Getting my F1M to turn inside the slot at St Lukes required an offset of
about a half inch on my rear stab tube. I think that this was detrimental
to the model's performance or it could be that my latest F1M isn't as
efficient as my older ones. The existing record flight was done under the
22 ' low ceiling while yesterday I was flying at 29' at the top of the slot.
On Apr 21, 2013 8:26 AM, <joshuawfinn_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> We had a nice day yesterday, other than random drafts which threatened to
> swat F1D's and everything else out of the air and into the walls. In the
> times of calm the air was pretty good, but not as warm as hoped for.
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> I watched Bill Gowen put up a bunch of really impressive F1M flights, a
> real treat since I have not seen one flown in person before. I learned a
> lot about why mine isn't well behaved. His best flight of the day when we
> left was 14 and change, just under the record. Warmer weather would
> probably improve that significantly. Bill definitely uses the slowest
> changing VP I've seen. It's an interesting flight profile...
>
> There was a lot of F1D testing, and I finally had what I could really call
> a good F1D day--my worst flight was 23:00, and things improved from there,
> finishing with a 24:36. We *think* it could have been longer because I had
> to steer to get the model away from extremely bad turbulence, and this
> caused a very premature pitch change, scooting the model off to the ceiling
> where it banged around for about 8 minutes, giving me a real back ache...
> Here is a short clip of it in the slot:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2w2lhDTn0c&feature=youtu.be
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> -Joshua Finn
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