Hey Charles, that plane in your avatar is one of the ones some of us were looking at for our coxengineforum speed contest. That's a really badass looking ship.
Like me, most of us are new to speed planes, so it will probably be a comedy of trials and errors, but much fun. Someone over there is always good at finding a way to break up the Winter doldrums. We'll all post videos of our fastest ten laps, and learn a lot in the process. We have the traveling propeller, the traveling engine, which is a Tee Dee .049, an annual reedy tach race. And now this first speed contest which was thought up by Jim Roselle, uses semi-scale profiles and Cox reed valve engines. Duke, Jim, Phil K., and I are some of the ones who are sneaking over here trying to scavenge a little extra know how about the topic... in case y'all were wondering what we were suddenly up to with the speed plane talk.
Rusty