Re: Super Sport rubber for F1D?

From: dennisatyson <ddtyson_at_peoplepc.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:40:50 -0000

I have flown lots of SS on my F1D (it's all I have)
The boys have some donated 2/99, a very small amount of donated 5/99, a bit of 3/02 left and some 10/97. I have some 6/09, 9/09, 11/09, 1/10, and 7/10. I have recently ordered some of the current batches but haven't go them yet. My favorite of what I have is the 7/10. The torque curve is the closest to the older batches of rubber in my opinion. It also tends to run about the same in thickness, my batch is about .042 - .043. Some of the 09 stuff is in the .047 range.
I would say that the second best that I have would be the 9/09. It has much higher initial torque however.
No matter which one you fly, you really can't use any of the data from the older batches to go by. The spring time and pitch adjustments aren't even close. While deciding what the boys will fly in Belgrade, we switched between batches and it was like starting all over.

--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, Tapio Linkosalo <tapio.linkosalo@...> wrote:
>
> On 23.7.2012 22:33, Jake Palmer wrote:
> > I've recently begun thoroughly organizing my rubber and I'm realizing
> > that I'll be out of the 2 batches I have (8/93 and 2/99) within a year
> > or two. I've heard a lot of conflicting info on Super Sport rubber, but
> > I'm hoping to find some sort of consensus. Are any of the
> > currently available batches viable for F1D? It doesn't need to be as
> > good as 5/99, but I'd like get some rubber that's at least as good as
> > the rubber I have left. Finding something that doesn't explode in
> > flight is also a bonus.
>
> I have not tested every recent batch of SS, but have heard from fellow
> F1B fliers that all batches since 2011 have been consistent in quality
> (energy return); so they should be less that 10% down from 99-5. Also
> F1B fliers are moving from Tan II to SS, as the latter does not explode,
> which would be a bad thing in a flyoff where you need to wind the motor,
> pick the air and make the flight in a 10-minute time window... With
> motors that do not explode it is all much easier. So one might conclude
> that Super Sport motors would not explode in indoor use either?
>
>
>
> -Tapio-
>
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