It's not your advice, it's us. And we need a plan of action. Luck does not do it.
Today we had some success and a huge set back.
A glider that was once just on the heals of Mr. Romash, last time they competed, came back to life today. At a Science O contest they could not turn off the air so the middle of the gym was a down wash. But, the kids found out that if they flew under the basketball hoop in a very tight circle they could get some decent time. However, the glider after trimming for that, was never the same. Then today, it was a last minute Christmas miracle. Gage worked on it for 8 hours and right before we were going to leave it came back to life. A little better than last time. So the kids are hoping that they will give Rob another close contest this time.
One of the kids just finished a glider and it was doing awesome when the glider got caught in the rubber band and blew the wings in two. He was crushed.
But, we use your advice now as our plan and it worked well for us, today. As for the one glider that is not doing so well. We will hopefully find someone at the ceiling climb to look it over.
Again, it's us. We have no idea what we are doing. You gave good advice.
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From: William Gowen <wdgowen_at_gmail.com>
To: Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2013 2:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Indoor_Construction] SO GA state finals
I feel your pain. I've personally been thru all the problems you're talking about. I hope today works out better. And if my advice cuts your flight times in half then maybe you shouldn't use it anymore!
On 3/16/2013 1:28 PM, joor gawt wrote:
>As a coach with zero experience, in gliders I can tell you that it is near impossible to get a great glide without help an experienced mentor.
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>There are too many variables to gliders and you
canx27;t just change one. You have to at least
make two changes. Example, flap and nose weight.
Then with those two it is likely that launch has
changed.
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>Even more frustrating is the changes have to
very small. With kids small changes and patience
are hard to come by.
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>Twice now we have had gliders that do over 30
seconds in a gym with a 30 foot ceiling only to
lose that magic combination.
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>A glider that did 34 seconds fusalage broke. We
repaired it and it was down to 26 seconds. We
followed your advice on hip pockets and its
below 16. There is just something we donx27;t
understand. Right now it is 100% luck at we get
a great glide.
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>The kids will put in another 8 hour day today
trying to get the glide times back up to be
competitive at the ceiling climb. They have
already spent 100s of hours on gliders since
October.
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>
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>________________________________
> From: William Gowen <wdgowen_at_gmail.com>;
>To: <Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com>;
>Subject: [Indoor_Construction] SO GA state finals
>Sent: Sat, Mar 16, 2013 4:51:55 PM
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>Sebastian did a good job at the state finals today with a two flight total of about 54 seconds. I don't know how he placed yet. I stayed for about an hour after he flew and didn't see any glider flights longer than a few seconds. There were several kit gliders that looked nice but the kids had no idea how to make them fly. I guess this isn't too surprising when you consider that there are no low ceiling indoor glider fliers in this area other than me.
Received on Sat Mar 16 2013 - 21:44:48 CET
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