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Who is the guy that has Windy's Novonta?
« on: September 22, 2017, 08:35:59 PM »
I think I heard that someone in Canada has Windy's Novonta. I'm looking for contact info.

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Re: Who is the guy that has Windy's Novonta?
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2017, 08:44:10 AM »
Paul,
Was it Len Bourel?  Might be able to get in touch with him through the Balsa Beavers website.
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Re: Who is the guy that has Windy's Novonta?
« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2017, 08:45:40 PM »
I think that's him. Thanks John.
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Re: Who is the guy that has Windy's Novonta?
« Reply #3 on: September 24, 2017, 05:54:24 AM »
I believe the story is that Len built a Novanta look-a-like.  He did the best he could on it since plans weren't available.  When Windy found out, he sold (gave?) him the Novanta.

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Re: Who is the guy that has Windy's Novonta?
« Reply #4 on: September 24, 2017, 08:28:15 PM »
I asked Len today and yes he has the model.

He was busy winning a 500 lap Goodyear race instead of doing the pattern . The weather has been very hot for this time of year around these parts . It makes me think dropping the 100 mile race was a good idea .

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Re: Who is the guy that has Windy's Novonta?
« Reply #5 on: September 24, 2017, 08:43:20 PM »
Thanks Brad
I sent him an email to the address listed here.
Can you ask him to hit me up?
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Re: Who is the guy that has Windy's Novonta?
« Reply #6 on: September 25, 2017, 06:27:26 AM »
Paul,
If you don't hear from him for a while he was working on moving after the contest . He has been difficult to reach for a while . Moving sucks.
We live about 4 hours apart - I'm much closer to Detroit than Toronto. I mentioned the post to him so he knows about the interest concerning the model .

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Re: Who is the guy that has Windy's Novonta?
« Reply #7 on: September 25, 2017, 07:12:24 AM »
Here is Len's plane at the 2018 Brodaks contest.  You can see the resemblance to the Novanta which Len was striving for.  As I recall, he didn't have the Novanta plans when he built this.

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Re: Who is the guy that has Windy's Novonta?
« Reply #8 on: September 25, 2017, 08:16:55 AM »
2018?

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Re: Who is the guy that has Windy's Novonta?
« Reply #9 on: September 25, 2017, 08:58:13 AM »
It should be mandatory that Len's boots be included whenever his planes are pictured.

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Re: Who is the guy that has Windy's Novonta?
« Reply #10 on: September 25, 2017, 02:17:15 PM »
OOps!  2016.

2018 was like I was having a premonition or something!

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