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Deke Slayton 1924
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lF1 President 1985
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CONTENTS
Bill Rogers I 10 3 - Deke Slayton
4 - President's Page Bruce Bohannon I 12'
5 - Odds and -----I 14 Al V/imer I 15 6 - Reflections
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Deke
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DEKE SLAYTON
All of us in Formula
One were saddened to
read of Deke's death on June 13. Deke was
our President through the crucial years of
Formula Oneos history as the factions were
drawn together utder his guidance
as
International Formula One Inc. It was the
personal integrity and the leadership that he
showed that bridged the differences within
the class and set the stage for a truly
professional racing organization.
Deke, a 69
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Deke retired from NASA in 1981 and
suffering from T-38 withdrawal, bought
Iohn Paul Jones's #21 "Stinger'. The first
of many races for Deke was at Wenatchee,
\VA in Aprit of 1982. It was clear then that
there was not much wrong with NASA's
selection process. Deke was a nafural and
qualified and raced the airplane that the
prior owner would not even let him test fly.
year -old Sparta,
WI native, died in his sleep
at
his home in League City, Texas.
He was diagnosed as having a
brain tumor last year. Medical
treatment forced the cancer into
remission,
but the
disease
recently reappeared. A World
War II B-25 combat pilot, Deke
was selected by NASA in 1959,
as one of America's seven
original asffonauts, who later
became the subjects of Tom
Wolfe's book 'The Right Stuff'.
Deke was assigned to the second
Project Mercury orbital mission
1962, but was grounded by an irregular
heart beat. Scott Carpenter flew instead.
He overcame his heart problem and regained
flight status rn L972. At age 51, Deke
tt
finally made
it into space in
1975 as
historic
Apollo-Soyuz
commander of the
US- Soviet link-up mission.
Deke supervised NASA"s asfronaut corps,
first as chief astronaut and then as director
of flight crew operations during the Apollo
moon missions. He was responsible for
selecting the Apollo crews: who was flyrng
with whom and in what order.
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1993
Stinger was donated to the
Museum in Sparks, NV.
Air
Racing
Deke flew 43 races, always it seemed,
preferring the competitioo to winning. His
best performance'was sth in the Gold at San
Diego. In 1987, Deke flew Rick Leonard's
FV to victory in a heat race. He was one
of the few pilots who flew his racer all the
time and it showed.
Our heartrelt condolences go out to Bobbie
and his son Kent.
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PRESIDENT'S PAGE
Bruce Bohannon
Do you want the good news or the bad news
first? Okay, the bad news is: no races except
for Reno were put together for 1993. The
good news: The Aeroshell Speed Dash will
probably be seen, read and heard about by
perhaps 7 million people. Our plans are to
capitalize on this publicrty with more articles
on racing and racers as well as marketing a
racing series to several large companies.
The key to our short term future lies in
keeping up the publicrty momentum from
Oshkosh through Reno and on into the ICAS
convention in December.
Pat Dial of Estrellia Entertainment claims
the Phoenix 500 Air Races and Airshow is
progressing well, and he has already raised
over 1 million dollars to run this event. The
tentative date for the Phoenix 500 is late
April to early May 1994. We have begun
the ground work for a $25,000, 16 airplane
race in Roswell, New Mexico, for early
1994. More deails to come.
We are all greatly saddened by the death of
Deke Slayton. Formula One made donations
of $100.00 each to Deke and Bobbie's
favorite charities. A memorial service was
held at NASA with directives from Deke
himself. Many Mercury 7, Gemini
and
Apollo Astronauts were on hand to recount
some of Deke's great moments as well as
some insight into some of his life's less
glorious achievements. Dusty Dowd spoke
about Deke's contributions to Formula One
and did great justice to a great man. The
service was taped and
Please consider Dan Bond for the position
IFl
of
secretary at the upcoming election at
Reno. Dan has the energy, organizational
skills, coilrmon sense and a marketing ability
that is second to none. Dan is excellent at
problem solving and responds rapidly to
requests for action on every item thrown his
way. Dan works well with committees, and
his ego belies his vast
knowledge of
aviation, marketing and promotion as well as
long range insight to our future. We would
be well served to place this highly motivated
individual into this imporant position to
insure the growth of Formula One.
