I have been slapped down on this so many times I hate to bring it up again. How many guys would there be that would like to see a carrier contest like I was event director for locally back in the early 60's? Not many, but, I remember bi-planes, modified kits and some published designs. Then Sterling came out with the Gaurdian. Everybody had one it seemed like.
There were also various sizes of the Gaurdian. As far as Class I & II, I seen alot of better scores in Class I than in Class II. Those of us that flew scale, stayed with scale and let the other guys fly profile. The first NATS with profile had over 200 open entries which made it hard to get scale flights in. They only had two decks and Ray Garrigas(hope its spelled right) kept things moving. It was not soon after that it was opened up so you could fly all the carrier events. The bottem dropped out it seemed. Then the sliders came in while I was flying F2C and that was a low point in carrier. Now at the NATS they are lucky to have enough entries to give away the trophies.
I like Richard's endeaver to try and bring Nostalgia carrier to the NATS. I have not competed at the NATS in several years now, in fact have not flown a carrier for several years. Have a brand new profile that the engine been run, but, has not been air borne yet.
I have often dreamed of a carrier contest on the line of VSC, but, get no support. Can you imagine how many carrier designs are in the archives of the AMA site. The main thing that shut down my inspiration to go ahead with it was the elimination of sliders and 30 degree max on level low speed laps. Of course no flying backwards as how can you tell if a plane is only doing .0001 mph. I myself have seen the early days when kits were modified to fly carrier with as in some areas if you got high speed, low speed and a landing you were in for getting something to take home. You have to remember in the old days if it was not a scale airplane with full fuselage you did not get scale points. Had a few profiles win a trophy and they were not 300 square inches either.
Anyway I would let the Sterling P-51 fly profile carrier if they have a 3 view.
DOC Holliday
PS:All the preceding is my ramblings as the wife puts it. jeh