NATS Equipment

[John Ferrell]

FWIW:
As Line Chief, I held the clock for the finals. Jason's total flight times were in the 7minute-45second range, Don Sczur's were more like 6:55. Is speed really a factor?
They were the extremes, as I recall. No one went over 8 minutes in the finals. There was a good bit of breeze to factor in there.

The first day was very calm, some were very close to the 10 minute limit, I am not aware of any exceeding it. 

Most planes were in the air in about 60 seconds, those with problems usually more like 1:30. 

John Ferrell    
http://DixieNC.US

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jason 
  To: discussion at nsrca.org 
  Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2004 12:03 PM
  Subject: RE: NATS Equipment


  The 3 electric set-up's were as follows:

  Motors- Hacker Brushless C-50 14XL 6.7:1 Acro 
  Controllers- Jerry and I used the new Master-90-Acro and Marty used the Master-77-O-F
  Prop- APC-E 22x12
  Batteries- Thunder Power 6000, 10 Series 3 Parallel

  Jerry flew Tony's Partner, Marty flew a Focus 2 and I flew the new Composite-ARF Impact. I never did get to see Marty's plane fly, but it appeared that Jerry's Partner flew slower than my Impact.

  Jason
    -----Original Message-----
    From: discussion-request at nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org]On Behalf Of Wade Akle
    Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2004 5:56 AM
    To: discussion at nsrca.org
    Subject: Re: NATS Equipment


    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
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