In a message dated 12/20/2004 7:35:13 PM Central Standard Time, tomtugan@yahoo.com writes:

<<    Having many flights myself on the more
cost-effective red-propped rubber-powered Gillows balsa-flyers and seeing the
props freely spin after rubber-out,  I'd suggest the Gillows engineering team
intentionally chose free-spinning for glide durations.  They always fly with
turns anyway. I can always test this.   As for rubber-powered Wakefields, I'm
sure folding props are the only reasonable solution. .

Tom >>

Wakefields. I could not remember that name to save my......sanity.


I did stop to do the proper testing before posting since I have an example aircraft. After a few series of stopped prop vice free wheeling prop, (I was testing in the living room) I was advised by the (true) head of houshold to take my testing program to the barn where there is much more room. However the OAT in the barn is so low right now (7 degrees) that I fear that it would skew my results, so I ended the test series with the results that I posted. Lynn E. Hanover