Hi All, for any of you that have An old Too Sweet and want to continue to race it I have prepared a canopy cover that meets the rule and will allow you to compete at any race. These are vacuum formed plastic. It is easily taped in place over the canopy.
You will have to trim it to cover the affected area but there are scribe lines to go by.
I know there are a bunch of these models out there . Mine is older and you can see how it fits. It is clear but can be painted if you like.
The 2024 NATS IS THE FIRST PLACE TO CHECK FOR THIS ISSUE. This piece makes the plane fully compliant with our rules.
One of these was sent to Jim Allen for verification that this fixes this issue.
All the best and happy racing.
Too Sweet mod.
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Kurt Bozarth
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Re: Too Sweet mod.
How can I learn more about why we are in this predicament?
Kurt Bozarth
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Re: Too Sweet mod.
It took 15 years for someone to make a tool to measure the radius of the 2 sweet/sweet 1 canopy. Grunkemeyer was using this measuring tool at the nats while inspecting airframes. The rest is history.Kurt Bozarth wrote: ↑Sat Nov 23, 2024 6:09 pm How can I learn more about why we are in this predicament?
Kurt Bozarth
And I said, here am I send me.
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Re: Too Sweet mod.
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...The rest is history.
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RR,
It's the "history" I am asking about.
Kurt
"The buck stops here...just kiddin'."
President Harry S. Truman
...The rest is history.
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RR,
It's the "history" I am asking about.
Kurt
"The buck stops here...just kiddin'."
President Harry S. Truman
Kurt Bozarth
kbozarth01@gmail.com
kbozarth01@gmail.com
Re: Too Sweet mod.
Hey, Kurt! You want history? I got history!
In the beginning, the earth cooled, then the dinosaurs came. (Oops, sorry, that was my favorite line from Airplane … but it’s still relevant!)
In the beginning, we had a “replica” rule, but people started making “replicas” with things like diamond-shaped canopies and profile belly scoops. So the models looked not so much like a Toni but more like an Origami. And the Lords of Racing saw that this was not good.
So then the Lords decreed that there must be a certain radius on the most prominent protuberances, lest our world slip into the abyss of Origami Racing. They ASSUMED that CDs would enforce the radius requirements, and all would be well. And, for a while, this is exactly what happened. Because in those days, the Builder of the Model Rule prevailed, and people still knew how to glue one balsa stick to another balsa stick. They also knew how embarrassing it was to be publicly exposed as unable to sand a piece of balsa to a specified radius.
Then people quit building their own models. Instead they bought ARFs. CDs backed off a bit on technical inspections, ASSUMING that the ARF producers would follow the rules, and generally they did.
Then some ARFs started looking weirder and weirder (for a number of reasons, not just the radius thing), so the Design Approval committee was formed.
The Design Approval Committee ASSUMED that if they approved a design that an ARF producer submitted, all future copies of that ARF would look like the approved design ... also that the ARF producer and/or the purchaser would make sure that the final product met all the objective specs like wing area, minimum weight, fuselage width & height, etc., as necessary to compete with it.
After getting approval, the ARF producers made their molds, ASSUMING that if the plug for the mold looked like the approved design (as submitted, on paper, with the cute little arrows and callouts and dimensions specified), all would be well.
Customers bought the ARFs from those molds, ASSUMING that the ARF producer had sold them a model that was legal for competition.
Then CDs ASSUMED that if a contestant showed up with an ARF, it was good to go.
Except at the Nats, no CD even had a template to measure the radiuses on all the protuberances on all the airplanes. And even if they did, they didn’t hold up traffic at processing to measure the radiuses on all the protuberances on all the ARFs because—c’mon!—what are the odds of finding one that didn’t pass? They would all be the same since they all came out of the same molds … and, again, everyone ASSUMED that the ARF producers had made sure that the radiuses on the protuberances all met the spec. Why wouldn’t they? Who would take the trouble to mass-produce an illegal airplane?
