In article .com, jmk says...

Somehow I doubt that it can ever come even close to what the British
build (in just 20 hours) and flew in JYW. That thing looked like it
was just about ready to go into production, it appeared to handled so
well.

And then there was that great judge... what was his name??? G

I'll let ya in on a little secret ,the Brits and the French were prepared for
the build.They had drawn full size plans at home and knew what they were gonna
build ahead of time. The USA team pretty much winged it because only one guy
knew what was going to be built. The French even practiced building components
back in France for practice. The Bill the pilot on the Brits team even built a
flying scale model back in the UK to test the design. As Judge I was there for
the 2 build days and the planes were pretty complete except for details like
throttles ,wiring fuel tanks etc. True it was longer then 20 hrs but all in all
it was 3 planes built ,N numbered and flown in under a week.And there was a
couple of days wasted in transporting the planes to the desert.

As far as the Judge went he should go back to building and leave the Judging to
Judge Wapner LOL!!

See ya

Chuck(out of work JYW's contestant)S