ORIGINAL: Malcolm H

Sam (Owdlad),

In case you have forgotten you were not the only person competing in F3A iwith an electric model in England last year. Both Steve Burgess and I flew with our Hacker, Flightpower setups in both GBRCAA comps and in the Home International Champs. We also competed in every Scottish F3A contest.

Your Lazulite was impressive, especially in that the battery was cool after a flight BUT I still believe my Hacker setup had it beat in terms of ultimate performance and that was using last years Flightpower Pro 10s3p 6300 mAhr cells which were acknowledged to have poorer voltage stability under load than any of the current best cells. I was pulling 74A on 21 x 14 APCE but can't tell you the voltage and as you know the performance was excellent.

I am about to change to Thunderpower cells to enjoy the weight saving and better voltage stability in a new model but the existing setup was more than competitive. I must also state that I have bought every piece of modelling equipment I have ever used including my batteries.

For the record Sam you really should declare that you are a Kokam sponsored pilot. I'm not suggesting that you would allow this to interfere with the excellent input that you put into this, the GBRCAA and other forums but at least let people have all the facts.

Kind regards

Malcolm Harris