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...s such as this. Before it was ever named SpaceShipOne, the world's first private-sector spaceship was designed for a splashdown if necessary. And when the rocket plane and its carrier airplane mad...
Wednesday, 04 June 2008
A Truly Innovative Way To Fly!
(Blogs / From the BlogSphere)
...leaders in technology and innovation, Cirrus and Garmin sat in the cockpit together and worked to truly redesign the pilot-airplane interface" said Cirrus CEO Alan Klapmeier. "Ultimately, with Cirrus ...
Friday, 30 May 2008
Volkslogger won\'t automate!
(Forums / General Discussions)
...images/fbfiles/files/WIN_PILOT_BASICS.doc[/file] I have put LOTS of work into writing instructions how to design a task in Win Pilot and transfer it into the VL - LOTS! All seems OK - I can design ...
Tuesday, 19 August 2008
PW-5
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
Sailplanedirectory.com says "The design is available for license construction both by manufacturers and homebuilders." Does anyone know if an amateur built PW-5 actually exists?
Wednesday, 13 August 2008
Best Glider for Altitude Record Attempt?
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
... characteristics for mountain wave ascents to record heights? What are those characteristics...air foil design, lofting characteristics, L/D ratio, oxygen system, etc. What publications provide th...
Thursday, 07 August 2008
Odd thing in Houston
(Forums / General Discussions)
...e a black arrowhead and did it leave a green boron-fuel trace behind it in the classic 'String of Pearls' design as it streaked out into space at an impossible rate? And then, some time later, did the...
Thursday, 31 July 2008
Glider Sales for last 15 Years?
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
Add to this also: PW-ULS - experimental design (glider's mass = pilot's mass) PW-2 Gapa - open cockpit light glider PW-3 Bakcyl PW-4 I think the sum of them all should close in 50 gliders.
Wednesday, 30 July 2008
LX-5000 and iPAQ
(Forums / General Discussions)
...d, I'd like to suggest flyWithCE Navigator as your program of choice. The reason is very simple: It was designed to work with LX Instruments. Also, its the cheapest program on the market at only 150...
Saturday, 26 July 2008
Jantars are back :)
(Forums / General Discussions)
...ious. The record is there to be beaten, no matter what length it is. The fact it was done in an older design Jantar just makes it an even better achievement. The Jantars have proved to be very g...
Wednesday, 23 July 2008
Twin jet glider
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
Nice idea, especially if it easily can self start. Try to design it so that when the engines extend a cover also comes up to close the hatch. That way you don't have the added drag of a large hole in
Saturday, 19 July 2008
PEZ D. SPENCER RETURNS!!
(Forums / General Discussions)
I will see if the CCSC would like to print some shirts, pick a design and sell them. This time of the year, the tow pilot cannot afford store-bought meat so he may do it. I could tell him that a $15 t
Tuesday, 15 July 2008
Some SZD-55-1 Questions
(Forums / General Discussions)
There is a fix that has worked for 55 aileron drag. An interesting design mechansim is inside the wing root. The lower skin has to be opened for access and this device cleaned and polished. Makes a wo
Monday, 14 July 2008
Briegleb 12B - Opinions?
(Forums / General Discussions)
a far, far better bet would be to buy a factory manufactured AND Certified design....I cannot say enough on how important it is to have a design that has a track record, and a record that can be track
Saturday, 12 July 2008
Overstocked on PDA's
(Forums / General Discussions)
... The H3950 is not a current model, but it has some advantages over it's replacement, the H5150 (simpler design, no Bluetooth, bigger battery, adequate audio volume). The H3950 can be updated to the ...
Monday, 07 July 2008
To Walter Eisele and Comrades
(Forums / General Discussions)
...or LS out of the Eastern Block? How can you hope to compete with the German University trained whiz-kid designers? The best that can be done is the provision of cheap labor to build something desi...
Monday, 07 July 2008
Do winglets produce thrust?
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...ith the extra lift on a *long* moment arm. Well not all of it anyway. I wonder what class rules the 744 design has in mind :)...
