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JULY/AUGUST 2011 FORMULA FORUM Volume XXI Number 4 IF1 INC. Formula Forum © 2011 EXECUTIVE TOM DEHART International Formula One COMMITTEE Technical Director Pylon Air , Inc. All 5220 Walton Dr. DOUG BODINE rights reserved. Klamath Falls, OR 97603 President 541-882-1589 Formula Forum is the offi cial 6299 East Highway #44 fl yfastfl ylow@fi reserve.net publication of International Rapid City SD 57703 Formula One Pylon Air 605-393-7112 BOB BEMENT Racing, Inc., a Texas non-profi t [email protected] Operations Director corporation. Member of the Air 7320 Old Stage Trail BRIAN REBERRY Kelsey, CA 95667 Racing Council of the United Vice President States. Published bi-monthly. 530-622-1434 4632 W. Garden Court [email protected] Boise, ID 83705-3985 DISCLAIMER Articles appearing herein may 208-724-6841 KIRK MURPHY be edited and are the opinion of [email protected] Pilot Committee Chairperson the authors and not necessarily 6140 Christa Lynn Pl. the opinion of IF1 Inc. DAN PETERS Prescott, AZ 86310 Secretary/Treasurer 928-710-3105 FORUM Send contributions to: 1438 Morningside Dr, [email protected] Longmont, CO 80504 CONTRIBUTIONS Editor, Lista Duren 720-308-1596 JOHN HOUSLEY 3233 Via Alicante #48 [email protected] Technical Rules Committee La Jolla, CA 92037 Chairperson Phone: 858-452-7112 DIRECTORS 1020 Chesterfi eld Forest Dr. Cell: 858-442-1811 Chesterfi eld, MO 63005 E-mail: [email protected] JAY JONES 314-518-8542 All contributions remain Promotions Committee [email protected] Chairperson property of Formula Forum. TOM WATKINS P.O. Box 761 Procedure Rules Committee Buena Vista, CO 81211 MEMBERSHIP Membership in IF1 is open Chairperson 719-661-4484 to pilots, owners, crews and 10120 Brookpark Blvd. #313 [email protected] technical people active in Calgary, Alberta T2W1E1 Formula One Air Racing for *Note corrected email ad- Canada $60/yr. Anyone may join as a dresses for Jack Suierveld 403-607-8457 non-voting Associate Member, and Jay Jones [email protected] $35/yr. Applications available from the secretary or on-line. CONTENTS RULES For IF1 Technical and Procedure rules, check on-line at: 3 State of the Union Executive Board WEBSITE www.if1airracing.com 4 Profi les from PRS 2011 Naomi West Jim Cunningham, Webmaster [email protected] - Lowell Slater (p. 4) COVER PHOTOS - Bill Parodi (p. 5) Top: Brian Reberry prepares rookie Bill Parodi to fl y N-A-Rush. Photo by Naomi West - Stephen Partridge-Hicks (p. 8) Center: IF1’s PRS participants. Photo by Naomi West 4 Calendar Bottom Left: Crew chief Kevin Broughall readies rookie Stephen Partridge Hicks to fl y Miss USA. 6 IF1 at PRS 2011 Brian Reberry Photo by Naomi West. photos: Naomi West and Ken Linde Bottom Right: Instructor Kirk Murphy tours the race course with a PRS student. Photo by Ken Linde 10 IF1 Marketplace

2 FORMULA FORUM, JULY 2011 IF1 State of the Union n the spirit of open communication on the bank account and it is in his Doug Bodine Iand transparency, this article was name only! We have tried through written to give you, the membership, several channels and the account is an idea what has been happening untouchable without that person. This behind the scenes during the past is where the big problem comes in. year.Your current board of directors Your Formula One board, through has been very busy trying to become every possible channel, has not been a smooth , organized, and able to locate or receive contact back responsible organization. This has that individual. For close to a year

