RADIO CONTROL AEROBATICS - 2001/05

thIS Month’S column is dedicated to
the US F3A team interviews. The group will
be in Ireland this summer, ready to take on
the world at the F3A World Championships.
Dave Guerin is the team manager.
Here are their answers to my questions.
eric henderson:Who are the US team
members?
Dave guerin: The team is Chip Hyde,
Sean McMurtry, and Jason Shulman. The
backup pilot, should anyone not be
available, is Kirk Gray. Kirk was a member
of the World Championships team at the
last World Championships.

RADIO CONTROL AEROBATICS - 2001/04

As A yOung man, I played a gentle English sport called rugby. As
that same young man, I tried to build a jet turbine (and failed
disastrously). Undeterred, I built Jetex gliders once my father had
forgiven me for almost burning down his workshop.
Within budget constraints, I then dallied in diesel engines and
really got into glow engines. These engines took me from Free Flight
to Control Line (CL) Combat, and eventually into the wonderful
world of Radio Control (RC) flying.
As a much older man with seven children, I had hoped that one or
two of them would follow in my footsteps. “Be careful what you wish
for,” as the old Chinese saying goes.
My eldest daughter is playing rugby for her college in
Massachusetts. How the times have changed! I’m very proud of
her efforts, but I can’t bring myself to share my old rugby
“shanties” with her!

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