Next year there will be at least 2, I plan on being there for 2M
using the wing from Mike's old 2M.
Duck's are expensive, I'd rather buy an unlimited plane than buy a 2M
Duck. Only need to fly it 3 days a year, (one day of practice).
Steve Meyer
LSF IV
SOAR
At 07:45 PM 7/29/2006, Marc Gellart wrote:
Ya, one flew, it was Mike Lackowski's(sp), and it blew up about half
way through the event...
Marc
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Jacobson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "tony estep" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "RCSE" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 11:31 PM
Subject: Re: [RCSE] After the 2006 NATS - 2 Meter Comments
Was anyone flying the Mark Drela designed Aegea 2M at the NATS?
The design for the Aegea 2M was posted to the Allegro-Lite group in
August 2002, so it seems to be contemporaneous with the Mantis 2M
& the Organic 2M.
On 29/07/2006, at 11:00 AM, tony estep wrote:
From: Jim Deck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
...the dominant design utilized by the top ten
finishers was the venerable "Duck"...
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A very fine post in its entirety, Jim. 2-Meters is a world
unto itself, and when good flyers go at it, it's a very
worthwhile event. You have to launch to the moon, then find lift
quick, because the little planes come down in a hurry and don't
travel well if you hit sink.
The dominance of the Duck design seems to me to have
some interesting implications. U.S. flyers generally have
disdained V- tail airplanes, but the Duck shows that they can
learn to love 'em if the tail is big enough. Additionally, the
Duck has a fairly low AR wing and is pretty heavy; these
characteristics don't match the current fashion, but in this
class they seem to prove out to be best in practice.
It would be neat to see a resurgence of interest in 2M, just to
see what other design tweaks might come along. It seems that
there hasn't been much design activity in this class since the
Organic and 2M Mantis. Maybe there's a world-beater out there to
be discovered.
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