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Title: Who is the guy that has Windy's Novonta?
Post by: Paul Taylor 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.

Thanks
Paul

Title: Re: Who is the guy that has Windy's Novonta?
Post by: John Paris 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.
John

Title: Re: Who is the guy that has Windy's Novonta?
Post by: Paul Taylor on September 23, 2017, 08:45:40 PM

I think that's him. Thanks John.

Title: Re: Who is the guy that has Windy's Novonta?
Post by: Scott Richlen 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.

Title: Re: Who is the guy that has Windy's Novonta?
Post by: Brad LaPointe 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 .

Brad

Title: Re: Who is the guy that has Windy's Novonta?
Post by: Paul Taylor 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?
Thanks
Paul

Title: Re: Who is the guy that has Windy's Novonta?
Post by: Brad LaPointe 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 .

Brad

Title: Re: Who is the guy that has Windy's Novonta?
Post by: Scott Richlen 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.

Title: Re: Who is the guy that has Windy's Novonta?
Post by: BYU on September 25, 2017, 08:16:55 AM

2018?

Title: Re: Who is the guy that has Windy's Novonta?
Post by: peabody on September 25, 2017, 08:58:13 AM

It should be mandatory that Len's boots be included whenever his planes are pictured.

Title: Re: Who is the guy that has Windy's Novonta?
Post by: Scott Richlen on September 25, 2017, 02:17:15 PM

OOps!  2016.

2018 was like I was having a premonition or something!

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