Profiles photographs and some some personal impressions of the people and equipment invloved in the formative era of FAI T/R. Recent US competition activity at the Whittier Narrows 1997 F2C Team Selection contest is also included.
Photos and articles for B team racing and information on the attempts at reviving both B Team Racing and (gasp) C Team racing. Included are both the original rules and proposed 'new' rules.
C/L speed-related articles including the 1999 US F2A team selection contest, pictures of Electric speed, and a couple articles on the TWA team that chancged speed forever with the successful tuned pipe.
The early history of rat-racing on the east and west coasts and special rules for Goodyear -- Northwest modifications to the AMA rules to turn the event away from the very good but big-bucks engines currently needed to be competitive.
Notes of a moderate technical level that attempt to explain some of the important physical parameters of flight of small aircraft. The atmosphere is covered extensively, the boundary layer, Mach Number, gyroscopic torques and other aspects are treated.
GO West and the Whittier Narrows Get Together