top flite power point wood props

Hello everone, I was wondering if those seemingly heavy power point props work well for C/l flying, or are they better suited for the R/C crowd. Thanks in advance and i hope im not boring you to death with this question. - Paul

I am not an advanced flyer but I have a Gotcha Steak 2000 powered by an OS FP 40. I started with an old rounded-tip Top Flite 11x4. Lap times were just too slow and line tension alarmingly light.

So I tried a Power Point 11x6 and it made all the difference. Also using Power Points on some of my other planes. They are cheap and seem to work just fine for me. Usually need a lot a balancing though.

But lets see what some of the Pros have to say...

>Hello everone, I was wondering if those seemingly heavy
>power point props work well for C/l flying, or are they
>better suited for the R/C crowd. Thanks in advance and i
>hope im not boring you to death with this question. - Paul

Ron B.
F4Fguy

They're not much good to anyone,RC or otherwise,in their stock configuration.They do however, make a fair prop "kit" where relatively narrow blades are indicated.If you select ones with straight grain and spend about a half hour thinning and contouring the blades,they work pretty well.

I found the 12-6 works pretty well on a Merco .61.K&B .61 .The 10-5 is ok & the 11-6 works fair also on a .40 sized engine . Not great but fair.

In a follow-up to Ron's comment above, we used a 13 x 6 Power point cut down a half inch to 12.5 and thinned the airfoil somewhat making a good prop for the modified 35 FP. It was sort of a "poor man's" 12.5 x 5.5 Bolly in that it worked pretty much the same. The stock props have a very thick airfoil for such a thin blade and this increases the effective pitch while adding unneeded drag. We tried the tips both tapered as stock and squared off. It didn't seem to make much difference either way which may be a good indication why nobody seems to have copied the idea.