If the stories about the magic juice being added recently are true, then current or future batches of Super Sport may indeed get as good as the Tan II. I don't know how good Tan II is, let alone the 5/99, but whatever this magic batch of Super Sport is, it's head and shoulders better than the other Super Sport we've got.
There was a time when several of us were flying Ikara's Bulldog ARF (sorta like a LPP but heavier with a plastic prop). The guy with the magic rubber had no trouble regularly breaking four minutes - typically 4:30 - while I was only able to get, at the most, 3:50. And I had the supposedly lighter film covered Bulldog, he had the older tissue covered one. Now I know why, perhaps. We quit flying them because they're heavy enough and fly fast enough to snap off the tailboom and various other parts just from scraping the ceiling or hitting some obstruction. When this happens the model comes down in two or three pieces. When it happened three times in a row I put mine away and it's been in the box ever since.
When we figured out how good this pound of rubber was, the owner quit giving away lengths of it to the rest of us! ;-)
Iskandar
---In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, <phedon21t_at_...> wrote:
That's what Steve Brown said who is a 3-time world champ.
Perhaps TanII but not Tan Super Sport.
I guess we agree on this matter.
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On Jan 6, 2014, at 5:25 AM, "mkirda_at_... mailto:mkirda@..." <mkirda@... mailto:mkirda@...> wrot
I am going to go out on a limb here.
I don't think that is necessarily true. There are other batches of TanII that are very good.
There is also the matter of small matter of matching the given rubber's torque curve with the right prop size (diameter/blade area/shape), pitch distribution, upper/lower pitch settings and spring. There is a lot more engineering here than meets the eye.
Regards.
Mike Kirda
--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com mailto:Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, Phedon Tsiknopoulos <phedon21t@...> wrote:
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> Only the 5/99 rubber is suitable for indoor flying at the F1D level.
> One cannot be competitive with any of the Tan Super Sport no matter what year it might be!
> But for F1B the Tan Super Sport is King.
Received on Tue Jan 07 2014 - 07:52:25 CET