Re: Re: Ministick rubber question:

From: <RLBailey_at_care4free.net>
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 12:31:26 -0000

John

Thanks for these comments; I am preparing an informal talk for sport fliers here in UK to encourage them to extend their horizons in the hope some will catch the bug! Useful guidance to pass on.

Bob

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: John Kagan
  To: Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com
  Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 6:00 PM
  Subject: [Indoor_Construction] Re: Ministick rubber question:


  --- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "scott_and_sheri"
  <hansesc_at_...> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I have just about completed my first ministick project....What
> should I start with for rubber size? Width and lenght? and, is 1.2
> grams too heavy to fly OK?
> Any ideas would be great.

  One of the fun things about these planes is figuring out what they
  need to fly longer. Start with the various suggestions you've
  gotten - or just take your own WAG. Then adjust as indicated by the
  model :)

  BTW - that's a major "beginner lesson": do what the plane says it
  needs. If the plane won't climb, give it more power - regardless of
  how thick the cross section already is, or how short the loop is, or
  how low the prop pitch is. (Things will eventually get more
  complicated, but this credo works well at first).

  My first indoor plane would do nothing more than a powered glide, but
  I refused to put a bigger motor on it because it already flew much
  faster than the other EZBs I had seen. I didn't realize at the time
  that it was never going to fly like those other EZBs because it was
  way too heavy. And I never did get that one to go up!

  Enjoy your first plane, and let us know how it goes.



   

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