As usual I disagree with Kang's analysis of F1L. I've struggled since 2009 with F1L's that would barely fly. This year, after 3 years of frustration, I had an F1L that would do anything I asked of it except stay away from the speakers.
My drama this year was hanging up my F1L on the speakers in a place that was just out of reach of my balloon. The way that I finally got it back was by swinging the balloon toward the model from several feet away and smashing it into the stab. I went back to my table with a mylar bag full of small pieces of balsa hanging from the back of the model. After about an hour of work I had something resembling a stab on the back of the model and that was when I did the 21:30 to take second place.
--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "Yuan Kang Lee" <ykleetx@...> wrote:
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> I think F1L is the one class where we have a legitimate shot against the big guns in Kagan, Gowen, Sanborn, Richmond, Cailliau, etc. What other event gives you that chance? LPP? No. A6? No. You can compete against the big guns in LPP and A6, but your chances aren't very good. Those events have longer, steeper learning curves.
Received on Wed May 30 2012 - 15:29:33 CEST
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