I often see new comers with planes such as Oly II's, Spirits, Gentle Lady's, Paragons, etc. using, or trying to use zoom launches. The zoom launch is not required or even very efficient for such planes. Better technique is to tap the switch to slow down the launch speed thereby using less line and
RG15 airfoil as generated by compufoil.
compufoil tells me that the ideal angle of attack is .23 degrees
It's my opinion (an EE not an AE) that the optimum AOA is not determined by
the foil alone.
How much will the plane weigh, how fast is your target flight speed, at
what elevation will you
Al,
I have a canopy available that I use in my Mirage
short kit. Take a look at it on my web site in the
Accessories page. Maybe it will be usable? I make mine
using a hardwood plug I carved. I make them out of
.025 PETG clear plastic heated in a frame in my overn.
I pull the vacuum with my
I don't know abouteveryone
else'sexperiences, but I have been flying since 1977 and don't recall ever
using a 6 volt winch. I think 12 volt winches with long-shaft Ford starter
motors were the standard by then. I built my own 12volt winch about
the time the Bird of Time plans were published
At 10:21 AM 9/23/2003 +0300, you wrote:
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Chuck Anderson wrote:
I charge my Cockpit and Evo transmitters with an original Sirius
Electronics Smart Charge Pro that I picked up at Visalia in 1996. All I
had to do was get a Multiplex adaptor from George George at Peak
I received a call from out of the blue Sunday evening
that I thought I might share with you:
John Nielsen, one of the founding members of the
Chicago SOAR club, emcee of the many SOAR NATS
banquets and the man who decimated Schwinn Corp. each
year to bring adminitrative assistants (we called them
At 12:57 PM 9/23/2003 -0500, you wrote:
I don't know about everyone else's experiences, but I have been flying since 1977 and don't recall ever using a 6 volt winch. I think 12 volt winches with long-shaft Ford starter motors were the standard by then.
The 6 volt winches of the 70's
Hey Phil, I dont know you but what have you been smoKIN lately? Seems like you got a
hold of some bad(or really good, depending on how you look at it) stuff!
---
GG
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 08:38:02
Raphael.Jeger wrote:
Hey Phil,
what are you telling here?
This is just a bad bad joke, isn't it?
Hi, Chuck and all,
I have been doing the same, that is, charging my Cockpit and Pico
transmitters with the Peak Sirius Smart Charge with the Multiplex adapter.
I agree with Chuck that the Cockpit is about the best ergometric transmitter
available. Now, if only Tom Hoopes would make available
--- Tom Kallevang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I received a call from out of the blue Sunday evening
that I thought I might share with you:
John Nielsen, one of the founding members of the
Chicago SOAR club
What a great sport that fosters relationships that
transcend generations like
Glad to hear that John is stil with us and is getting back into soaring.
The last time I saw John was at the 1985 Great Race. Dan Pruss, John, and
I discussed having the SOAR club hold an invitational contest in 1986 in
rememberance of the last SOAR Nats. It would be by invitation only for
My BoT zooms like crazy, weighs 44 oz. and will
thermal out on a rabbit fart Our club doesn't
posess a winch that will break it. I regularly get an
extra 150 feet from my zooms. It's just a woodt on
carbon stearoids;^)...and my Legionair 140 is
meaner than that...
It can be done
Jack
D.O.,
As I understand it, the real issue is that the wood in the sheer webs has
the grain running horizontal (spanwise), not vertical. Horizontally mounted
balsa wood has little resistance to sheer forces. Hence the folding wings.
The issue is not pilot error.
I have personally seen the inside
Need one for my Rahm winch. Reply off list. Thanks
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