And then along came Grunk. He knew (as we are all supposed to) that when you ASSUME, you make an ASS out of U and ME.
Grunk’s no radical. He’d just volunteered to help out with processing and, unlike so many others before him, actually did what the CD told him to do: He took the template and measured the radiuses of the protuberances. Like the innocent young spectator at the emperor’s parade, he simply pointed out the obvious. Figuratively speaking, the emperor was buck nekkid. Literally, some of the ARFs didn’t pass.
The fact that it took 15 years for someone—anyone, apparently—to notice that some of our most popular designs don’t meet a basic rule requirement is pretty embarrassing, but better late than never. Thanks to Tom Scott for chipping in that last penny so the buck can really stop here. Truman wasn’t kidding!
Cheers,
Duane (@DayLateDollarShort)
In the beginning, the earth cooled, then the dinosaurs came. (Oops, sorry, that was my favorite line from Airplane … but it’s still relevant!)
In the beginning, we had a “replica” rule, but people started making “replicas” with things like diamond-shaped canopies and profile belly scoops. So the models looked not so much like a Toni but more like an Origami. And the Lords of Racing saw that this was not good.
So then the Lords decreed that there must be a certain radius on the most prominent protuberances, lest our world slip into the abyss of Origami Racing. They ASSUMED that CDs would enforce the radius requirements, and all would be well. And, for a while, this is exactly what happened. Because in those days, the Builder of the Model Rule prevailed, and people still knew how to glue one balsa stick to another balsa stick. They also knew how embarrassing it was to be publicly exposed as unable to sand a piece of balsa to a specified radius.
Then people quit building their own models. Instead they bought ARFs. CDs backed off a bit on technical inspections, ASSUMING that the ARF producers would follow the rules, and generally they did.
Then some ARFs started looking weirder and weirder (for a number of reasons, not just the radius thing), so the Design Approval committee was formed.
The Design Approval Committee ASSUMED that if they approved a design that an ARF producer submitted, all future copies of that ARF would look like the approved design ... also that the ARF producer and/or the purchaser would make sure that the final product met all the objective specs like wing area, minimum weight, fuselage width & height, etc., as necessary to compete with it.
After getting approval, the ARF producers made their molds, ASSUMING that if the plug for the mold looked like the approved design (as submitted, on paper, with the cute little arrows and callouts and dimensions specified), all would be well.
Customers bought the ARFs from those molds, ASSUMING that the ARF producer had sold them a model that was legal for competition.
Then CDs ASSUMED that if a contestant showed up with an ARF, it was good to go.
Except at the Nats, no CD even had a template to measure the radiuses on all the protuberances on all the airplanes. And even if they did, they didn’t hold up traffic at processing to measure the radiuses on all the protuberances on all the ARFs because—c’mon!—what are the odds of finding one that didn’t pass? They would all be the same since they all came out of the same molds … and, again, everyone ASSUMED that the ARF producers had made sure that the radiuses on the protuberances all met the spec. Why wouldn’t they? Who would take the trouble to mass-produce an illegal airplane?
And then along came Grunk. He knew (as we are all supposed to) that when you ASSUME, you make an ASS out of U and ME.
Grunk’s no radical. He’d just volunteered to help out with processing and, unlike so many others before him, actually did what the CD told him to do: He took the template and measured the radiuses of the protuberances. Like the innocent young spectator at the emperor’s parade, he simply pointed out the obvious. Figuratively speaking, the emperor was buck nekkid. Literally, some of the ARFs didn’t pass.
The fact that it took 15 years for someone—anyone, apparently—to notice that some of our most popular designs don’t meet a basic rule requirement is pretty embarrassing, but better late than never. Thanks to Tom Scott for chipping in that last penny so the buck can really stop here. Truman wasn’t kidding!
Cheers,
Duane (@DayLateDollarShort)
Tied for 1st going into Round 1
Re: Too Sweet mod.
Hello Tom how are you ill get one there
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Jacky Sedaka
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