Tip: If you don't know what the
run-out on your crankshaft flange is,
CHECK IT! The book allows .005 run-out
Racing
but that is considering a metal prop bolted
directly to the flange turning no more than
2700 RPM. Add a shaft extension of 6, 8,
10, or 12 inches and turn it more than 3500
RPM and you can make metal in a hurry.
Once, I took an engine that had been
operating well on a Cassutt with a 4 inch
extension at 3800 RPM for years, installed
it in my pusher with a 10 inch extension and
the engine desffoyed itself in less than 2
hours of flight time. The autopsy revealed
.003 run-out in the prop flange. If you are
planning on installing a longer extension,
you may need to take your crank to the local
grinder, have them press the lugs out and
grind your flange perfectly flat. It helped
me stop eating main bearings immediately.
will be shown on the
NASA channel, and I urge all members to
see it. Our thoughts and prayers go out to
Bruce
Bobbie.
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FORMULAFORUM - JULY
1993
ODDS ANI)
Why pay $10,000 for a Cassutt that has
difficulty making the field, when for only
$3,500 you can race an Udimited! Yes
folks, the Museum of Flying in Santa
Monica, CA is testing a "Iimited number of
applicants' in the dual control P-51 racer
"Miss American. From 10 finalists, two
will be chosen for a fully sponsored UL air
race at Reno '93. Call 310) 314-3615
Bruce may give old
Fl
buddies a break!
Sonny Swenson has snagged a ride in a
new FV Sonerai-L, #8 "Blaze of Glory"
owned by Bob Cowert. Debut was at
Vincennes, IN over July 3-4 weekend. Also
involved was the IFl Timing Team of
Roger and Grace Sturgess.
Peery props are back in business for racing.
Contact him at Peery Experimental Props,
Rt. 9 Box 1648, Livingston, TX 77351.
(409)967 -3467 days, (409)377 -2204 eves.
The National Air Race Museum is seeking
information about the racing career of Judy
Wagner in the Iadies Stock Plane Class and
Fl. Jack Northart is putting together a
display on "Women in Racing'. He can be
contacted at the Museum, P.O.Box 1057
Sparks, NV. (7W) 358-0505.
entry F1 race in a seven class race program.
In
addition to the more familiar
classes,
Radial over 450 h/p, Cabin twin (low wing),
and single engine low wing up to 300 h/p
are included. Australian National Air Race
(ANAR) directors will be at Reno to gain
first hand experience, and make contacts.
Shoestring plans are available from Mr.
Landis G. Ketner, P.O.Box 762, Vero
Beach, FL 329ffi (4f.7) 567-2506 or his
home address: 120 Sopwith Dr., Vero
Beach,
FL
32968.
Thanks are due to Al Wimer for this info.
Also for the photos in his article in the last
issue since neglected to give him the
credits. Sorry! Al's beautiful photographs
are also now available, signed by the pilots,
at The Nut Tree operation at Vacaville, CA
I
Jon Sharp's Team Nemesis has been loaned
an oil arnlyzer system by Computational
Systems Inc. This device analyzes samples
for oil breakdown and the presence of
metallic particles. It will be available for
anyone needing an analysis.
Sandy Sanders has a new address: 13712
Prospect Ave., Santa Ana, CA 92705-2631
Ib
Hansen flew a Cassutt and Brian
Dempsey his Sonerai, in the Sun'n Fun
Sun 60 cross country race. Both had
navigational problems and Ib suffered
overheating. Brian made 3rd in class while
Ib was 2nd in his. Wait tilt next year!
Don Berliner of the Society of Air Race
Historians recently returned from the UK,
where he discovered a group restoring
"Minnow", 'Ballerina" and building a
reproduction of "Little Toni", the original
Cosmic Winds. If you have any close-up
photos taken at Cleveland in '48, please
Skyrace Tasmania 1994 is to be held Feb.
27th - Mar. 6th, 1994, at Launceston Airport,
Tasmania. It is planned to include an 8
contact Chris Jefferson at 2 Eastwell Close,
PaddockWood, Kent TN12 6UH, England.
Tel. 011 M 892 $AB.
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REFLECTIONS.
.
