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FLYING THE SLIMMERS
JUMBO
This
is where it all comes together (we hope), and with lots of
admiring glances, and some in shocked disbelief at such
sacrilege, we completed the preflight checks, and
progressed to putting air under our wheels.
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The
takeoff is simple, straight and uncomplicated - well it had to
be.... the rollout was only approx TWO METRE. Vertical
performance is great, and the combination of this model and a
.40 size motor seems about spot on.
Progressing
to slow flying, fast beatups, which in reality is only
marginally faster than slow flight, big loops or very tight
vertical and horizontal eights .... and all this in the space of
a control line circle...... joined by IAN BOYD's Gee Bee Whizz
in the air, everyone else landed to watch the spectacle of two
fun-fly models trying very hard to tie themselves into knots....
WHAT GREAT FUN, FOR MINIMAL DOLLARS.
A new
manoeuvre is discovered - fly forward into a five knot breeze.
Ease the power back while slowly adding up elevator. Keep doing
this until the model almost stops in midair ... add two clicks
of power ON, while pulling the elevator stick all the way back
... if you get the timing and settings right (its takes a little
practice), your model will now be FLYING BACKWARDS, AND
CLIMBING. Read this again and imagine the model position... it
looks weird. Next time we are going to try this inverted........
Does all this sound like a lot of fun ... YOU BET.
Now you
see, there is something good that comes out of Victoria, besides
the Hume Highway, of course. |
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