Re: [Aus-soaring] Aus-soaring Digest, Vol 131, Issue 73

2014-08-30 Thread wayne carter
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Re: [Aus-soaring] Water Landing/flight theory

2014-08-30 Thread Mike Borgelt
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Re: [Aus-soaring] Water Landing

2014-08-30 Thread Gary Stevenson
Hmmm! You touch on an interesting point here when you say "landed wheel down trying to put them up the beach." It seems quite obvious to me that just like paddock landings, no two water outlandings are exactly the same; every water landing has its own peculiarities, and hazards. Whilst it mi

Re: [Aus-soaring] Water Landing

2014-08-30 Thread dennis hipperson
After looking and stopping the clip several times I think what could look like a wheel down is the shadow of the AC on the water, the sun is on the stbd side of the plane. Dennis On 30/08/14 8:49 PM, Catherine Conway wrote: I'm not convinced the wheel was up looking at that video. I think i

Re: [Aus-soaring] Water Landing

2014-08-30 Thread dennis hipperson
Except in this case no sucking down was evident, nor was any bouncing into the air and plunging nose first as someone mentioned. Dennis On 29/08/14 2:52 PM, Mike Borgelt wrote: At 02:39 PM 29/08/2014, you wrote: Surely there are so many variables (fuselage shape, surface of water, C of G posi

Re: [Aus-soaring] Water Landing

2014-08-30 Thread Catherine Conway
I’m not convinced the wheel was up looking at that video. I think it might actually have had the wheel down. Cath On 30 Aug 2014, at 8:07 pm, dennis hipperson wrote: > Except in this case no sucking down was evident, nor was any bouncing into > the air and > plunging nose first as someone me

Re: [Aus-soaring] Water Landing

2014-08-30 Thread dennis hipperson
Except in this case no sucking down was evident, nor was any bouncing into the air and plunging nose first as someone mentioned. Dennis On 29/08/14 2:52 PM, Mike Borgelt wrote: At 02:39 PM 29/08/2014, you wrote: Surely there are so many variables (fuselage shape, surface of water, C of G posi