Great report Dennis! And big congrats to Brett who continues to push the
limits of what's possible.
On 7/1/2012 12:31 AM, dennisatyson wrote:
>
> I had the great pleasure to observe the wildest record flight I've
> seen yet. Of course it was Sanborn. There were no hangups, no tail
> slides, no last minute heroics. It was a flight that almost ended.
> Brett launched in the center of the Hangar and then by the time he
> topped out at around 140' he had drifted all the way down to the East
> Door. Parker clocked a 1:00 steer back to the center of the room. The
> plane then drifted to the north wall, and after Brett steered it back
> to the center a few times, it decided to see what was happening on the
> far west end of the hangar. Brett almost asked Parker to stop the
> clock at around 27 minutes and balloon it down. He decided instead to
> steer it back to the center of the hangar. Since it had explored the
> rest of the hangar, it decided to check out the south wall and start
> drifting back toward the east. It paused, literally hovered over the
> tent drier as if it was deciding which way to go finish out the
> flight. One more steer was necessary and it finally came to rest with
> a time of 39:15! (After over 2 minutes of prop stop was subtracted)Did
> I mention it dead sticked from 20'! To make it even stranger, Brett
> broke a few motors before going to his box of pre-made motors and
> selected one that he didn't even remember the origin of. Just some
> random 5/99 .050 motor hanging around in the box for an unknown amount
> of time. It was spectacular and I was glad to be there to witness it.
> We'll see what tomorrow brings.
>
> Spencer did almost 29 minutes and Parker was doing 15:30 half motors.
> (After timing Brett's flight, he didn't want any of that today) I
> expect they will both break 30 tomorrow.
>
> Dennis
>
>
Received on Sat Jun 30 2012 - 21:35:35 CEST
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