schrederman Wrote: > Well I posted this under Best wishes for 2008... but not too many looked > at it... So here goes :eek: > > For this year, I'd like to issue a challenge to the soaring community. > For 30 years, we've been launching as high as possible, trying to stay > aloft for 10 minutes, and coming down on a spot, carrying a skeg that > many times arrests on the line rather than the ground. That gets old... > in fact it got old a long time ago... > > My challenge is to standardize the American TD winch, including line > strength, and to do away with landing skegs. I also think the > turnaround should be no more than 600' from the launch point. Let's put > some challenge back into this. Flame suit ON! > > Jack (Darth) Womack
Jack - Instead of challenging other folks why don't you just host the contest of your dreams and see if it works or not? I'm not at all likely to CD a contest that you will think is perfect, you need to get off the dime and do so if it's to be done at all. happy trails - Bubba -- Robglover ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Robglover's Profile: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/member.php?u=22665 View this thread: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=794683 RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