Friday, 04 July 2008
DG Flugzeugbau and LS: Not united...
(Forums / General Discussions)
The DG / LS marriage makes sense from the point of view that the LS8 is a proven, certified design with existing molds and an established reputation for competitive performance. DG does not have a c
Wednesday, 02 July 2008
One Design viability?
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
All a one design class needs to be successful is a sanctioning body making it THE choice for contests. Look at the olympics. Solings for gods sake, tornado's and other low performance boats. Very stri
Tuesday, 01 July 2008
Slipping in Turns
(Forums / General Discussions)
...rrent world champion) in Leszno this summer and based on the presentation given by Prof.M.D.Maughmer (The design and testing of a winglet airfoil for low-speed aircraft)it turns out that gliders equip...
Sunday, 29 June 2008
IGC APproval for GPS with WAAS
(Forums / General Discussions)
...- 10m, and very very unlikely to be more than a couple of hundred meters, I would expect the system to be designed to correct the GPS positions by no more than a few hundred meters. Another characte...
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Nother PW-5/World Class question
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
...r of the World Class? Are there any provisions in the FAI or IGC rules for the eventual retirement of the design and a switch to a second-generation WC glider? Just wondering... Thanks, and best r...
Tuesday, 17 June 2008
... when the FAI didn't put World Class in the world championships, the class folded, leaving a bunch of one design guys no place to play. Now I think that World Class would go over well if you got to fl...
Tuesday, 17 June 2008
Why does PW-5 get no respect?
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
The PW5 was the apparent winner of a design competition to create a 'single design' cross country contest glider. And still be usable for the club (affordable) and beginning (novice) pilot. It came ou
Saturday, 14 June 2008
Lowest Cost GPS Tracking System on the Market
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...tion. Multiple vehicles (or any object) can be displayed on multiple maps simultaneously. Polaris is also designed to work with any hardware device since it contains no proprietary interfaces to any s...
Friday, 13 June 2008
Gliders for the larger pilot
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
... weight of 807Lbs. and the max. weight of all non-lifting parts of 531Lbs. With the Genesis, the ultimate design limit load is one helluva lot larger than the placard limit load, and the seat limit lo...
Tuesday, 10 June 2008
After going to all of the time designing the hardware security along came the idea of public key cryptography so the IGC spec was 'upgraded' to incorporate this additional security layer. The Cambridg
Saturday, 07 June 2008
ELTs are a joke
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
A 406 MHz ELT can transmit GPS position. I believe EPIRB was designed primarily for marine applications. The primary receivers are on geostationary satellites, which may not be very helpful if you hap
Thursday, 05 June 2008
OPINIONS ON AN LS3A
(Forums / General Discussions)
Look at the Genesis 2. The same Cleveland wheel and brake system as is used on Cessna aircraft. A well designed and built wing spar which will not delaminate in turbulance, now or ten years from now u
Sunday, 01 June 2008
Best Gliding Club Web Site
(Forums / Professionals)
... links at the top of the page below 'Sortierung der Ergebnisse nach:' Gesamteindruck - overall impression Design - design Inhalt - contents Name - sorted by name...
Saturday, 24 May 2008
D-8 Info
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...wt. - 460 wg loading - 4.6 structure - all metal L/D - 17 min sink - 4.2 no. built - 3 (1964) The D-8 was designed as an all metal, easy to build homebuilt construction project. One belongs to the nat...
Tuesday, 20 May 2008
Vans RV-G glider
(Forums / Tips & Tricks)
...er if they'd consider selling a Quickbuild glider kit? I believe there is a glider in the mind of their designer, but there are other projects to be completed first My memory (likely to be faulty !)...
Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Re Eppler airfoils
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
Eppler, Richard: Airfoil Design and Data. Springer-Verlag (Berlin), 1990. [out of print] Dan Somers Port Matilda, Pennsylvania, USA
Sunday, 11 May 2008
Winching - Reverse Auto Tow
(Forums / Professionals)
...credit). However the winch story is interesting. When I was at the Staffordshire Club in the late 60s I designed(!!) and built a diesel winch which consisted of two old artic tractors , one mounted ...
