Flights at Nationals

[someusername]

I might be able to get a video of our flight (4:12) and I'll see if I can get a link to it soon.

[bernard]

No wing bonus at all was attempted by the first two teams and I have a video of my flight but you can barely see the plane. I'll post it at a more convenient time

I might be able to get a video of our flight (4:12) and I'll see if I can get a link to it soon.

Thanks in advance, DoctaDave and someusername, for the videos. I'm excited to see them. How was the flying site? I heard from a competitor the day before that the air condition was going to be on; was this the case?

First place: 4:54.74, no wing bonus
Second place: 4:37.82, no wing bonus
Third place: 3:57.17, 6.5cm wing bonus
Fourth place: 4:06.63, 7.0cm wing bonus
Fifth place: 4:04.72, 7.0cm wing bonus
Sixth place: 4:12.50, no wing bonus

Overall 24 teams had raw flight times over 3 minutes, 35 teams had raw flight times over 2 minutes and 43 teams were over 60 seconds. Every single team had the colored panel bonus.

Thanks chalker7 for the times and information. Seems like the bonus pushed some teams past teams with greater times, but the top two were way up there, so no wing bonus didn't hurt.

[DoctaDave]

The space was huge and the air conditioning was off. The proctor did a great job making sure doors were staying closed and that no one was running or making a lot of turbulence. Also they allowed test flights to go on through out the day but they closed off a large area for official flights. Overall I'd say it was the best flying experience I've had.

[artysophia]

The space was huge and the air conditioning was off. The proctor did a great job making sure doors were staying closed and that no one was running or making a lot of turbulence. Also they allowed test flights to go on through out the day but they closed off a large area for official flights. Overall I'd say it was the best flying experience I've had.

The aircon was actually on, during my block at any rate. There wasn't any regulations on the doors either :/ Also, our plane actually had a collision with another plane, which was actually pretty funny (but sad also). I think it was the only collision of the day xD I might link the video later.

[bernard]

I found a really short video of part of a team's flight.

[artysophia]

I found a really short video of part of a team's flight.

video of part of our flight (crash) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUssS0w6kPg

[bernard]

of part of our flight (crash) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUssS0w6kPg

Thanks for the video, and wow, the plane that caught up to yours was moving fast!

[DoctaDave]

Here's my flight. Sorry if the quality is bad, as the video is still processing on youtube, but after an hour or so after this post goes up, the video quality should improve.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkgIUvZQvPs

Enjoy.

[calgoddard]

You made excellent use of the available flying height DoctaDave.

Too bad your airplane hit the wall on this flight. Drift can be an issue with high ceiling height venues. Also, the circular flight path of an indoor rubber powered stick model airplane will sometimes widen as the torque diminishes, sometimes causing the airplane to fly straight into the wall when it is in a so-called "dead stick" condition.

What happened on your other flight?

Thanks for posting the video.

[DoctaDave]

I ended up breaking 2 motors after this flight, and I was about 1 winder turn from reaching the max when they both broke, so I had about 20 seconds to get another flight up and that wasn't enough time to wind a motor to 2500 turns. Luckily my first official flight went very well so I wasn't too unhappy with only getting in 1 official flight.