Re: [Aus-soaring] aerotow

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Re: [Aus-soaring] Bent up wing outer panels

2006-06-20 Thread Christopher Mc Donnell
John Howard is fielding the possibility of selling Uranium to the Indians under certain conditions. I hope one of those conditions is that their call centres are not to ring any Australian numbers. :-) Chris McDonnell - Original Message - From: "JR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussio

Re: [Aus-soaring] Bent up wing outer panels

2006-06-20 Thread Caleb White
I’m suspicious of anyone who knows the second verse. -Original Message- From: "JR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tom Wilksch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 22:51:20 +0930 Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Bent up wing outer pane

RE: [Aus-soaring] WGC 18 metre results

2006-06-20 Thread RF Developments Pty Ltd
"The start of the art is surely going nowhere" Yep , sums it up nicely , are we really progressing any further in high tech expensive gliders or just fiddling around the edges. One reason I guess for simple improvements and re badging is cost , certification has to be the largest cost. Nigel

Re: [Aus-soaring] Bent up wing outer panels

2006-06-20 Thread Patching
Oh yes inddeedy, they have a very interesting way of communicating. Fast? I'm not too sure of that. Ian P - Original Message - From: "JR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 6:15 PM Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Be

Re: [Aus-soaring] Bent up wing outer panels

2006-06-20 Thread Caleb White
Hi Folks, I think this discussion needs some clarification as to what is referred to as a ‘kink’. Are we referring the stepped taper (when viewed in plan form from above) as the ‘kinks’? In which case we are discussing the desire to achieve an elliptical plan form (with the intent of achieving

Re: [Aus-soaring] Bent up wing outer panels

2006-06-20 Thread Tom Wilksch
yes, they seem to take 10 minutes to get to the point - Original Message - From: "Patching" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 9:05 PM Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Bent up wing outer panels Oh yes inddeedy, the

Re: [Aus-soaring] Bent up wing outer panels

2006-06-20 Thread JR
Well he only lasted 2 minutes with me, if they cant sing the first line of advance australia fair I hang up - Original Message - From: "Tom Wilksch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 10:30 PM Subject: Re: [Aus-soa

Re: [Aus-soaring] Bent up wing outer panels

2006-06-20 Thread Patching
Hey caleb, the kookas' all have a decided wing kink as well. Just goes to proove the everything stays the same, it just gets refined a little. See ya, I'm off to see the Worlds Fastest Indian. IP KPST - Original Message - From: "Caleb White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, June

Re: [Aus-soaring] WGC 18 metre results

2006-06-20 Thread Mike Borgelt
At 09:06 AM 19/06/2006, you wrote: Congratulations should go to the 1st and second placings for Ventus as the pressure was on, just imagine how much better they could have done without the "drag inducing Kinks " , must remember to go and straighten mine out. Cheers Nigel Other notable ite

RE: [Aus-soaring] Bent up wing outer panels

2006-06-20 Thread Dav
Hi all, Mike said: >The tendency at a kink is for the leading edge discontinuity to trip >flow to turbulent and for the airfoil to stall earlieralthough it >would seem you would need a fairly marked kink for this to occur. >Allegedly this is what happened on the F4U Corsair (the earlier s

Re: [Aus-soaring] Bent up wing outer panels

2006-06-20 Thread JR
Ian, I spoke to the worlds fastest Indian on the phone last night, he was trying to convert me to another phone company regards JR - Original Message - From: "Patching" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 1:10 PM Su