Re: LittleSquare finally earns its wings!

From: Bill Gowen <b.gowen_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 21:18:22 -0500

Oh - the other important info is that the ceiling height was 32'.

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Bill Gowen
  To: Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com
  Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 9:04 PM
  Subject: [Indoor_Construction] LittleSquare finally earns its wings!


  Yep - I finally got to actually fly LittleSquare today. The model was
  set up with the wood wing so I flew it that way first. After hitting
  everything possible on something like 6 or 8 flights I finally got
  one clean flight of 3:04. This was on 5/99 rubber about .092". All of
  the other flights were over 2 minutes.

  Then I switched to the built up wing, retrimmed the model and
  launched a full wind flight on the same motor and at the same torque.
  It climbed much faster and smacked the ceiling and hung. This was not
  really the expected result! On the next flight I dropped the launch
  torque considerably and got a clean flight of 3:25.

  The model is so ultra-stable that I think some CG adjusting might be
  in order to get the flight time a little higher. I wasn't able to do
  that today.

  The most important thing I learned about the design today is that it
  is absolutely and positively rock solid in the air. Every flight made
  was picture perfect until some obstruction got in the way. If you
  build one of these according to the plan it should do what it's
  supposed to do.



   

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