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size=2>Jon.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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Thank you for sharing. I never will forget the time I was at my first nats and
your Dad made some very constructive comments about my flying which I was for
ever in his debt as I had no one to use as a reference where I was on what I was
and wasn't doing. His comments helped my placing move from 28th place to 11th
place within 3 rounds. What made such a dramatic difference. I wasn't
standing square to the runway and none of my maneuvers were centered. Basic and
so simple but something I was not aware of. Your dad and his comment kept me in
the sport and made me want to return to the Nats again and again. By the way he
was judging and many fliers wanted to know what he said to me. I didn't know who
he was or the significance or the importance of what he shared till later in the
day. </FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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del
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NSRCA - 473</FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
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<A title=JonLowe@aol.com href="mailto:JonLowe@aol.com">JonLowe@aol.com</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, February 08, 2004 9:33
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Sitting in the plane or not
?</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2 PTSIZE="10">In a
message dated 2/7/2004 7:47:56 PM Central Standard Time, <A
href="mailto:xavier.mouraux@sympatico.ca">xavier.mouraux@sympatico.ca</A>
writes:<BR><BR><BR>
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TYPE="CITE">If someone could give me a small resume of Don Lowe, I will
appreciate.</FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face=Arial
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FAMILY="SANSSERIF" BACK="#ffffff"><BR>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<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></FONT></BODY></HTML>