Control Line Navy Carrier
By Dick Perry | tailhooker@comcast.net
As seen in the December 2023 issue of Model Aviation.
THE TWO COMPETING FACTORS in Control Line (CL) Navy Carrier, high speed and low speed, have a different emphasis now than when under the original scoring system. With a definite advantage to high-speed performance in our early years, models tended to be smaller with higher wing loadings, and they were roughly 10 to 20 mph faster than today’s Carrier models.
When the scoring was changed to use a ratio of high speed to low speed, the advantage of…