combatpigg

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What is the record for the most touch and goes on the clock...?

toprudder

I don't know what the record was, but back in the early 80s I did 31 in 3 minutes at one fun-fly with a Martha, a little less than one every 6 seconds. This was not looping, this was flying a figure 8 pattern because of the "turn at least 180 degrees" rule at that particular contest. I'm sure the modern wing-n-stick planes could do this a lot faster, but most of the competitive fun-flys I watched them fly in allowed looping T&Gs, so it is more of an apples-oranges comparison. The best person to ask this question (since he probably holds the record) would be Jerry Smith of Kentucky.

toprudder

If you are talking about me, I did have a Yard-Dart at one time, but don't anymore. I did a quick google search and did not come up with anything immediately. Don't have any photos of it, either. :-(

combatpigg

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That's some frantic, fearless figure 8 flying..!
The loop and bump style of touch and go is also impressive. I think those 2 different styles of touch and goes could have coexisted in the rules as separate events

toprudder

Actually, the 31 that I did were not frantic at all. The trick is to not let the adrenaline take over. Except for the initial takeoff, I don't think I got much over about 1/3 throttle, I just kept it slow and tight. At one local fun-fly, I flew an old 3 channel Kadet and won T&G with it, doing pretty much the same thing.

combatpigg

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The best flying plane at a local float plane fly in was a competition style fun flyer rigged with floats. It was too windy for most of the others to fly and this guy / plane was pretty much the whole show that day. He stained the plane's wood and covered it in transparent iron on..so it was also the coolest looking plane out there.

Hossfly

Way back when: IN 1997, I did the drive to Alaska. I was in the Anchorage area for several weeks. The Anchorage RC Club financed Jerry Smith to come up there and show them some of the Competition Fun Fly stuff that was in style back then. I will never forget that standing back some 15 ft. behind him, I watched Jerry do a task of loop style Touch and Go. The model was small with a small screamer engine. Jerry was barely Antenna distance from the model. He went into a Loop and Touch & Go program that was absolutely unbelievable. I could only see a couple verticals, 1 going up and 1 going down. Jerry's loops were not more than I say 5 ft. vertical and maybe 3 ft in the horizontal. UNREAL. His body shaded out almost everything.
I often wonder if he is still in the business.

eddieC

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I have an original Coal Hauler in the works, a Webra .32GT with mousse pipe to power it. Nothing like a Fun Fly plane, lots of fun & adrenaline!