Tom Dixon

"IF YOU CAN'T BEAT 'em, join 'em!" or so the saying goes. Well, this is my "join 'em" Stunter. After many years of preference for .35-size planes, I am forced to concede that the larger, more powerful model is necessary to be competitive at the national level. Although I am not entirely convinced, even yet, that the larger model flies substantially better, I've come to admit that the image it presents is a current requirement to "play the game" with success. Once I'd decided to move to a larger plane, I looked around at what others were doing. The New Jersey-New York area group were all flying SuperTigre-.60-powered models of widely varying sizes ranging from Windy Urtnowski's huge Sweepers to Glen Meador's Eagle, the latter being hardly larger than the models I had been flying with Fox .35s.