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Offline Doug Moisuk

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« on: April 16, 2022, 12:41:16 PM »
Is there an actual list?
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Re: N-30
« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2022, 01:21:19 PM »
   Yes, there is a list. And if you found this section, you can find the list. Most people are lazy and just ask. This is one reason why I think this event should be eliminated. The designs in question really don't mean anything to any one or they would know the history of them. Most are just looking for the newest, most modern, barely legal design looking for some sort of perceived edge. You can go ahead and fly that Vector .40 but some one practiced up with a nicely trimmed SIG Chipmunk might clean your clock anyway!
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Re: N-30
« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2022, 02:07:58 PM »
There's not much participation in N30 in the Pacific Northwest.  The only time I flew in it was because I'd just gotten through physical therapy for my shoulder, I could fly again, and I wanted a trophy to show to my therapist.  I got first, last, and everything in between because I was the only one flying it.

There's just not a great deal of difference between today's designs and most of the designs of 1992.  I'm not enough of a historian to quote any others, but the first Impact article came out in 1991, and while there have been many detail changes to the design since, you could build one from the 1991 plans and if you didn't make it into the top 20 at the Nationals, it would be because your piloting, not the plane, was holding you back.

The one caveat that I will mention to the above statement is that among some top electric fliers (Paul Walker, Chris Cox and Alan Resinger in the Pacific Northwest, plus some members of the PNW Junior Varsity) the trend has been to fuselages with a much larger cross-section, made with monocoque or semi-monocoque all-molded construction.  The principle is that you can get the same rigidity with less material if you use a bigger fuselage, and you're not held back with needing more local strength to overcome engine vibration.  But right now it's only the top pilots that are going in that direction, and it seems to be the sort of thing that only shows up when you're flying close to perfectly anyway.
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Re: N-30
« Reply #3 on: April 16, 2022, 03:49:27 PM »
   Yes, there is a list. And if you found this section, you can find the list. Most people are lazy and just ask. This is one reason why I think this event should be eliminated. The designs in question really don't mean anything to any one or they would know the history of them. Most are just looking for the newest, most modern, barely legal design looking for some sort of perceived edge. You can go ahead and fly that Vector .40 but some one practiced up with a nicely trimmed SIG Chipmunk might clean your clock anyway!
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The lists at the top of this forum were last updated in 2013 :)
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Re: N-30
« Reply #4 on: April 16, 2022, 05:53:29 PM »
Geez sorry.

  And there are actually 3 lists!  That is why they are pinned to the top of the section, to make them easier to find.
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Re: N-30
« Reply #5 on: April 17, 2022, 09:17:09 AM »
The N30 alphabet list was updated today, 16 April 2022at 18:17. H^^

Thank You Ty.
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Re: N-30
« Reply #6 on: April 17, 2022, 09:24:25 AM »
The N30 alphabet list was updated today, 16 April 2022at 18:17. H^^

Just a suggestion, perhaps when you edit the list, you could add a post to the thread so the "last post date" gets updated as well?
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Offline Doug Moisuk

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Re: N-30
« Reply #7 on: April 17, 2022, 10:59:00 AM »
Kestrel. I would think the Cascade would be eligible but I don’t have those plans.
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