Al Wimer
TIONS. . rroNs. .rroNs
DEKE
Carl Ast, one of the co-builders, with his
brother of SHOESTRING some 13 years
The introduction of Deke Slayton to the
world of Formula One air racing was
fittingly as percipient and low key as the
rnan himself. When he accepted an
earlier.)
invitation to be Grand Marshal of the parade
inaugurating the "Corvallis Aerial Expo '81"
in Corvallis, Oregon, in August of that year,
one has to wonder if he could have foreseen
the downstream consequences. For it was
three days of Fl racing that constituted the
centerpiece of the grandly titled 'Aerial
Expon, and it was here that Deke became
enamored of the colorful little thoroughbreds
and intrigued with their spirited competition.
He was hooked totally after he first sat for a
few minutes in a Formula One cockpit...that
of SHOESTRING, the eight-time national
champion, and had the old master, Ray
Cote, give him an extensive briefing on the
nuances and foibles of air racing.
From that point it seemingly was just a
matter of acquiring the right plane, one that
would be a serious contender with the front
runners of the day. Deke found just such a
plane in the Williams W-17, STINGER, that
from Grenada Hills,
California, John PaulJones, had been racing
successfully for six years, and with which he
was willing to part.
veteran racer
The Art Williams design with its ffademark
elliptical wing was his second of three FL
planes, and his friend, Jones, and a group
known as the JAGWA company spent five
years building it...and it rolled out for its
first test flight barely two weeks before
Reno '71.. (JAGWA is an acronym and
consisted of J. P.'s son David Jones; John
Albriet; Carl Gilmore; Art Williams; and
Stinger exuded a classic beauty that was
common to the V/illiams designs. Nowhere
in the airframe is there a harsh line or
angular edge, and according to Williams, he
firmly believed that the ellipical wing
planform offered the best compromise
between the extremes of high and low aspect
ratio.
With Deke, it was love at first sight and he
acquired the plane barely five months after
that first enchantment in SHOESTRING's
cockpit at Corvallis, and flew his first race
meet at Wenatchee, Washington, at the end
of April '82, where he placed second in a
spirited Silver Race in which a bare two
seconds separated the top three finishers...a
fine introduction for the former astronaut.
The inseparable Deke and his STINGER
were tireless campaigners and were to race
43 times in 18 race meets before the cruel
hand of fate forced this pilot's pilot to hang
up his helmet after the '90 Reno meet. But
his beloved STINGER had one last race to
fly before retirement to public display in the
National Air Racing Museum in Sparks
when DusE Dowd flew her to victory for
Deke in the '91 Silver Race in a fitting
tribute to his friend.
Gone now...but not forgotten...perhaps the
most poignant memory of this grand man
in his eyes as he sat in
SHOESTRING on that day 12 years ago
when he looked across the wing at me,
was the look
smiled broadly, and
dd, nl'm sure it
doesn't get any better than this'...we shall
miss him.
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The official results of Deke's first big race
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SEE NOTE
Reno 1984
Finally a real 'personality' in
1989 Reno Gold
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AI Wimer photos
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Deke and Bobbie at San Diego in 1988
Stinger in 1991
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1993
Al Wimer photos
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Dave Morss
PILOT'S NOTES
SEAT TIME
going to give you a tip that st-muld
knock at ieast 1 second off your lap times'
Thhk about that, that is more than you
could get by major aerodynamic changes or
a tiller engine. It's there for everyone and
it's relatively cheap. It's called Seat Time'
I'm
You know, I've been racing
Formula Vee race cars for two years, and it
is a really competitive class. It's highly
As most
of
regulated and cheap enough that anyone can
Uoy u hot engine and do all the mods
allowed. As a matter of fact, any of the
winning competitors will help you equal
their
car. .{fter you get the car done, it
takes about three years to start going fast
with the lead pack. fire people in the lead
pack, most of whom have been racing at our
two main tracks for ten to twenty years, all
show up one or two days early as its clearly
known tnat you can't be fast after a week of
not driving.
The extreme example of this is the guy I
sold by biplane to. He lived in Arizona and
out in the desert he built up a race course'
He flew this course every day and when he
got to Reno, he was faster than my old lap
ii..s. I asked if I could fly my old plane as
he must have made some great changes to be
faster than I used to go. He agreed and was
delighted when he was still faster than I
*urll had 500 hours in the airplane and had
raced it for three years, as well as flown it
everyday and all over the country; but he
had the more recent seat time.
