09-06-2015, 12:16 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: WI
Posts: 1,852
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Originally Posted by AstronMike
Nice pictures there.
How did those Barons fly? I'm guessing those are all SW kits and no scratchers. Any "cool and spectacular" flights?
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Most of the baron-style gliders were from Squirrel Works. There was a scratch built 18mm Flying Jenny, and a scratch built Micro-Maxx flying Jenny. To round out the glider theme, we had a DeeCee Thunder, vintage Sky Dart & MPC Flat Cat, two scratch built clones of the old Astron Invader, and a few others I can't recall.
The 18mm Red Barons seemed to fly the best on B6-2 motors. The Mega Barons flew well on E15 and E18 motors, and one had a nice boost on a 3xC6-3 cluster. The D12-3 and E12-4 motors just don't seem to have enough thrust to overcome the drag of the Mega-Baron, tending to create an arcing boost, with ejection very low.
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