Using Steve Brown's 65 cm F1D as a reference, with a motor weight of 1.6g, the 65 cm F1D flies at 1.77 ft/s.
The current 55 cm F1D, with the light 0.6g motor specified by the rules, flies at 1.70 ft/s.
So the 55 cm F1D flies slower, but the 65 cm F1D is more beautiful?
--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, joshuawfinn@... wrote:
>
> This popped up on Youtube recently, straight from 1985. While I love the current F1D specs and wouldn't change them for anything, this has to be the most beautiful form of flying ever invented:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udK336tWekg
>
> Anybody know those folks?
>
> -Joshua Finn
>
Received on Tue May 07 2013 - 09:36:35 CEST