10 seconds? You need to be closer to 5 to be competitive. I lucked out at our last contest when a turbulent thermal pinged me off at 2 seconds. Fortunately, I rode the same thermal out for a 9:56, my personal best!
-----Original Message----- From: tony estep [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 11:00 AM To: Soaring Subject: Re: [RCSE] Pierce Paragon vs Pierce 97- --- Jerry Krainock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The 970 was designed in an era when we used 6 volt winches and floated the gliders off the top of the line.... Ah yes, how soon we forget. Was that soaring heaven, or are we zooming to soaring heaven today? The difference is best illustrated in the F3J event. Planes are on tow for only 10 seconds. In that time, they must accelerate to speeds of 90 mph or more in order to gain enough altitude in the zoom. Performance on tow becomes the operative design criterion, as Joe W pointed out in his comments on designing the Icon. My personal view is that it's fun to zoom 'em. I have lots of RES planes but no Nostalgia planes for that very reason. But the enduring popularity of planes that won't take a zoom launch must mean something. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com 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. The information in this electronic mail message is sender's business Confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee(s). Access to this Internet electronic mail message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful. The sender believes that this E-mail and any attachments were free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and/or malicious code when sent. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. By reading the message and opening any attachments, the recipient accepts full responsibility for taking protective and remedial action about viruses and other defects. Galileo International is not liable for any loss or damage arising in any way from this message or its attachments. 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.
