An update. I flew in the Dick Scobee Memorial contest at Auburn this weekend past. I scraped the nose off the Vector on the outside squares in Friday afternoon practice. Not being sure I could reassemble the shreds, I picked the Panther off the wall and changed out the timer, motor and prop to the same setup as the Vector and set up all the times and RPMs the same. The Panther is a bit smaller than the Vector, so I thought it would be OK. I had not flown the Panther since last fall. Then got to work on the Vector and managed to get it together as well, so flew the Panther in Classic on Saturday, Vector in PA on Sunday. Vector looks like Frankenstein -- no time for paint, but still got 12 appearance points!
The point of this is: same lap times and same uniformity of power in both planes (even tho the Vector flies much better as a PA ship). With the time pressure, I don't think I could have gotten such consistent performance without the FM-9 timer and the pusher props. The Panther was the best it's ever been in the overhead tricks.
I was still dead last in Classic, but with a personal best score for the Panther.
I really like this prop.
John Witt