RE: [RCSE] Flying wings for F3J or F3B

2004-09-28 Thread John Derstine
Cal'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [RCSE] Flying wings for F3J or F3B Bill Swingle wrote: However, I've been told that thermal flyers find it difficult to fly a plane well without the visual indicator of a tail. Bill Swingle I've heard that but I don't see it. I flew a flying wing in TD

RE: [RCSE] Flying wings for F3J or F3B

2004-09-27 Thread Daryl Perkins
Doubtful you'll never see one for either of these tasks. You can't set them up to launch effectively. D __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail RCSE-List facilities provided by

Re: [RCSE] Flying wings for F3J or F3B

2004-09-27 Thread Bill Swingle
if anyone on the list has any direct experience with the use of tailless sailplanes for F3J or F3B. The comments that I've been told regarding tailless wings for thermal flying is that the performance is reasonably good. The Tailless performance is quite doable and is being perfected. However,

Re: [RCSE] Flying wings for F3J or F3B

2004-09-27 Thread Ken Leamy
I don't know, I launch mine from a winch. I use my xc winch which has 2500' of line and get good high launches. Put hook ahead of CG On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:21:34 -0700 (PDT), Daryl Perkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doubtful you'll never see one for either of these tasks. You can't set them up

RE: [RCSE] Flying wings for F3J or F3B

2004-09-27 Thread Adam Till \(Cal\)
Hi all, From: Douglas, Brent [EMAIL PROTECTED] Without going into this too much, the best link I have for flying wings is www.aerodesign.de - hint, it's in German. Good list of ships used for F3J/B applications - also some great looking electric flying wing designs. I tried one of the constant

Re: [RCSE] Flying wings for F3J or F3B

2004-09-27 Thread George Gillburg
Bill Swingle wrote: However, I've been told that thermal flyers find it difficult to fly a plane well without the visual indicator of a tail. Bill Swingle I've heard that but I don't see it. I flew a flying wing in TD contests for several years and never had any real problems with knowing