Hi all, Anita and Bruce Taylor asked me to post the following on Bruce’s behalf:
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, 18 August 2011 1:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: 18m gliders Hello. As you know, we are travelling at the moment, just downloaded 124 emails. Many from AusSoaring. Bruce has a quick reply for you. Hope to keep in touch by next week. Thanks for all the support regarding the Uvalde Team. We had a great bunch of Aussies competing, and they all did very well. We also had some excellent crew and I'm very excited for the whole team. Bruce is happy, of course, because he was flying well, and the conditions seemed to suit him. Let's hope for good weather next year too. Regarding handicaps: "These comments are always worth a smile. But I’d like to publicly thank Ross for his support – it makes my job easier. Having flown in and against all these gliders, my first comment is this: If we just consider the gliders that appear regularly at competitions in Australia, I can say categorically that there is a greater difference between individual ASG 29’s than there is between each of the three types discussed. Some of the differences are due to manufacturing tolerances, but more significant is the care and attention to detail of the owners. If you wish to take the time to check profiles, ensure that seals are in perfect condition, keep the ballast tanks dried when not in use, polish all surfaces continually etc, etc, then you will be in a good position to take full advantage of the handicaps that are published. Each of these gliders have different strengths and weaknesses, some are folklore and some are real, but it would be a brave person to stand up and say that one is better or worse. It comes down to a matter of personal preference which type you would like to sit in, and I can only say that they all have enormous potential. With reference to the V2CX in particular, a quick count of the numbers entered in the past two world championships will show that the Ventus outnumbers the ASG 29’s by a factor of two to one! Are all those pilots competing at that level so blind? And as for what I might fly at Uvalde next year, I have no idea myself, so it should be difficult for anyone else to know. In any case, it really makes no difference... Cheers, BT"
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