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APRiL 1991CONTEST NEWS
BUD TENNY
According to the Category I record lrifOrmatfonwe have,.
therewere two recoX'ds set a t the Eagles ' Reoord.T:r.1a1s. N+pkey
Jones madeappl icat ion f o r a Junior BSt1ck .recor.d of 3:58.4,
and Dutch Antonisaeapplied fo r a Senior B Paper S:blCl{ record
of}:42.8 . . This was thef i r s t model Dutch had ever bui l t ,
and his f ir 's t contest .N1ck ey Jones showed . : p ~ t l l . l 0
~ . ~ ~ ~ ! . l . ~ ~ ~ : r ' l 1 l 1 : S .... ' t < ? : l . ~ y
. ~ ! ~ ' t h . : l ? : . t . ~ . < :B\ Stick model . Ea?h time
~ h it an obstruct lonf ' t ..~ 9 H - t 4 s l ' i n i ! l . . A ~
~his off ic ia l . f l+ghtswere low, but .. on his . r e c o r q ,
t : r l ~ h t .. 1 1 .. tr1U1lIled toto stay below the beams, and
made almost fourmfnutes. Good ~ l y i n g l
of the mostenJ:oya.olesesslonawe t ve lla
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At the FAI,PJ'aclce Session, ' 0 ' U r p a . r l o r ' ~ M l t e
: , ~ f 1 . o e w fo r ove r3 tminutes onthe"f1re t f l igh t . I t
. o11mb,ed a 1 m o e . ' t . ' , t O " \ , : t . ~ e ceil ing
andlanded dead 6 ~ 1 > Q k ' f r o r n 1200 turns a t launch ..
T 1 ? : e , ; ~ : r i m w a s n 1 , t changedfrom f l ights . in
our l iving room, and no further' effo'rt a t trim wa.s made.This f
l lghtseemsto indicate that threem1nutes i s possible 1nour I i
ving room, bu t 2: 36 1s the top 80 far . I t t ) I 1 U ~ . t burn
up too muchpower dragging the ceil ing. At present, theqJlmb.trolll
,2 . t o. thefceil ing takes about .7 seconds. I f the climb c a .
n ' b ~ , s t r e t c h e d to about30 seconds without losing the
present 1 =45 average ,wewil l have madea good s ta r t toward low
ce i l ing technique.T h e " ' b e s ' f ~ props so far have " D '
e ~ ' n " a b o u t 5 3 / 4 , u d i a m e t e r andfB:lrlylow
pitch. I f r Ia recan be buil t in also, the In i t ia l torque
burstshould spread out and he1p,the cruise. D r l f ~ t : r : ; g l
n t o obstructions iss t i l l the major cause of low times, but th
is lepa.r t of the game.
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The "BABY stt, a 43' Square inch relative of the Parlor MIte can
beflown in the l1 vin g room. In a four-f l ight se r1eeJus t f1n l
shed , threeof the f l igh t s were longer than 2:15, and the fo
urth f l ight ended ina corner a.t 1:47. Sinee this 1s a legal
model for competition, andcan be buil t ina-bout 'four hours, we
ought to se tup a.n event aroundthis m o d ~ l or a similar one
just for fun. This one has been a lo t offun in the past 24
hours.
As you can see from the chart above, the Category I rebora l i s
t1s s t i l l incomplete 5 months af te r the Category was se t up.
'There' areover 25 records jus t begging t a b , set , i t th i , s
informatIon la right.I t is up to us to get on the bal l , b e f o
r e t h e W ~ t ~ g ? o y s s p o t the opendoor. Will we le
tCalffOrni8,beat us to the puncn, or will we prove tothem tha.t we
know how to fly model airpla.nes in Texas also? 'The way to do I t
, as was demonstrated a t t heFA. IP rac t 1 c e g e s B l o i i
~will be to fly regUlarly in low ceil ing s i tes . Part of these
flying'Sessions can be in less than 20' ceilingso By trimming for m
a x l ~ u mf l ights in the low, low ceil ings, the records will be
easy marks whenwe move over to a good ei te . 'That las t point is
important enough to repeat. Just aswftl: iariytype of model,
resular flying sesaionsproduce thetriaximum performancea model Is
capable of. Regularsess ionswll1oause the unrelia.'bl'emodels to
qui t o r ~ e t . f1?Ced., an
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S o m ~ b . n e n $ e d s ; , q t . t l ' e h e o k l n t o ' t
h e N o I ' t b . Sider' d 9 r i ' ~ ' 1 , g i n l n ' F f ~ ' "
Worthto see 1 f : . l t Q ~ n ' P ( V . u e d f We hear that i t w
a S ( f ) t $ r ~ l : . ~ y e a r s a . g o ~A 1 ' l l ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
sta'teCollege 1 s 0 1 0 8 ~ n ! $ in t h e b $ ~ l i i ~ J . n ~ h
e l t g l m ' ~We need tof indout ,W'hat the newcel11ng height
l's;'..and I f th i s sl tecan be used for i n d o o r ~ .With
th1smany good sl tes ava ilable to us ln th l s area, we oanbecome
the mostactfve 1n4oor area in the country. Let fa do 1t I
nws Of I N D O O ~ 8 i ' l ; E a TOCCMEIn Garla'nd, the n ~
communi tyhouse will b a 30 ' a r ch whl1Jistretol),esouta.'bout70'
across tJl.1.,pase. Apparently the ee111ne ,}'111be p'ret t1
.clean, .: with , t ? ~ l y l ight I'''tfxtures to hang on Thl s
one ,probablywi,ll be e , ~ s y to get . .In R1chardson,the new
high' S C h o o l g y r n n a e l u m ~ f l r b e 2 8 t o f < v
~ r 1
clean e e 1 ~ ~ n g . . T ~ l a 'shollld .be t l 1 . ~ , s + t e
. w h l C h \ f ~ + ) . < ' ~ n a b 1 . e u e . , . , ~ 9 . ) ;
~ f ) a . tWilmington ' ~ ' . the1,r.'ownl&me. W ~ h a : > ~
e been. s . s s u ~ ' 4 ' t h a . t ' t h 1 $ " , w l l ~ .
beava,11a'bj;', 'but we don 't know J u ~ t .,what the costwl11
bE).The G r e ~ n V i l l J ( v e n u e G y m . ! i ~ e h t the E a
g 1 e ' E 1 i i e O ~ d ~ i a l ' "w1l1 not . b ~ t u r n $ d into
a b ~ 8 b8:rnas had been rum,oi"fid. rt 'wtl1.oontinue 'to b e ~ v
a + ~ ' a . ' t > for f lying s e s s l 0 n $ , l 1 , ~ ~ . q ~
h ' t e ~ ~ s . " . ' . " , ~ ,steps are ~ e 1 n g ' ~ ~ k e n to
try to get t ! l e ; f . t V ~ . t - d C ~ C 0 1 1 8 h \ l J l l
.onoccasion for Categcr,. II Reoord ' . ~ ~ l , ~ l . e . -rh1s ..
~ n ' : ' " l ; i prooabll"'haveto be sponsored trom o u t ~ l ~ e
sources d . u e t o t : p . e . Q \ Q s ~ : . ,
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