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cristalclear13
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williamtsullivan(at)att.n
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 Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 5:51 am Post subject: Tuesday evening flight video |
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Thanks, Cristal. Keep them coming.
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Windsor Locks, Ct.
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| Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 6:06 am Post subject: Tuesday evening flight video |
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Very nice. A traffic jam in Waycross?
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Thom Riddle
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| Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 11:30 am Post subject: Re: Tuesday evening flight video |
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Thanks for the excellent video, Cristal. Until seeing this video it had not register in my brain that your MkII has a duckbillish nose. Looks good and you had a smooth as silk landing.
You sure have an abundance of runways there and not much wind to make a difference.
Have you ever flown through a forest fire smoke plume? I did it once and it was pretty much what you would expect. A thermal with an aroma.
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Thom Riddle
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| Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 2:47 am Post subject: Re: Tuesday evening flight video |
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I'm glad my Slingshot has an engine, Pat. Glider/sailplane flying is too much excitement for me, though I admire those who find it fun. With my stubby wings, if I lose power I don't have to worry about looking for a good landing place because it is pretty much right below me, thermals or no.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 3:19 am Post subject: Tuesday evening flight video |
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Have you ever flown through a forest fire smoke plume? I did it once and it
was pretty much what you would expect. A thermal with an aroma.>>
Hi Thom,
not quite a forest fire but I did get into the thick smoke from a stubble
burn off while flying my glider many years ago. My Club was doing a 300k
triangle on a super day but I was lagging when I arrived at the first turn
point. On track and about 30 miles away I saw the glint of sun on turning
wings marking a thermal at a gliding club I knew.
I had quite a hot ship, a 19 mtre span Jantar, so I decided to go for the
distant thermal. I pulled the flap lever which distorted the trailing edge
so that it was into negative reflex, stuffed the nose down and romped off at
a shade short of 100 knots. I passed the rest of the fleet at a run,
trading height for speed and feeling pretty pleased with myself.
Pride comes before a fall, I arrived at my target to find the the thermal
had died. However I could see the smoke from a stubble fire a few miles
away. I flew to it sure that the fire would kick off a thermal. There was
not a trace of lift. Not a tickle. I worked the smoke frantically until
finally I had lost so much height that I had to land, which I did in the
field next to the fire.
Not a particularly good landing because as usual I had left the decision too
late, but safely down and breathing a sigh of relief I noticed 2 men working
frantically to stop the fire breaking through the hedge between their field
and the field I had landed in. They failed and the fire swept through the
gap. There was me with several thousand pounds worth of plasticery about to
be melted into a shapeless nob of ex flying machine.
I leaped out and yelled and the 2 men gave up their hopeless fight against
the fire and the three of us grabbed the plane and hurriedly pushed it
through a gate and across a road.
There I could relax and wait for my trailer team to turn up meanwhile
grinding my teeth as the rest of the competitors floated serenely over my
head.
You win some and....
cheers
Pat
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