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Speed,Combat,Scale,Racing => Combat => Topic started by: dave siegler on November 09, 2008, 05:05:30 PM

Title: good stuff on flying lines
Post by: dave siegler on November 09, 2008, 05:05:30 PM

There are a couple of good articles on flying lines site this month on speed limit combat and equipment.  I re drew the airplane they have featured up there but they have not re-posted it yet. 

Questions:

In your area of the country can you use .015 with .15 engines?  Or are .018 always required? 

Personally I like fast sized airplanes with .25 or .28.  I am going to try F2d stuff with obsolete Fd2 motors next year. 

Dave

Title: Re: good stuff on flying lines
Post by: Paul Smith on November 09, 2008, 07:03:07 PM

Around here, we use the line sizes per The AMA Rule Book:

Thus .015" for .15's and .018" for the bigger engines.

However, this is something of a moot point in that the 15's don't seem to be at all competative.  Sure they fly OK alone and without a streamer.  But with equal-size streamers, the little engines take a big hit on streamer drag.  Not to mention getting the streamer in the prop if they do score a cut, or worse yet, snagging a streamer with the lines.   Did we talk about what happens in line tangles?

The guys who run FP25's and choked-down 36's welcome anybody who wants to take a poke at 15's in Speed Limit.