Helicopters B

[Bazinga+]

Yeah i saw a team that that happened to... might have been you. But the supevisor, chalker7, was all but harsh on specs. He tilted it slightly and let it qualify if he had to push a little to get the rotors in. The freedom flight models are specifically designed to be like 24.6 or a little more than that of a diameter, and we made it less than they told us to make it so we definitely would be in specs, so our rotors were like a centimeter smaller than the max, which is probably missing out on some time, but we still managed to place, so i guess that's ok. PS, were you the team that had like 4 or 5 different rotors, and you were trying to mix and match so that ur heli was in specs?

[scienceswimmer4]

Yes, Bazinga+, it may have been us. Although I don't recall switching up our rotors. Our 2 helicopters were opposite(because of a stupid mistake I made), so we couldn't. I remember he asked us to try and remove a small piece of Mylar that was on the side... trying to help us as much as he could. we pushed it a little bit, and I'm very thankful that he let us slide.

We were slotted at 9:00 and I think we flew at about 9:15... The coach that came with me and my partner met a very nice boy that I can't quite remember.. He was from a team that wore dark green shirts. Was that you by chance? And congratulations on your 5th place!

[Bazinga+]

LOLOL yeah we have dark green shirts with periodic tables on them. I dont remember which time block i was there at but i remember i came there like at the end of the 1st time block, and then we actually flew our heli in nthe middle of the 3rd time block. But for the 1sty ands second time blocks i was just watching peoples helicopters. I think it was me. Did you ha e like a ton of rotors in a box and like 3 bodies too?

[scienceswimmer4]

We did meet you! Yes, we were the ones with the box full of a bunch of rotors and bodys. Our team had grey shirts.

Originally, we had about 6 helicopters, 4 of which we left in Colorado. my partner and I have a bad habit of being too rough with that darn thing, so it was basically composed of tape and superglue. oops. unfortunately, as stated before, they were opposite so we really couldn't switch them around.

[Bazinga+]

i dont remember if it was your team, but i remember that a team that got about a minute and got super excited and was convinced that they would place top 3...

[scienceswimmer4]

lol, nope not us.

[Bazinga+]

OKAY GOOD, cuz we burst out laughing after they said that cuz we were getting times over 2 minutes, and we didnt know if we would make top ten...

[asthedeer]

We failed Heli miserably. Well, a week B4 Nats, my partner and I somehow exploded the 2 best helicopters we owned. So that meant building as fast as we could- in the hotel on the beach (LOL K.), in the team hotel, and testing @ UMD 30 min before the opening ceremony. Somehow, we got a decent time of over 1 min, but then the second run (same copter) we got a time of ~2 sec. Turns out a rib had vanished.....

[jander14indoor]

Sounds to me like you did very well. Maybe not the medal results you wanted, but you built a helicopter that flew at all, while away from home in your hotel, 1 minute with 30 minutes testing. I think you got the point of the event and should be proud of your performance.

Jeff Anderson
Livonia, MI

[asthedeer]

Sounds to me like you did very well. Maybe not the medal results you wanted, but you built a helicopter that flew at all, while away from home in your hotel, 1 minute with 30 minutes testing. I think you got the point of the event and should be proud of your performance.

Jeff Anderson
Livonia, MI

Thanks, but although I am (too) proud of the fact that our last rotor (or last two) was/were built at the hotel and was/were tested on campus, I still feel like we failed because:

A. My partner had two events earlier that “crashed and burned” as his robocross partner put it (he had 3 building events and one study event that had his partner ditching him at the last moment and had to get a sub.)(and ended up getting both our ~50) placings.

and

B. We got a worse time than we had gotten at states (~1.10 at nationals as opposed to ~1.20 at states)

But. I’m still really happy that we got +35th place!