If you time your first few laps on Monday,
*d
ttt.n your last laps on Wednesday
and
Wednesday was faster, you could have had
Wednesday's times on Monday, if you had
more seat time. It's a vicious circle, the
more you improve your flyinq skills before
the race, the more aware of other things
golng on you'll be and be able to take
iOr.it gt of thos" things because you won't
have to think about flying the airplane'
Dave
Think about that, the track is memorized,
the car is the same and a good driver can
talk you through a lap in real time giving
you hit shift and braking points and his
iescription will be within a half sec of his
lap times and they feel a need for this much
attention to currencY.
We, in IF1, race with another dimension
thrown in and many more variables' Our
track is not available atread of time but seat
time is. We can stimulate a tace course,
making level steep turns looking up
practice
-ot
ortt our shoulder, time our takeoffs to
get the best acceleration profile, practice
emergencies, etc.
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As you know our Pilot Committee Chief is
the only one recognized by the FAA to issue
Racing Licenses and Competency Letters.
Dave Morss suggests that if you are out of
the CA, NV,or OR area and need to renew,
that you contact him, and he will authorize
one of his designees to be his eyes and ears
and/or video tape you to complete the
evaluation.
The following is a listrng of License status.
In addition, pilots whose license is still
current will be required to show compliance
with Rules 3.3.3.3 and 3.3.3.4, prior to
attempting to qualify.
Pilot
good until month end
Greg Doster
9t92
Bill Ippolito
Pending
Hep Porter
Dave Morss
Madelaine Kenney
Bruce Bohannon
Jon Sharp
Mick Richardson
John Housley
Bob Drew
Eric Matheson
Brian Dempsey
Kathy Gray
Troy Channing
Ray Sherwood
Rick Todd
George Budde
Bobby Budde
Jim Miller
Jim Bumford
Scott Morris
Gary Hubler
Sonny Swenson
9t93
9t93
9t93
9t93
9t93
9t93
9t93
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9t94
9t94
9194
9t94
9t94
9t94
9t94
9t94
9t94
9t94
9t94
9t94
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there are any elrors or omissions, please
contact Dave at (415) 591-4103
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AEROSHELL Speed Dash
IFl people and fans, Dan Bond has
given me the following info concerning the
For
Oshkosh event.
The best place to contact the racers is at the
Aeroshell tent on the ramp. This should be
easy to find since Shell is sponsoring the site
map. Contestants and officials will be
wearing designer 'Speed Dash' yellow tee
shirts.
The host hotel will be the 6msrisinn, 5
Drive, 'Waupun, WI (414) 324'
Gateway
2500. (15 miles SW of Oshkosh)
The schedule calls for an attempt at 3:30 on
Thurs., 29luly by Troy Channing and#69.
Bruce Bohannon, #89 will firy on the 3fttt,
with Jim Miller and #14 on the 31st, also at
3:30. On Sunday 1 Aug. at2:30 pm Tom
Hauptman n #4 and Jon Sharp in #3 will
both try for the record. The feeling is that
the NAG timers will be able to cope with
two aircraft on the course at once by then.
It will take at least a 2&.1mlh average to
beat Phil Fogg's record of 261.45
On Sunday night Jon Sharp will be doing a
F1 Forum, and Awards will be presented on
Tlresday night.
CONTEST What the new record will be
(and who will get it) is anyones guess. The
person coming closest to the NAA speed
will receive a valuable pnze to be presented
at the IFl BBQ at Reno. Send estimates to
the Editor by mail or FAX to (805) 4980846. This is open to anyone including the
editor and participants, but entries must be
received by 9:00pm PDT Sunday July 25th.
Only one entry per contestant allowed.
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LE,TTERS
Irtter from Robin Voice, FARA:
Icariada is the aviarton Olympics to be heW
in Greece in 1995. Formula One will be
one of the events. It wouW cefiainly be an
interesting and prestigious event, besides
Icariada 1995
Bill,
As you will have seen elsewhere, the news
on Icariada is "go" and the Greek
that US hanor is at stakc! Lets get
planning.
Ed.
government has commenced funding the
operation. The Greek president
is
collecting money every ten days or so, on
the grounds that if he gets enough money
fast enough, tho government will be so
committed as to ensure the thing will really
happen!
I am told by the FAI that the F1 rules have
never been ratified by the FAI. This may
be because the rules developed by Anne
Welch were never agreed by the USA.
