How do you do 55' wingover on 70' lines

[Paul Taylor]

Someone said this in another post...

John D used to build them at about 60 ounces or so....powered by a Fox .35....
He also used to do terrific 55' wingovers on 70' lines....

What does this mean? The plane came in on overheads?

[RC Storick]

Someone said this in another post...

John D used to build them at about 60 ounces or so....powered by a Fox .35....
He also used to do terrific 55' wing overs on 70' lines....

What does this mean? The plane came in on overheads?

It means he was doing the LIMBO trying to get line tension. LOL

[Harleyman]

It means he was doing the LIMBO trying to get line tension. LOL

That's my guess too.  Ha Ha

[peabody]

Ty:
John D builds, well, KINDA porky.....and he flew fairly slow....His aeroplanes frequently lacked line tension during the wingover, as he used "standard vent" tanks, which ran leaner as the flight progressed, necessitating slow beginning laps/less tension.

The line sag was very noticable........

[peabody]

John didn't get onto his knees....he just stood there and let the plane perform....
It came back

[Jim Pollock]

Ty,

Of all people, I know you spent enough time in NJ to understand their thinking didn't you???

Jim Pollock  Not in NJ but in the East - Just Temporarily!!

[Charlie Pate]

Ed Southwick said they used to do a  lot of whipping in the old days.

[Tom Niebuhr]

John D and I flew almost every day at the old Rich's Hobby Towne and/or the GSCB field. John was and still is amazing. He had a period when he was almost unbeatable.

The old Fox .35 days were interesting.. we just accepted the fact that the lines might slacken going over the top of the wing over. We never went to our knees.. it would always come back out as you got to the pullout altitude. We used to just laugh about it.

[Chris McMillin]

This sounds very familiar,

There are some pics of Bart Klapinski in MAN's Round & Round by Bill Netzeband that show Bart in some very unusual poses.
 
Jerry McMillin's AMA 68 was always doing a slow dance at the beginning of the flight and would fly a nice 55 foot wingover on 70's, no exaggeration! The arc in the lines would be very evident, and it would come to line tension at the other side of the circle depending on either dad's running back or possibly it would happen itself. Many times the model's huge fin would be only inches off of the ground when flying the inverted portion of the wingover.

This thread brings back nice old memories of those days when we seemed to have a quaint idea about how models flew, that we haven't seen in a long time. Models seem so much better trimmed these days! Must be all of the good communication we have about the event that has been disseminated through the years by Stunt News, magazine columns and the internet. It makes flying now a bunch more fun, I think.

Chris...