Hi Bill,
Thanks for reporting your testing of your
LittleSquare. Could you clairify what the difference
was between the built-up wing that turned 3:25 and the
wing that turned 3:04.
Thanks,
Kurt
--- Bill Gowen <b.gowen_at_earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
Kurt Krempetz
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Received on Sat Dec 02 2006 - 18:54:45 CET