I suspect there can be a lot of prop/motor combinations that will produce good results. FYI, the mini-stick fliers I know use much higher pitch props (12-16 pitch) & much thinner rubber ( .020" - .025"). Are you able to do alot of ceiling scrubbing in your 40' site?
Gary Hodson
-----Original Message-----
From: leroy c cordes <lcordes_at_juno.com>
To: Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com; FloridaIndoorFreeflight_at_yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, Dec 24, 2009 3:43 pm
Subject: [Indoor_Construction] Prop Pitch and the MiniStick
I am currently flying a couple of MiniSticks designed by Alan Cohen
called the MiniSlick. They fly reasonably well in spite of being
overweight - the first at about 620 mg and the second at 500 mg. I am
making a new prop to try and was somewhat in a quandry about how to pitch
it. I am using the Paul Bradley Pitch Gauge as my pitch gauge and the
first one is at 10.5 and the second one (the lighter one) at 9.5 on the
gauge.
The second, the lighter one with 9.5 pitch, climbs like a homesick angel
and is at the ceiling in no time flat (40') and flies for around 6+
minutes at this time. The heavier one doesn't have near the duration, or
the climb, and I was wondering if repitching the prop would make much of
a difference and how that would help me determine the pitch for the new
prop. I know I could switch the 2 props but that is such an enormous
pain I would rather not - but perhaps that is the most logical solution
to try.
I am currently running 15" motors af 30 or 32 thousandths.
LeRoy Cordes
AMA 16974
Chicago, IL
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