:PoleCat Aeroplane Works

Team Polecat makes history again!  Earlier this year, Denny Maize and good buddy Ed Franz decided they’d stink things up a bit at the NATS and fly a handlaunch plane in the cross-country (XC) competition.  While Saturday was a bit windy for our little ship, Sunday turned out much better!  With Shane Spickler at the sticks (and from a discus-launch!) they managed nearly 2 miles on the course.  The ship was a specially designed XP-4 "Extreme XC".  While not an official record, the 1.9 miles around the course we believe is the farthest a handlaunch has ever made it around the NATS XC course!

Team Polecat XC (from left): Dave Register, Denny Maize, Shane Spickler and Doug Harnisch.
More information can be found in the July 23rd, 2006 edition  of the AMA’s NatsNews.