Re: Per the '10-'11 AMA rules for LPP

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From: Mark F1diddler <f1diddler_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 17:04:19 -0000

--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "John Kagan" <john_kagan@...> wrote:
>
> --- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "Don DeLoach" <ddeloach@> wrote:
> >
> > Ministicks are cool because they are tiny, easy to pack and easy to fly in
> > tight sites. Much cooler than Pennyplane where you have to build Bipes and
> > VP props to be competitive.
> >
> >
> >
> > How was that? ;)
> >
>
> What?! How dare you dis fat stubby Pennyplane (even fatter and stubbier than LPP)?
>
> At least the pound of rubber required for each flight actually turns the prop - not like Standard Catapult Glider, where it simply flings the model (aka "plank") into the air, like a caveman tossing away a Brontosaurus bone.
>

A Pennyplane is not necessarily fatter and stubbier than LPP--they both have same OAL/winspan ratio. Perhaps through the years too many have conflated "stubbiness" with "outdoor-like", which is indeed to be dissed! Consider how graceful some stubby planforms of the past have appeared. Why? Slow prop RPM, available to some classes in both stubby and long--that's the essence of indoor effect. Therefore, if any indoor duration class should be buried for being oh-so-outdoor, that would be A-6. Or at least make them "dethermalize" after 2 minutes.
Mark F1diddler
Received on Sun Mar 06 2011 - 09:04:29 CET