05-04-2009, 10:30 PM
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Master Modeler
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 952
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CaninoBD
That would be me, I flew it at NARAM 48 in SFFS. It did glide rather nicely. I flew it twice, I DQ the first flight because the parachute got caught on the pod hood and the pod streamed line in. There was a little stall in the first glide. Made a adjustment to the chute lines and add a little nose weight the next flight was qualified and the glide was very nice. Much better then you would think something that heavy could glide.
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It was at NARAM 50 that Foose and I saw the good flight of which he speaks... As I recall (probably incorrectly) the model was unpainted. I looked up because the ejection charge sounded like a shotgun blast
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