Unfortunately, the National SO does not allow official rules for the current year events to be distributed electronically unless you are an event supervisor or tournament director.
However, I CAN post a summary of key points from the rules for 2010/2011 competition year.
Overall, Helicopter is run like Wright Stuff, 10 minutes to get two flights. Best single time wins, ties broken by second time.
Times will be penalized for teams without flight logs, the usual ten flight, six parameters minimum, three specified parameters: motor size, turns at launch, flight time, the rest free.
No bonus this year, we couldn't figure out anything that made sense.
Construction:
Basic structures made from wood, paper, plastic film, glue, no 'rigid' plastic. Wire, plastic, rubber bands, tape, thread to connect things.
Rotors must be student made, blades, spar, hub. Bearings, hangers, etc may be bought.
Wording on rotors was meant to NOT allow blades from plastic containers, wording may be weak there.
Lot of words to define a rotor, basically its a helicopter, NOT an autogyro darnit. No horizontal lifting surfaces.
Up to three rotors.
Max diameter 40 cm.
Minimum mass without motor 4.0 gm.
Maximum motor 2.0 gm.
Note, this IS a summary, good enough for teams to get started building and mentors to help advise, but I of course suggest you get a copy of the official rules well before the contest, your teams coach WILL have a copy unless they lost the book mailed them. And so on...
Jeff Anderson
Livonia, MI
--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "olbill61" <wdgowen@...> wrote:
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> Can someone post or send to me a copy of the SO high school helicopter rules? I've been trying to avoid these things but access to a world class Cat 1 glider site has overcome my reluctance.
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Received on Mon Oct 25 2010 - 07:26:56 CEST
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