Guys, guys, guys
It's a relatively simple explanation. I may be totally wrong (Manufacturing
work for 7year may have my AE schooling a bit rusty), but one of the initial
posts on this thread had this "phenomenon" explained.
Condition 1: Glider is flying along in a steady state, dead
Wow. And here I thought I understood it before.
Just one more thing. If I flew into a really big thermal--one that was
so big I didn't need to turn long enough for my stable glider to reach
an equilibrium again--the true airspeed of the glider (not necessarily
what I'm observing) would be
Sorry if this got long, but I only use windvanes to tell me which slope to
drive to. And this windvane theory also doesn't readily explain why Zagi's
and Boomerangs, etc appear to get up "on step" when in good air, no true
tailplane to cause rotation.
I dont want to drag this discussion out
The stuff about the stab being more sensative to the change in effective
AOA is bunk then?
No, if the glider were flying slow enough, and/or if the updraft is strong
enough, then the momentary increase in AOA during the accleration period
before the glider re-stabilizes will cause the glider to
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