I specifically said Free Flight. To me that excludes RC, but would not exclude onboard computer controls. I see the gray area being the GPS since that does require radio contact with the satellites. My primary point was that even if an electric powered, on board computer controlled model airplane could exceed the duration of a rubber band powered model, the high tech. model would weigh much more & would not fly as slowly. So the question remains how do you define "beats". When this technology catches up with rubber power, maybe we would be discussing implementing maximum weight limits on the electric/computer controlled EZB's. Or even better, a maximum all up flying weight regardless of power source. That would force the high tech model to truly be competitive with rubber power.
Gary
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From: Don Slusarczyk <don_at_slusarczyk.com>
To: Indoor_Construction <Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thu, Apr 4, 2013 11:53 am
Subject: Re: [Indoor_Construction] Re: Indoor Dragonfly
It depends upon how you define "beats".
If we restrict the discussion to Free Flight, then I find it amazing that the basic ancient technology of a rubber band powered, mostly balsa wood model airplane can fly indoors for over 1 hour & that with all of today's technology a battery powered model employing sophisticated electronics & high tech materials has not been able to match the performance.
Do you mean unable to match the performance as an electric free flight model or any electric powered plane including RC?
Don
Received on Thu Apr 04 2013 - 12:32:27 CEST
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