Guys ... and Gordy ;-) ... on Sunday we went out to practice launching
and landing. Conditions were quite good with winds building up to 20 knot
winds as the day went on.
I've been gradually trying to improve my launch technique and at the same
time modifying the winch to try to achieve higher
At 10:41 PM 10/31/04, you wrote:
And how were they measuring the height, with a Picolario, some other
vario?
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Actual height was 347m measured using a LoLO
Eddie
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Hi Guys ... Just a follow up on the height achieved on launch...
Come of the guys were launching to 340+ metres last weekend.
On a FAI winch with mono.
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Hi Guys ... Just a follow up on the height achieved on launch...
Come of the guys were launching to 340+ metres last weekend.
On a FAI winch with mono.
Thats about 60 metres better than I can do. Makes me think of upgrading
my plane.
I believe they were using their own design model .. Wormburner
At 10:27 PM 10/5/04, you wrote:
Eddie,
Go to www.yntdesign.com, mouse over the menu to Electronics, then select the
Lo-Lo. This will bring you to a page with a write-up by Jim Bacus that has
some data graphs, etc. Looks like he was doing right at 600' on launch.
-Sheldon-
Guys I asked the
Hi ... What height does Joe and D get on their launches on a FAI winch ??
The Eagle
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At 12:18 AM 10/6/04, you wrote:
It depends... on the line length and the wind. Give me a little breeze
and good air and the F3b winch will put a model higher. But no wind or
downwind, then that power with a big drum will do better than mono.
We use two plastic half shells on our winch drum to
Hi Guys when you launch on your ford long shaft motors with your non
stretch line
what would your best height be ? Assuming a good F3b model and no drag
from your
line retrievers. I don't want a guess a test using a LoLo would be
nice.
Eddie the Eagle
in sunny South Australia
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Hi Guys when you launch on your ford long shaft motors with your non
stretch line
what would your best height be ? Assuming a good F3b
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Hi Guys when you launch on your ford long shaft motors with your non
stretch line
what would your best height be ? Assuming a good F3b model and no drag
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Hi Guys when you launch on your ford long
How long are your arms?
Let me get the laser range-finder to measure...ok, 60 feet.
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Hey guys,
I played football for 6 years, do a lot of flying of real airplanes of all types and I
can tell you that it is very easy for me to determine within a few feet what 30 yards
or 30 meters looks like, and now that I'm at Poway myself, there are many who are
getting damn close to and
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