Since the French and the Brits have now
agreed to adopt the US version there should
be no problem.
The copy that I have is dated 1 January
1985, amended 1 lanuary 1991. Can you
confirm that this is latest and that you do not
object to them being filed with the FAI?
I
have not yet heard how the Greeks are
planning to deal with the logistics, the
project notes simply said that transport
would be required. C130's are OK from
Europe but it is a long way to California...
Anyway it would be good to get your group
wound up and enthusiastic. Is there any
tourist charter traffic from the USA to
Athens? Three aircraft in the front hold of
a747 is easy... Let me have your views.
Letter from Lee Cock
Howdy Bill,
Really not much new here, however, I am
enclosing a color copy of the Reno race
pilots picture - finally got all their 'John
Henrys". If anyone wants a copy (8 X 10),
they cost me $2.25 (laser copy). Also, a
copy from my FAA Maintenance Alerts just think how far I can spread all the oil on
my hands!
Eldon Lutz brought over a couple of snaps
of his latest formula -- hopes to have it
ready for Reno. Also, there is a new
Cassutt owner in Nampa - got all excited at
Reno last fall, that plus Greg Doster and
Gary Hubler pumping him up. I havenot
talked to him for a month or so and haven't
seen his ship. Greg D. gives a "buzzn job
every so often - engine sounds good.
Bill H. plans on leaving this next week to
see if he can finish up his boat (in Mexico).
Gary and crew are getting quite busy. He
has been up in S/ashington working with
Jim Harris - getting quite a few acres
covered. Marv says 'HELLO"!!!
Anyway, for now,
Robin
t2
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1993
From the desk of BOB DREW:
Deke Slayton Memorial Service
Enclosed is a copy of the Memorial Service
program that I felt you may like to have. It
was a very impressive service with an
auditorium full of 300-400people, primarily
NASA I believe.
The Speakers listed were all people that
knew Deke personally and each talked in
reference to past experiences with him. All
tal*s were short and to the point and focused
on humorous events not sorrow, as per
wishes of Bobbie and Deke. The Director
of
NASA, three of the original seven
Astronauts, Manager of the Russian
Astronauts @eke's counterpart) when the
USA/Russia did the join up flight and, of
course, DusU were some of the speakers.
Several funny incidents were related like
when Deke got irritated when the Russians
didn't have a bottle of Vodka to open when
they joined up.
The aerial salute scheduled could not be
performed due to the very poor weather
from a large tropical storm. I'm told DusU
flew there in a super cub and had a rough
time.
A few people were there from IFl including
Iim Miller and his wife, George Budde and
his wife, Dekeos crew of Chuck and Ethel
Moore and myself and Bruce Bohannon.
There may have been others?? but with the
large crowd it was difficult to determine.
Also I was sorry not to be able to say hello
to Bobbie but couldn't get through the crowd
to her area before they left through a
separate exit.
I
recognized
a number of Air Force and
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1993
Navy test personnel there as well as several
Astronauts including all 5 of the original 7
surviving.
I, of course,
knew Deke since the mid 50's
when he was an Air Force test pilot at
EAFB as he frequenfly served as a chase
pilot for me on numerous test flights I
conducted on the F4D Skyray and A4D
Skyhawk, as a test pilot for Douglas
Aircraft. Later when he served as an Air
our
Race Parade Marshal at one
races
in
the
early
Corvallis, Oregon, air
'80's we met again and that's when we got
him started in air racing with the F1's.
of
I
have many fond memories and one that
comes to mind was when I qualified Deke's
racer f2l for him at Reno in 1983 because
he couldn't get there in time. I ended up
bumping myself out of the Gold 1st heat
race --Deke got a big laugh out of that. I'm
glad I knew and flew with him -- and I'll
Bob
miss him.
RESULTS - Grand Prix de France
Meaux - Esbly, June 26-27 1993
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Chadwick Cassutt #66
Lobet Cassutt #8
Steve Thompson Cassutt #7
Andrew
William
J.
Gavelle
DeBrus
H.
Simon
Noel
Cassutt
Willbourne Cassutt
Bertevas
#31
Shoestring #77
Cassutt
#99
#51
Top Qualifier was Robin Voice at 227.7
m/h. For some reason Robin did not feature
in the GP but did well in the heats.
Chadwick and Lobet finished very close
together. I am sure it will all become clear
when
I
see a race report!
