Laurie, Great to hear from you, trust you are well and having fun.
Some people just don't get it, and unfortunately they don't actually look at what we are doing in regard to maintaining the older fleet and actually therefore reseaching what happens with glues etc. The fleet here waits for the weather to turn so they can be finished, An ES-49, ES-57 and ES-60. The first 2 need painting and the 60 test flying after major rebuild. I just wish it would hurry up and get warmer. I'm hoping to test them Melbourne Cup weekend in November. get down here soon will ya, it would be good to see you. Cheers Patch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laurie Simpkins" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, 19 July, 2012 11:40:51 AM (GMT+1000) Auto-Detected Subject: [Aus-soaring] Glue Failures and white ants Hi Patch, I agree with your comments on misconceptions regarding glue failure etc in the natural composite machines. Its unfortunate that unless you speak out these misconceptions ( structual and performance) are passed on to the newer generation of pilots as facts and it still amuses me when they are amazed we fly vintage and can actually go cross country in them. Get the usual "white ants holding hands " comments of course, usually in jest. Of interest some of the newer wooden homebuilts are actually glued with epoxy but are tarred and feathered with the same brush so to speak. There is some old (and young) dangerous stuff in the air , usually gripping the stick though. I like the idea Adam has floated and going even futher with an unofficial best for various types may appeal to owners . A few years ago when i had the T31 active i always wanted to beat what i believe was its unofficial record in Aus which was 98klm set at a comp (possibly interservice) years ago. Not even sure where this info came from or if accurate, maybe someone in this group can recall.i think they even made canopies to increase the performance ?? Much easier to log these days with the small ,light and portable loggers available. Sounds like a task for GDB one day?? Maybe downwind heh. Hope to get down and visit musuem one day cheers laurie > From: [email protected] > Subject: Aus-soaring Digest, Vol 106, Issue 58 > To: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 09:14:54 +0930 > > Send Aus-soaring mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Aus-soaring digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Club Class Records: unofficial (Terry Neumann) > 2. Re: Aus-soaring Digest, Vol 106, Issue 57 (Ann Woolf) > 3. Scattering ashes again... (John Mason) > 4. Re: Club Class Records: unofficial (Catherine Conway) > 5. Re: Club Class Records: unofficial (Ruth Patching) > 6. Re: Club Class Records: unofficial (Ruth Patching) > _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
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