Hi y'all! Well actually this happened this past Saturday. Our little group had agreed to hold a "Go Fast & Turn Left Event"
! Now you have to understand none of us are spring chickens by any means but we decided to just bring whatever we have, go as fast as we could, and see who's still able to stand up
! It was a hoot
! It was laid back, no pressure, just fun and good hearted ribbing! As for the calculations, I used the speed calculator on the NCLRA site. It appears to accept what ever measurement one has in feet and inches times the number of laps. How exact is it .... I don't know but for our "fun" purposes, it's good enough. As you can see, each pilot's lines were measured c/l of plane to c/l of handle and then flew flights where 6 laps of each flight were timed. For the purposes of verification, although I didn't record it, I even rounded the lengths up and down to the nearest foot times the number of laps and the calculator reflected the differences, so I figured it was good enough for our little event
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As for the number of laps .... I dunno
.... we agreed on 6 .... why? .... it just seemed like the thing to do
! I certainly could have been 10 laps ! Guess we need someone around who knows what they're doing, to "lead the blind"
. I wanted to use the Perky/Fox Speed spreadsheet that Fred Cronenwitt developed but it depends on a consistent line length and we didn't press each other for that at this time.
Here's the results and unless there are any protest, we will extend the contest an additional week for the sake of those who were unable to participate this week.