Hi Milton,
My dear friend, read my post, I am not doing battle in the ST .60 VS. Pipe battle.
Don't roll the eyes
Bill
Not about ST60 vs Pipe. About the last guy to rock and roll with the ST60. There is no pipe vs. ST60 vs. 4 stroke vs. electric battle. Anything thing that can turn the prop reliability will work. Remember, Igor Burger broke into the top ten at the Worlds with a LA46.
I have never seen an .049 powered stunt ship that can handle strong wind really well because, they just can’t generate the power to weight ratio of say; a PA 65 etc. Behind the low pitch high RPM kind of power is POWER. That is the key!! What makes the Saito 72 so effective in strong wind is brute muscle.
This may shock you but, I don’t think it really matters what you have in the nose, as long as you have a miserable retched excess of it. Whatever Paul Walker’s got in the nose of that 750sq inch Electric Impact is much-much better than the electric setup that powers the other guys 25 class ship, (whatever that is).
The F3A boys started out with the YS 120, then they went to the YS 140, then they went to the YS 160, and now they are at the YS 170-for crying out loud. Their planes are still hovering right around the same 10lbs max. They were never really underpowered in the first place. They were speed constrained, (judges can’t followed them past a certain speed) but, as they started to radically increase their fuselage side area, (carefully study their design progression) they needed more and wind bucking power to maintain track-in short, more drive.
Their planes have more surface area for the wind to work against, than our ships. But unlike us, they are faced with having to try to maintain their orientation to the judges regardless of the wind direction, (we can shift).Powerful piped engines and big block 4 strokes are not about speed, they all about this ”drive”. I have flown low pitch high RPM pipe ships, and they have a “drive” that is very similar to a strong 4 stroke.
Kinetic energy is a big factor in this high drive type of power plant but, I will stop here, so that I don’t hijack the thread, (since you’re the moderator-you know when a thread is being hijacked LOL)