On Wednesday, September 30, 2015 at 12:49:55 PM UTC-5, kirk.stant wrote:
Now, if they put the finish on a beach, and towed the gliders out over the
water to their start point (at L/D max distance for the altitude) - that might really be exciting!

Kirk
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Slight change to your idea, Kirk. Let them use MC=1 for figuring the altitude, and see who gets there first. That will be just as much a challenge of "who can hold speed the best" and will have less risk to the gliders getting all wet. Might even add some strategy of "Do I dive, use ground effect, then pull up over the finish line?" Sort of like that last pit stop in NASCAR. Two tires, or four?

Steve Leonard
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