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FORMALA FORUM, MAY 1999 President's Page

the class will be 10laps. It is viewed that Jon Sharp In early April, RARA called all finals presidents for a meeting in-Reno. this will add a twist of sffategy to our They had several topics they were format. On a positive note RARA has focused on. The fust being the rookie raised our purse money up to $65k fi'om school. 'W'e spent several hours 62.5K in 1998, In addition, the course "discussing" the feasibility of a will be available on Surtday afternoon mandatory fiaining program. We for practice ard qualifying. Some other emph*sized the problems that will hit changes: there will be a new announcing IFl directly on the nose: impact to tearn for '99, wi& 2 annoutcers on the growth and stability of the {ield were stage end one 0n the back side of the ncolor cited as casualties to the requirement. race course doing commentary". Reno saw merit in IFl's points, and We are in the process of gering agreed to take our issues back to the packages to the new team to introduce board for resolution. We are trying to them to tle "fastest 4 cylinder vehicles get a definitive answer one way or the in the world". The Unlimited corxse other soon. We'll send out a special will be about a shorter than in the "chat" letter when we Set a commit- past. So that's all for now. ment. Standby to standby. The o&er item that popped up was not a topic of May Speed be withyou! Jon discussion, per se, but we picked it up from their "pre telease" schedule. PROMOTIONS , Trish $harp RARA has trimmed our laces by one for years 9 total 1999, In past we've had The'Westem Village prices have gone have Your board races, in'99 we'll 8. up to $79 per night. They werent willing ort to ccntact about 40 made a major e to work with us on a price break for a pilot owners regarding the "active" Soup. Actually, none of the hotels will, and sugges- subject fielding opinions since they feel that they will filltheir 8 races. tions on how to 'nformat" Scott rooms an),\ ray, at any rate they ask, that we Garland made the suggestion during the race week. However, lve about our last approaoh RARA using have made a group reservation at the praotice/qual session as a first race. Motel6 in Rero. Here's the info: There were several other ideas presented and we will approach RARA Motel6 Reno Central The meet to discuss options. board will 886 N. Virginia St. Reno, NV 89512 again by telecon the second week in 775-786-9852 We'll May to finatize a fonnat for'99. 30 rocur block held until Aug. lOdt to get news out ASAP make every effort Arrival date: Sept. 10th, departure date: on the changing tide of racing. Sept. lgth...there will be room available ttrough the Z0th. Call the hotel directly Boardhas been New Business: The & tell them you are part of the can discussing and fielding ideas of what lnternational Forrnula One Block; also be done to enhance aPPeal at(aces. refer to ressruatioo # 47?83?'72GP. With considerable discussion, and polling the "active" pilot/owners your of Prices: $39.99 single (me person) , unanimously Board of Directors voted S43.99 dbl. (2 people), a5.99 triple (3), the number to implement a change in of & $47.99 for 4 people in a room. laps for each race at Reno '99 to the Trish ine: Heat races will be 8 and

FORMUI}I FORUM, MAY 1999 Pilot Profile Dave Morss

Bill Rogers Dave Morss, the subject of this month's He is a member of the Society of Profile, has been a staunchsupporter of Experimental Test Pilots and has made IFI for many years. One of the hitiat flights on 20 new homebuilts and challenges of Fl management is to high performance factory experimentals, provide enough to meet ow including Lancair IV, Legend and Thunder commitrrent to a promoter. In 1989, I Mustang. begged Dave to support the race in Albuquerque at the last minute; Dave With experience covering everything from flew his Shoestring cross county allthe the smallest homebuilt to DC-7s anid,747s, way from California with a race prop in ahighlight was flying a Wildcat fromthe the aft fuselage and raced it without a carrier USS Carl Vinson offPearl Harbor spinneq since there wasn't room for one. in 1995. Having already been involved for This is the kind of dedication that Dave a number of years in soaring and as a has always shown. His enormous flight instructor and airshow performer, experience was invaluable as he took on this veteran pilot with over 20,000 hours the unenviable job of Pilot Chairman became actively involved in point-to-point from 1990 t'rll last year. He introduced air racing and established several speed in-Aight coaching and pilot qual using records, with six still on the record books his own Lancair. Turning rervous, today... all the while competing in pylon first-time rookies into competent racers racing in both Formula One and Biplane takes an unusual combination of skill, classes. firmness and teaching ability that is Dave's forte'. He frst raced Fl at Reao in 1984 and placed 5th in the Silver Race with his Cassutt llM #99, 'MIS TRY RACER'. With his parher, Sil Piccolotto, slab wing *VIDEO IIIM, #66 CASSUTT" was added to the stable in '86. Over the years, with the help of long-time crewchief Paul O'Dea" Morss made extensive modifications and improve-ments to his two earliest Cassutts but achieved only modest racing success.

