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Hey Jason is the std spinner faster than the small aluminium one?

I believe that you do get a modest gain in speed from using the standard spinner. It's just that little bit less dragy.

The extra power required to gain more speed goes up by the cube of the increase in speed so even a small reduction in drag has an effect.

You do loose a little in cooling tho' and you must let the motor cool down between flights. If you fly back to back 3 or 4 flights you'll probably over heat the motor. I've done this in the past. Especially when useing the 5X5 Apc prop. That's why I tend to use the stock prop for practicing it draws a little less current and I don't have to worry about letting it cool down so much.

I found the ultimate way to decrease my time around the course was practice. If I fly a nice course then my times get a lot better!!

I remember when I started I was flying 123 to 127 or more seconds around the long course with my Q-500 now if I'm flying well and things are going good I'm down around 110 seconds even manage to do a few 105s. That's a huge gain from worst to best, around 20% just from flying better. To get that gain by an increase in speed I'd need to more than double the power of the engine or make a substantial reduction in drag!

Don't tell anyone tho'........ The key to going fast is really practice there is no substitute for stick time on the course. As SRL said to me once, and he was 100% right, you've just got to do the hours.

I can see it with Tony J, flying Q-500 this year, He's put in a bunch of stick time and it's really paying off. He's won Q-500 at both race days, so far this year and he's going to be real hard to beat at Nowra as well!!

I noticed it with my self last year, just before Richmond I had a week off. I was up at Boggabri, I marked out a course, I charged 6 packs at a time and every spare moment I had I stood there and flew around that course with my rarebear. I must have had close to 100 flights that week.
And it payed off, I won FFC class and came second in Q-500. My times had got much better!!