Re: Re: Purchased VP hubs at the West Baden Indoor WC

From: Edmund Liem <edmundliem_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 09:08:16 -0700

My 2 cents from a perspective of somebody who has returned to the hobby
after a 15-year pause.
When I left the F1D scene in 2002 VP was already in use for many years. In
fact, the first time it was used at a WC was in Westbaden 1980 WC by
Bernard Hunt and Dave Pym. Slowly the benefit of VP was clear, but the
adaptation of it was slow due to the 1 gram weight restriction and also the
location of the contest. VP is not particularly useful in the Salt Mines in
Slanic. I assume that the contest in Belgrade was one where a VP is a must,
I wasn't there.
When last year I inspected my 2002 models and found that they are still
flyable, I decided to start thinking about returning to F1D scene. I
remember the air in Westbaden at the 1980 WC, I made a no steer, no touch
flight of 32 minutes; I was looking forward to fly there again.
I started building new models and when it got to the propellor, things
stalled. New materials are being used and new VP designs came up that were
clearly better than the one I used in 1996 (Kibbie dome). There was just no
time to make and test them in time and buying a VP could solve that problem
for now. That allows me to inspect, study and play with a good design
before I am thinking making one myself. The 1.4 gram rule make a purchased
VP feasible, this was not possible with the old 1 gram rule.
So I learned a lot in a short time and will be ready to have my own home
built VP in the future. Personally, it is has been always my goal to build
everything myself, but would not stop others from trying or competing with
a bought VP hub.
Edmund

*Edmund Liem*
tmj-sleep.ca
aacpcanada.org





On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 8:41 AM, Jake Palmer 82.jake_at_gmail.com
[Indoor_Construction] <Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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> This is hearsay, but even if true it doesn't change the fact they've known
> for years that people were using purchased hubs and did nothing to stop
> it. To me this indicates that they arrived at the newly published
> interpretation a long time ago, but only recently were they forced to draft
> a public statement.
>
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 8:25 AM, john_kagan_at_hotmail.com
> [Indoor_Construction] <Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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>> Failing to enforce the BOM rule is different than specifically allowing
>> purchased hubs. The quote I heard was, they were "hoping it wouldn't come
>> up"
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