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Old 04-17-2004 | 10:52 PM
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Jim Thomerson
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Default RE: Autonomous Flight, by Hal DeBolt

I'm being somewhat jovial here. There are free flight models which start spinning their propellers after they are launched, turn off their own engine, change their wing and tail incidence, sometimes several times, drop wing flaps or unfold wings, etc. etc. However, in free flight competition the flight is over and timing stops when the airplane goes out of sight. so what it does out of sight is unofficial . No problem!

Jim