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#	Pilot	MPH	Location	Date
1	Paul Naton	173	Kiona Butte, WA	6/23/2000

The Speedrunner set the DS record at 173 mph in 2000!

Charlie Richardson and Paul Naton designed and built Speedrunner for the 1999 Speed Trials (frontside) and to try to break the 200 mph mark with DS. This airframe may be the first composite plane designed especially for breaking DS speed records.

Fuse was a triple layup glass/kev/carbon Raider F3 fuse with a tailboom stiffened with carbon rods and expando foam. The fins were balsa cores with carbon tow and glass skins. Rudderless of course, with a 120 oz analog Airtronics servo to move the articulated elevator.

Wing has a low camber thinned SD6063. Spar was a carbon tapered tube running almost full span boxed in with basswood and carbon tow. Joiner was a big and long 9/16 cromoly rod. Wing artist Fred Sage bagged the Spyder foam cores with carbon with orders to make them "indestructable". The tip ailerons were only 10" long with embedded carbon stiffener tubes driven by a Volz Wing Maxx. No flaps! Though small flaps were cut in later to making landing less scary.

Clocked 167 front side at the '99 Speed Trials and the next year hit the 173 at Kiona Butte DSing and 172 frontside later that day at Eagle Butte. The 173 record run can be seen in my film Endless Lift 3 and Dave Reese's Lift Ticket. I'll have to post the raw footage of the record run one day as I'm sure the Speedrunner hit over 200 well before we got the radar gun going in decreasing conditions.

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