[NSRCA-discussion] F3A Championships circa 1971

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OK, "electrostatic" autopilot makes a lot more sense to me than "static electricity" autopilot! I thought someone was kidding about that, hence my flux capacitor comment... 

Phil Spelt, KCRC Emeritus 
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SPA L-18, Board Member 
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It was called the electrostatic autopilot. Don experimented with it in the late1970s. It would level the wings just fine, but didn’t work very well on the model’s pitch axis, because a conventional model's engine exhaust messed up the sensor in the tail. I donated my Ascender (a canard design that had an engine in the rear) to the project when I left Dayton in 1979. Don successfully experimented with the electrostatic autopilot, using pitch and roll stabilization with the Ascender after I left. 

Ron 



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