Hi Randy,
Stan Buddenbohm called me this evening and told
me your son did an excellent job at Eloy flying DLG
with a broken collar bone from a bike accident the day
before. Wow! Congratulations!!!
I've been doing some testing in a 41 foot ceiling
site with some DLG. My first couple of times trying
to fly DLG indoor were discouraging, but my last time
out I made some progress. I was able to get a 18"
wingspan, which weighed about 4 grams to the ceiling,
transition and glide back to the floor. The times
were not great, but for now I am just pleased to get
the basics down. All models were fixed wings. I
kept the high point thickness at the launching tip
.0625" and used some carbon fiber to reinforce the
launching tip/dihedral joint. I (like Stan and Ihsii)
do not throw the model with a peg. Jim Buxton set the
National Record (throwing Javilin style)with a big
fixed wing model at Kent, so I think a fixed wing DLG
is doable at Kent.
Kurt
--- rreyno2001 <rreyno_at_earthlink.net> wrote:
> --- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, Kurt
> Krempetz
> <krempetz_at_...> wrote:
> >
> I hope to have a DLG built for
> > Kent. Kent should be interesting and I am
> looking
> > forward to the event.
> >
> Hi Kurt,
>
> My son Todd and I hoped to come to Kent but he has
> broken his collar
> bone and won't be able to do JLG. I was thinking of
> trying to come up
> with a DLG for him for our MMM indoor contests in a
> 39' ceiling. How
> would you keep the tips destructing during launch?
> We usually fly
> flappers at our site but I suppose a fixed wing DLG
> is doable at Kent?
>
> Regards, Randy
>
>
Kurt Krempetz
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Received on Fri Jan 19 2007 - 21:09:59 CET