600' lines and no skegs---Sounds like the SOAR club anual Fred Fredrickson Memorial Contest. This year date still TBD. Check out the SOARCHICAGO website for details.
On Jan 3, 2008 9:21 PM, Walter H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jack, here in Houston, your old home town, I am going to limit the > turnaround to 450 feet for our contests. But don't be bringing any of your > whimpy winches or skegless gliders back to Houston when you come. I plan on > giving up my skeg only when they pry my cold dead fingers from it. :-) > > Regards, > > Walter > > > > > To: soaring@airage.com > > Subject: [RCSE] Challenge... > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 21:48:18 -0600 > > > > > > > Well I posted this under Best wishes for 2008... but not too many looked > > at it... So here goes :eek: > > > > For this year, I'd like to issue a challenge to the soaring community. > > For 30 years, we've been launching as high as possible, trying to stay > > aloft for 10 minutes, and coming down on a spot, carrying a skeg that > > many times arrests on the line rather than the ground. That gets old... > > in fact it got old a long time ago... > > > > My challenge is to standardize the American TD winch, including line > > strength, and to do away with landing skegs. I also think the > > turnaround should be no more than 600' from the launch point. Let's put > > some challenge back into this. Flame suit ON! > > > > Jack (Darth) Womack > > > > > > -- > > schrederman > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > schrederman's Profile: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/member.php?u=13218 > > View this thread: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=794683 > > > > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" > and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that > subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with > MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are > generally NOT in text format > > > ------------------------------ > Don't get caught with egg on your face. Play Chicktionary! Check it > out!<http://club.live.com/chicktionary.aspx?icid=chick_wlhmtextlink1_dec> > -- Steve Schneider Buffalo Grove, IL SOAR Club
