What Do YOU Consider 3D?
11-03-2005, 05:29 PM
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RE: What Do YOU Consider 3D?
To get back to scale model airplanes V.S. "3D planes"
A scale model airplane is just as capable (More so in the right hands) than a UCD ever dreamed. I would match my fliton extra, 35% WH extra, or EF Yak up against any UCD, mayheim, or razzel [:'(] and win. And yes I have flown all of the designs listed!! The UCD is a fun plane to hover and TR with, it will do nearly every move in the book HOWEVER it cant do it as clean and perfect as a scale plane in the right hands. If I want to do some HA Rolling figure eights with a reversal in the middle and stop the rolls every other roll in a HA KE position the UCD is NOT my plane of choice. Where as the EF Yak will float through this manuver with no problems.
I forgot to add...IMO a good profile such as the OMP brand is a perfect blend of the two worlds. You can get precision yet its forgiving if you push too hard.
A scale model airplane is just as capable (More so in the right hands) than a UCD ever dreamed. I would match my fliton extra, 35% WH extra, or EF Yak up against any UCD, mayheim, or razzel [:'(] and win. And yes I have flown all of the designs listed!! The UCD is a fun plane to hover and TR with, it will do nearly every move in the book HOWEVER it cant do it as clean and perfect as a scale plane in the right hands. If I want to do some HA Rolling figure eights with a reversal in the middle and stop the rolls every other roll in a HA KE position the UCD is NOT my plane of choice. Where as the EF Yak will float through this manuver with no problems.
I forgot to add...IMO a good profile such as the OMP brand is a perfect blend of the two worlds. You can get precision yet its forgiving if you push too hard.
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RE: What Do YOU Consider 3D?
To me....any manuever that Patty Wagstaff cannot do in her Extra 300S would be considered 3D.
11-04-2005, 09:29 AM
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RE: What Do YOU Consider 3D?
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Plane and simple.......post stall aerobatics.
Plane and simple.......post stall aerobatics.
Also, it does not take a lot of power to do harriers (not super HA), elevators, walls, blenders, KE Spins & slow descending flat spins and these are surely 3D moves. So I could theoretically have a plane capable of 3D with out the power to hover [&:]
3D- simply having enough thrust to do sustained maneuvers at up to and including vertically oriented maneuvers. (Dick Hanson)post#35
A GOOD 3D design is measured by it's performance BETWEEN the unstalled, stable flying state and the completely stalled, stationary flying state. (Shogun)
11-04-2005, 03:42 PM
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RE: What Do YOU Consider 3D?
Among other answers mentioned, I also think of 3D as doing things within a very small "3D box" for the size of the airplane.
...and isn't a flat plate really a FULLY symmetrical airfoil?
...and isn't a flat plate really a FULLY symmetrical airfoil?
