Skybattle 2024 Slip Together Postal

Flying Guillows Strato Streak for postal contest.
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[@davisgloff]

always interesting, Bill., Thanks!

[@craigh3381]

Thank you for sharing some fun time...as a kid ai collected coke bottles to make change to purchase these at local neighborhood hobby shop..along with kites when able.

[@FreeFlightDigest]

In the past those models were found at many stores, now you have to mail order.

[@aeromodeller1]

Strong gusty wind all week, have not been able to glide test for wing position. Made a best guess. Short powered flights, it gets tossed all over the place. Rain forecast for the weekend. Looks like I will miss this one. I have a stock Guillows Strato Streak with enhanced dihedral, a stock North Pacific Star Flyer and an American Junior Hornet. I just heard that The City Forest is planting more trees at the larger neighborhood park where I usually fly. There's another field about 40 miles away, but last time I was there it had been taken over by star thistle. Looks like you were making progress with your flights. Isn't 1:07 a minute and seven seconds, total of sixty seven seconds? Not a hundred and seven seconds. That's not a bad time for that plane, but it can do more. What percent of maximum turns are you using? Your motor may have more in it. Test a short loop to destruction to find the maximum.

[@billkuhl442]

Yes that is right 67 seconds but that was not correct, I must have not reset the stopwatch. My best legal flight was just 27 seconds. Not sure on length of motor but I got up just above 800 turns, I wonder if a lighter plane that could fly on 1/8" rubber might do better.

[@Bargle5]

@@billkuhl442 I flew my Sleek Streek replica on 600 turns of 3/32" and got 42 seconds. Then lost the plane in very tall grass. The potential for better is there. Butch

[@billkuhl442]

@@Bargle5 yes on 3/32" a lot more turns are possible.

[@aeromodeller1]

Your in video title says it is a Sky Streak, a smaller airplane than the Strato Streak.

[@billkuhl442]

That is a mistake, I make these videos so fast and make some mistakes,