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Old February 27th 09, 05:44 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Brad[_2_]
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Default Short Wings Gliders

On Jan 27, 7:09*pm, RRK wrote:
How many gliders with a wing span of 13.5 or less do you know? There
is a proposal of creating 13.5 class on IGC agenda on their *next
meeting in Laussane.

http://www.fai.org/gliding/system/fi...8_3_1_Proposal...


I snagged a gif image of a Russia AC-4 from a W&B sheet. Brought it in
to Photoshop and did a freetransform on the image. Basically I
stretched it out lengthwise until the shape became similar to what we
consider a sleek fuselage must look like.

I must say, it does look compelling...........now, can A.S. do the
same thing to their tooling??

I still think if these guys had done some better ID work they would
still be cranking them out.

Brad