So on June 7, 2008, I’ll be entering my first radio-control pylon race. I encountered a cool video on Air Sports Net that shows the National Championship races.
Now, the model I’ll be racing is called a “sport quickee” — category Q500 — that runs approximately half the speed of these Q40 championship racers you see in the video speeding along at over 200MPH. Yet it’s still a race, and there’s pretty intense competition for a fun-fly. My model is a Lanier Predator 2 with a Thunder tiger .40 in the nose. A part of me wants to get a second kit just in case my first has a run-in with terra firma… but my budget and time availability probably won’t allow it.