Mono Sport (oz8303)

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Mono Sport. Control line sport model.

Quote: "This sport-type 1/2A or small A gas-powered job was specifically designed to test the new one-line torsional control line system.

For flying, we recommend following the manufacturer's specifications for line sizes: For lines up to 35 ft use a .016 diameter wire, and for lines from 35 to 50 ft use .018 diameter wire. If you contemplate using an engine of smaller than .049 cubic displacement, we personally feel that a line size of 25 ft and .014 diameter would be ideal.

However, it is extremely inadvisable to use a line diameter smaller than .014, for to do so would produce insufficient torsional control, resulting in inadequate response on the elevators. We used a 35 ft line of .016 diameter for both the .049 and .074 Cub engines. The .074 Cub was also flown on 50 ft .018 diameter lines, which we thought was particularly note-worthy.

From our own experience, we have come to the conclusion that the 'Mono-Line' system has considerable merit and warrants exploitation. Whether you will prefer it to the two-line system we could not say. We do feel that in the case of our Mono-Sport design, the desirable features of the Mono-Line weighed heavily in its favor. However, as mentioned before, don't take our word for it, try it yourself and note the results... "

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