Sunday, 11 May 2008
...ave some fun. Here are some further details from the webpage: “Sailors of the Sky” was originally designed as a training program for sailplane lovers. So real reaction to handling and flight s...
Thursday, 01 May 2008
Idafleig test data
(Forums / General Discussions)
The only source I have found is Fred Thomas's 'Fundamentals of Sailplane Design.' Page 168 has a page of data.
Sunday, 27 April 2008
Actually, I believe the CAI had tried to keep the internal speaker in the original design and attempt to use some noise canceling whiz bang circuitry to eliminate the vario noise from the outside nois
Friday, 25 April 2008
Life Insurance-Rated policies
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
...dle the ship. The company is Northwestern. In my experience rounding up quotes, PIC is competitive and is designed for pilots....
Sunday, 20 April 2008
Bangs for Buck
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
...o too. Sorry but those do not go together with low weight and low cost. The Silent and the Apis were both designed to the European ultralight regulations, the SparrowaHawk to the U.S. Ultralight regul...
Friday, 18 April 2008
Sparrowhawk vs. Apis
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
... should make a judgment based upon the estimated figures you have given? Personally, I find both of these designs very exciting. I have some experience with the SparrowHawk and would like to have some...
Wednesday, 09 April 2008
Watch the show. There was a fellow from the FAA who inspected the designs, gave some sort of vauge approval, and congradulated them, and handed them each a 'certificate from the FAA allowing them to f
Thursday, 03 April 2008
Got a Duo and looking to come up with a pilot relief system. If you've got a design that works well, please send a brief description of how you routed the plumbing. Also, just curious, is anyone usi
Wednesday, 02 April 2008
...c.aviation.hang-gliding Hang-gliding, paragliding, foot-launched flight rec.aviation.homebuilt Selecting, designing, building, and restoring aircraft rec.aviation.ifr Flying under Instrument Flight Ru...
Saturday, 22 March 2008
Sparless wing
(Forums / General Discussions)
...n Fiber that can be made very Ridged. With a little bit of computer modeling it is not be to difficult to design airfoil shaped tube that can handle the required loads....
Saturday, 22 March 2008
...o all I'm looking for any info that would have to do with Woodstock gliders . I'm interested in trying to design a removable motor pod , I'm also interested in ground launch info ( auto launches ) is ...
Friday, 21 March 2008
...ology. Way too often the spin doctors smother 'consumers' with hype in an attempt to sell thoughtlessly designed products. Often times their intense detail leads us to assume that the info is comple...
Thursday, 20 March 2008
302 Netto enhancement?
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...r this. The B50 actually has a cruise/climb switch and can be configured for real netto in cruise. This design decision dates back to 1978 during the design of the B10 when I realised that there was...
Wednesday, 19 March 2008
Glider clubs on public airports (USA)
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
...port, but enough to make our life miserable) Our airfield is a 'unlicensed' airfield, but has an official designation (YLCS) and is listed in the En-Route Supplement used by all airmen in Australia fo...
Monday, 17 March 2008
Opinions on PW5
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...mely easy to rig. I find it pleasant to fly and very straightforward. The biggest positive is it is a one-design class. I think the 1-26, for all the fun I had in them, is getting a little long in the...
Monday, 17 March 2008
OT - But Interesting - Sea Gliders
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
... Ben Jeffrey TITLE: Sea Glider Transport Vehicle TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Ground/Sea Vehicles OBJECTIVE: Design and develop an underwater vehicle that uses buoyancy control and vehicle lift to drag a...
Saturday, 15 March 2008
MD2 Regulators
(Forums / Pictures)
...ave is that some surplus dealers around Davis-Monathon AFB in Arizona may have them. Be aware that MD-2 designates a US Navy regulator. The US Air Force designation for the same regulator is CRU-72/...
Tuesday, 11 March 2008
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