Re: Re: Trick Or Treat, LPP

From: Don DeLoach <ddeloach_at_comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 12:33:11 -0600

I was there for that record. At Bedford (Texas) Boys Ranch in about 1995. Jim was an outstanding flyer. He taught me most of what I know about indoor, and we flew together often.

By the way Bedford is a *true* category 1 site; that is, there is no flyable "loophole" airspace above the 10m circle. That loophole is really lame for low ceiling sites. It needs to be more like a 5m circle.

DD


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>> 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.
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>> --- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, mark bennett <f1diddler_at_...> wrote:
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>> > 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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