Interesting video. Very nice airplane and well trimmed. Lots of
hits. People wonder why we stay with plastic commercial props.
There's one answer. With a 7 gram airframe at full torque, a wood
prop may have lost a blade.
--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "calgoddard"
<calgoddard_at_...> wrote:
>
> For those interested, here is a link to a video that shows our
Science
> Olymipad Wright Stuff regionals flying site referred to in my last
post:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnpCw5Ah0Qw
>
> That is not our team flying. That is someone that placed around
tenth
> I am guessing, at our February 08 regionals. Still it was a pretty
good
> effort by those high school students.
>
> Our team won with a time of 4:04. Flyable safe flyable height was
> about 32 feet, but only if you could do a 25 foot circle between
the
> score board and the sloping wall just inside the dangling lights.
>
> I did post a picture of one of our teams' planes in an album
entitled
> Calgoddard.
>
> I am still a relative new comer to the sport of indoor duration
free
> flight, but learning a lot from all you experts.
>
Received on Fri Jun 06 2008 - 05:28:58 CEST