NATS Equipment

[Bob Kane]

Jason was asked if he had enough power toward the end of his flights, he said he has more power at the end than in the beginning, attributes it to warmer batteries. He runs the motor at part throttle as soon as he is on the clock and lets it run until his caller puts in on the ground, I assume to get things warm before taking off.
 
The three electric pattern planes were all running similar motors and batteries. One thing I found interesting is the planes are not any quieter than the good gas setups. Quiqui was running a 4 blade prop on his DZ and it was very quiet. I don't know the diameter or pitch, but he was not hurting for pulling power. 

Van Putte <vanputte at cox.net> wrote:

On Jul 24, 2004, at 6:05 PM, dwbrown285 at netscape.net wrote:

> Does anyone have any information or stats on NATS equipment as far as 
> aircraft flown; engines (2stroke-4stroke), electrics, bipes, or 
> anything else specific of interest that might be out of the norm? 
> Anything groundbreaking??


Eric Henderson collected data from as many contestants who filled it 
out for him. He will post it with his Nats coverage.

There were three electric airplanes flown: Jason Shulman (1st F3A), 
Jerry Budd (2nd Master) and Marty Matthews (~30th Master).
All had plenty of power.

Ron Van Putte

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