8178,

there are a couple of things a play here. first, you would not want to fly so far out and wide (big box) that the judges cannot see your manuvers and judge them correctly. second, is the design of the sequences. with sequences that are complex and have many manuvers within a figure the desire is to give yourself plenty of time between manuvers so that you are not rushing into the next one and present them with a nice even pace. make sense? sorry to jump in on this one, but why do some people associate pattern airplanes with speed?

what I am interested in with this thread is learning what combination of design alows for the slow downline, draggy flight. I have heard many comments the fuse design has nothing to do with it (or very little) but what does? is it wing design, wing loading, wide fuse, wide flying surfaces (tail surfaces), 3 or 4 blade props? or just what is the combination of all of these that work? then I guess that if it is too draggy or light then it won't snap properly? interesting reading and its been fun following so far.

Hubb