What is the actual design date to be eligible to particpate in classic stunt for the year 2007?   

Bob Z.

31 Dec 1969.  Unless you are going to a contest like Marietta, GA with a rolling cut off date, which would go back 25 years from now. That would make the cutoff date: 1981.   Now where is that Stiletto I just finished??

IIRC, the folks at Marietta (and some others) call their event: "Nostalgic Stunt" and not Classic Stunt in an effort to eliminate confusion.

Ron

I still think the cutoff should be at least 25 years younger than the pilot!!

Old Time was an era, and pre-'52 is as good as any.  A classic is what was flying when you were a kid or a young man, say under 25 years old.

I still think the cutoff should be at least 25 years younger than the pilot!!

Old Time was an era, and pre-'52 is as good as any.  A classic is what was flying when you were a kid or a young man, say under 25 years old.

Hi Phil,

Then are your "Classic planes" Barnstormers and AA Sr.s??  Or maybe even a Yates Mad Man??   

Had to get you on that, buddy.

I have a differing opinion............  "Classic" is as much an *ERA* as OTS.   There is absolutely NOTHING that stops anyone from flying any design after Jan. 1, 1970 in any PAMPA class.  Dan Banjock used to fly a Stiletto, and did very well with it.  A USA-1 in the right hands can win just about any competition in the World, and it yu just GOTTA have a pipe ni it, go ahead!  BTW: the USA-1 is Classic legal.

So, IMHO, we should leave Classic like OTS and have a set cut-off which is fine where it is.  To the chagrin of most Stunt Pilots, the real fact is that just a *handful* of people will EVER win the Walker Trophy (it's like they told us in school that ANYONE *can* grow up to be President of the USA), so why not fly a design that will fly great and not worry if it is a 2006 design??  Steve Fitton won a bunch of Advanced meets flying a Gieske Nobler in the VERY recent past (and a UGLY "yellow" one at that!). 

Bill <><

Re: Bill's reply #7:

Thanks, Bill!

There are no AMA national Classic, or for that matter, Old Time Stunt, rules. And, PLEASE, let's keep it that way...?

However, if a local variant is much different from what we've expected nationwide over the past 10-15 years, I sure hope the organizers make it clear in all publicity for their meets. Simple wording can be something like...

Rolling 25 year Classic cutoff...

ARFs do (or do NOT) get Appearance Points...

No-Flap bonus not awarded in OTS II

Diesel Bonus 5 pts (or 0) pts

Electrics welcome (or not...)

These are things that can, or likely might be, seen differently in different regions. It'd sure be nice to know if one needs to plan significant travel miles to a certain meet...

The contention was to keep the newer "foamies" out of the mix.  That would include the Genesis, Stunt Machine, Yank by Bill Simons, and Volunteer by Jim Lynch.  You all need to remember that you can, without circumventing AMA safety rules, set some of your own rules at an AMA contest.  Thus you too can run a Nostalgia event just like Tom Dixon does in Marietta and use the rolling cut-off date like Tom does.  You do HAVE to publish the rules changes in your flyer and AMA advertisement.  This would actually bring in to focus some of my own designs, such as the Flying Red Horse, Folkerts SK-4, my Buccaneer I, II, III and IV, and my Pirata.  They were all built and flown prior to the end of 1981.

Allen Brickhaus