Midwest Performance Flyer's promote R/C Helicopters, Electric powered R/C Aircraft and R/C Instruction.

LINOMA #2 19 June, 2004

Notes: * Indicates a 10% bonus for RE or RES included.

When one team has less than 4 flyers, their score is added and the top 4 of the other team is counted.

LASS

Name points standing notes

Loren Blinde 1956 1

Jack Barry 689*

Allen Worrest 704*

Total 3349

SWIFT

Terry Lamm 1109* 2

Jim Simonitch 967 3

Jack Fluehr 932* 4

Larry Bailey 743 5

Larry Puls 653

Bob Turner 319

Dan Lorimer 233*

Nathan Newhouse 000

Total 3008

A big thanks to all the flyers and spectators attending today. The WX was great, lots of good lift and an additional thanks to the COBRA club for a great field.

Note the score of the RE and RES birds.

Well done to all, and a big thank you for attending.

Next event is July 3, SWIFT Mid Summer Glider Flying. Put it on your calendar and come on down.

Next scheduled Glider training day is Sat. 17 July. If anyone is interested in flying evenings or early in the day, let me know and we can sort out a time and day.

Deprz, SWIFT, Larry B

The Midwest Performance Flyers is a radio control model aircraft club that promotes flying, training and building R/C model planes, helicopters, gliders, scale, and indoor electric. We have a lot of activity in both indoor and outdoor helicopters. There has been a tremendous increase in the technology in gas and electric helicopters. There has also been an equally big jump in the technology of indoor and outdoor electric airplanes. This makes both of these activities very interesting to participate in as there is something new every day. The two most important improvements in electric have been the brushless motors and the new Lithium Polymer batteries. With these two improvements you can increase the power to weight ratio to a point that will give unlimited vertical performance. I have personally been very involved with indoor flying. I have found some types of airplanes that can be used for indoor flying which can do both acrobatic and 3-D flying and most important are almost indestructible. The two planes that I have found to be best for this are the IFO and the Revolution 2. The IFO can be flown in a very small area and can do loops rolls and inverted flight but is not as good at maneuvers like the torque roll. Although it does not revolve in a torque roll if you add a rudder to the plane it can hover. The Revolution 2 can do the torque roll very well but is harder to fly in a small Gym. The IFO gets it’s strength form a carbon fiber frame covered with ripstop polyester and the Revolution 2 gets it’s durability from the use of EPP foam. The EPP foam lets the airplane bend when it hits something but it bends back without breaking or deforming. While on the subject of durability I might mention the motor/gear train for the airplanes. When we used to fly with motors that had brushes in them the motors had to turn at a higher RPM to make their power. This meant that you had to have a gear reduction because they couldn’t turn a larger prop that was necessary for good vertical performance. Unfortunately every time you hit something it would either break or knock the gear train out of line. After repairing the gear train it was usually necessary to run it for about a ½ hour before the gears would wear in and reach maximum RPM. By that time you would hit something else and have to start all over. Now however you can purchase an Outrunner brushless motor, such as the Nippy Black, that can turn the bigger props without a gear box. This eliminates all the hassle of keeping up the gear box and the plane will run at maximum RPM without any wear-in or break-in time. When you use an Outrunner motor with the EPP foam or carbon fiber/ ripstop polyester planes you will have eliminated almost all of the upkeep and repairing. Home Building Projects Electric Gliders Events Flight Instruction Float Planes Flying Field For Sale Helicopters Indoor Flying Links Mall Show Membership Metro Area RC Flying Photo Gallery September Fest Shirts "N" Caps Show and Tell Work Shop Tips