Great story. 180 mph seems to be a barrier and that is only for this year. What is needed is a breakthrough much like the X1 with a guy like Chuck Yeager at the controls. It'll happen. Will it be swept wings, short wings, hollow molded or solid? It will be fun to hear about it here first on RCSE. Charles ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry Baskin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 6:56 PM Subject: [RCSE] Report on the breaking of the DS speed record. > This weekend Craig Toutolmin, Dave Reese, my son Gavin, and I made our > pilgrimage to Parker, in part to make a run at the fastest recorded speed > (Paul Naton at 173mph, not at Parker). We were armed with a recently > calibrated and new radar gun, which is very accurate. Of course we also > intended to placate the DS gods with a small sacrifice or 2, just to be > safe. > After the F3F race at Vincent ( jeez I suck, these old thumbs don't do what > my brain says), it was over to Parker for my drug of choice. OK, I'll admit > it, I have enrolled at DS Anonymous...and it is not helping. On Sunday the > conditions on the front side were from the West about 15mph, sometimes up to > > 20. The back side ranged from bumpy and violently turbulent to silky smooth. > > Temperatures, a cool 100 in the shade. > On our first run at the record, videotaped as well, Dave flew his Ellipse > 2V, > special carbon version for DS. I was watching from afar, while getting my > stuff ready, and heard this shrieking sound of the plane doing circles at a > speed I have not seen often before. It must be a record I thought, running > over to see the speeds on the gun. This gun can't be accurate, 150mph. > Dave's > palms are sweating as he shoots out to the front side to gather his senses. > Then back in. A few laps, 166mph( about a dozen of those), 170 mph, oooh > sooo > close Dave as he bails out and the rest can come out of the bunkers. He he > goes again, back in, working the air, changing directions, yes, a tied > record > at 173mph, Dave pushing harder, the plane is not happy and making sounds, > another 173mph and Dave needs to bail. Safe landing. > Now my turn with my Millenium Extreme beautifully designed and built by RnR > products. Rich Spicer took a long time thinking this through, and it shows. > My heart is in my mouth, no way can I go > at the speed I just saw, but a personal record maybe. I work it all I can, > every way I know. 150mph. I land. Craig flies his amazing 3M home-brew, > working his beater over, but he is rock steady, 140mph. Then Joe Wurts > arrives and I know the record is about to fall. What records doesn't he > hold? > This time Joe checks my set ups and changes it all, I launch and I am > struggling with the turbulence but getting it up there again 150mph, 2 more > turns left in me, yes, 155mph (pulse rate breaks the record at 173) a > personal best. I hand the TX to Joe to have a go. Little more need be said > to > those who have seen him do this. To those who haven't. See this. > He takes it in and is at 150mph without a struggle. Many turns later and > adjustments to line have him repeatedly clocking close to and just over > 170mph, then he gets a pop and suddenly it is 174mph then 176mph. I am > standing rooted to the spot, my half inch square chromoly joiner (perfectly > made by Doug Boyd) is > bending...And he punches out to almost speck height. Wow. This was a thrill > I > won't forget, too bad I don't have the skills to do this. Dave flies it to > 166mph, then Craig takes it to 155mph. > We flew many planes through the day. Craig clocked close to 150mph on his > home built "Circle Jerk", Dave gets his old Diamond around the 140's. We all > > take a crack at the Essoraj and the high speed is 125mph. Gavin gets the > Essoraj to 122mph and then his 60" Victor to 110mph and promptly sacrifices > to the DS gods who are now due. A 60" sloper, a Stilletto gets 100, the JW > 95 > and it is about 8pm and I am seeing double. > I report tommorrow for my first 12 step meeting. > Barry Baskin. > > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
