Hey there, Karlton. I'm with you! Look at the intro to the LSF site. It
refers to the aesthetic beauty of soaring in the opening lines: "A slim,
graceful, long-winged craft arcs upward smoothly and steeply into the summer
sky, accompanied only by the faint whistle of air accelerating past its
gleaming surfaces.". While Bill is correct in stating that you don't
get points for your glider's "looks" in a contest, you will earn the
admiration of your fellow pilots for a clean, well built and beautifully
finished model, regardless of type! Some of the lightest, strongest and
best engineered models I've seen, and that includes good 'ol fashioned built
up models, were also the most beautifully finished models. It shows a real
attention to detail and a striving for technical excellence when someone
goes to the trouble of engineering and then finishing a plane so that it
looks as good as it flies, two goals that are not often compatible.
Besides, a good looking plane is jus' w cl... :-)
Keith M
Hawaii
- Original Message -
From: "Bill Johns" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 4:39 PM
Subject: [RCSE] beauty is only skin deep.
At 06:22 PM 2/26/2001 -0800, Karlton Spindle wrote:
This is an aesthetic sport and L@@KS do count...
...for what? They give points for time, sometimes for speed around
pylons,
sometimes for precision landings. I've not seen anyone, anywhere give
beauty points.
And if you don't pile on gobs of paint, the plane will weigh less and go
higher and you can't tell it's ugly when it's 500 feet over your head.
Bill
--
There is no such thing as a pretty good alligator wrestler.
Bill Johns
Pullman, WA
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