been no small task! now, every address, phone number, Photo by Bill Rogers friend of a friend, certifi ed letters, and First, we would like to bring the even ‘in-person’ visits to the bank by Brian Reberry membership up to speed on a few key Smokey with notarized paperwork issues that have escalated into a very have yielded nothing. serious matter. By piecing together all of the available In September of 2010 Dan Peters information, we believe there is close took over as Secretary Treasurer. to $15,000 that is unaccounted for. During the transition, Dan was not given suffi cient documentation in What does this mean for moving order to bring the membership into forward? In accordance with our Photo by Bill Rogers compliance. He was merely provided bylaws, it is your board’s job to protect a box of miscellaneous and outdated and operate in a manner that is best for Dan Peters papers that was relevant a few terms Formula One. Whatever legal action ago. Now this might not seem like we take will be within our bylaws and that big of a deal until you realize that guided by professional legal counsel. there were no meeting minutes, no current membership lists, no fi nancial Moving forward: First, you must reports, no tax info, and no banking understand that Formula One as information. an organization is solvent and will survive. To get through this, like any Let’s look at the seriousness of a few company in lean times, we might have of those items: to tighten our purse strings, volunteer Nurmi Photo by Birgitta more, and be creative. We need No tax information: There are no IRS participation. If you are on the fence tax fi lings for the past few years. As about racing this year, please stop a result fi nes have been assessed! hesitating and join in! Also remember At this time, we are working with that membership dues are an important an accountant and doing our best to aspect of our fi nancial solvency, so resolve the matter. please be sure to pay your dues and Banking: Without fi nancial reports or update your membership account if minutes, there is no way of knowing you have not already done so. Contact exactly how much capital Formula Dan for any information or to make a One should have. Bank statements payment. Every little bit helps! you say? They are missing too! See you in Reno! With that, only one person was put — Your Executive Board FORMULA FORUM, JULY 2011 3 IF1’s PRS 2011 Graduates Interviewed by Naomi West Three students completed PRS with the intention of racing in the Formula One class this September: Lowell Slatter, Bill Parodi, and Stephen Partridge-Hicks. Their profi les appear on pages 4, 5, and 8 of this issue. Additional coverage of current and former IF1 members appears on pages 6 and 7.

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4 FORMULA FORUM, JULY 2011 ill has been a recreational pilot for enough fl ying and don’t bother BILL PARODI Babout 18 years. His aerobatic friends him. It’s only when he looks down from a introduced him to racing. He came to his tall structure or jumps with a parachute. fi rst Reno National Championship Air Races in 2008. When he attended PRS in At Reno, he thinks how legendary this 2010, he had just bought N-A-Rush from place is and about all the people that have Brian Reberry. This year Bill brought the raced before him. He thinks about the plane to PRS to complete his pilot quals people that supported him and not letting and practice on the race course. them down. But when the canopy closes and he’s in the start position, all that goes Bill lives in Madrid, Spain. His company, away and it’s just him and the . UAV Navigation, has developed an West Photo by Naomi advanced telemetry system for Red Bull Once in the air, his mind clears and races which have only one plane on the he totally focuses on the three crucial course at a time. The system displays aspects: 1. How the engine is running. 2. the combined competitors’ telemetry Maintaining altitude, and 3. Following the information to the spectators. This year race course. Everything else is irrelevant. the NCAR Sport Class is using UAV Pulling G’s on the pylons, he instinctually Navigation telemetry to show crew and knows this is his “reason for being.” He When you get spectators what’s happening in the planes says, running the race course is a total rush old, you have during the race. but you still have to have a constant reality a lot of time to check—while grinning. After landing, all Bill’s crew chief, Alvaro Navas works for think about the him at UAV Navigation, but Alvaro points the pre-fl ight thoughts come rushing back, out that when he takes charge of the plane but he does have the biggest grin. things that you at Stead Field, then for the duration of the One thing that he did note during the fl ight really wanted races, he becomes the boss! was that he was so focused on following to do but didn’t. Bill had some doubts about entering into the trajectory of the vertical and horizontal racing after a good friend with lots of that he wasn’t able to monitor the engine experience miscalculated his altitude and and gauges as he would have liked. But, was killed in an aerobatic accident. His he believes that, with more practice time concern was if a person with that kind of on the course, the trajectory will become Crew Chief Alvaro skill and experience could be killed in this more second nature and he can be more Navas (left) who sport, what chance would he have? in-tune with the plane and the engine. works for Bill Parodi will take charge of But he talked with an older friend who Bill looks forward to spending as much N-A-Rush at the told him that when you get old, you have time as he can running the course. races.in September. a lot of time to think about the things that you really wanted to do but didn’t. “Don’t have regrets,” he said, “go buy some insurance and go race!” Bill took this advice to heart. Now he’s ready to rock and roll with no regrets!

