Jim, real men fly/practice from short mega bungees, then you really have to work for your times! Except for some winch practice now and then I never fly off of anything else. Has it improved my flying- not ONE BIT! Seriously though, sounds like you guys were having a blast. Many moons ago Bob Dodgson had a plane called the Maestro Caliente. It was said to be bullet proof and one of its claims to fame was the ability to do outside loops- a real BIG deal back then. I was doing them in a thermal just like you were. After several loops, I blew the wing off in that mighty thermal. So much for outside loops! My how far we have come since then. Walter ----- Original Message ----- From: "James V. Bacus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 21:15:56 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [RCSE] Thermalooping
> Yesterday, I took about 7 or 8 flights in about a two hour flying session, > the air was tough but good practice. Never got above launch height. > > Today, the air was fantastic, I took 3 long flights in about a 4 hour > flying session with TK, McCarthy, Sneidley, Wes, and a couple of new guys. > > There was a point today was the sky was boiling over the tree line on the > north side of the field, huge major boomer lift reflecting off this tree > line. Lately instead of specking out my ICON, I like to shred these > thermals with continuos inside or outside loops. By watching how the model > is tracking around the loop I could attenuate the size of the loop and > really build up some good speed and energy. Several times I looped from > 800' to over 1100' (I used a picolario) going up the whole way and the > model was really tracking big loops fast. McCarthy ripped up a thermal > like this for about 40 loops with his Tragi, in my second flight today I > probably did over 200 loops. > > Just a really fun way to tear up thermals... 8-)) I hadn't flown that > fast for that long since the last time I had been on a slope. > > too much fun! > > > Jim > Downers Grove, IL > Member of the Chicago SOAR club, AMA 592537 LSF 7560 Level IV > ICQ: 6997780 AIM: InventorJim R/C Soaring blog at www.jimbacus.net > > 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. > -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 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.
