Gary
As far as my model is concerned the only problem I know of is that my
covering has gotten very wrinkled and baggy. Other than that there was
an rpm increase that seemed to push me over the edge of what length
motor I could use. Normally I can run motors up to 21" without too many
problems but at Kibbie anything over 19 was causing problems with rubber
bunching at the rear hook. I tried a number of solutions that seemed to
help but my times never got to what I expected.
I normally depend on turns left in the motor to keep the motor fairly
tight toward the end of the flight but the increased rpm's were
defeating that plan. My first test flight was the best I did in 2 days.
It was 8:44 and dead sticked at about 30' up. That would have won the
contest but I never reached that time again on my official flights.
On 7/8/2013 9:22 AM, Warthodson_at_aol.com wrote:
>
> Bill,
> I spent some time last Friday with Emil Schutzel & Larry Coslick
> discussing the recent Kibbie Dome event. Emil experienced the same
> frustrating A6 performance issues that you had, but both Emil & Larry
> had other airplanes that flew very well. Same as you did. So, that
> would seem to eliminate "bad air" & "bad rubber" as a good
> explanation. Did you ever reach a plausible conclusion as to what was
> causing your A6 to misbehave?
> Gary
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Gowen <wdgowen_at_gmail.com>
> To: Indoor_Construction <Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wed, Jul 3, 2013 12:37 pm
> Subject: Re: [Indoor
> Gary
> Contrary to popular opinion - at least to what I used to think - my A6
> is not unbeatable. I had a pretty dismal showing at Kibbie and got
> beat on the last day by Andrew. I just couldn't find any combination
> that would get me to 9 minutes and this was after 2 while days of
> flying nothing but A6.
> On Jul 3, 2013 10:56 AM, <Warthodson_at_aol.com
> <mailto:Warthodson_at_aol.com>> wrote:
>
>
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