On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 10:23:31AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I am probably wrong on this issue, but I thought Maynard Hill held the | altitude record many years ago with an RC model using military ( Navy) | radar In excess of 20,000 ft (3.78 mi.).
http://records.fai.org:81/pilot.asp?from=model&id=569 Looks like he set an altitude record on 06/09/1970 with a gain of 8025 meters. Really, google is your friend here. Maynard's all over the place :) (Though what's really scary here is that `Doug McLaren' has more hits in google than `Maynard Hill'. Though to be fair, they're not all me, and when I remove the `not me' Dougs, Maynard wins the google war, though not by much. I guess that just means I waste much of my time online, and he spends much of his time breaking records. :) ) To make this somewhat relevant to this discussion, my guess would be that he did not use standard 72 mHz equipment to reach 8025 meters. He probably used 50 mHz equipment, which allows a full watt of power for R/C use and the use of high gain transmitting antennas. He probably had a helper who's job was to point the antenna right at the plane. A simple Yagi antenna would probably give him 10 miles of range without much difficulty even with only one watt, and without doing anything special with the receiver or receiver antenna. I've seen pictures of him sitting in a Navy gun turret, looking almost straight up through the built in binoculars/whatever. I'm guessing that this picture was taken when he was setting this record. -- Doug McLaren, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off.
