<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 5/12/2003 11:36:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Peter.Pennisi@publicworks.qld.gov.au writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Subj:<B>RE: F3A Biplanes have a future! </B><BR>
Date:5/12/2003 11:36:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time<BR>
From:<A HREF="mailto:Peter.Pennisi@publicworks.qld.gov.au">Peter.Pennisi@publicworks.qld.gov.au</A><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Matt,</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Do you have any pictures of the "Express" it would certainly make some interesting viewing?</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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Peter,<BR>
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Take a look at Andre' Bouchard's column in the KFactor, around February I think. He has a small amount of info on The Express, and a photo or two. He also talks of his experience flying the plane. Andre' is a top tier F3A competitor in US.<BR>
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The plane doesn't look conventional, as might be expected. The dorsal and ventral strakes at the AC, are incredibly functional, and give the model the best knife handling character of anything available today. In addition, the wing planform is much different than the typical modern pattern model, with a root chord to tip chord ratio of near 4. It helps make the model snap better and stop quicker than anything I have seen, but very light weight is the real key to stopping that fast ( less than 8 lbs for a full 2x2m 1000 sq in model). <BR>
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