{"id":3617,"date":"2019-01-11T10:39:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T15:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/blog\/?p=3617"},"modified":"2019-01-11T10:39:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T15:39:02","slug":"model-performance-report-i-e-bragging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/model-performance-report-i-e-bragging\/","title":{"rendered":"Model Performance Report (i.e. “bragging”)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cloudbusters’ monthly indoor contest was yesterday and I had a few successes.\u00a0 This post will talk about two of them.<\/p>\n

Last month, I debuted my B.A.T Monoplane neo-Dimer.\u00a0 I had a high time in December of 102 seconds (1:42).\u00a0 I felt (and may have even stated) that I thought it could use a touch more power.\u00a0 I was flying on a loop of 0.110″ rubber, but it wasn’t using all the space and there was obviously another 20 seconds needed to record maxes.<\/p>\n

The old motor was 20″ of 0.110, wound to 1650.\u00a0 I installed a new motor of 0.125″, 20 inches long. after a few test flights, I would it to 1800 and was rewarded with a flight that exceeded Max at 2:11!\u00a0 This was launched and flew in the very center of the room, using all of the height available and included one light scrape\/bump on a wire.\u00a0 A second official flight seems to be a little porpoise-y (maybe a bunched motor at the peg – maybe I forgot the down thrust shim?).\u00a0 I was concerned that it wouldn’t max, but my timer, Ron Joyal, stated that it would probably max and we recorded a 2:03.\u00a0 The two maxes were enough to beat everyone with their three flights.\u00a0 It is a majestic flyer and I am more than happy with this model!<\/p>\n

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The second plane is my 18.5″ Stout 2-AT, built specifically for Indoor Golden Age.\u00a0 I did this kit a few years ago (wow – over 3.5 years ago!) and never built one.\u00a0 I saw MANY of these have terrific flights at Geneseo and Muncie, when it was the One-Design.\u00a0 Anyway, when the club decided to fly Golden Age in the indoor meets, I threw one together, finishing it on New Years Day.\u00a0 I had to wait to really give it any test flights.\u00a0 It also uses a loop of 0.125″.<\/p>\n

This is another very stable flyer.\u00a0 After tweaking, I was able to post 103\/111\/108 flights to win Golden Age.\u00a0 I was happy.\u00a0 When I messaged my flying buddy, Winn Moore, about the flights, he responded “that’s good, but it looks like you should be able to max with that.\u00a0 He’s absolutely right – no need to be satisfied with “mediocre” performance.\u00a0 The glide was not good and I had to keep adding downthrust.\u00a0 I take that to mean that I am nose heavy.\u00a0 Next month, I’ll try adding some tail weight, improving the glide, and removing some of that downthrust.\u00a0 Maybe I can max out with this one, too!<\/p>\n

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The Cloudbusters’ monthly indoor contest was yesterday and I had a few successes.\u00a0 This post will talk about two of them. Last month, I debuted my B.A.T Monoplane neo-Dimer.\u00a0 I had a high time in December of 102 seconds (1:42).\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-builds","category-events","category-products"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}