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tsawyer148 -> RE: Sundowner 50 Racing? (3/2/2008 8:59:10 PM)
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I Posted this in the beginners forum as well...
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We had another "Just for Fun" race yesterday in Mesquite, Nevada, and some of the flyers used that as a good test bed for the Sundowner. One of the heats pitted two very aggressive racers with their Sundowners together and I gotta tell ya it was one of the most entertaining and exciting races I have seen. Very closely matched and, even though they may not be as fast as some of the Q-500 sport planes we were racing, they looked plenty fast when they are wingtip to wingtip over the length of 10 laps. It was an absolute blast and the weather was very cooperative.
One thing I have found out with the Sundowners is that they are a very robust model. With the many test flights that myself and others have done trying to find the best fuel/prop combination, suffice to say many of the flights and especially the landings have been less than spectacular. However, even with the many bouncy landings, hot landings and skidding runs into the weeds and off the runway, there have been very few that have had any sort of damage. Yesterday, one of the pilots was putting a trim flight on his and the way the field is set-up, there a few trees sitting to the one end of the runway which, if you have to land from that direction, causes you to have to come in a little high to set up for landing. The pilot was doing his approach and got a little crossed up and ended up clipping the top of one of the trees. The plane went into a violent spin and came down hard. We expected to find a mangled mess when we got to it, yet the only problem it had was the motor mount was a little loose. The firewall was in tact, there were no holes in the covering and the other than a little dirt and weeds stuck to it, no other real damage to speak of. It is a great flying plane and stands up to alot of abuse.
T.
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