Bill built his fi rst plane, took aerobatic training, and even took a trip to parachute out of a plane just to learn the experience in case he was ever put into a position where he needed jump. Bill does have an

innate fear of heights, but interestingly Photo by Ken Linde

FORMULA FORUM, JULY 2011 5 IF1 Rookies an i all, Rookie school was a success HMr. John Housley and Mr. Kirk Mu possible without your great help and h This year we offi cially had fi ve rookie Guillermo (Bill) Parodi and Lowell Sl returned for a refresher since they both Photo by Ken Linde

Stephen Stephen Partridge-Hicks, Mike Dutton Partridge Hicks the rookies! fl ew #40 Miss USA at PRS Returning racers included Tom Watkin intention of ‘getting course time’ Bill Parodi fl ew #36 N-A-Rush Everyone did a great job and had a saf

Photo by Ken Linde

Tom Watkins practiced fl ying the pylons in #20 Pooder 

Thom Richards appeared this year in Unlimited #38 Precious Metal  Photo by Ken Linde Steve Senegal  IF1 champion in 2010 fl ew the Sport Class pylons in his Super RV8. Photo by Naomi West Photo by Naomi

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John Parker, IF1 champion in ‘77, ‘79, and ‘80 brought his Sport Class Thunder Mustang to PRS. 

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6 FORMULA FORUM, JULY 2011 nd Alums at PRS 2011 as usual this year thanks to the hard efforts of urphy. Thank you both as this would never be hard work! es with two of those being returning rookies. latter had been through school before but Photo by Naomi West h should have there in September! John Kokshoorn, who raced IF1’s #12 Outrageous in 2008, returned this year in Jet #11 Screaming Eagle. n, and Kevin Anderson fi nished out the list for ns and Phillip Goforth. Both with the fe week! — Brian Reberry Photo by Naomi West Scott Krause, who sponsored IF1’s Miss USA team in 2010, is fl ying in the Jet Class in 2011.

Photo by Ken Linde Philip Goforth was seen fl ying Holbrook Maslen’s #44 Judy Photo by Naomi West Photo by Naomi Brian Reberry straps Bill Parodi into N-A-Rush.

Naomi West Photo by Naomi West Photo by Naomi IF1’s PRS Class: Tom Watkins (pilot/owner of #20 Pooder), Bill Parodi pilot/owner of #36 N-A-Rush, Alaro Navras (Bill Parodi’s crew chief), Stephen Partridge Hicks (SPH, pilot of #40 Miss U.S.A), Kirky Murphy (instructor), Kelly Hathaway (guest of SPH), Kevin Broughall (crew chief for SPH, also known as Chief Spanner Monkey), Philip Goforth (pilot), John y Naomi West Housley (instructor), Kevin Anderson (PRS student). Not shown are students Mike Dutton and Lowell Slatter. FORMULA FORUM, JULY 2011 7 IF1’s PRS 2011 Graduates (continued) STEPHEN “SPH” Stephen, known universally as “SPH”, that face into wind – much of it is fl at, was born in London and has lived in PARTRIDGE-HICKS especially East Anglia where his family England all his life apart from a short lived. The group he fl ew with imported spell at “the other Cambridge” when he winch towing of hang gliders in the early went to Harvard. His interest in 1980’s, initially with a “pay-out” winch started at age 10 when presented with and then with a more conventional “pull- a school project to build a glider from in” winch with a VW engine and two balsa wood and glue. He launched his drums of wire. This had its limitations carefully constructed glider from the and so the group went off to Hungary to roof of the school to see it turn upside learn how to aerotow in 1986. One thing down and spiral straight into the ground. led to another and having learned how Despite numerous modifi cations it never to follow the tug and clip off into lifting really fl ew. But the head teacher’s glider air, SPH was pretty soon fl ying the tug

