NMPRA

How about a contest like this………… A team race with one seasoned expert and a new pilot on each team with both of their scores combined. The team with the highest combined score at the end of the contest wins. This format should entice the seasoned expert to seek out and find potential new Pylon race...

Around ten years ago at Whittier Narrows the San Gabriel Radio Control League was running EF-1 and 424 on a 400’ course. This is the same course that we ran California Quickie on in the late 1970s to the mid 1980s. This was the AMA QM short course. We ran these races for several seasons. The 400’ co...

Von Der Hey
AMA 27677 7c
422, 426

It looks like a “Texas Outlaw” or a slightly modified “Scat Cat” in California the Q-500 rules stated that the horizontal stabilizer had to have an 80 square inch area.

It looks like a “Texas Outlaw”

I watched Danny Kane race a Scat Cat which is a forty year old design against 424 Quickies at the Tangerine. The electric Scat Cat was just as fast as the 424 Quickies for seven laps and then it would slightly slow down for the remaining three laps. Personally I was very impressed with what I saw, e...

The ramp was created to help make the needling of the Nelson engine more docile. This was done at a time when many of the airframes were not as rigid as they are today, the front of the engine mount was rarely tied down and the use of the remote needle valve was not common. We have evolved to the po...

Is there a flyer for this contest?

I have many photos from that 1988 contest. Mike DelPonte was the CD. Bob Smith won the contest. Yours truly finished second and got fast time. Keith Davidson won best of show. Darwin Berry supplied the trophies. They were Az. copper license plates. They were stamped 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc. fast 1, Pretty...

Doug, if you are going to use my AMA number you have to call for me.

Please add Von Der Hey to the list. Teammates TBD.
Thank you.

So wear prescription Ray Bans and let the chrome blind the competition.

Since we are on the ongoing topic of nipples.......
Did you hear about the 500 Indians that were born without nipples?
They call them “The Indian-nippleless-500”.

Thank you for the information Trey.

So just to be clear, which states does the NMPRA consider to be Midwest States?