At 07:16 AM 14/10/2013, you wrote:
<http://youtu.be/Vi0hrjqU15I>http://youtu.be/Vi0hrjqU15I
Been doing it for some time. World record is IVO 450mph
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If I was anywhere near that thing I'd want to be behind a 2" thick
Lexan shield.
It is interesting how "researchers" keep re-inventing the wheel
though. Over the years there has been lots of talk of dynamic soaring
and one or two interesting occurrences but the weather
conditions required are very narrow or it is difficult to do in full
size gliders. Does anyone REALLY want to fly just in the lee of a
ridgetop with significant wind speed ? Even if you manage to do it
in a small high speed sailplane going round and round in one place
like that R/C model be really interesting for all of 10 minutes or
so. Currently we seem to be stuck with finding upwards vertical
motion in the air which our present day total energy instrumentation
doesn't do a very good job of, although that is about to change.
Mike
Borgelt Instruments - design & manufacture of quality soaring
instrumentation since 1978
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