[SPAM] Re: NATS Equipment

[Brian Young]

A discussion of the setup Jerry Budd was flying (TF's
partner):

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/Electrified_Partner/m_1425422/tm.htm

--- Wade Akle <wbakle at charter.net> wrote:
> I'll bite. What were the E motors batteries, ESC,
> Props used?
> Wade
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Bob Kane 
>   To: discussion at nsrca.org 
>   Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 8:19 PM
>   Subject: Re: NATS Equipment
> 
> 
>   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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> 
>   Bob Kane
>   getterflash at yahoo.com
> 
> 
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