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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial PTSIZE=10><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thanks Jon, you have
provided a very interesting and enjoyable to read write up of your dad.<span
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> discussion-request@nsrca.org
[mailto:discussion-request@nsrca.org] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>JonLowe@aol.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Sunday, February 08, 2004
8:34 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> discussion@nsrca.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: Sitting in the plane
or not ?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>In a message dated 2/7/2004 7:47:56
PM Central Standard Time, xavier.mouraux@sympatico.ca writes:<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>If someone could give me a small
resume of Don Lowe, I will appreciate.</span></font><font color=black
face=Arial BACK="#ffffff" PTSIZE=12 FAMILY=SANSSERIF><span style='font-family:
Arial;color:black;background:white'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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I'm probably in a pretty good postion to do this since he is my Dad. He
has been in model airplanes literally his whole life, and RC since the early
1950s. Some of my earliest memeories where him at a flying field with a
ground based transmitter flying rudder only with rubber powered
escapements. He progressed as radio technolgy progressed, up thru reeds,
analog and finally digital proportional. He and another member of our
club in Ohio bought one of the first, if not the first, digital proportional
systems in our club, an F&M. That system spent more time back at the
factory that in the air as it went thru upgrade after upgrade to eliminate
glitching. Each time it came back it had another little circuit board
added into the already huge receiver.<br>
<br>
He was involved in the earliest days of pattern and still has a trophy from
winning an Air Force RC championship in the early 50s (1952?). In
the mid 60s, he started designing the Phoenix series of airplanes, then very
radical due to their swept wings. Starting with the Phoenix 5 in the late
1970s, and progressing thru the Phoenix 10 in the 80s, they were one of the
standards, if not THE standard that other pattern airplanes were measured
by, were flown by hundreds of pilots, and various versions were kitted by
several companies. He's got a photo that was recently published in RCM
that shows about 20 Phoenix's at a single contest. He competed all over,
won a lot of contests, but unfortunately never made the US team for the World
Championships. He was the team manager a few times in the 80s. He
also competed in the early TOCs and was close friends with Bill Bennett who
founded and sponsored the TOCs. He has since had the Masters at Triple
Tree, where the Joe Nall is held, named after him, the Don Lowe Masters.
By the way, the event this year will pay significant money and is invitation
only! He is very active in the organization of the event, and there will
be some innovations in how the sequences are structured.<br>
<br>
Dad was also the President of AMA just prior to Dave Brown for several
terms. He is still the head of the AMA Safety Committee.<br>
<br>
He is still very active in RC, and flys everyday the weather is nice, but no
longer competes. However, with a little concentrated practice, he could still
do very well at contests. I wish I could fly as well as he does at age
79! He now flys big birds almost exclusively. When I was down over
Christmas, we flew everyday. You can expect an article from him soon on
the new Hanger 9 Extra 330S (a VERY nice airplane, BTW).<br>
<br>
Jon Lowe</span></font><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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