spacecowboy
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I had a chance to get to the "big" fields in Tx for Christmas, a park one mile long on each side.
winds, SW, 20+, a bit much, however I packed the rox for the trip, and it was in the high 60's, Send 'em up
I launched from the farthest SW corner.
Eliminator, E9-6, on a small 12" unvented chute . Straight up, even in that wind. Out of sight, until I saw the reco puff. This thing clears the NE corner of the park, plus 3 or 4 blocks in the local 'hood (I chased it, until I realized it's "salute time"). So, approx 1.5 miles away, and like major minutes of hang time. Lost it.
Couple of questions, which have probably already been answered.
1) a square mile field is too small for this ?
2) E9-6 was too much ?
3) Unvented chutes in a heavy wind do the Bernoulli, obviously ? (I've usually cut holes in the chutes). NEVER seen hang time like that one.
p.s. Gives some major re-structuring to my idea of flying a lower 1/2 of Stormcaster bach-job on F's. It weighs about the same thing as Elim does (oh, sorry, did).
winds, SW, 20+, a bit much, however I packed the rox for the trip, and it was in the high 60's, Send 'em up
I launched from the farthest SW corner.
Eliminator, E9-6, on a small 12" unvented chute . Straight up, even in that wind. Out of sight, until I saw the reco puff. This thing clears the NE corner of the park, plus 3 or 4 blocks in the local 'hood (I chased it, until I realized it's "salute time"). So, approx 1.5 miles away, and like major minutes of hang time. Lost it.
Couple of questions, which have probably already been answered.
1) a square mile field is too small for this ?
2) E9-6 was too much ?
3) Unvented chutes in a heavy wind do the Bernoulli, obviously ? (I've usually cut holes in the chutes). NEVER seen hang time like that one.
p.s. Gives some major re-structuring to my idea of flying a lower 1/2 of Stormcaster bach-job on F's. It weighs about the same thing as Elim does (oh, sorry, did).