"Breezy Hill's 1/2A Day" April 17th & 18th...Is In The Books!!!!

I'd be happy to give you details of the 60' 1/2 A flight. The Medallion powered 150 Ringmaster was actually flown on 41' lines. It was only the sheet wing RM that was flown on 60' lines. This was the first time I tried it just to see if it was possible and it went a lot better than I thought it would. I made three or four flights and there was very little wind of course.

The engine had 5 degrees right thrust and the rudder was offset 1/4". There was three pennies under the right wing tip and the center of the leadouts were moved back 1 3/4' from the C/G. The engine was a very good running Goldenbee, dual transfer ports, no boost ports, perfect compression and .024 subport induction. The intake tract was not drilled out but the subport induction was obviously modified by somebody. Sig 25%, low compression head, 5-3 cox prop yielded 19000 when first started and dropped to high 18s when hot. Best GoldenBee I've had.

Surprisingly it flew better than I thought it would on the 60 feet of 5lb. spectra. I found it would stay out on the lines fairly good doing wingovers, large and small loops, lazy eights and PA eights and maybe I did a couple of inverted laps. It absolutely surprised me that it did that good but flying with 5 lb spectra is almost like flying with no lines.

ledler wrote:

rsv1cox wrote:Enjoyed your pictorial Kim, as usual.

60' lines.  Spyder wire I would think?

Three cheers for Little Toot!

It was 5 lb spectra

Thanks, 60' lines has got to reduce the dizzies, right? Also it would seem that flights would be much more realistic with thin almost invisible lines. But control with 1/2A could be an issue.