D4 Championship PBG

[Atwood, Mark]

Anything in the name of science.

We've already made two significant scientific discovers as a result of the annual night flights.

#1  Glow sticks DO have mass.  Therefore, placing 9 of them all aft of your original CG will MOVE the CG to a less desirable location.  Usually catastophically.

#2  Tape, not unlike water, does not mix well with oil.  Taping glowsticks onto an uncleaned airframe will result in poor adherence.

     #2.1 Corollary to 2.0   The difficulty in flying a plane at night is directly proportional to the number of glow sticks that have fallen off in flight.  It's surprising just how erratic the track of a single light point can be as it finds it's way to the earth.

Oh..and in case anyone is wondering...if a plane crashes in the woods...and nobody sees it, it still crashed.  Just look for the glow....

Mark
-Assembling mass bottle rocket launchers as I type....




-----Original Message-----
From:	Gray E Fowler [mailto:gfowler at raytheon.com]
Sent:	Fri 8/22/2003 1:38 PM
To:	discussion at nsrca.org
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Subject:	RE: D4 Championship PBG

Ok Ok....Scott...if you can find paint balls that glow in the dark...then 
by all means :)

Oh...and make sure you bring a night fly plane that WE can shoot at.


Excellent attitude. Setting an example for the rest of us to follow.



Gray Fowler
Principal Chemical Engineer
Composites Engineering


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