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On 19 Feb 2004 00:57:32 GMT, Stewart Kissel
wrote: SNIP This is a flight by Malgosia Marganska , the daughter of the constructor, showing some very nice aerobatics SNIP Jiminy, I am not sure what ship it is, but what the hell do you call a tail-slide, into two reverse tumbles, into some sort of inverted spin, in a glider? All female Polish pilots look like her? Beauty is as beauty does. I am VERY happy with my Swift. It is fully capable of the entire gamut of unlimited glider aerobatics. BTW, there was no tumble in that movie. I don't know anyone who knows how to make a glider tumble. Tumbles are in the class of gyroscopic maneuvers which gliders have a real hard time doing since they have no gyroscope (engine/prop). What looked sort of like an inverted spin after one of the tailslides was actually a negative snap roll of 1 1/2 turns. If you look hard you can see the nose push away from the downline as the snap roll begins. The only time I think my Swift is a little ugly is when my crew has deserted me when I need to assemble or disassemble the wings. They are VERY heavy. Klein Gilhousen |
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