QBIT
Coming home to freeflight: This high performance classic freeflight design is the second in a series.
By Ray Boyd
AT A GLANCE Type:
PHOTOGRAPHY: RAY BOYD, CATHY SNIDER, JERRY MURPHY & ANNE RUMMLEY
re you returning to gas power du- ration freeflight after years of ab- sence and need a boost to get go- ing again? Are you an active flier who wants to add a little spice to your flying by building a modern design? In either case, QBIT is the classic freeflight for you. The second in a “Coming Home To Free Flight” series, this classic pylon configuration will fill that bill for a modern up-to-date new de- sign that allows you to use those motors you’ve had stored away. The first plane in the series, Santa Cruz Mk III, (CD450, Jan- uary, 2013 FLYING MODELS), is a contest proven semi-high thrust model. The second plane, QBIT, is a conventional competitive pylon model, that uses the same proven fly- ing surfaces as Santa Cruz.
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Some of the design highlights and fea- tures of QBIT are as follows: 1. Classic pylon configuration with a quick DT (dethermalizer) feature. 2. Warren truss wing/stab construction
giving excellent anti-flutter and anti-warp- ing properties. 3. Lindner-type
fuselage construction,
very easy to build, strong, lightweight with few parts. 4. Fixed rudder so no moving parts and issues with stab keys. QBIT is dedicated to fellow Magnificent Mountain Men (MMM) Club member, Dave Wineland, who won the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics for manipulating the quantum prop- erties of microscopic systems, where atoms can mysteriously exist in two physical states
Construction: Wing span: Wing area: Length: Weight:
Wing loading: Prop:
F/F endurance balsa
48 inches 275 sq. in. 33 inches 7.1 ounces
3.73 oz./sq.ft. APC 5.7–3
Engine: Cox TD .049/.051 two-stroke
simultaneously. This property can be used in advanced computers based on quantum bits or QBITS. A Qbit is a unit of quantum information analogous to the classical com- puter bit.
MARCH 2014
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