Re: Illinois State Wright Stuff

From: soslipstream <parkreation_at_msn.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:39:14 -0000

Leo,

I am not speaking for John on this but I do have a take. I imagine
that the infractions were caused by the team member not reading the
specifications throughout. Then the coach missed it while getting
ready for regionals and the regionals officials either missed it or
let it slide. Usually it is a stab built or salvaged to the previous
year's dimensions and stuck on a model probably without any hope of
success anyway.

We do see this at national competition and of course we get the
puppy dog eyes staring at us while hearing, "But they (officials)
allowed this in my regional and state competition, why can't you?"
My officials all know my response is, "Because we have to abide by
the rules."

Incidently I would hope that the tissue tubes whould not be
considered in the chord as they are not adding surface area
(speaking from a national perspective).

I do have a beef with coaches who do not debrief their teams after
competition to uncover infractions like this.

Regards,
Tom Sanders


--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "leop12345" <leop@...>
wrote:
>
> John Brayton
>
> I find it difficult to understand how SO WS competitors can
> incorrectly build the stab of the airplane to larger than the
maximum
> chord allowed. This made me think. If a student builds the stab
> with tissue tubes on the outer edge of the spars (and perhaps uses
> some small balsa gussets as reinforcement), will the chord then be
> measured from the outside of the tissue tubes rather than the
outside
> of the stab spars? I have seen plans and pictures of AMA and FAI
> free flight models where the tissue tubes are on the outside of
the
> wing and stab spars. I recall the wing and stab chords being
> measured from the spars rather than the tissue tubes but I may be
> mistaken.
>
> Thanks,
> Leo Pilachowski, Bloomington IN
>
> --- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "c4gl45" <c4gl45@>
> wrote:
> >
> > It was held at the University of Illinois in Champaign. I
believe
> the
> > height of the Armory is 98 ft. The majority of the dimensional
> problems
> > were with the stabilizer cords being too large.
> >
> > ~John Brayton
> > Crystal Lake, IL
>
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