COX Flight Contest: What's Your Entry?

Yeah it's legal.

As long as War Dog is passed back and forth.

cribbs74 wrote:Yeah it's legal.

As long as War Dog is passed back and forth.

Yep, that's the deal: "Traveling War Dog" !

Cool! Multiple airframes, good idea! There's a peg in one of the pictures... is that your pilot? Looks rather stoic, but neato. Is the Scientific plane really capable of some aerobatics? Flat wing, I wouldn't know.

Maybe we could run a side event about how many different airframes we are able to compete with, also. I don't want to infringe on the original contest, but we could note: "And this month I operated the engine on X, Y and Z airplanes."

Any idea yet, how many combatants, uh, entrants are planning to do the contest? Will late entries be allowed, after June 1st? I think they should be allowed, they will just have less time to compete, if they enter late. Geez, another question... Are the reported times made public each month, or will Ron hold them in secret - on Funk and Wagnall's porch, in a mayonaise jar?

This is going to be fun, and my preparatory flying has already generated some interest at the field! Come on June!

I've flown a bunch of the flat-wing Scientific Models, and they all will do reasonable stunts with a good engine. I'm talking simple stuff like loops and eights and inverted. The smaller-winged ones like "Zig-Zag" seemed to almost fall from the sky when the engine quit, though.

Patrick's flat-wing Sig Dewey Bird and Skyray glide nicely, so I'm hoping the Stunt Trainer will too. BTW, the "Big Otto" and "Zipper" models (built-up wings) have great glides, and can be landed without a Space Shuttle-type dive for airspeed.

Yeah, think it'd been great to have a bunch of different planes...with the same engine of course...but don't want to muddy Ron's contest rules!

I guess mine will be Baby Streak #1 with the Tee Dee .051. I'd like for it to be the Li'l Satan, but its flying time is more limited by wind than the BFS.

Here's mine,

The tired and reworked for the 6th time, TD powered Jumpin Bean. Doug, the TD works great! Lot's of umph!!!

So much so I am going to go 6x3 on the prop.

The ol' Bean. Does it fly straight now?
Just for kicks you could try a 5-1/4x3 prop on that Tee Dee sometime... if you can fit 45' lines in your field. The sound of the engine screaming around the circle will make you smile. It won't even know when it just flew a loop. It makes the plane cut through the wind like a knife too.

Yeah it flies straight, should keep good line tension now too. I'll try the new incarnation this weekend hopefully.

I'll start out with the 6x3 and work from there. I'll trim it down if needed. 42' os a no go untill I can wack off some tree limbs.

Wow! Look at that engine glow! (Shine!) Is that one from here? You did a nice job on it! Good luck, too.

The weather has been somewhat accomodating to flying, so I went! Bunny is a good trainer. We'll leave it at that! The QRC did a wonderful job pulling it around: It was even able to take off from the runway, rather than hand-launching. The other guys thought that was cool. But then, they wanted to see me perform a touch-and-go with it. I drew the line on a take off. Some people's kids!

I made this rainbow-colored C/L plane, a week or two ago, and I commandeered the runway, one evening, and had some of the guys fly it. The plane started building light-but finished heavy. Anyway, it will just fly with the Babe Bee on it, but, one guy decided to do a loop-UPWIND-with it: It won't! We glued it back together, and flew it some more. There might be more entries from here than just me, because interest is being generated, in these neat engines! Also, they see the variety of things that I'm flying with them, and it doesn't hurt any to be economical! Probably won't set any records, but it sure is fun!

Good work, Gus!

You all can probably tell that I am excited for the contest to commence... So, I was wondering: What are the prizes? Besides building-up a fleet of 1/2A airplanes, and the joy we'll have flying them, I was curious about what is the winner to receive. This is probably directed more toward Ron, as he is coordinating the event. Also, will the times be posted each month, or held in secret?

June 1st is just about a week from now, and I'm on the edge of my seat!

The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.

Actually I don't know if there are prizes. Maybe when Ron wakes up he'll tell us.

RknRusty wrote:The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.

Actually I don't know if there are prizes. Maybe when Ron wakes up he'll tell us.

Taken from page 3 of the contest rules thread................


"I spoke with Matt from ExmodelEngines. He agreed to help out with our little endeavor.

So, whoever wins in each class RC/CL will receive a free Taipan Serpent. Seems like a win/win to me, you fly a lot and win an engine."

Ron

Yay! Cool! I'm going for both of 'em! I'll have planes in both categories, using the same engine. I'm starting a build of a Baby Birdy, now; using ACE foam wings and a bunch of balsa. It should be a neat flier. And Purple! Hmmm, now to whip-up a tether car and an airboat...


Just kidding! I'm just really eager to start making official flights, though!

I like the edit reason Doug, that's funny!

Yeah, I have no prob with anyone gunning for both. Just keep in mind if you spread your time across two categories you are going to have to fly a ton to stay ahead of the guy who is concentrating on one category.

As far as I know Matt at Exmodel only agreed to supply two engines for the cause. I would have to re-engage if we have entrants in other classes. Tether car, airboat etc......

As it stands we only have entrants for CL/RC

Ron

Here is mine. PinchFlat built it specially for this contest. Although it has a Babe Bee... It looks to be begging for a TD.

Ooooo, one of those funny airfoils! Cool. How much does it weigh? Is the break, or step, in the airfoil critical, to make it work well? Mine would be purple! Just saying...

My question, is a cox ff heli aloud to be in the contest???

They're hellaloud!

lol, mine has never been flown and this would be a cool way to get to flying it

Travis's plane weighs right at 12oz with no fuel.
The step in the wing is pretty critical as far as % of cord. On the KFm4 it should be 50%. If it is top only it should be 30%.
My electric version of this plane would crack 100 mph and the twin engine version weighed 20oz with the same wing area.

my planes almost done, just started it tonight



thinking of throwing my .010 in it

just need some red spray paint to seal the wood, i have all electronics on hand. im going to use 3 or 4 gram servos, for the most part this uses the wing, elevator and rudder from a 1/8a littlist stick. Fuselage is made from 1/4x1x10.5'' balsa