Pilots are, indeed, rare...

You don't have absolute control in the +z direction. No thermals, no
altitude gain. Even a balloon can go up and down at will. :-)

What, no tow plane?

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Matt Whiting wrote in news:qp04j.980$2n4.26157
@news1.epix.net:

Jay Honeck wrote:
Well, we each get to have our own definition, but yours rules our
gliders and I definitely consider them to be flying.

How does my desire for absolute control in 3 dimensions rule out
gliders?

You don't have absolute control in the +z direction. No thermals, no
altitude gain.


I got my gold altitude gain on a thermal-less day..

ASnd I wasn't even hunting for WMDs at the time.



Bertie

Matt Whiting schrieb:

You don't have absolute control in the +z direction. No thermals, no
altitude gain. Even a balloon can go up and down at will. :-)

By your definition, even a 400 hp SU-31 doesn't have *absolute* 3D control.

Doing glider aeros myself, I think gliders have fair 3D control. E.g.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUMWvunRNVY (No, it's not me.)

Stefan wrote:
Matt Whiting schrieb:

You don't have absolute control in the +z direction. No thermals, no
altitude gain. Even a balloon can go up and down at will. :-)

By your definition, even a 400 hp SU-31 doesn't have *absolute* 3D control.

I never provided a definition.

Matt Whiting schrieb:
Stefan wrote:
Matt Whiting schrieb:

You don't have absolute control in the +z direction. No thermals, no
altitude gain. Even a balloon can go up and down at will. :-)

By your definition, even a 400 hp SU-31 doesn't have *absolute* 3D
control.

I never provided a definition.

Yawn.

Matt Whiting wrote in
:

Stefan wrote:
Matt Whiting schrieb:

You don't have absolute control in the +z direction. No thermals,
no altitude gain. Even a balloon can go up and down at will. :-)

By your definition, even a 400 hp SU-31 doesn't have *absolute* 3D
control.

I never provided a definition.


And you still believe there was the potentiallity of the possibility of a
hint of a rumour of WMDs



Bertie

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:00:28 -0500, Dudley Henriques
wrote:

Roger (K8RI) wrote:
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:41:25 -0500, Dudley Henriques
wrote:

Roger (K8RI) wrote:
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:10:23 -0500, Dudley Henriques
wrote:

Lardbutt had no
descendents.
Roger (K8RI)
Wouldn't having the wings too small have caused Lardbutt to have a
descendents issue????

As yes. Actually I believe they say he rapidly discovered as he was
descending, his chances of having any descendents was descending
faster than his rate of descent.

Roger (K8RI)

Now THAT is what I call a decent post :-))
Sorry, but I think I just ran out of straight lines. Your turn again.
:-))

Roger (K8I)