--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, Jake Palmer <82.jake@...> wrote:
<<After this year's champs it seems that thermals have been pretty well eliminated as the primary candidate.>>
Thermals/great air don't appear eliminated to me if one's good, base flights are around 35-36 but with an occasional 37, and then one 39 (considering past frew WCs.) Of course, the question remains how to become somewhat "regular" with 35-36 min flights.
Doubt if the big answer will be to abandon one's wing shape to "go elliptical," but I'm sure some will try, and report enthusiastically. Good results in competition mostly prove that a given non-traditional design feature _doesn't hurt_. Then maybe some day that feature becomes "traditional". Then 10 years later, someone rediscovers that the original, passe' feature doesn't hurt either, but is easier to build.
> >What are Treger and Schramm doing that makes their models perform so well in Belgrade?>>
Let's hope the US team has some insights there. Anyhow, I'll bet the winners could have traded models with each other and probably done equally well. My question is, could they have taken a 33 minute model from anyone else, and bumped it up to 36? I've often wished to do similar (trade models) with other modelers at contests just to begin to isolate the question of flyer quality vs. model quality. But there's never time, and maybe not another willing competitor. And if I accidentally broke my friend's models, I would then feel bad if he didn't break mine. Possibly no fun there.
MB
Received on Fri Aug 17 2012 - 08:20:24 CEST