Totally agree, thanks for sharing. My bench marks are:
DLG Photon II Electric Moldie: Mini Graphite Big Laminated Foam: FVK Signal Landmark: FVK Bandit On Dec 1, 2007 10:58 AM, tony estep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ----- Original Message ---- > ... I presented my opinions as to what is a benchmark, and specifically > stated my qualifications.... > ===================== > This thread seems to be confused by the difference between the words > "benchmark" and "landmark." Way back at the beginning, the original > reference to a benchmark used the word correctly, viz. as a convenient > standard for measurement or comparison. Various posters thereafter have gone > off in the direction of trying to identify designs that had neat original > ideas and significantly impacted later thought. The word for that is > landmark. > > Libor is a benchmark; Marbury v Madison was a landmark. > > To say a plane floats better or worse or similarly to an Ava is to use an > Ava as a benchmark. The speaker may or may not regard the Ava as a landmark > design, but it's a convenient benchmark because everybody knows how an Ava > flies. What constitutes a landmark is in the eye of the beholder. Roughly > speaking, it's a design like the Fletcher or the JW-DS or the Allegro that > looked unusual at the time but spawned a generation of similar planes. >
