In a message dated 07/08/2001 4:24:17 AM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I think the suggestion that another list that would be formed where
> people can and should share good (and infinitely valuable) info about
> what we love be formed. Unfortunately, I believe that given the history
> of what soaring is about, it would degrade to the same level as what we
> are experiencing now (and in the past) on this list. I would love to be
> proven wrong.
I think it's inevitable that a list such as this would reach its present
steady state of signal to noise. Consider a world where everybody was the
expert equal to Joe and were only capable of posts that were as tasty as his.
In that world, there would be no reason for a list because no one would need
to read anything on it, they would already know everything. Alas, but in this
world we have all sorts, from expert to novice and everything in between. The
posts are similarly arrayed, and any attempt to control it would be futile
and the list would be the less for it. I must admit, I don't read everything
(and I might be saying this while I'm clanking around in the bottom of
someone's killfile myself or cowering under their delete key), I read what I
feel like reading and I felt like reading Joe's Icon post abut 4 times. :)
Especially the part about Cl margins for launch since the Icon is a big plane
like the one I'm flying. I stumbled into using less launch camber only to
avoid fluttering the structure (the Icon has a big advantage in its
stiffness) but find that I get plenty of tension on the line just because the
wing is so large. I identified with that part of the post, maybe for the
wrong reasons and I might be exposing what a big dummy I really am, but what
the hell, I had fun flying today anyway and I'm too busy matching my
readiness for the NATS with their imminent arrival to worry much about it. I
say let it all through, in all of its unmoderated glory and I'll attenuate
the signal on this end as I see fit.
Bill Wingstedt
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