Re: Kent Video

From: Mark <f1diddler_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 14:26:40 -0000

--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "Ignacio Zelaya" <izgo@...>
wrote:
<< I see Kagan launching his F1d,
> and RPM are about 40 or 41. Was this the launch of the record flight?
> (hight torque) Or is just low power test flight?
>
> Im asking because the propeller seems to slow for a hight torque
> launch. Or it has to be this way?

Not speaking for JK's flight, but for my low ceiling F1D flights, a
typical profile often shakes down like this. Launch: 45 RPM at .45
in/oz., after 5 minutes 38 RPM, after 10 minutes 48 RPM, after 15
minutes 50 RPM, 25 minutes 55 RPM. That's the magic of variable pitch
props, not unusual.
Mark F1diddler
Received on Sat Apr 14 2007 - 07:26:50 CEST

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