Heh...FWIW, people don't seem to get confused between the Opus sloper and the Opus thermal plane.
At 04:38 PM 9/19/03 -0500, Jim Stovall wrote: >Wouldn't the "Whip" name be an infringement on Daryl Perkins original slope >design? Might rethink the name at least.................. > >Best Regards, > >Jim > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Harley Michaelis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 4:05 PM >To: Soaring >Subject: [RCSE] "WHIP" COMPETITION SAILPLANE AND YOUR INPUT. > > > >After building 22 personal ships of my 120" Jouster design (July '93 MA) and >27 of the 145" span unpublished vacuum-bagged GENIE, I got a sudden new >inspiration a few days ago and laid out the parameters of a new thermal >competition design that can be scratch-built. Between what I can offer and >the info provided in Phil Barnes DVD, ordinary mortals can turn out >beautiful wings and need not succumb to the notion that you can only be >competitive if others do the work and you must drop a $1,000 for a moldie. > >In effect, this will be a smaller, low profile version of the GENIE, >www.proptwisters.org/genie/genie.html. The wing will be a 3 piece, >quad-taper on the order of 10 ft. span and 1000 sq. inches of area. I expect >it to rival the performance of $1,000 ARFs, but cost about $250 for >materials, precision CNC cut wing cores, plans, hardware package, a CD of >construction pix and text. > >It will not be a flimsy, delicate, intrinsically perishable design. I expect >it to take full pedal launches and zoom like crazy. Nothing will hang out >but a towhook. . .for sure no antenna! Full RDS, of course, for a totally >clean wing. > >I'm building the prototype. . . "WHIP 1". Man, I got that first slim, sleek, >curvy, low profile, rugged but simple fuse/fin designed and done in 2 days. >It's ply, balsa, CF, glassed over and painted. I'll do the built-up rudder >and stabs today. Gotta order some cores from "Les." > >I'll build 2-3 to get the design tweaked out. Doing that and plans, plus a >CD with construction text and pics, etc. is going to take until spring. In >fact, unless I have some indication of sufficient interest, I won't bother. >I'll just hog it for myself and I don't need plans, etc. As always, what I >do is an accommodation and not commercially motivated. > >WHO WOULD BE INTERESTED? Let me have some input. > >Since this may never come to pass, those planning to build a JOUSTER or >GENIE this fall and winter should not be deterred. > >Harley Michaelis, 26 S. Roosevelt, Walla Walla, WA 99362, ph. (509) 529-2562 > >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. > >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. > 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.
