Thanks for sharing TOT. It has an interesting appearance, mixing an old-style tailplane with the modern winglets.
Before Warren Williams set the impossible Cat I LPP record of 16+ minutes, the record was held by Jim Clem at 11:48. We can use the Clem record to better gauge Cat I LPP flights.
--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, mark bennett <f1diddler@...> wrote:
>
> Finally took a pic of latest
> Limited Pennyplane that treated me well at our October contest (27 ft. ceiling ,
> scrubbable.) First time I've tried vertical wing tiplets on LPP--I used to call
> them Bat Ugly--but they do apparently fly well. Previous LPP would get 8:30-8:45
> flights at Beatrice Auditorium without scrubbing ceiling too roughly, but TOT
> gave 9+s right off the bat. As usual, attribution is difficult in indoor--don't
> know if wing is better or if whole model is better. LPPs used to trick me often
> until I tried putting more (more than often published) wood weight into
> motorstick. Intention for TOT was to build to maximum legal dimensions for all
> parts, and for the rest (sizes and weights) just use TLAR BOPS. (That looks
> about right/Based on past success.) Prop shape stolen from William's Skipper but
> blades inverted so the widest part of chord is toward tips rather than toward
> hub. The two chordwise strips across blades are .013" thick add-ons, something I
> do when a prop flares too much at too low a torque. PM me if you need anything
> else measured.
> Mark B
> Wing .698g, OS-weight
> film.
> Stab .225g
> Fin .075g
> Prop .791g
> Motorstick blank .795g
> Finished m/s, boom, fin
> 1.186g
> ballast, .130 g
> Motor .083", 1.5g., 7/97 T2.
>
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