If that is the airplane I think it is, it has the distinction of never having lost a contest, and that includes some team trials, a Nats or two, and a World Championships.
If that is the airplane I think it is, it has the distinction of never having lost a contest, and that includes some team trials, a Nats or two, and a World Championships.
I always like the pink and chartreuse Impact. Man, did that sucker fly. And showed up well against stormy skies.
Walker and "THE BOMBER
1998 Impact
Jose Modesto
Paul,
Wasn't that Pink and greenish/yellow Impact done with the day-glo colors and was supposed to be red and yellow?
This is the plane that preceded the "Bad News", sort of....
I flew this plane at the 1981 Nats. It did OK. 1st top 10 finish!
I then built a new and lighter plane for the '82 Nats. Same design, but it weighed 52 ounces!
I managed to loose it a few weeks prior to the Nats. A frayed cable in the handle caused it to go in on asphalt. Now much left, except the wing spar (and that's another story).
Just prior to leaving, our moderator (Don Shultz) insisted on inking on the man on the wing watching his plane break a line and PENETRATE the ground. The caption said "Bad News"!!!
That name stuck, and the next year the Bad News was created. It took some of the lines of the FE, however, I switched back to a swept back 1/4 chord to get a straight hinge line. The first year out with the Bad News I came in 2nd. And, it was off to the races from there....All from a crashed FE (not the one pictures) just before the Nats.
Thanks again for the great art work Don!
Paul
Paul, how did you make the B-17 fly, and what drove you to build something so big?!?
Boeing F-35? Guess Lockheed had nothing to do with it? Boing-Boing's design (X-32) won the world's ugliest plane contest. Lockheed's F-35 design looked right, flew right and won - right?
Gee,
NO answer, I know it's not time to be driving out to the Nats yet, soooo, maybe I struck a nerve somewhere?
Jim Pollock, ???
So thats NOT a modified Nobler , then. Paul . ?
And I'll say that Paul's latest plane is pretty impressive.
The This and That (or Impact if you insist). Very neat plane in the air. Weighs under 62oz and it has to have 25oz of that in drive train. A feat of building if ever there was one.
Congrats on that new plane, Paul. It is very cool.
Yes! He will be in Deer Park,, thats really close,, well reletivly close, to another guy I know who has flown some electric, and wants to progress his flying skill,, hmm maybe"?