F3A Biplanes have a future!

[Rcmaster199 at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/12/2003 11:36:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
Peter.Pennisi at publicworks.qld.gov.au writes:


> Subj:RE: F3A Biplanes have a future! 
> Date:5/12/2003 11:36:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time
> From:<A HREF="mailto:Peter.Pennisi at publicworks.qld.gov.au">Peter.Pennisi at publicworks.qld.gov.au</A>
> Reply-to:<A HREF="mailto:discussion at nsrca.org">discussion at nsrca.org</A>
> To:<A HREF="mailto:discussion at nsrca.org">discussion at nsrca.org</A>
> Sent from the Internet 
> 
> 
> 
> Matt,
>  
> Do you have any pictures of the "Express" it would certainly make some 
> interesting viewing?
>  
> Peter
>  
> 

Peter,

Take a look at Andre' Bouchard's column in the KFactor, around February I 
think. He has a small amount of info on The Express, and a photo or two. He 
also talks of his experience flying the plane. Andre' is a top tier F3A 
competitor in US.

The plane doesn't look conventional, as might be expected. The dorsal and 
ventral strakes at the AC, are incredibly functional, and give the model the 
best knife handling character of anything available today. In addition, the 
wing planform is much different than the typical modern pattern model, with a 
root chord to tip chord ratio of near 4. It helps make the model snap better 
and stop quicker than anything I have seen, but very light weight is the real 
key to stopping that fast ( less than 8 lbs for a full 2x2m 1000 sq in 
model). 

regards
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.f3a.us/pipermail/nsrca-discussion/attachments/20030513/d472b423/attachment.html