He rescued a Shoestring from the ceiling of awinery, andraced ita;s#Z4, 'WOODSTOCK' in '87 in the distinctive red and yellow scheme of his stable. With tlree racers at one time, tansportation was handled by a vintage red, white and blue school bus.. Dave likes to tell the story of Paul in the back working on the plane as ihey came over the Donner Pass. They had hooked the die grinder to the bus air John Garrett photo Dave Morss system and the loss ofpressure caused the Dave, 44, is the President of Myriad brake waming light to flash, necessitating Research of Redwood City, Califomiq a delay till level ground was reached. and is in great demand as a test pilot.

FORMULA FORUM, MAY 1999 A long wing was built for his next #99 following month at the Reno national *FAST plane, LANE EXT" and flolvn on championships with a 3rd place finish in #66 until the radical fuselage with tandem the Gold Race at 230.205 m/h ir *COOL centerline wheels was ready. He struggled RLINNINGS". This was a with questionable ground handling for three remarkable achievement, although more years until a disinte-grating firewall recent "improvements" seem to havg doomed the experiment. However, his slowed the plane down. For '99 he enthusiasm with these planes was not vows to go back to the more successful always matched with commensurate results. con{iguration. With his new plane fine-tuned, the veteran pilot should He then began building the ultimate indeed be back as a top contender. machine, TURMOIL,another radical destgr ofpod and tail boom configuration, but Dave has been responsible for the Fl weight and balance discrepancies could not debuts ofseveral new pilots, including be resolved and the project was abandoned. David Hoover, Steve Unze, and Madelaine Kenny. Other claims to Dave took a major step forward in Forrnula fame are the large number of improved performance when he acquired Fls he has raced, twelve, and the record yet another Cassutt, the modified model mrmber of DNFs! 1 1 lM that had a successfuI, if limited, eleven year racing history in the hands of Dave has been an active competitor in Scott Morris of Evansdale, Iowa. This many other areas. He has attempted to aircraft was the only plane that I remember qualfy "homebuilts" irt the Untimited to weigh in with IFI at under 500 lbs the Class at Reno; he raced Bruce Bohannon first time it appeared. in the AeroShell Time-to-Climb events with the Thunder Mustang aud in the Lancair IV won the inaugural Sport Class race at Reno in '98. He is currertly the check pilot for the new Sport Class and got everyone approved last year at the Reno training session. He is an active SCCA Formula V auto racer and regional glider soaring champion, as well as an accomp- lished, and cool driver.

Dave is married to Karen who is also in . She bought the flight school where she was learning to fly and married the pilot examiner who gave her Crazy Dave/Mistry Racer, Reno'84 Bill Rogem photo Private check ride - Dave. She operates Diamoud Aviation with 6 The multi-rated Morss first raced the new Katanas for instruction and another 12 plane at Vancouver, BC, ir August'96 rental planes. For more detail on this where he placed lst in the Silver Race at friendly and talented pair, see the Jack 22A.944 m/h, and followed that the Cox mticle in April '98 Sport Aviation.

FORMALA FORUM, MAY 1999 Versatile Dave Morss

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FORMULA FORAM, MAY 1999 stn Colurnn - Editorial

