FF Duration 2014/05
Dave Sechrist has been experimenting with long motor runs on his own-design F1G Coupe. “I was trying to go for a minute-45,” he said. “You just cruise around and the prop folds and you are still a little ways up in the air.”
FF Duration 2014/02
The use of electronic devices in FF models is nothing new. For a quarter century, tiny transmitters have enabled us to find models that would have otherwise been lost. With the life of a model extended from weeks to years, we could invest more time and money in each model, secure in the knowledge that it wouldn’t be lost at the first contest.
FF Duration-2013/02
Competition models updated
Free Flight Duration-2004/12
JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS:
August 8-14, the 11 members of the US
team competed in the 2004 Junior Free
Flight World Championships in
Moncontour, France. I’ve had the
opportunity to watch many of the team
members in action at the Nats and have
developed a respect for their teamwork and
ability to persevere despite bad weather and
other problems. These were qualities they
needed in France
FREE FLIGHT DURATION - 2005/05
IMPROVED PERFORMANCE is one inevitability of FF
competition. No matter what the rules-makers do to reduce
performance, modelers figure out ways to make their models fly
better.
For example, the engine run in F1C, the FAI large Power class,
has been reduced throughout the years to limit performance. In the
last 30 years it has gone from 10 seconds to seven seconds, and, for
the last few years, to five seconds.
