Hi everybody,
In my experience, and from what I know about structral
stuff (which isn't much), sometimes the light ones can
acctually seem tougher. I couldn't figgure this out
for a long time, until I realized that, all other
things being equal, if one plane is twice the weight
of another, it needs to be twice as strong to survive
a straight-in dive from equal height. In other words,
strength (oops, for clearity, I should say 'rough
landing resistance' which, in the structural world,
includes midairs (I think)) is INVERSLY related to
weight, and related to the materials and amount of
them, the structural design of the model, and the
point of impact. Unfortunatly, if a plane is lighter,
it is a pretty good asumption it has less material in
it. Also unfortunate, is that hanger rash isn't
gennerally related to the momentum of the airplane,
but to the momentum of the object crushing it (the
screen door?) and in that case, lighter ones arn't as
strong as heavier ones of equal structural design.
Another thing to consider, is that though the Logic's
tails arn't as strong as, say, the Monarch's (or the
Wizard's or whatever) you don't have to pay $50 to
replace them (as long as they don't break in the air).
Just some thoughts,
Paul
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Dick and others,
>
> We are now getting to the point in HLG "technology",
> where most of the
> superlight aircraft are NOT as fragile as you say.
> Take the Encore 6063 for
> example. It is one of the strongest handlaunch
> planes out there today, if
> not the strongest. And it still weighs 8.8 or less!
>
>
> Dick's airplane, from my observations is very
> strong, and launches high.
> Now, I don't know the specifics of the hang time or
> handling... but again we
> go back to the Encore 6063. It has some of the best
> handling around, if you
> don't believe me, ask some of the other guys out
> there flying them: Joe
> Wurts, Tim Cone, Ben Clerx, etc. Now, before
> someone jumps on me by saying
> "Yeah, but you can't launch an Encore as high as
> Dick's Uplink!"... BULL!
> The Encore, without any modification, WILL side arm
> launch, and side arm
> launch VERY well! If you're going to use the Encore
> as a pure sidearm bird,
> I'd suggest making the wing bolt 8-32 rather than
> 4-40 to keep it from
> shearing from lateral loads. Another thing you
> might want to do if your
> sidearm technique has a lot to be desired is to
> order one, or build one, with
> a reinforced tip for throwing.
>
> Anyways, now that I've gone off on a huge rant...
> back to what I was
> originally saying:
>
> The newer "superlight" birds, for the most part, are
> plenty strong for
> competition use. However, there is of course
> exceptions, and from my
> experience, these seem to be the birds like the
> Flamingo and Logic. (long
> tail boom, balsa tail, etc) With the knowledge
> available on the exchange,
> someone could go home, and with a little bagging
> experience, build a good
> flying, STRONG, sub 9-oz HLG with no problem at all!
> One of my current HLGs
> weighs 7.8oz with 4 servos, and it is one of the
> strongest pod/boom HLGs I've
> seen since the Epsilon.
>
> So, everybody out there, stop bitching about fragile
> stick figure airplanes,
> build your airplane to how you fly. If you fly so
> reckless and abusively,
> maybe you need an airplane that can hold up to
> serious hits, but then
> again... most of the new very light HLGs are strong
> enough to hold up to that
> anyways!
>
> Thermals,
> Eric Farmer
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> > Launch height; not a superlight fragile ship; is
> the real key to good hang
> > time.
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