At 07:34 AM 10/28/01 +0100, Stefan Smets wrote:
>Ok, I'll ask the stupid question then :-) :
>
>> or to fly flatter turns (although I'll never understand why anyone would
>do that)
>
>I would guess to lose less lift in the turn ?
>Sometimes I try to level the wings a bit while turning by cross-con
Ok,
Ok, I found the article I've read it in:
S&E Modeler, July 2000, Vol. 5, n° 4, p. 26: "Sailplane setup: Thumbs the
word !" by Mark Triebes.
I can quote the relevant part if you want, but since you might have the
article, I won't for now (if somebody wants me, I can send a scan); he does
state
Hi there, I've been making some Kahu DGL wings http://www.charlesriverrc.org/articles/kahudlg/chriskaiser_kahudlg.htm
I've been using 1oz Kevlar and a 1.7oz (1inch)
leading edge. I'd like to know if anybody out there has any insight on how to
get prefect leading edges so they don't need any sa
...for about 30 seconds. :-(
Got it all put together and tweaked out, balanced,
etc. Came out to the softball field at work to give it
the inagural flight. Got to easy-toss it four times.
On the first toss it kept climbing pretty steeply but
I got it back on the ground and gave it a few down
cli
I've got my UpLink wing cores and I'm getting ready learn vacuum bagging. I
have some extra "expendable" cores to practice on first.
In addition to the several online bagging resources, I recall that someone
had a videotape on bagging available. I can't find it now, does anyone know
where/if
For my Mach Dart/Flash I used 3/4" copper tubing from home depot and cut 1"
sections and melted lead into them each slug weighs 4 oz. and I use a total
of 4 to give me a full pound .Just take a long section of tubing and wrap it
once with paper and then with some plastic wrap and put some release
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