World championship of F1E free flight slope soaring gliders

Video clip about the World Championship and World Cup events which took place in Turda, Romania 2007.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• F1E
• free
• flight
• slope
• soaring
• glider
• magnet
• sailing
• sport
• cup
• championship
• turda
• model
• airplane
• aircraft
• modelling

[eitanro]

What are rules for F1E?

Where can I see the mechanism and how it works?

(I fly F1A)

Thanks.

[AndrskA]

Hi,

An F1E glider keeps direction with the help of a compass which is located in the nose. You can set the angular position of a small nose-rudder relatively to this compass.

After the angular position of the rudder is set, it rotates together with the compass (they are on the same shaft)- that is how automatic steering works. This is important because slope wind also blows in one direction, you set the rudder so that the airplane should fly facing the wind.

[AndrskA]

The competition is very similar to F1A, 5 rounds with 3, 4 or 5 mins of flight time.

A link to a picture about mine (sorry youtube doesn't allow normal linking):

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You can see the 12*50 mm AlNiCo magnet rod.

[Freddythethird]

how long does it take 2 build 1?

[AndrskA]

This depends a lot on its structural complexity. In fact I have never measured it in hours. A simpler one can be built maybe within a month (1-2 hours of work every day), but building a more difficult one can take even a half year.

[alexandrefcruz]

Does the model fly always facing the wind or will it circle or zig zag? Is there any place you can buy a F1E compass or it has to be made from scratch?

[MrWetwilly24]

boring!!!

[Morbidao]

lot of fun!!

hehehehehe

[tinorkertesz]

i got some questions..

how far can soar the sailplane?

it got a limit time of flight?

how do the owners of the gliders to get his gliders back?

[eitanro]

Thanks!