Re: Re: Are there too many Indoor events?

From: William D. gowen <wdgowen_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 20:05:35 -0500

Yes. I was just saying that it isn't impossible to get a monoplane to
fly well.

On 2/1/2016 6:49 PM, Don Slusarczyk don_at_slusarczyk.com
[Indoor_Construction] wrote:
>
> Bill,
>
> I though your tandem was ~5" chord on wing and stab right? I am
> talking about 8" or so chord wing and a 5" chord stab. Then with about
> a 1" nose leaves about 4" from the trailing edge of the wing and
> leading edge of the stab. They start to act different that close
> coupled. I always thought 8" chord monplane like that out cruised a
> biplane. They can do good time from low height, trying to get them to
> climb, cruise and descend is when the fun starts. The last USIC I
> attended at ETSU my dad an I had two identical 8" OPP models built, we
> both tried independently to get them to climb, cruise, and descend
> properly then tried to mix and match what we were doing. CG, total
> incidence, incidence distribution from wing to tail etc. We usually
> could get 2 of 3, by the end of the contest we decided we needed my
> dads climb out and beginning of the cruise and my models mid cruise
> and descent to win :-)
>
> On 2/1/2016 6:31 PM, 'William D. gowen' wdgowen_at_gmail.com
> [Indoor_Construction] wrote:
>>
>> My tandem was steady as a rock. But I see the point.
>>
>> On 2/1/2016 6:27 PM, linardic_at_yahoo.com [Indoor_Construction] wrote:
>>>
>>> Don
>>> All you are saying about opennpennyplane I confirm. Monoplanes are
>>> too unprodictable I feel also due to beiing too short coupled. I
>>> flew a 8 inch chord model for a while a disaster. I could not get
>>> both the cruise and climb dialed in. On this note old f1d and todays
>>> int stick are rigid models and you know the settings and can exploit
>>> the mid hight torque to get a slow long climb and super cruise.
>>> Something not possible with the variable geometry airframes of
>>> thebrestricted rubber weight. Once upon a time I had a model a
>>> biplane with a narrow chord 24 inch stab this resolved the issue but
>>> was out ruled the year after at usic. This model climbed as if it
>>> was on rails! So now its either you fly a biplane with donthrust or
>>> no point!
>>> Othervise a great event and increasing the length of open pp may
>>> allow for monoplanes to be competetive and get away from the rubber
>>> restricted F1M! Back to te same question we have so many restrictive
>>> events!
>>>
>>> Vladimir Linardic
>>>
>>
>
> --
> Don Slusarczyk
>
Received on Mon Feb 01 2016 - 17:05:38 CET