps recreate some of the
more exciting races. We will probably
have about l0 -15 air minutes on each
day. We will also have the opportunity
to sell IF1 merchandise to an expected
crowd of about 350,000 people. The
Air Force will cover expenses (travel
rate and hotel) for the IF1 teams. I
would like to have eight race planes that
represent a variety ofracecraft, from the
standard Cassutt to the newer, original
designs.
Please contact me for more information
if you are interested in participating.
Little tr'alls, MN: I am still waiting to
hear back from the organizer in Little
Falls, MN about their Lindbergh
Celebration in August. They were
checking with the military at Camp
Ripley.
NM: I have had a couple of
conversations with the organizer of the
Deming Duck Race (real ducks that
race). He also does air shows and
would like to add a different flavor of
racing to their event, so they are looking
Deming,
at IF1.
Aviation World's Fair: We have a
request to participate in the Aviation
World's Fair in April2003 in Virginia.
We are currently putting together a
package for participation.
If you know of any events that might be
interested in staging an IFl race, please
contact one of the IF1 Board.
Anita
Other Possible Races:
Deke Slayton Airfest. I am sorry to
report that the Deke Slayton Airfest has
been postponed until 2003, but the
organizers would like to see if they can
support a race next year.
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Bill Rogers
I mentioned last issue that my goal for
the year was to combine the Bylaws and
Or garrizational Procedures Rules, which
have similar functions, into one
document. Sections in those rules are
similar and have different wording, but I
do not believe they conflict. In fact, you
need to refer to both for any subject,
because they were written to capfure any
rules that the Texan lawyers chose not to
cover in the Bylaws. My guidelines
were to not change any rules but to
eliminate the duplication.
As I got into this, I found as others have,
that it is not that simple and a host of
other issues arose, not the least of which
is "What is the latest set of rules?".
There are many different formats; rules
are clearly in the wrong place; the
Design Guide (a very useful document
containing data unavailable elsewhere,
some of which used to be in the
Technical rules) has fallen into disuse;
Tech Inspection Procedures were never
really distributed; etc. etc.
My new self imposed guidelines:
Redo ALL the rules in a new consistent
format so that it is obvious to everyone
that they are looking at the current rules.
The Technical Rules cover everything
you need to take an airplane from the
drawing board to the hangar door at
Reno. They are identical to the current
rules (Dec.200l changes included) but
have the new race number dimensions
added since this info is needed to
prepaf,e the airplane. The Design Guide
has been updated and added as an
Appendix. The current Appendix C, the
Pilot Qual Checklist remains, but as
Reference only. This package can then
be distributed to new people.
hangar door to the Prize Giving. This is a
larger revision and eliminates anything to
do with organization of the Corporation;
it clarifies the job descriptions of the
Operations and Tech Directors at the race
site; it incorporates the protest and
violation procedures from the
Organizational Procedures and adds the
Tech Inspection Procedures as a.n
Appendix. The Dec.2001 changes to
pilot certification are included and the
Pilot Checklist is again included as
Appendix C
.
The Bylaws and Or gatizational
Procedure Rules are merged into one
document, maintaining all current
procedures and as much wording as
possible. They cover all the processes
needed to run the Organization Members, Directors, Offi cers, Exec.
Committee, Rules Committee, elections,
voting, etc., but eliminate anything about
the Technical side or running races. This
is a major redo.
I am glad to report that this task is
progressing well and a first draft has been
completed. The process to approval will
obviously be fairly complex so I felt it
important to do the initial work early so
as to leave time for review by the
Procedure Rules Committee, the
Technical & Operations Directors, and
the Secretary. These folks will make sure
nothing has been left out or changed,
and the rules will be passed to the Exec.
Committee and Directors. If this works
smoothly, I hope to obtain approval to
make a distribution to all Members by 12
August 2002, so that we all can vote to
approve them at the Reno AGM. Any
changes will be very limited since we are
not modifying any rules. Real "new"
rules changes will have to be sent back
through the Committees.
The Race Procedure Rules cover
everything needed to get you from the
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BiI
Odds and
In the spirit of this International edition
of
the Forum, here is the schedule for the
The Brits have some handicap pylon
races but not Fl as far as I can tell.
French APAF racing season:
Entrainement APAF i St Flour (base
permanente d'entrainement) :
-27 et28 avrl20A2,
- 18 et 19 mai2002,
- I et2 juin2002 report en cas
de
probldme mdt6o sur les pr6c6dents.
Courses APAF :
- 18 au 2i juillet 2002 Chamblay
- 27 et 28 juillet 2002 St Flour
- 01 septembre2002 Chateauroux
14 et I 5 septembre 2002 Peruga,,Italie
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For the non-French speakers, the first part
lists training dates and the others are
races. Fit one into your holiday schedule
and tell them you are from Formula One
in the US - you will have a great time.
THANKS to our
SPONSORS
The 18rt Annual Air Racing History
Symposium will be held May 3-4,2002
at the Holiday Inn - Airport (216-2527700),2 miles NE of Cleveland
Hopkins Airport. The Symposium
feature speaker will be the first winner
of an International Formula One race
Bill Sullivan. For further info contact
Herman Schaub (440) 234-2301 or Don
Berliner at (7 03) 54 8-0405.
The IFl website is generating
considerable interest. Check out the
News section and the Guestbook. I am
sure that some of t}te correspondents
from all over the world would welcome
contacts from current members. Several
people are looking for information
which I am sur some ofyou have.
The provider of the cable to Bill Rogers
and Formula Forum has decided to sell
out, so the new email address for Bill
and FF has become:
[email protected]
Paul Royko
Equilon Enterprises LLC
Tim Bovee bought a Cassutt last week in
Northern CA and flew it home to
Washington. It will be at Reno this year,
and has never raced before.
My apologies in advance to France for
my French.
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Warning Warning
rning Warning
Peter Bacon & Jim Melvin
Unison lndustries
This is your last Forum if you
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sale or wanted should be sent to the
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