ORIGINAL: frugalme
One of my most unforgetable memories is how precisely solid and stable Joe Bridi's Dirty Birdy seemed to fly through the pattern at Lake Charles in the mid '70s. Out of all the great flyers that I observed back then, those JB/DB flights left the longest lasting impression. He surely knew a secret or two about how to set up (and fly) an RC pattern ship. I'm gonna build my (at least the first one) Dirty Birdy to that spec.
It seems similar, to me, to the way B. Hebert advises to set up a plane with some 'triangulation' to create solid, predictable flight behavior. Works on planes on G3.5.
Terry in LP
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The beauty of modeling is that everyone can have it their way. I just love to speculate about history and their design concepts.
I don't suppose for an instant that I know a millionth as much as Joe Bridi. He is my design hero. Yet, I have improved upon his original specs "for my style of flying". I'm sure that if everyone builds their models absolutely stock they will have superb handling models.
Ed Cregger