Wouldn't the "Whip" name be an infringement on Daryl Perkins original slope design? Might rethink the name at least..................
Best Regards, Jim -----Original Message----- From: Harley Michaelis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 4:05 PM To: Soaring Subject: [RCSE] "WHIP" COMPETITION SAILPLANE AND YOUR INPUT. After building 22 personal ships of my 120" Jouster design (July '93 MA) and 27 of the 145" span unpublished vacuum-bagged GENIE, I got a sudden new inspiration a few days ago and laid out the parameters of a new thermal competition design that can be scratch-built. Between what I can offer and the info provided in Phil Barnes DVD, ordinary mortals can turn out beautiful wings and need not succumb to the notion that you can only be competitive if others do the work and you must drop a $1,000 for a moldie. In effect, this will be a smaller, low profile version of the GENIE, www.proptwisters.org/genie/genie.html. The wing will be a 3 piece, quad-taper on the order of 10 ft. span and 1000 sq. inches of area. I expect it to rival the performance of $1,000 ARFs, but cost about $250 for materials, precision CNC cut wing cores, plans, hardware package, a CD of construction pix and text. It will not be a flimsy, delicate, intrinsically perishable design. I expect it to take full pedal launches and zoom like crazy. Nothing will hang out but a towhook. . .for sure no antenna! Full RDS, of course, for a totally clean wing. I'm building the prototype. . . "WHIP 1". Man, I got that first slim, sleek, curvy, low profile, rugged but simple fuse/fin designed and done in 2 days. It's ply, balsa, CF, glassed over and painted. I'll do the built-up rudder and stabs today. Gotta order some cores from "Les." I'll build 2-3 to get the design tweaked out. Doing that and plans, plus a CD with construction text and pics, etc. is going to take until spring. In fact, unless I have some indication of sufficient interest, I won't bother. I'll just hog it for myself and I don't need plans, etc. As always, what I do is an accommodation and not commercially motivated. WHO WOULD BE INTERESTED? Let me have some input. Since this may never come to pass, those planning to build a JOUSTER or GENIE this fall and winter should not be deterred. Harley Michaelis, 26 S. Roosevelt, Walla Walla, WA 99362, ph. (509) 529-2562 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. 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.