Photo by Naomi West Photo by Naomi gracefully soared, circled twice, and himself. This was the primitive “twin gently landed. SPH was hooked and Trabant”, a locally made microlight wing determined to fl y himself one day. powered by a ‘trike that had two East He admits German Trabant engines bolted together. At 16, SPH went to Losiemouth in to having a It produced so much smoke that the hang Northern Scotland, an RAF base operating glider pilot could often not see the tug, “bad aviation F4 Phantoms, to learn to glide as part only the tow line that disappeared into a addiction” and of the school’s Combined Cadet Force cloud of smoke! Back home he got his (CCF). He fi rst soloed in light drizzle microlight pilots license and was soon has fed it well with the Phantoms taking off with full over the past 15 one of the regular tug pilots on the hang reheat on a parallel runway. At 17 the fi eld. years or so. CCF was providing regular air experience fl ights and his fi rst taste of aerobatics Much later, in 2003, he was a member in De Havilland Chipmunks. And at 18 of Great Britain’s World Championship he got his fi rst fl ight in a Jet Provost, winning three-man team at Lake Chelan out of RAF Shawbury in the West of in Washington State, fl ying his Swiftlite, England, where the jets were used to train a 42’ span foot launched glider, a sort of radar controllers. After 45 minutes of ultimate hang glider, which can be looped procedures the pilot took him for some (!) and has a 23:1 glide ratio. proper jet aerobatics. Looping through a thin layer of cloud into the bright These days, SPH lives and works in sunlight and blue skies above thoroughly London where he is the co-founder and impressed him, and he promised himself a managing director of Gordian Knot “one day” to fl y one of these beasts an asset management company. He himself. spends his weekends in the East Anglian countryside at the family farm, part of Photo by Naomi West Photo by Naomi Kelly Hathaway is a As a student in 1976, he was too broke which has unsurprisingly become an core member of SPH’s to fl y proper planes, so he started hang airstrip. This is where he keeps his toys. “blondetourage” and gliding. This became a lasting passion— He admits to having a “bad aviation Team FLIRT (Florida he has since fl own hang gliders all over addiction” and has fed it well over the past International Racing Europe and in the US. 15 years or so. Team) which includes Thom Richards fl y- evolved from simple ridge SPH purchased his dream Jet Provost in ing the Unlimited soaring into thermal fl ying, to cross 1998, but the CAA took a dim view of a Precious Metal and country distance fl ying, to racing round microlight and glider pilot racing about Lachie Onslow fl ying courses into goal fi elds as part of a team. the countryside and fl ying aerobatics in an the Iskra Onslaught in the Jet class. But not all the planet has suitable hills ex-military jet (even it was a trainer). So

8 FORMULA FORUM, JULY 2011 he bought an RV-4 to get his SEP PPL and Stephen Partridge- to learn both how to fl y a tail dragger and Hicks (SPH) sat in do basic aerobatics. The jet conversion the cockpit of Miss soon followed. Then he set about building USA in the IF1 pit an RV-8 as a “proper transport plane” and last September and persuaded his friend formation school and proper aerobatics Thom Richards to let came next. Somehow he acquired a Yak him race her in 2011. 50, which has become his primary solo aerobatic display plane.

