SEN 908 - 11 Oct 2004
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SCAT Electronic News 11 October 2004 issue 908
Table of Contents
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Tangent Results, finally - Roberts
35 grams - Malkin
More on F1B rubber Weight
Hummer - Boutillier
Motor weight - Boutillier
US Team Selection Results for 2005 World Champs - Batiuk and Team
Tangent Results, finally
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The fly offs for the August Tangent Classic FAI Meet were held at Lost Hills on
Oct 3rd thanks to the accommodation of Juan Livotto who graciously squeezed us
in, between the two event days for his contest. Thanks very much Juan.
Weather was perfect for the early morning, to the ground fly offs needed to
settle all the Tangent events so we were finished before the start of the
mini events for the Livotto Invitational. Here are the scores:
F1A
1st Dallas Parker 1594
2nd Mike McKeever 1556
3rd Hector Diez 1256
4th Pierre Brun 1206
5th Jim Parker 1148
6th Norm Smith 874
F1 B
1st Larry Norvall 1555
2nd John Pratt 1530
3rd Ralph Cooney 1216
4th Blake Jensen 1214
5th Rich Rohrke 972
6th Jack Emery 912
7th Lee Schroder 720
F1 C
1st Dave Shirley 1632
2nd Matt Gwain 1567
3rd Ron McBurnett 1171
4th Mike Roberts 641
F1 G
!st Hank Cole 880
2nd Jack Emery 810
3rd John Pratt 800
4th Ralph Cooney 600
5th Tiffany O'Dell 585
6th Bill Gannon 572
7th Larry Norvall 518
8th Rich Rohrke 205
F1 H
1st Dallas Parker 832
2nd Mike McKeever 821
3rd Norm Smith 554
F1 J
1st Mike Roberts 857
2nd Dave Parsons 810
3rd Dave Shirley 789
4th Bruce Hannah 600
Thank you all for coming to our Oregon Contest.
Ron & Mike CD's
35 grams
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Absolutely Mike, I agree with you that the sooner we get
back to 35 gr. maybe we will see some of the other
disillusioned fliers return to the fold.
John M.
More on F1B rubber Weight
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More on F1B rubber Weight (Peter King)
I thought it might be interesting to get some feed back on how these computer
simulations compare with your own real flight experience. The table shows
the effect of rubber weight on height and performance in two different types of
air conditions. I note times at Lost Hills recently were ca one minute down
on normal, in the 5 min round. I have been working on a program that attempts
to simulate the effect of rather dead air and low level turbulence on
performance. Originally done to try to explain why my best F1G, which does
about 2'
50" in 'still air' but when launched into bad air, regularly does close to 1'
20". The program matches this result and I can also use it to simulate the
effects on F1B, which are not as bad, due to the fact they climb higher and are
less effected by turbulence near the ground.
The results below are in the two types of air conditions. I have noticed
that 30 gm F1B's can easily miss even a 3 min max when the air is bad, whereas
40gm or even 35gm models would usually scrape through. The simulation is based
on good Tan 2. Super Sport would probably give a reduction of ca 11/12% if
you say best Tan 2 gives 4500 ft/bls/lb and best Super Sport say 4000. This
would drop the 30gm model for example, to about 3' 55" in bad air and to ca 5
'
15" in good air. How do these results compare with your experience guys? I
would point out that the simulations are in fact very close to a simple
factoring of the performance by the relationship between the rubber weight. ie
multiply the duration of a 40gm model by 30/40 to get the 30gm model's performa
nce,
etc. In fact I would venture to suggest the 30gm model has in reality even
less performance that this, due to various other factors, although this is
somewhat aleviated by the fact that many 40gm models came in quite a few gms
over weight, compared to the 30gm model. Mine certainly have at least, but
I am not the lightest builder on the planet !!
Good TAN 2
Good Air (Still air but with reasonably bouant conditions, typical of Lost
Hills, early morning?)
40gm Ht 442ft Duration 7' 50"
35gm Ht 360ft Duration 6' 31"
30gm Ht 324ft Duration 5' 54"
Bad Air (Unhelpful air with light sink and some measure of low level
turbulence)
40gm Ht 392ft Duration 5' 55"
35gm Ht 301ft Duration 4' 56"
30gm Ht 266ft Duration 4' 24"
Hummer
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In 905 issue of SEN, Doug wrote about the end of the current Hummer
production. Does it means that the Hummer's production will be
stopped or that there will be a new and improved generation?
Bernard Boutillier
[ comments Dukie ?]
Motor weight
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I completely agree with what was written by Mr. Shailor on this matter.
It is the same for the reduction of F1C motor run to 5sec, the decision
being taken at the time when a working group was in charge of finding
the reasons of the decline of number of F1C flyers !!!
The concern is still the same: look at the results of this year's EuroCH
in Romania: 80 competitors in F1A, 69 in F1B and only 37 in F1C !!!
For sure something must be done.
Bernard Boutillier
US Team Selection Results for 2005 World Champs
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Roger, enclosed are the 2005 Team Selection Finals results.
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F1A
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1 M Mckeever 2640+300+420+288
2 R Weiler 2640+300+420+264 (declined team position)
3 M Cowley 2640+300+420+263
4 J Parker 2640+300+420+243
5 K Bauer 2640+300+420+175
6 D Parker 2640+225
7 T Coussens 2640+197
8 B Van Nest 2610
9 B Sifleet 2601
10 S Spence 2594
11 D Zink 2591
12 D Edmondson 2585
13 L Hines 2577
14 P Brun 2576
15 I Fradkin 2568
16 A Barron 2553
16 P McQuade 2553
18 P Barron 2532
19 E Busnelli 2520
20 B Coussens 2511
21 M Fedor 2475
21 A Schlosberg 2475
23 H Diez 2467
24 T Tzvetkov 2465
25 J Davis 2423
26 C Markos 2396
27 N Smith 2370
28 D Prothroe 2293
29 P Brocks 2303
30 F Terzian 1080
F1B
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1 A Andriukov 2760+436
2 R Morrell 2760+428
3 B Tymchek 2760+379
4 B Piserchio 2760+375
5 B Booth 2760+357
6 B Biedron 2760+340
7 B Jensen 2760+337
8 P Crowley 2760+336
9 R Felix 2760+304
10 G Batiuk 2757
11 G Simon 2754
12 P Schieman 2733
13 E Nelson 2724
14 L Norval 2707
15 M Davis 2701
16 D Myers 2695
17 J Bradley 2688
18 E Wiley 2659
19 C Jones 2578
20 J Clapp 2498
21 R Rohrke 2465
22 D Wood 2144
23 M Schroedter 2097
24 E Vanlandingham 2062
25 J Pratt 2015
26 A Ulm 1868
27 J Peck 1675
28 W Ghio 1439
29 T Ioerger 1342
30 B Shailor 1337
F1C
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1 R Archer 2760+300+600
2 J Warren 2760+300+543
3 K Happersett 2760+300+478
4 D Shirley 2760+300+379
5 G Mennano 2760+300+285
6 B Servaites 2760+300+203
7 M Roberts 2760+300+0
8 B Gutai 2760+284
9 M Gewain 2760+247
10 T Kerger 2760+241
11 C Gunder 2760+205
12 D Chesson 2750+0
13 F Parker 2754
14 E Carroll 2733
15 N Poti 2729
16 H Spence 2699
17 D Joyce 2686
18 R Simpson 2632
19 P Sahlberg 2546
20 G Morris 2389
21 D Johannes 2083
22 A Kirilenko 1888
23 W Ghio 1642
24 R McBurnett 1340
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Roger Morrell