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SECRETARIAL STUFF
A sad month; I talked to Deke in April and
he said that he would be much more active
in IF1, but such is the world.
The Board of Directors decided that the
Reno race will be dedicated to Deke. Stu
has already received confirmation that the
museum will lend us number 2l to put in
front of the office, Al Wimer has agreed to
do a photo spread to go with it.
The directors also agreed to forward $600 to
the people inthe Shell world record attempts
at Oshkosh to produce a brochure on IFl.
There are considerable numbers of
promoters at this event and it is the best
publicity that IFl could get. Dan Bond has
been doing terrific work on this event, such
that if he wants to be Secretary next year he
has my vote.
There
is, don't hold your breath, the
possibfity of a couple of races early on next
year. At least the noise is coming relatively
early this year for a change.
Do not forget that entries for Reno must be
in by July 30th. I would suggest requesting
a
return receipt. The pnze money
breakdown is that published in the last issue
of the Forum. Pilots must have all their
paperwork up to date and correct. Our
minimum requirements must be met, so get
out there and put the necessary flights on
your aeroplane and get the takeoffs and
landings down pat. Ward and Dave will not
tolerate any excreta on these matters so
make sure everything is signed off properly.
Roger Sturgess
the job before you fill their name in the
appropriate slot. After the return of the
nomination forms the ballots containing
those members that have received two or
more nominations will be sent out in early
August. The only position not on the ballot
is the President who has a year more to
serye... I think he has done damn well!
Grace and I decided to hot foot it out to
Vincennes, in deepest Indiana to do some
timekeeping for the Vees over the holiday
weekend. IFI member Brian Dempsey
took the top spot, with IFl vet Carl (ook
out I am dieting for Reno) Swenson bringing
Bob Cowart's aeroplane into seventh spot.
The weather was a ninef degree sauna
bath....I have never, in my life, experienced
anything like it... which may be why this
first time show had little local support. The
guys put on four good races on their two
mile course with their usual handicap start.
The other IF1 fluln flying,
Butch
Mankovich, had to start off the back line
with Brian which was unfortunate as Mr.D
had set a new quahfying record at 175 plus
to Butch's 148. Needless to say the
handicap was too great for Butch to reach
the front runners.
Cheers
Rog
Nomination forms will be in the mail shortly
so if you have any one you wish to propose
for office, please check that they really want
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FORMULAFORUM - JULY
1993
TECH TIPS
Tom DeHart
ROCKIN' AND ROLLIN'
Lee Cock came out with a couple of news
worthy points to provoke some thought.
The first is that the nearly mythical roller
rocker arms are now almost, don't hold your
breath, PMA parts. However, as of 9:00 pst
on July 8th, they had not received the FAA
stamp of approval. As this will reach
everyone with only two months to Rbno,I,
with the backing of the Chairman of the
Technical Committee and the Executive
Committee, am making a binding ruling that
roller rocker arms are not legal for use in
IFl aeroplanes for the remainder of 1993.
This deadline allows the subject to be
discussed and voted on at Reno... if FAA
approval is obtained... and if the vote is
positive as regards the use of ftese rockers
then they would be legal from Jan. L, L994.
The second subject
is an economical
crankshaft. A friend of Lee's has purchased
a brand new crank from a dealer in Idaho
for about $1500. This crank may be one that
has been around for some time but has just
gained FAA status. More research to be
done but hopefully it will be a welcome
relief from tre high cost of parts.
A
reminder of the nrls shenges that took
effect as of last Jan 1st.,
a) 6.1.9.1now reads:- Only Continental "C'
series or FAA PMA 0-200 pistons will be
used. The pistons are free of restrictions
except for wrist pin location and minimum
weights. There will be four ring grooves, no
more no less, and each groove must contain
at least one piston ring.
b) 6.5.3 a/c must have 2 metal wheels and
FORMULA FORUM -
ruLY
1993
tires will be no smaller than 500x5 type and
they had better touch the ground under takeoff weight.
c) 6.5.4 adds the sentetrce:- Pants or fairings
must provide a clear and unobstructed view
for brake and wheel inspection.
d) 6.8.1 the fuel tank must have a minimum
usable capacity of 5 U.S. gallons.
I forgot 6.1.9.1.h. the minimum float length
is now 1.75 inches.
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