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On Tuesday, January 30, 2018 at 11:00:07 PM UTC-5, Michael Opitz wrote:
At 18:02 30 January 2018, jfitch wrote: The 1958 WGC Open Class was won on a day like that, except that E.G. Haase (as relayed personally to me) made a string of very low saves (albeit all over very landable terrain) and was thus able to tiptoe his way to victory that day. He was then able to defend his lead until the contest ended. It was a brilliant flight, not luck. Some pilots are just better at that kind of flying than others. For example, in Belgium, they have a maximum altitude of 3,000' due to controlled airspace over the entire country. Those guys fly low a lot. Did he mention his thermal detector?! This is pretty good stuff, especially the last two paragraphs. The good ole days https://www.flightglobal.com/FlightP...20-%200010.PDF |
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At 14:58 01 February 2018, Clay wrote:
On Tuesday, January 30, 2018 at 11:00:07 PM UTC-5, Michael Opitz wrote: At 18:02 30 January 2018, jfitch wrote: The 1958 WGC Open Class was won on a day like that, except that E.G. Haase (as relayed personally to me) made a string of very low saves (albeit all over very landable terrain) and was thus able to tiptoe his way to victory that day. He was then able to defend his lead until the contest ended. It was a brilliant flight, not luck. Some pilots are just better at that kind of flying than others. For example, in Belgium, they have a maximum altitude of 3,000' due to controlled airspace over the entire country. Those guys fly low a lot. Did he mention his thermal detector?! This is pretty good stuff, especially the last two paragraphs. The good ole days https://www.flightglobal.com/FlightP...58/1958-1-%20- %200010.PDF Thanks for the link. No, E.G. never mentioned the thermal detector to me. He talked very extensively about the HKS-3, and what they did to tune it though. They used wing warping as opposed to ailerons in order to minimize interference drag. The canopy didn't have a vent or window so as not to disturb the air in front of the wing root. He had a vent air exhaust in the tail-cone, but could only get ventilation air through a scoop in the wheel well when the gear was down. So, he generally thermalled with the gear down for cockpit ventilation, and cruised with the gear retracted. He said that everyone thought he was crazy to always thermal with the gear down, but that was his only access to fresh air as the rest of the glider was sealed up so tightly. He told me to always have a vent air extraction exit that was 50% larger than the inlet vent so as to prevent positive pressure buildup inside the glider. That was back in 1972 when I was 21. I stayed at his house as a guest for ~a week, and flew with him and his club in Vogtareuth Germany. I even became the first person other that E.G. or his partner allowed to fly his ASK-14 motorglider. I think I logged about ~20 hours flying in the German Alps with it. Those were very good times for me... RO |
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