[RCSE] Hobie hawk on ebay

2003-11-14 Thread Matt Lydon
Title: Message I just spotted a hobie hawk on ebay, and thought I'd pass it on. it's item # 3156383820 . I know guys still go crazy over 'em - I've seen them sell for $400 and $500, which to ME is nuts, considering I can get a new moldie for a couple of hundred more. Matt

Re: [RCSE] Re: Gordy/Dive Test Quote..AND a question :-)

2003-11-14 Thread Raschow
In a message dated 11/14/2003 10:33:21 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Should we trust the opinion of the MIT aerodynamicist (Mark), or the guy who thinks insults are the best way to convince someone of his point of view (Gordy)? Hmmm ... Well said! Read Mark, Delete Gordy;

Re: [RCSE] classic quotes

2003-11-14 Thread Andrew E. Mileski
Jon Stone wrote: And a poem, from somewhere on the Team Ariane web site ... Crinkle, crinkle, little spar, strained beyond the yield-point far. Up above the world so high, bits and pieces in the sky... By Darrol Stinton it seems, -- Andrew E. Mileski Ottawa, Canada

[RCSE] GRASS or SUZUKI

2003-11-14 Thread Paul Rickie Clark
Some call it grass--actually it is Susuki bamboo like grass; well bamboo IS in the grass family--and when it covers a mountain top (rare) you have a possible slope sight in Japan--BUT it may be from knee high to over your head--WORSE than corn; i.e. doesn't grow in rows and can cover ponds of

[RCSE] Gordy/Dive Test Quote..AND a question :-) One more time

2003-11-14 Thread GordySoar
Now that we know how much some of you love to dive your sailplanes, my post was about getting an answer to a single question. It was specificly directed to Thermal Duration Sailplane pilots. Istated specifically that I had no interest in myth about diagnoising CG with diving... By the way...

Re: [RCSE] Re: Gordy/Dive Test Quote..AND a question :-)

2003-11-14 Thread Joe Jan Wurts
I guess I'll have to chime in on yet another thread started by Gordy that has become way overdone. I'm not sure that I want to admit it, but there is almost a kernel of truth to his disparagement of the dive test. A good pilot will measure his aircrafts static margin via one of a number of

[RCSE] Quotable Quotes

2003-11-14 Thread William Malvey
Title: Quotable Quotes Joe Wurts wrote: I'll provide my contest mantra: I'd far rather be lucky than good, which goes with the Thermal Dorkation events... Ive been working my whole life to see if I could be good and lucky. No luck so far :~{ ~~~ Bill Malvey