Okay guys, the article is about some day when we are too weak and old to hump winches...fields are gone so no room to string a turn around...those of us who will still want to fly TD contests will have to launch our sailplanes some how....the last thing we will ever want to know about is what would be the best prop, the thought of calculating a correct power equation???? Wouldn't happen for a TD guy, our attention shifts day dreaming about pretty women or a new plane too quickly to have that kind of concentration.
Really read the article....guys who love to didle with expensive motors, cool batteries and trick motor controls...can and should continue. I say let them believe that because their electric powered airplanes with big wings and the ability to glide down from thousands of foot of motor run...let them believe they are soaring...its fun for them. However Don tries to make the point that a guy who starts out with an electric powered airplane with big wings is a future TD pilot??? Here's a test to let him prove his point... have any one of his newbies run the motor up to about winch or high start height (400') then make a 5min thermal flight....no turning the motor on..-you know- when he gets kind of low, -you know- for 'safety's' sake.... When the have a motor to turn on, they don't learn to thermal...which is fine, if they are happy 'flying' I say," let them eat er... batteries!" :-) In the year 2424, if the only way we TD guys can launch is to put a motor in the nose of our models, God let it be just enough to get us up to normal winch height..three times...its not supposed to 'fly' our models, its only suppose to get them to the start of the game. :-) Don keep doing what you are doing...we have a few years before electric motors and props will replace high starts and winches. Gordy -- Gordysoar ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gordysoar's Profile: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/member.php?u=12801 View this thread: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=883707 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
