ahh, the dynamis... ready for production shipping yet?
we all been hearing about it for 4 or more years now, thats a long R&D cycle. > On 13 Dec 2016, at 11:46 AM, Mike Borgelt <[email protected]> > wrote: > > The probes are quite short. You only need a long probe to move the active > part of the probe away from the stagnation point and flow field around the > fin or tailplane. > > The tailplane tip chord appears to be very small. Probably no more prone to > damage than the rather long probe forward of the fin. There's an image on the > Facebook page that seems to show that the connections will be done manually > at least at present. > > Interesting possibility to screw up the connections when rigging. I'd want 3 > different size tubes because we all know about Murphy's Law. I think it is a > great idea though, although I don't think it will help or hinder variometer > performance. I still favour the landing gear door > > location for the TE probe but all pressure TE varios have fundamental > problems which probe location doesn't fix. I tested that about 30 years ago > in comparison to the fin location and forward of the nose. Seemed best but > vulnerable to damage. Needs some kind of > > spring loaded mounting which I never got around to doing as I got interested > in fixing the horizontal gust problem which in the end needed some new > technology to get cheap enough. Now fixed and only pending a couple of test > flights to verify latest software load in the > > Dynamis system. > > What we have found is that ALL current TE varios except for Dynamis tell lies > much of the time. As primary varios they are obsolete. > > As for Benalla the JS3 appears to have only just flown and they have only 3 > weeks, 4 max to get it/them to Benalla. Real squeaky for a boat. Maybe they > are planning air freight. Or maybe there are 3 and they already shipped two? > Gold in the speculation olympics :-) > > > Mike > > > > At 09:12 AM 12/13/2016, you wrote: > >> On 13 December 2016 at 08:44, Mike Borgelt < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> Note also locations of pitot static and TE probes on the tips of the >> tailplane >> >> >> A glider repairer dream I would guess. >> >> >> >> Cheers >> >> Paul >> _______________________________________________ >> Aus-soaring mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring > Borgelt Instruments - design & manufacture of quality soaring instrumentation > since 1978 > www.borgeltinstruments.com > tel: 07 4635 5784 overseas: int+61-7-4635 5784 > mob: 042835 5784 : int+61-42835 5784 > P O Box 4607, Toowoomba East, QLD 4350, Australia > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
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