Back in the Akron days my dad flew a wide chord Pennyplane monoplane for
a while. His best was around 19:30 with fixed prop. The biplane was
easier to make climb but the monoplane we felt had a much better
cruise. We always felt it would break 20 easy back then but could not
get much over 100-110 feet high no matter what we did. More torque
usually meant a deep stall during climbout then altitude was lost and
torque burned off . If you fiddled with the trim and got it to climb
well then it would loose it cruise and time was worse. The last Johnson
City USIC we both attended together we paid more attention to getting
the CG in the desired location and establishing the correct mix of wing
and tail incidence to get climb and cruise. I know he did a 17 something
no touch (non VP) then hung it up and we could not get it down so it was
lost to the girders and we never got that last data point. I have wanted
to revisit the monoplane again.
Don
On 11/25/2014 11:09 AM, joshuawfinn_at_gmail.com [Indoor_Construction] wrote:
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> Has anyone done competitive flight times with a monoplane in recent
> years, or are biplanes the only way to go?
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Don Slusarczyk
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