A somewhat controversial recent your proxy. If we are organized we can development has been the pilolowners- have a nominating conrmittee produce a only builetin board developed by Steve slate of directors, obtain nominations Myers. This provides a password- from members and use mail ballots. It protected site on the Intemet where just takes a little forward planning aad a computer-sawy piiots/owners can post request to the President, Secretary or messages and reply to other's messages Directors. As an organization, we have on-liae. had problems with our ieadership in the past and our rules aiiow a group of According to the current membership list members to ovenule the Board if we have 149 members (109 paid so far necessary. this year), of whom 59 are non-voting Associate memirers- That leaves 90 Most technical inspections are open. Al1 racers of whom 57 arc pilots, ovfirers or pre-race aad new air"craft evaluations both. The rest are crewchiefs and various are performed in public anrl pcsi race operations or technical officials. Maay dissassembly of aircraft componeuts is of the "officials" have been Fl ovmers, in the open. The only items done in the crews and pilots at other times. Many back room are carburetor dissassembly Associates offer far more tlran a and the examination and weighing of destination for the Forum. In fact, I engine compoRerts. A clean, calm suspect that the sum oftheir expertise environment is required by the Tech and experience would exceed that of the crew and a team representative is pilot group if Milier, Cote, Budde, and permitted to otrserve. Being second- Sharp were excludedl It seems to me guessed in front of a crowd of that to overlook such a valuable source bystanders makes no sense. It is of information is, at the very least iacorrect to say that most racing groups shortsighted - especially when, as I have do all inspection in public. NASCAR been told, the bulk oftopics discussed for instance, takes parls and some cars have nothing to do with flying! I am a away for some tests. AIl that is required member of four specialist bulletin is to have confidence in your Technical boards, and they ars a great source of Director and the Tech Crew. how.to information. There are complaints that the Protest fee Issues have been raised concerning the is open ended because ifthe protest is Annual meeting vs. mail ballots for disallowed, the protester is responsible elections, and the protest/tech inspection for the reassembly of the innocent process. The annual meeting has always party's rnachine. When the rule was been at Reno, the one place where written, it did not seem right to leave a almost every active IFI participant can pile of parts on the hangar {loor, if the be counted on to appear. Since Reno plane was legal. If you don't agree r,r,ith started raclng on Thursdays, it has been that - change the rule. on Wednesday aftemoon, after qualifying atd before racing. This is We have one or two Forum issues prior most convenient for everyone and this to the elections at Reno. If you feel that time is also used by T-6, Bipes, and your views are not properiy represented, NAG for the same reason. what about some good old election- eering support for your choice for If you cannot be there, give someone Directors?

FORMALA FORAM, ]'TAY 1999 Letters

Anita lnfante America's Educational Heritage Foundation, 2728 33'd Stleet, Zion, lnsurance-ARCUS IL 60099 847/872-7863 As you know, there has been consider- As you know, Bruce Bohannon worked able confusion concerning the ARCUS with me on our foundation's youth insurance plogram. This situation arose education program taking Pushy Galare when Bob Cannon, the ARCUS to grade schools to talk to the students insurance adminisffator, left NationAir about the importance of staying in insurance agency to set up his own firm, school and getting a good education. Cannon Aviation Insurance, Inc. Now that Puslry Galore has been retired, I am looking for another aircraft. Our NationAir is sending out routine renewal original plan was to build a replica of notices to policyholders that were Pushy so that we would own the aircraft covered under existing policies. Mr. and have access to it whenever we Cannon, under an agreement with needed it, but that was going to be NationAir, is not permitted to solicit expensive. David Hoover has agreed to former customers of NationAir, but can work with us on the West Coast for respond firlly to any inquiries that he certain presentations, but we still need might receive, whether former customers an aircraft for our general program. or not.

I am hoping that through the Formula Members of the IFl may get their One Organization we can come up with iosurance from any source they desire. an aircraft and possibly a trailer for the They should not assume, however, that program. The aircraft does not have to routine renewal would cover racing or be able to fly, although it should look that the rate for the insurance is like it could. It does not need an engine, advantageous. Additionally, some but it does need a propeller and a frrll soruces might be able to provide liability instrument panel even if the instruments insurance, but not hull insurance. don't work. I would like the children to Before renewing (or taking out new be able to get into the to see insurance), owners should be sure that how it feels and to be able to tell how the renewed policy will provide the pedals and stick work. If no one has coverage for their racing activities with a complete airfrarne that they are willing all ofthe desired coverages. to donate, perhaps we could find it in Additionally, they should check that the pieces and put it together. cost of the policy is competitive to the cost &om other sources for the same The foundation is a Public Charity so insurance. any donations made are tax deductible, and we would provide a fulIreceipt. I Requests for insurance coverage for race would appreciate anyone who could help insurance can be made to any aviation with the project contacting me at the insurance broker. ARCUS is aware of address and phone number shown. three brokers that have provided some form of race insurance in the past If you have any questions, give me including: a call. Thanks foryourhelp, andlhope to see you all at Reno. Cont. on Page 10 in ODDS Sincerely, Anita

FORMUI.A FORUM, MAY 1999 Odds and

The FAA has released the latest issue of I received a couple of usefirl, time the Operations Handbook that is used by critical items after the last issue went to FAA personnel at the airshow site. One press and was wrable to print them. As a item that is new is a statement (II8.8 (b)) reminder, the Forum goes into the mail tlat "To participate in closed course air on the first Monday in the month. To racing, an experimental Cerfificate of achieve this it must go to print on the Airworthiness should be issued for the Wednesday prior, since this process purpose of air racing." Note that this takes two or fhree days. Please make does not say "exhibition" which is sure that any inputs you need published required for airshows. Do you need to are in my hands no later than the last update your C of A? Monday in the month.

