Great job, AKT. Thank you for sharing.

Terrific coincidence that I saw one of my friends post about the event on Facebook. He flew the machine off of the A-Team van. Their 37 feet was just falling with style.

Brett

Nice work AKT! That looks like a blast!

270'!!! Wow

They may have to lengthen the landing zone if guys keep improving like this..

Nice work Kev. My work buddy Karthik said you could sing, and it sounded like it. Great theme song. All my guys are now jazzed about entering the next Long Beach event.

Could BCP enter?? If anyone can build a slow flight entry, it should be this crew.

Here is a great angle! This event was so damn fun I can hardly wait for next year!

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid2083845492001?bckey=AQ~~,AAAB5RhAt2k~,niQojJTThX5rxlidOXNrl1KByT_X4gKA&bctid=2684607495001

AKT

Way to go Kevin! That is fun to watch from the confines of our PC's even. Next year you guys are going to be hard to beat I'm guessing!

From that angle it looked like you might have milked a little more distance out of the ground effect if you had been able to hold heading with a vert stab/rudder? Not a critique, more of a question.


What great fun! Thanks for sharing for all of us to enjoy.

Yep! We needed a rudder for certain! We were set up for failure from get go having a slight twist in our right wing out on the end as well. Live and learn. Next year!

Some cool photos of our craft flying. You can really see our right side wing folding a bit in these. Ground effect gave us an extra 20-30 feet but the right turn / wing stall while in ground effect got us.




AKT

I also believe it's how far the pilot goes and not necessarily the craft -- last minute cartwheeling and jumping options aside.

In any case another big factor is winds. You really want a headwind for this since you're propulsion is not based on relative wind, but rather 10mph of groundspeed. The chicago one had a terrible tailwind, and everything just turned into a torpedo there.

This event had become more ridiculous (and entertaining) in recent years, with less focus or aeronautical feats.

m7flyer wrote:

The end of the flight.
Who had 70 feet.

I guessed 70'!! Are you using "The Price Is Right" rules Kevin?

CW