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I would say that Hartford would be your best bet at 35 miles or so away, but I'm not sure on prices to get there & rental car prices at that airport. (Southwest does Phoenix to Hartford for mid 300s.)
JFK would be a 2 hour drive, but the price differential (flight & car) may make up the difference if you don't mind driving (1:1 cars that is).

Good luck!

Bradley is the closest (hartford) but any of the NYC airports are about 1.5 hrs away. You can also try Westchester (white plains) airport

Erich- 90 minutes from JFK? You must drive faster than I do....

civilguy wrote:Erich- 90 minutes from JFK? You must drive faster than I do....

Waterburry is about 30 minutes from me (New Haven) and I'm about 1:15 from JFK, so that's about right on a day that there's not traffic, no construction, no accidents the chances of that are slim

civilguy wrote:Erich- 90 minutes from JFK? You must drive faster than I do....

Maybe the older gentleman in his avatar is really his 1:1 car mechanic?

You don't know who that is?

Sure, it's Mike somebody, used to help run the Reedy race right?
OK, so Jay Leno ain't worried about losing his gig. Back to my cave.....

Yeah, just ran that Reedy race. Could never figure out why they named the race after him?

Erich Reichert wrote:They do have transponders but also can accept personals for those who have them.

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Are transponders the same as they were back in the early 90's? That is, should I drill a 3/16" or so hole in my body and bring along an extra body clip to secure it? How are they mounted now?

MelvinsArmy wrote:Are transponders the same as they were back in the early 90's? That is, should I drill a 3/16" or so hole in my body and bring along an extra body clip to secure it? How are they mounted now?

Same deal - personals are the only things that are different

The biggest thing about the new transponder is a Yellow #5 IS NOT THE SAME as a Red #5 - that's assuming they have 2 sets of transponders...

The new system reads all 9 digits of the transponders ID

Thanks Kaybo. Do people still mount them to the underside of the body? If so, am I right on the hole size, 3/16"?

MelvinsArmy wrote:Thanks Kaybo. Do people still mount them to the underside of the body? If so, am I right on the hole size, 3/16"?

most of the time yes...sometimes people get "fancy" and make up a lexan holder that's attached to the chassis - but mostly I've seen them attached to the body itself...

3/16's sounds right - but i haven't run a "house" transponder in YEARS (been only personal in that time)...and I've always "winged" the hole - ie, grabbed a transponder and a reamer and made a hole until the transponder fit

How about the Losi XXT, does it qualify for the nationals

clinehobbies wrote:I am looking up flights for the V Nats... What airport should i pick to fly in to?
anybody flying across the country for this besides me?? if so what did you find for ticket prices???

I purchased round trip tickets nashville to hartford for $225. But that was about 2 months ago.

Just wondering if anyone is going to run a vintage Schuey in this meeting?