Believe the video in Cath's post was previously used by Paul MacCready in his presentation at the 2005 SSA convention. The RC glider speed record video appears to be from Parker Mountain, a "D-S" site for a decade or more. You can imagine how many RC gliders have hit the dirt there at a vast rate of knots. Full-face helmets would be a better idea than goggles, but if I recall correctly most flights end at the bottom of the hill. Less than 100km to the north of Parker, USAF Test Pilots have tried to dynamically soar an L23 at Edwards AFB. Their report is linked below, 46 pages of data for what one of the participants casually summed up as: "It doesn't scale up very well". Jim
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a469903.pdf _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
