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From: Fred Sage [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Soaring@airage.com
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 10
I use Corning Formular foam for the production of Compulsion/Addiction and
other custom wings. I do this because the Corning foam cuts much better
and
is crisper at any given weight than its Dow equivalent. Unfortunately,
Corning foam isn't readily available in California so I have to
Harley;
A comparison of seconds on zoom won't be as meaningful as you had hoped.
There are too many variables not the least of which are launch conditions.
I had a memorable launch several years ago at an SC2 contest where two
competitors timed me with an eight second zoom. However, that was
OK, I've thought of a new game that might interest Daryl tomorrow night at
SWSA. Let's call it stab for the dollars in the dark. Here's the way it
might work. All the players would put a dollar into a small stack in the
landing zone at the beginning of the round. If there's 20 contestants,
Mike, Terry, Shawn, John, Pat, etc.
This situation is interesting and affects many more pilots than just Terry
Mickle and Shean Lenci although they're the only two directly impacted.
Yes, there was a clear understanding from the pilots flying in the contest
that a JR 9303 system would be
I've got a couple of tremendous bargains for someone.
First item: 100 yard roll of half ounce carbon fiber mat. The roll is 38
wide by 300 feet long. The retail price of this material is $9 per square
yard and I paid $5 per square yard six years ago. I'll sell it for $1 per
running yard
I use Corning Formular foam for the production of Compulsion/Addiction and
other custom wings. I do this because the Corning foam cuts much better and
is crisper at any given weight than its Dow equivalent. Unfortunately,
Corning foam isn't readily available in California so I have to import it
Harley;
Your Proxxon disc sander may be a precision piece of equipment, but you'll
be disappointed with the job it does in this application. You'll discover
the same disadvantage that all disc sanders have, namely that the outer
edge of the sanding disc is traveling many times faster than the
Jim;
We're seeing some action regarding F3J competition with winch launch in SOCAL. The
Torrey Pines Gulls (TPG) club has run a few such contests and they've been very well
received. In addition, the Harbor Soaring Society (HSS) has been running an almost
monthly F3J winch launch contest.
About a week ago during a discussion on the RCSE regarding a new TD task
involving hi-starts, I was asked to debrief the contest. If nothing else,
I'm a man of my word so the following applies:
The specifications of the hi-start were determined after extensive testing
and were finalized with
Garth;
There's no sense trying to optimize your hi-start launches until the
hi-start configuration has been finalized. The Torrey Pines Gulls (TPG)
have decided on 100 feet of the red Hobby Lobby or Gyro Hobby rubber, but
the type and amount of line is still in question. 200 feet of 80 pound
to compete effectively.
Depending on their situations, other clubs may want to consider a similar
transition.
Fred
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From: Jim Deck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: FRED SAGE [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: [RCSE] Highstart Max Launch
Fred
Bob Lenard please contact me concerning your Compulsion nose cone.
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Bill;
Be happy that your joiner rod rotates and consider it an asset instead of a liability.
If you glue your joiner rod or pin it to the fuse, you'll cause structural damage to
the wing or fuse if you hit anything hard. In fact, crushed leading edges or cracked
fuselages can be caused
Bill;
There was a series of articles run several years ago in the Torrey Pines Gulls (TPG)
newsletter. One article in particular would answer all your landing questions and
probably some you've never considered. These articles were extremely well received at
the time and were reprinted in
I was simply making an estimate of the wind speed. Since I seldom fly in windy
conditions, my judgment may have been off. I don't recall anyone having a wind
gauge set up so wind speed verification would be difficult. I based my assumption on
the fact that most gliders coming off tow
I'd also like to congratulate Skip Miller for his exceptional landing performance at
the SWC. I don't know his individual round landing scores, but doing the math
backward, you can determine his average landing. There were 3,460 possible points in
the contest and Skip accumulated 3364
Yes, I'll agree with John that it wasn't Addiction weather at the SWC, at least not
the kind of weather where the Addiction was designed to excel. However, that having
been said, the Addiction and other light wing loading gliders can be and certainly
were competitive at the SWC. I was
Karlton;
Charlie's still around, but chooses to focus on his Motorcycle business. I use to do
all the composite work for Charlie (Renegade, Raider, Contender, Turbo, Raptor,
etc.), but have done a total of only one wing (for his personal use) during the last
year. The sad truth of the
Daryl sure nailed this issue on the head and it happens in Thermal Duration as well as
slope. TPG tried a format very similar to the seeded Man on Man at the Toys for
Tots contests a few weeks ago. The only variation was that we flew only against
competitors in our own respective classes
Jack;
Chuck is absolutely right on this issue. RES gliders have difficulty maintaining
optimum line up during approach. Once off the perfect approach heading, correcting
back to center line is extremely difficult. Consequently, loss of landing points is
most likely to occur from lateral
Jim;
While the definition of who's to be included in the Captain America classification
(only two names come to mind) has yet to be explained, there are any number of
extremely successful pilots that campaign only one TD glider. As an example, I've
flown the same glider for the last 18
Michael;
For helicopters the fourth axis (probably more appropriately called control) is
"collective". It's used to control the pitch of the main rotor blades, usually from
about a positive 20 degrees to a negative 10 degrees. The throttle is normally slaved
to the collective control with
Tom;
Boy do you have that right! Whenever I ship an Addiction, it comes in an oversized
(63"X11"X6") double walled 150psi cardboard box. I've proven this is a prudent step
as my number of damage claims has been gratifyingly small. However, just the box
costs $6 when buying at wholesale
Apparently you've misinterpreted the meaning of my post, or more specifically, used
the opportunity as a platform to promote your brand of soaring. Of course, there's
nothing wrong with that as we can all appreciate the beauty and skill of a well flown
scale glider. The purpose of my
Brett;
This is just one of those rumors that never seems to die. In the F-14 community, we
use to routinely train against the U-2 as a high altitude target to practice Phoenix
missile launch parameters. The real adversary was the Mig-25 Foxbat, but they were
never available as a target.
YK;
That's exactly how I've been cutting the slots for my carbon fiber tube spars since
1992. You can't get the remaining slot width down to the diameter of the wire (.023")
because of wire burn. However, you can get it down to a very manageable width of only
.090". Furthermore, as
Ollie;
Some of what you stated is true but I'll correct what isn't. Yes, Spyder Foam was
developed by Dow to the specifications of windsurfer board makers. Consequently the
billet size is 2'X10' X5 1/2". Yes it's called Surfboard Foam in the industry and the
name was changed to Spyder
r 3MC was the
first quad tapered wing designed and now copied by Fred Sage." Since I've
never copied any of your products, I still take exception to that
statement. What I do when taking an order from a potential customer is to
spend several minutes talking about his background, experi
Ron;
Since you're using just white foam, there's not much strength to
compromise. However, what will happen as you bag your wings is that the
foam will suck down to form a trough because of the void left by the
oversized tube spar hole. A solution likely to provide a better wing would
be to
Kevin;
Sure there is! How about screaming through the Grand Canyon at 450 knots so
close to the Colorado River that you're able to see the rooster tail in the
rear view mirrors. Obviously this was before positive radar control and low
flying sight seeing puddle jumpers.
Fred
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Gordy;
The Addiction is an unlimited Thermal Duration glider that's had a lot of
success in SOCAL during the last few years. In fact, it was second on the
prestigious Southern California Soaring Clubs (SC2) circuit two years ago
and won last year. It's also flown by approximately half the
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