No wing runner?

If I had one I would! They were and are fun. Some
people collect them and drive them for a lark -- the
kind of experience you can't get from a new, high-end
car which would doubtless be more comfortable and more
efficient.

At 03:01 28 August 2007, Lew Hartswick wrote:

At 21:43 27 August 2007, Lew Hartswick wrote:
wrote:
On Aug 27, 5:36 am, Steve Leonard
wrote:
Nah, you guys have all got it wrong! Fly a 1-26!
You will land out far more often, get lots more practice
at no wing runner takeoffs, and you have those big
a$$ tip wheels built in! :-)
Steve Leonard
(Never flown a 1-26, but I learned in a TG-3A)
I often wondered about those tip wheels!!
I mean where basic understandings of drag and wing
tip airflow even a
consideration in the 1-26.
Regards
Al
Of course not.There were this pair of barn doors and
an orange
crate around and ......... :-)
...lew...

Nyal Williams wrote:
Aw, c'mon, guys! You're acting like your ancestors
didn't climb down out of the trees; well, maybe your's
are still up there. What's wrong with heritage gliders?

I'm sure you drive a Model T car also. :-)
...lew...

Ahh yes, the pleasures of a sports canopy (open cockpit, to those not
familiar with the breed) 1-26 on a warm summer afternoon, coring a
corn husk - marked thermal, chilling out at cloud base - then barely
making it back to the field after drifting downwind....

Drag, I spit in your face!

Kirk
66

kirk.stant wrote
Drag, I spit in your face!

I fart in your general direction.

Tony "ducking" V.

On Aug 28, 8:46 am, Tony Verhulst wrote:
kirk.stant wrote

Drag, I spit in your face!

I fart in your general direction.

Tony "ducking" V.

Sniff sniff? - aha, lift!

Try that in your hermetically sealed ubersegelflugmachine!

Oh oh, my LS6, she is giving me the evil eye...

Kirk
66

On Aug 28, 10:44 am, "kirk.stant" wrote:
On Aug 28, 8:46 am, Tony Verhulst wrote:

kirk.stant wrote

Drag, I spit in your face!

I fart in your general direction.

Tony "ducking" V.

Sniff sniff? - aha, lift!

Try that in your hermetically sealed ubersegelflugmachine!

Oh oh, my LS6, she is giving me the evil eye...

Hit it with a stick then...

Al

"kirk.stant" wrote:
Sniff sniff? - aha, lift!

Try that in your hermetically sealed ubersegelflugmachine!

Kirk,

I did. One day by myself at the Hobbs Standard Class Nats last month I
located two thermals by sight--a refinery burning off gas in a large
flame and, later, a dust devil. I used my olfactory sense to help core
them both...in my ASW 24 (albeit with the nose vent wide open!).

The refinery thermal smell was more powerful but the dust devil-
spawned thermal had a distinct "agricultural" odor, too. They were
both narrow and fairly strong and I needed all the help I could get
staying centered. I flew in and out of the refinery thermal several
times before I finally got it cored.

Chip Bearden
ASW 24 "JB"
USA

On Aug 28, 8:31 am, "kirk.stant" wrote:
Ahh yes, the pleasures of a sports canopy (open cockpit, to those not
familiar with the breed) 1-26 on a warm summer afternoon, coring a
corn husk - marked thermal, chilling out at cloud base - then barely
making it back to the field after drifting downwind....

Drag, I spit in your face!

Kirk
66

thats the problem with trying to get back to the airport Kirk. I had
one exciting flight like that. Was out thermalling matt michael in
his lark and eventually noticed i was about 4 miles downwind at 4 or
5000 feet. yikes! turn into the wind and it was like the world just
stopped moving. made it back though.

wrote:
On Aug 28, 8:31 am, "kirk.stant" wrote:
Ahh yes, the pleasures of a sports canopy (open cockpit, to those not
familiar with the breed) 1-26 on a warm summer afternoon, coring a
corn husk - marked thermal, chilling out at cloud base - then barely
making it back to the field after drifting downwind....

Drag, I spit in your face!

thats the problem with trying to get back to the airport Kirk. I had
one exciting flight like that. Was out thermalling matt michael in
his lark and eventually noticed i was about 4 miles downwind at 4 or
5000 feet. yikes! turn into the wind and it was like the world just
stopped moving. made it back though.

Hear hear. Same thing happened to me, except I was more like 3 miles
downwind at 2000 feet. I did just barely make it back.

Next time that happened I said "screw it" and ended up landing 30 miles
away.

--
Michael Ash
Rogue Amoeba Software