Sorta like racing Pigeons
To be fast the pigeons had to look "just so"
But I won a lot of races with ugly pigeons, and the faster they came home, the
prettier they became..
My 2 cents about looks of models. (grin) Brian Smith
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: B. Chan
Cc: soaring
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 11:45 AM
Subject: RE: [RCSE] Icon/High End
So here is my take on looks...
Form follows function.....period. The more you fly the gliders you like and
identify the particular aspects of one vs. another design that you like and
dislike, you tend to trend toward those favorable aspects. You tend to see
those aspects as right, correct, nice, pleasing, attractive, sexy,...um, well
you get my point. I should qualify that and say that this only applies if you
care how it flies, and can really truly identify the aspects of a design that
cause the favorable results. I look at gliders the way the wind does up to a
point. I have aesthetic constraints that keep me wind guided eye from seeing
the benefits of a pylon mounted wing for example, and sorry Tom Kiesling but
there is no way that I will ever think that the Mantis looks good even though
it is truly form to function desgin. My constraint circuits overloaded with
that one... ;-)
Again, like the posts show, beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder.
Later.
Mike
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [RCSE] Icon/High End
From: "B. Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, December 13, 2007 9:48 am
To: Daryl Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "soaring" <[email protected]>
I know flying quality is important, but do they have to look so
ugly?? they all look like toothpicks with wings. What happened to the
looks like Graphite and such? Those are mush prettier planes. At
least the Supra looks good.
Can someone with "outside the box" thinking designs some better looking
planes?
Brian
>You Icon drivers get so dern judgemental. If you saw both models up
>close, there is no way a High End could be mistaken for an Icon - the
>High End is pretty.
>
>I had the opportunity to fly the High End (Lousy name by the way), and
>it flies quite nicely. I'm on the list. But then, I'm on a lot of
>lists... ;-)
>
D
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