The aged Jet Provost was fi nally retired for scrap (and furniture) in 2008 and so he bought a Strikemaster (a grown up JP with a bigger engine and hard points for underwing stores, built in 1974), Photo by Lista Duren which is fl own in formation with a team marriages, he now feels truly blessed to of four. He is currently completing his have the lovely and supportive Miss Kelly conversion training to fl y the Gnat, a late by his side. She came out to PRS and will “God bless 1960’s swept wing, fast jet and is close to support the team at the races, too. completing the six year restoration of a the FAA for Mk 17 Seafi re, the Griffon-engined, naval Looking ahead, SPH says that he can allowing us to variant of a Spitfi re. He feels that his see following in Thom’s footsteps, with do this!” aviation addiction is “almost complete”. a couple of years fl ying in IF1, and then some time in the Jet class before bringing SPH met Thom and Maggie Richards in the Seafi re out to race in the Unlimited 2003 when he went to Kissimmee, Florida class. For now, though, SPH, exuberant to fl y the P51-TF two-seat Mustang from his fi rst time on the IF1 course, “Crazy Horse” and then discovered described the experience as “bloody Thom’s Adventures T-6 fl ight marvelous!” and said that as a pilot he school across the airfi eld. He was soon was “born for this!” His fi nal comment Crew member Tim “Indiana Moose” booked into an annual course of the T-6 was “God bless the FAA for allowing us Manna drove the (acquiring a US FAA PPL, and doing both to do this!” Rare praise for the FAA from plane to Reno so SPH helicopter and IR training along the way) an overseas visitor who clearly loves his could fl y the pylons at and he and Thom became great friends. fl ying. PRS. SPH fi nally made it to Reno in 2010 on his third attempt and persuaded Thom Richard to let him fl y his Formula One racer #40 Miss USA in the 2011 season. Another good buddy, Tim “Indiana Moose” Manna, ex-US Navy P3 driver and aviation archeologist extraordinaire, who is managing the Seafi re restoration, collected Miss USA in Florida and drove it out to Reno so SPH could take it on the course at PRS. “The Moose is a complete hero and will be on the team in September for sure” reports SPH.

A father of fi ve from two previous Photo by Naomi West FORMULA FORUM, JULY 2011 9 IF1 Marketplace F1 Race 98 FOR SALE F1 Race 99 Accepting best offer on both aircraft including: Prior to almost new Lycon purchase of engines, 3 Twisted any aircraft, Composites props and please contact wood sport prop. the Technical Contact: Director for John Hall any IF1 rules 210-241-7378 or or compliance via email: items that ap- [email protected] ply.

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10 FORMULA FORUM, JULY 2011 Ads are free as a service to members NEW COMPOSITE PARTS CASSUTT WANTED If you have aircraft Light Weight 9” Spinners, $90 Looking for an entry level, basic Formula or other items for Wheel Pants, $350. One airplane to race at Reno. Must comply sale, or updates CASSUTT PARTS: Assorted Tail Feathers, with IF1 technical rules. Contact Ira to your listing, call for Quote. Saligman: (610) 324-5500 (Philadelphia) please email Brian [email protected] LED Flashlights: Super Bright, Compact Reberry: brian@ Size. Up to 155 hrs. of run time on 2 AA reberryairracing.com Batteries, $32. 10% Discount to IF1 members Contact: Ray Sherwood (530) 626-6106 [email protected]

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Cassutt Projects and Inventory Cassutt 111M, 90% complete. Needs cowl and wing fi nished. Includes REBUILT engine. Cassutt 111M fully welded with tail assembly. Cassutt 111M wing needs skin. Cassutt 111M wing complete. Misc inventory: engine parts (3 O-200 engines), airframe parts and instruments, one sport prop. $15K for all. Contact: Gary and Linda Elliott for pics and inventory list: 972-264-3857 [email protected] Grob Glider Also Volkswagen Beetle, Mill, Lathe, Camper, Engine for the Corba Kit Car project he started. AIR RACING BOOKS by Robert Hirsch Contact: [email protected]. Aircraft of Air Racing’s Golden Age 1928-1939, 2 Volumes, 1071 pages, 158 scale drawings: $75 + $10 S&H Wedell-Williams Air Service $20 + $3 S&H Racers Goodyear and Formula One Racing (thru 1995): CASSUTT PARTS $45 + $5 S&H for both, or $25 + $3 S&H for one National Aeronautics has Cassutt parts including Aluminum and Steel landing Free S&H to IF1 Members gear legs. cassutt.lornet.com Make Checks to Maria Hirsch Contact: Ib or Sue Hansen (303) 940- 8439 Dale St., Buena Park, CA 90620 8442 [email protected] Contact: Maria Hirsch (714) 828-7369 FORMULA FORUM, JULY 2011 11 Photo by Ken Linde Stephen Partridge-Hicks pops the canopy at the end of a practice run.

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