<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Del is right on. The same could be said for retracts vs fixed gear. We eventually got them working super easy, but many had experienced more problems with retracts than with fixed gear. <BR>
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One of the best and most successful Pattern pilots of all time, Hanno Prettner, opted to fly and win with the simple looking, easier set-up, "Calypso" at '91 World Championship (I think it was '91, in P'cola), vs. the much more "sophisticated" and complex "Magic". Both were his designs for those folks new to this sport
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The Magic sported things like reversible pitch prop, flaps, tricycle retracts and spoilers, with an inverted engine exhausting through the fuse top, and exiting through the bottom of the fuse. It was an engineering feat and a half for a pattern model. <BR>
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In contrast, the Calypso sported a side exhaust, simple, sport style engine, canted to around 8 o'clock, with the pipe exhausting through the fuse bottom, and also had retracts but only two, plus a tail wheel. That was about as sophisticated as it got. He opted for reliability that comes from simplicity. We should learn from that lead.<BR>
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Matt K<BR>
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Simplicity is not a word you want attached to your high-tech pattern aircraft anyway....</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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<B>From:</B> <A HREF="mailto:patterndude@comcast.net">Lance Van Nostrand</A> <BR>
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Jim,</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">I'll bet by now you can assemble and disassemble the 15 moving parts that make up just the head of that engine with your eyes closed. It's a zen like procedure that brings comfort and joy. </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"> My engine only has one part (glow plug) and it doesn't move. while you're doing that I'll have to find something else to tinker with....[where's the wife.....]</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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<B>From:</B> <A HREF="mailto:jivey61@msn.com">jim ivey</A> <BR>
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<B>Sent:</B> Sunday, March 28, 2004 10:28 PM<BR>
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Guess I am getting soothed then. I just started the 3rd rebuild on a YS 140L.It has 450 flights on it.<BR>
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>From: "Lance Van Nostrand" <<A HREF="mailto:patterndude@comcast.net">patterndude@comcast.net</A>> <BR>
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>Subject: Re: YS Engines <BR>
>Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:24:32 -0600 <BR>
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>Ed, <BR>
>Pattern guys love to tinker. If they are not adjusting something, replacing something, or doing periodic maintenance, they feel lost. Therefore, YS engines help soothe the pattern mind. <BR>
>--Lance <BR>
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> ----- Original Message ----- <BR>
> From: Edward C. Hernandez <BR>
> To: discussion@nsrca.org <BR>
> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 9:55 PM <BR>
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> Ok, time for another newbie question: it seems to me from the discussion and contest results and a few copies of the K factor that Kane gave me at the D4 contest last year that pattern pilots prefer YS engines, yet YS engines don't seem to dominate in other kinds of flying(IMAC, scale, fun fly, etc). Um, why? <BR>
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> Ed Hernandez <BR>
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