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Old 02-02-2007 | 08:23 PM
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Charlie P.
 
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Default RE: Accelerometers

I was mostly wrong. I posted a query on the Pylon Racing forum and came up with members who claim 75 ft turns pulling 30 g's, so I concede to HighPlains slightly higher numbers. Now I am ASTOUNDED that someone could feed two commands into a servo and have it respond in less than 1/4 second for both commands. 50 ft at 220 fps for the entry and the exit to the turn means the whole maneuver is completed in just 0.22 seconds. Shazam! Talk about flying ahead of your model.

Did you every hear of the Rolling Airframe Missle? It was an air to air missle designed to be a lifting body, so that it could pull 100 g's in it's final moments to impact the target.
AIM-9M Sidewinder and AIM-120 AMRAAMs too, but they're using a better Gov. Spec. grade of balsa and MonoKote than available to most civilian modelers.