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Cool Gordy!
PS. I fully intend to get a "I beat Gordy" button next season man!
Chip
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:00:34 EDT, GordySoar wrote
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> I have the World's Heaviest Carbon Supra, and I have to tell you its a total dog. Please don't get one, there is no way you can get your time or make landings with such a heavy ship.
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> It takes a man of brilliance and a super intuitive touch to be able to eek out the kind of performance from a carbon Supra that mere mortals can get from the glass version.
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> Likely you guys are like the rest of the soaring community, not being smart enough to chew gum and walk at the same time so whatever you do, remember if it ain't light weight its a loser.
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> Me? I manage to take wood at every event I fly mine at. How heavy is it? Well when I loaded it in car and took it to the local truck scale, as soon as they saw the "World's Heaviest Carbon Supra" in the back, they waved me off the scale saying they didn't go that high.
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> So why would "GordySoar" chose a clunk like the Carbon Supra? Yes I am more talented than most ..of course, and yes I put more hours, launches, freight time on my planes that anyone else on earth, but the real reason?
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> I have never weighed a sailplane in my life, my focus is fun, performance and durability.
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> So please don't get carbon Supra's, I need three LSF5 wins, and that has to be a minimum of 20 guys per contest, and with the super light supra, I'll have no trouble kicking your butts :-)
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> Great sailplane.
> But here is the most important thing with any of the new designs using 'tipper' elevators.
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> You MUST make sure that there is no potental for pushrod flex anywhere along its length. That means if you hold the servo and press down on the back of the elevator...hard, it doesn't move...and I mean HARD.
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> When you get your's let me know, I made my Rudder removable and have some tips on the pushrod install. I actually went up one size carbon rod for the elevator.
> Gordy
> long Island this week, Masters next week
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