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| 652.1 | | MJBOOT::BENSON | __Frank Benson, DTN 348-2244__ | Thu Aug 11 1988 11:33 | 9 |
| Anker, congrats on the World Speed Record, and Good Luck this weekend!
BTW, I too would like to hear about winch technique from any with such
experience.
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| 652.2 | ummm... | WRASSE::FRIEDRICHS | Planned Insanity | Thu Aug 11 1988 13:41 | 13 |
| Is this an AMA event??
The AMA is very particular about test flying a plane before a contest.
At Rhinebeck, part of the safety check is to sign your name to a
statement that the plane has been flown prior to the competition...
If it is not an AMA event, you may still want to check to see if
you are still covered by the AMA...
Sorry if I just rained on your parade...
jeff
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| 652.3 | Ahhh | PERFCT::ANKER | Anker Berg-Sonne | Thu Aug 11 1988 14:18 | 11 |
| Re:< Note 652.2 by WRASSE::FRIEDRICHS "Planned Insanity" >
I guesss I'll have to go out and hand launch it on my
lawn. That's test flying, isn't it?
Seriously, I plan to go to the field early and fly it a
bit and get it trimmed out.
It is an AMA event.
Thanks/Anker
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| 652.4 | playing with winches... | K::FISHER | There's a whale in the groove! | Thu Aug 11 1988 17:42 | 12 |
| As regards the winch - usually they will allow someone else to run
the winch for you. I have always elected to run my own even
the I folded a wing one day. I figure how else will I ever
learn. Given that you haven't even flew off a high start yet
I would just ask someone else (not me) to run the winch.
Either way - good luck and I'll see you there.
Bye --+--
Kay R. Fisher |
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| 652.5 | No rush... | SLTERO::DAVISON | | Fri Aug 12 1988 01:21 | 7 |
| You may have the speed building record, but I read in Model Builder
about a guy who found one of his kits only half built in his attic.
He decided to finish building the plane and figured that he had
the "slow record". From the time he started the kit until the time
he finished it was over 50 years!
Glenn
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| 652.6 | | HPSTEK::WALTER | | Fri Aug 12 1988 23:42 | 14 |
| Anker, this should be real interesting. You build the plane in
a week (the same plane took me all winter), you give it one or
two test hops, then you enter it in a contest, and THEN you admit to
having flown gliders only once or twice! Actually, I'm genuinely
interested in seeing how your experience with powered planes translates
into piloting a glider.
As for the winch, I wouldn't worry about ripping off the wings.
They are very strong on this plane. I think you should try it
yourself... what the hell, you've already jumped into this with
with utter abandon.
Dave Walter
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| 652.7 | I actually did OK! | MURPHY::ANKER | Anker Berg-Sonne | Sat Aug 13 1988 21:46 | 38 |
| Re:< Note 652.6 by HPSTEK::WALTER >
Dave,
I beat you to it. It went over all expectations, as you
know since you were there. The contest was full of mishaps. Kay
managed to rip the wings off his glider by being too agressive
with the winch - so my concerns were not just imagination. I
basically managed to keep the bird flying and make a bunch of
good landings, so I made it to the middle of the bunch. This is
the end of the first contest day, so we will see about tomorrow.
After the contest I gave another club member a little
stick time on the glider (he had never tried one) and on landing
there were people all over the field so I ended up flying it
stright into a chair and punching a big hole in the leading edge
- fortunately only pulverising one rib. The repair is done and
I'm ready for tomorrow, but boy, did I feel stupid.
In making a new rib I came up with a new technique.
There were no full size drawings of ribs on the plans, so I had
to come up with a way to make a new one. Fortunately I had saved
the sheets that the ribs were punched out of and came up with the
ide of putting the punched out sheet on top of a balsa sheet and
spraying through the hole with a can of spray paint. The result
was a perfect outline of a rib which could be cut out with an
exacto!
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| 652.8 | Screwup | PERFCT::ANKER | Anker Berg-Sonne | Mon Aug 15 1988 12:55 | 29 |
| The second day wasn't as good. The first flight was not
too bad, but the second was a disaster. When I put the plane on
the winch I tested the controls and realized I hadn't turned the
receiver on. So the plane came off, I unscrewed the hatch,
turned the reciever on, put it back on the winch and launched.
The plane veered off to the right and I gave it left with no
effect. Dummy as I was I just kept jamming the stick left and
the plane smacked into the ground. It was then that I realized
that I must have turned the transmitter off when I realized the
receiver was off!
The damage wasn't nerly as extensive as I had feared.
The left wing was broken, but quire cleanly and no other damage
was apparent. I completed the competition on a borrowed plane
and finished near the bottom.
Bummer.
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