Duration

[ironchef48]

At an Invitational yesterday the first place team recorded a flight of one minute and 45 seconds, but I got fourth with 16 seconds. So you can see the spread of times... most helicopters only had flights of a few seconds. How is yours doing? What can you do to improve time?

[chia]

Boyceville apparently had a best time of 2:18 at our invite

[lllazar]

Wow. Now that's impressive...i'm flat out scared for how well the helis will do at state

[chia]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I do believe Boyceville has won Wright Stuff States before. I don't remember how well they did on last year's heli trial.

[lllazar]

Interesting...i wonder what top times will be at Nats, i heard there was some team that got 2:50, so i think over 3 minutes is a reasonable estimate for max time.

[new horizon]

What type of ceiling are these events held in? Do they have support beams or are they flat? that would make a large difference in the time of the run.

Also, how high are these ceilings?

But props to a 2:18, that's extremely impressive.

[donlayola]

What was the best flight time in nationals?

Thanks

[jander14indoor]

From memory, something on the order of just under two minutes at a VERY tall site. But with 1.5 gm of rubber, not this years 2.0 gm so expect times to be up.

Jeff Anderson
Livonia, MI

[gabuilder]

Ideally, about how much time should the helicopter spend in each of the following three stages: lifting, stabilization, and falling?

Thanks!

[danyalukin]

My helicopter got 2:15 minutes at regionals, completely blew away all others.. NY is in general not to hot with flying events...
But then again, i didnt wind the rubber to its fullest because i was using some stupid orings which ripped before the rubber did
So realistically, my helicopter has a 2:30 - 2:40 potential, throwing it out there for the anxious competitive people to know.
Oh, and the flying cite - a regular gym - ~20ft