Re: Re: Illinois State Wright Stuff

From: Jeff Anderson <janderson_at_twmi.rr.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:33:07 -0400

Seconding what Tom said, happens ALL to often. Many reasons. Team may have made the state competition on their strength in other events and added WS at the last minute for state. Regional event supervisor may have been inexperienced and mis applied the rules. Or the regional supervisor may have let it slide if 'its just a little over' trying to give the students the benefit of the doubt.

Mind you, none are defendable or reason not to hold them to the rules.

I helped at nationals one year with Tom and even at that level, a lot of planes didn't meet the rules, similar reasons as above, still not excusable.

As to the tissue tubes, I've never seen it counted into the chord. I hope no experienced supervisor would, can't say much about the inexperienced.

Jeff Anderson
Livonia, MI


  ----- Original Message -----
  From: leop12345
  To: Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com
  Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 5:01 PM
  Subject: [Indoor_Construction] Re: Illinois State Wright Stuff


  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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