Next revolution in pattern planes?

[RC Steve Sterling]

Hey now-- when I broke my Focus 1 last year at a contest, I hauled out my
Hippo Tippo (with anhedral stab) and finished the meet. I had a couple of
people say I flew it better than my Focus!  Of course, it does take a bit of
transmitter mixing to square up the knife-edge. Snaps like a mad aligator,
leaves no doubt the plane was stalled, just a little hard to hit the stop
point when it is snapping about 15000 degrees a second.

  -----Original Message-----
  From: discussion-request at nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org]On
Behalf Of Bob Pastorello
  Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 3:47 PM
  To: discussion at nsrca.org
  Subject: Re: Next revolution in pattern planes?


  Beautiful plane, but planform is BTDT, remember Hanno??? And the Bridi
UFO?  And others.  The anhedral stab really introduce bizarre
characteristics, if I recall.  It was abandoned as an "innovation" about as
fast as *somebody's* "Split Rudder "airbrake"....

  Man, we are O-L-D...

  Bob Pastorello
  NSRCA 199  AMA 46373
  rcaerobob at cox.net
  www.rcaerobats.net


    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Adam Glatt
    To: discussion at nsrca.org
    Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 4:54 PM
    Subject: Next revolution in pattern planes?


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