Cool, I knew we would drag Joe into this sooner or later. :) Joe & Jan Wurts wrote: > > Ummm... I guess I havta provide some balance here. > > For pure speed, nothing beats moldies. Span, span, span... (or > more properly, L/D in the turn, L/D....) For the "real" DS diehards > that have gotten past the huge adrenaline rush that moldie DS > used to give,
Is it desirable to "get past this" though? I certainly hope I never do. Heh, I think you guys are spoiled by the conditions at Parker. > the foamies can give a satisfaction that the moldies > cannot. DS rolling circles, vertical figure 8 circuits (no ailerons > allowed!), outside DS, DS around objects, DS figure 8 racing, ... > Almost all of the above cannot be done intelligibly with a fast moldie, > but can be done with foam (okay, some foam). While I certainly wouldn't attempt all these manuvers with a moldie, I can do at least a few of them. The main issue is that I don't think a JW could do this stuff in the normal conditions I find at my particular flying site. Perhaps a better pilot could...I don't know. Again, I think the flying site geometry makes a huge difference, as well as the typical wind conditions for your site. > I would not be able to > do the same stuff with the composite toys currently available. This > is especially true in that I like working on the edge of my personal > performance envelope, which entails the occasional meeting with > terra firma. While I can't claim to be a great contest pilot (or a contest pilot period, for that matter) I've found the same thing to be true. I can only improve when I go beyond what I think my limits are. Doing the same thing over and over and over tends not to improve my performance very much (or if it does, it takes a really long period of time)...it's usually when I push a little bit beyond that my performance in the original thing I was working on gets better. I definitely understand the JW's appeal in this sense. Right now my "performace improving" plane is an old CR composite Renegade. I really should get a JW, though, because that's not very fair to the ole' Renegade. Brett RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
