MJD

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLjb...WXQ-QCr2JTv64m

And check out the engine..!

Pond Skipper

http://www.modelflyvning.dk/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=50

You will have to use google translator to view the threads.

Pond Skipper

His best read was 41.5k most over 38k

combatpigg

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That was a great looking run and it looks so easy to do..!

aspeed

I get about 122 mph if he is on 47.47' lines. It is timed over 5 laps, and divided by 1016.79. It was choppy video so who knows how accurate it may be. Carl Dodge is around 140 I think, last I saw him go. He used a CS.049

Pond Skipper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDM2p1bmwl0
Published on Nov 15, 2014
2014 Tournament of the Millenium (Santarem, Portugal)
Winning Flight in Open Speed -1/2A Profile Protospeed Class. Speed: 100.55 MPH
Pilot: Paul Gibeault (Canada) Pitman: Salvi Angelloni (Italy)


I like this idea I use a pin and pull line for release off the rear tail skid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkvfagsvz_A

MJD

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Chances are this is the same engine I have been putzing with. Still have to get some proper single blade speed props. Sure sounds sexy up on the pipe.

aspeed

Paul is a good guy. He is pretty much the only speed guy left around this country. I have not flown it for quite some time, and everyone else is getting kind of old too. I had the proto speed record at one time in the 70's @ 78 mph. That class was changed to profile proto, and 85 is pretty normal at the Nationals. 100 mph is pretty good with those thick lines from a standing start. Got some pics of mine still. The black one had the record when I was a Senior @ 17 years old, they last forever when you don't fly them. I have tried the stooge idea pictured. It worked ok, but seemed odd to start the plane in the middle of the circle. I used a fuel can to hold it in place and it moved a bit. It would be ok with something more like the one pictured.

Pond Skipper

On the black plane do you recall if the aluminum rim wheel is still being sold? Looks like a APC prop is it modified, the spinner looks small on the TD is it a 1"? OMG wing porrn lol..

aspeed

The prop was a 5 1/2" - 4" cox grey prop cut and shaped to whatever we figured. I think around 4 1/2" dia. The new APC stuff is likely much better now. When I flew FAI speed, I am sure the APC props would have made things much better. The wheels I made in high school machine shop, and used rubber o rings that poped off at each landing. The spinner was also a high school product. I really only took machine shop and drafting to further my cause in models. It did lead to a "profession" I guess, at the same time. The artwork was done by Sambo, The B in the FMB speed team. He was really a lot of help for a scrawny little kid.

Pond Skipper

Awesome Sauce thank you for sharing Alan!

The Scram looks like another good effort with the CS engine did you use a pipe?

aspeed

SCRAM was the society consisting of racing airplanes & something else I can't remember. There was also SCRATA Society consisting of racing airplanes, and that's all. The class does not allow a pipe. I cut off the nipple from the back and opened it up. I do have a piped motor around that has been run but not flown. I have no pavement big enough, and that profile plane slams the ground as soon as the motor cuts. I would have to make new planes, and would like to use the Fora and the CS, as I have played with it a bit since that plane has flown. A "B speed" plane is on the agenda, but there is no where even close to being big enough to fly that. It needs an acre of clear pavement. Shopping malls and industrial parking lots are run all weekend, and insurance issues make the greedy chicken lawyers ban planes. I can go to Muncie to fly, but it is quite a drive, and would be hard to experiment with heads with no lathe or tools. I do have a hard time to fly a plane in the pylon, although it is no problem without it. One second laps are possible for ten laps, but things change in the pylon when they are wicked fast. Paul Gibault has to really practice in Europe because of field issues.

MJD

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I've often wondered what it is like flying in the pylon for the first time.

aspeed

Same as the second time :-) I found it harder to fly right handed, and counter clockwise than clockwise, as you are backing away from your plane, and it can get ahead of you. At about 150 mph, this happened to me, and really that is why I quit the FAI flying. Later they went from 52 ft lines to 60ft. and that would have been ok. Now they are much faster and it would be spinning just as quick as before. It is really fun though when you get a good run. Gets the heartrate up.

MJD

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I guess the trick is to smack the model into the ground before the lines wrap around you all the way until the airplane is tightly bound to your chest with a running engine.

aspeed

That is what I did. It went in directly behind me.

MJD

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And I missed it? Dang!!!

Worst I did was watch a 1/2A Ringmaster do 4 million laps around a guy wire, with the lines shortening by about 3/8" inch each time, wayyy back in my youth.

aspeed

I have seen a 'few' flyaways in the combat circles where the handle and wires fly away with the plane. Big circles till they are pretty much out of sight in most cases. I am pretty sure they got all the planes back. Now a safety thong is pretty standard for most events.

MJD

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I had that happen on a L'il Satan/GB/dacron lines when I was a young lad - the down line broke, it started looping, aggggh I dropped the handle.. so it happily circled up a few hundred feet and drifted across the road over a ploughed field, quit and then down it came. As I recall the idea at the time was to try to do it again because ti was so funny.

paulgibeault

A couple more 1/2A speed videos found on You Tube

- British Vintage Class I "Mini Speedster" W Cox Babe Bee .049 -Paul Gibeault Vintage Class I Mini Speedster - Cox .049
- Model & engine must have been designed / built before 1956.
-Flown on .008" X 35' lines (12 laps), unlimited fuel. Speed: 85 MPH

-AMA Class I 1/2A Proto Speed Modified Dale Kirn "Torky" with modified Shiriken .049 -Paul Gibeault 1/2A proto speed
-Flown on .010" X 42' lines (10 laps timed from take off). 10% Nitro fuel, Speed 100.55 MPH

aspeed

Hi Paul. 100 is pretty good. I think I was about the mid 80s back in the day. (Alan F.)

MJD

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Mid 80's.. wow, how old are you now?

Those little buggers move, 1/2A proto speed looks like good fun.

paulgibeault

HI Alan,
Yeah, it's still GREAT fun using mostly old technology motors. Got lots of parts so I figure I might as well use them up! My goal is to break 100 MPH at the NW Regionals which is the toughest 1/2A Proto competition in America. So far only 2 other fellows, Jerry Rocha of Napa & John Newton have done so officially. As usual, it all about the little details. A new lightweight model & carbon props are hopefully in store for this year...

aspeed

Maybe I should get some stuff ready next year and go to Portugal or out west. I would have to mask it as a trip and hide my plane if the wife goes. I have a CS that I think is working much better than it did 25 years ago. Can't get parts for it if it breaks as I think CS is done now.

paulgibeault

Both sound like good ideas! ( My wife prefers Portugal over everything else...besides, a decent T&D Reed Speed motor is very competitive there.) Interestingly, when you only fly once or twice a year the speed motors have a great lifespan. Really, three officials & a couple of test hops. Total running time is less than 10 minutes a contest! They last a long time especially with the regulation 10% nitro fuel used in most all classes. Besides IF you just happen to blow one, well then you know you got your moneys worth out of it. No point in not running them unless you intend to display them on a mantle...
Cheers, Paul