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My week in Geneseo, NY for the Flying Aces Club non-Nats was a success.\u00a0 We had a great time and I passed some milestones and even learned some lessons about flying and preparation.\u00a0 I’ll try to summarize before leaving in a few minutes for the AMA Nats in Muncie, IN.<\/p>\n

Sport Endurance<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I took my Wanderer (OT Stick), King Harry (2 Bit+1), Bad Axe (Embryo), and my new Comet Pepper (OT Fuselage) expecting great things.\u00a0 Like all things, there were ups and downs.\u00a0 I logged eight official maxes with these planes.\u00a0 I maxed out with the Wanderer and took First Place.\u00a0 I maxed out with the King Harry and had a fly-off with Bobby Langelius – my 2:55 flight was not quite long enough to beat his 3:15 flight – so I took second.\u00a0 In Embryo, I got a max on the first flight of my Bad Axe, but learned I need to let my motor rest – I put up two more flights in rapid succession and they got less and less.\u00a0 The last flight was only a little over 90 seconds (lesson learned).\u00a0 My Pepper showed good flight characteristics right off the board, getting about 1:45 flights in test.\u00a0 I wanted a little more climb and a little more duration, so I made a new\u00a0 motor with the equivalent of one more stand of 1\/8″.\u00a0 I grabbed the winder, wound up to less torque (but more winds) and took it for a test.\u00a0 It zoomed, did a wing-over, and powered into the ground – crushing the fuselage back into the cabin.\u00a0 Post-crash analysis revealed that I used different winders with different torque meters and wound to a much higher torque (lesson learned).\u00a0 I rebuilt the front half of the fuselage yesterday and it is ready to go for Muncie<\/p>\n

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all that could be salvaged from the Pepper fuselage.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Scale Models<\/strong><\/p>\n

I went to Geneseo with three essentially untested scale models:\u00a0 my Judy (WWII combat), my Peanut Grumman Goose, and my 30″ span B-52.<\/p>\n

The Judy did great.\u00a0 I made it into the 2nd round (of 3) in the WWII Combat – where they took out the bottom NINE.\u00a0 My Judy flew for 87 seconds that round, but the cut-off was 95 seconds.\u00a0 You can see my model in this photo coming right at you in the upper left.<\/p>\n

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Ronny Gosselin photo<\/p><\/div>\n

The Goose proved to be a challenge.\u00a0 I had tested it on a loop of 0.050″ on each motor before and it was too weak for me.\u00a0 So I went with a loop of 1\/16″ in each motor.\u00a0 It seemed to be too much power and we had to wrestle with thrust settings on the tiny Peanut.\u00a0 My best flight was 30 seconds; good enough for second in High Wing Peanut (only because of the 35 bonus points).<\/p>\n

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Jack and I winding. Ronny Gosselin photo<\/p><\/div>\n

My B-52…I had literally dozens of low, low powered test flights on this at home.\u00a0 My build seemed to have induced wash-IN in both tips and I struggled to get that stabilized – tests would result in a flat start and then a nose-up pitch and a straight dive into the ground.\u00a0 I got that sorted for the most part, but it is always lurking in the background.\u00a0 Geneseo was the first time I flew the model with the engine pods on the wings.\u00a0 I have always been worried they would be very vulnerable to damage.<\/p>\n

I saw some of the old flight patterns at Geneseo and in went in nose-first more than once.\u00a0 The pods “may” have a slight stabilizing effect, whether it is from drag or from weight (the assemblies are 2 grams each), I don’t know.\u00a0 Here is a video of a test flight of 43 seconds – I logged an official flight of 55 seconds.\u00a0 This didn’t come close to placing, but I was happy with it!<\/p>\n