New video for the 2019 Run What Ya Brung to conform

We used to run mouse races with 3 in the circle on 30 ft. lines. Thought that was the standard for figuring out the speed. The 1/2A speed class was 42' and the profile proto still is but maybe the speed class is longer now. They are going around 140 mph now. Not with a TD of course. I think A speed (.15s) is a bit over 60 ft. now too, as they are getting close to 200 mph and the guys could not run that fast.

Fred, Ideally I like to fly on asphalt due to having one wheel. On grass landings are cartwheels. When the Philly Fliers went to the asphalt circles were we fly in Reading, PA, a tree was down across the 1/2A circle. The tree has been removed but the guys that were flying larger stuff were having a [bleep] fit about us using the larger circle. I did post a pic of my old mouser that has two wheels. Our 1/2A day is the 19th of May. I don't know how much more the contest is running for but this would be a ideal time for me to get a flight recorded. There might be a possibility to get some in sooner.

I'm hoping to slip in under the wire. I thought I read entries had to be in between end of April to end of May. I read it to mean the airframe needed to be completed by end of April...I may need late, but I'm coming in on fire!

Okay, I made a new flight with this plane, conforming to conventional norms.  The same plane, same engine, and same 25% fuel.  This time with 32' center-to-center lines, 10# Spectra instead of the previous 20# lines to lower the drag.  An APC 4.75x4 speed prop instead of the Cox 5x3 prop.   This time I actually peaked out the engine, since I didn't have to worry about screwing myself into the ground.

As before, the build pics:













And today:







Sorry about the morning glare on the tape measure, but you can figure it out.




And flight video:






My launcher was in the way when I raised and lowered my arm to signal ready to start timing.  I checked times at the beginning of the flight and end to compare speeds.  They're about the same.  Taking an unofficial time of the 10 laps running from 0:15.56 to 0:45.90 gives a 10 lap time of 30.34 seconds, for a speed of 45.16 MPH/72.68 KPH/20.19 MPS using the speed calculator in the second post.  Much better than the withdrawn flight with a calculated speed of 35.47 MPH.  A 27% increase in speed.  You see what happens when you force me to be serious about it?

The Re-Run Mark

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Well done Mark.  That sure made a difference- you stayed vertical