Reno Air Racing Association wants to Neal Loving, who died in December impose a "4 seconds times the number of was the first double amputee to qualify laps" penalty for a pylon cut as opposed as a race pilot with PRPA but he did not to fhe current 2 seconds. This will make race the plane because of mechanical Reno rules consistent with IF1 at last. problems. Thanks to the Vee-Gram and The Unlimited course will be reduced in Golden Pylons for setting the record length by about a mile to avoid more straight. development. INSURANCT The airwaves were bwningwith Fonnula Cont. racing the last days of March and the Mr. Robert Cannon beginning of April. It does seem a pity 800185t-2997 that we get so little waming of these Cannon Aviation Insurance, Inc. shows. SpeedVision aired repeats of 15111 Hayden Rd., both the Laughlin and Reno shows under N. Suite rcA-475 Scottsdale, AZ8526A the "Best of 1998" bamrer and on the Sunday (April 4) Jon Sharp appeared as a Ann Thickey, fearless flyer on The Learning Chamel's Branch Manager 800/951-6201 Speed Demons show. Three one-hour NationAir lnsurance consecutive segments covered water, ah, Agencies and land-based demons. lnterestingly, 14700 N. Airport Drive, Suite 10 Scottsdale, AZ8526A the land show had a bike dong322.87 mlh on two Harley motors. Now there's a target for Nemesis! Kay Scott 7751323-2225 Kay Soott Aviation Insurance The editorial computer is undergoing the 1201 Terminal Way, Suite 203 biannual upgrade and is now hooked to a Reno, 89502 cable modem. This will allow us to NV eliminate the second phone line so that FAXES should now be sent to 805-498- 0846 again. Also note Jon and Trish Sharp have changed area code to 661, Dan Gilbert to 734 and Daye Morss to 650. It is really getting hard to keep track of all these!

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AIRCRAFT #2 NSEW Wagner "Okie Twister'r #19 Nl19 Cassutt, "Okie Streaker" Prior to purchase Contact: George Budde: a'(a0! 733-1449 of any aircraft, please crsntact the #11 N25VS llooverlCassutt "Frenry" Technical Fast, beautiful - with trailer, less engine. Director aruy for Make offer, price very flexible IFI Rules Contact: David Hoover: compliance items a'(650) 573-t323 Hangar: (5 l0) 786-3422 that may apply.

#24 NZ 4l[L Shoestring 6'Spud Runner'n Graphite Race Props 1998 airframe restoration, elecffic start Run One or Follow One (removable), call for info. ONLY $15,000 Owens Composites Contact; Patrick Rediker a (208) 465-0289 Contact Steve Hill: a (505) 832-1148

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#40 N5381 Cassutt'(Miss USA" National Aeronautics has Cassutt parts Rebuilt and raced by Patti Johnson in '96 including A1 and Steel landing gear legs. Race engine, parts and props. S19,500 Contact Ib or Sue Hansen: Contact: Chas. Parsoas;e (630)23 L-6634 6. (303) 940-8442 SERV!CES Aircraft Design and Analysis Services: Teledyne Continental Parts at Racer Everything from computerized airfoil prices - Mattituck Aviation. Mention IFI design to complete aircraft drawings and Contact Phil Haponislc (1800) 624-6680 CFD analysis using NASA's Pmarc-12 Contact Gary James: a (817) 596-3275 LAUGHLIN Race Videos - EAA Copies $20.00 inc. P&P Custom Embroidery: Team shirts, hats, Contact: Trish Sharp (805) 723-7 636 jackets etc. at racer rates fot L2 pcs & up. Contact All Star , Sharon \ilanted: Cassutt but first, FOR SALE: Sandberg a (612)783-8728 1998 Starduster II, 0-360 Lyc., Beautifiil PARTS red/white Stits, 100 TT + SMOH. Center Parts for Sale: Cassutt ailerons for slab section aux tank. wing, horizontal, elevator, rudder. Good Contact: Clu Colvin (918) 605-3953 welding and powder coated. $125 OBO. Accessory case blanking plates. Wanted: Plans for a Cassutt Wilson Wing Contact: Stu Luce (909)599-4066 Contact Harold Jackson: 6 704-434-0699 P.O.Box 1741, Shelby, NC 28151 0-200 Engine Nice engine, needs pistons & overhaul kit to assemble, lower end Information on things of IFI interest for yellow tagged, bores +.015, new valves, sale or wanted should be sent to the seats, guides, & valve covers. $4,000 obo Edilor, or IFI W David Hoover. Contact Will Larson' a (805) 545-8357 107 Williams Lane, Foster Ciyt, CA 94404 650/573-t 323

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