Thanks Brian.
I'm headed back to Rantoul next weekend to test my 2 new gliders and then
on to Kibbie.
In my house WIF8 seems to glide a lot better than the glider with tip
plates.
Stan has been corresponding with me the last few days. He built his own
version of a WIF and was very complementary about how it flew.
On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 5:16 PM, bjt4888_at_yahoo.com [Indoor_Construction] <
Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Bill,
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> I think that SO as an AMA event is an outstanding idea and I will promote
> it to the fullest amongst my SO students. As you know, I coach four local
> high schools and typically have 10-12 students build 10-12 Wright Stuff
> airplanes. The Pontiac, Michigan contest is very convenient to my school
> districts and I try to get students to attend every year. I have only had
> success getting students to fly AMA once a couple of years ago with two
> students building your Cat II record holder std CLG. They had a blast!
>
> As the students would already have airplanes built for this new AMA class,
> the potential for participation would be pretty high, in my opinion and
> based upon my experience having these discussions with many students. I
> tried to get students to modify Wright Stuff airplanes last year to fly
> them as F1M's and I couldn't get any of them interested. It would only
> have taken about an hour to trim 2 cm off of the wings and cut the 16"
> motor stick a little shorter (to cut weight and match the 1.5g motor
> better) and they would have had four minute plus F1M's.
>
> Brian Turnbull
> AMA since 1972 (off and on)
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