[budzilla]

There may be other factors at work with your setup such as frictional losses (we had those as well), but we have experienced less distance with more speed based on a none contact tachometer. I think that it is just like a funny car breaking the tires loose on launch. There's a point where adding more power is just making smoke and slowing the launch, be it car or Frisbee. We were peeling rubber off the tire. The pneumatic tire offers a MUCH larger contact patch on the Frisbee because of the compliance and therefore helped us a lot. BTW, 6440 rpm on the pneumatic was too much, but now we can PID the shooter, YAY!

Best of luck to you!