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rmh 06-27-2005 09:41 AM

RE: Wing Loading
 
pretty easy combo- our favorite motor -is a CD rewind from Japan for $ 19.95-with the optional $7.00 prewound stator .
battery 480/or larger TP 2 cell.
Th price is simply an added thing -these motors beat any small stuff we have tried -or wound
prop 8x4 orange straight blade GWS .
construction is all 3mm white Depron -250-275 squares tiny servos and rx .
These things are super indoor aerobatic flyers .
for outdoors we use the same thing -in dead calm -ortherwise -use a slightly larger model and the Hacker 34 outrunners -same prop, batts.
Our performance bipes have 35% ailerons both wings --they are basically same as the models shown on German/French indoor contest setups
Totally unlike the little sport models others here are discussing .

feihu-RCU 07-03-2005 05:40 PM

RE: Wing Loading
 


ORIGINAL: davidfee

I do fly 100 sqin models for sport use. I don't fly flat plate foamies, however.

The gentleman did not say what type of model this was to be... he only asked if the wingloading was unreasonably high.

I can say from extensive personal experience that the wingloading of 14oz/ft2 is completely and totally reasonable and the model should fly quite nicely, provided it has reasonable power. It will probably not be a great 3D aerobat, but it will be fine for pattern style aerobatics and general sport flying.

I currently fly a 75 sqin pylon racer with a wingloading of 23 oz/sqft, a 96 sqin pylon racer at 18 oz/sqft and several 100-130 sqin sport/scale models (warbirds) at ~14 oz/sqft. All of these models are quite safe and fly very well, provided you have realistic expectations and decent piloting skills.

-David
David:

What is your guesstimate of the flyability of this plane?

Scale model twin 280 motors w/ 5x4 props, 10 -11k rpm gives ~ 10 oz thrust.
Wing area 1.2 sqft (176.4 sqin), wgt 21 oz = 17.5 oz/sqft

feihu


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