Masters Cuban 8 w/ 2/4

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In a message dated 6/18/2003 1:31:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
James.Woodward2 at edwards.af.mil writes:


> Subj:Masters Cuban 8 w/ 2/4 
> Date:6/18/2003 1:31:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time
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> Hi All,
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> I've been practicing this maneuver and I'm having trouble getting making it 
> repeatable/consistent/, etc.  So, I took a music CD and drew two circles that 
> have the same baseline and touch each other at their closest points.  If you 
> do this, you will quickly see that two adjacent circles have no place for 45 
> degree lines to be drawn in between them.  It appears to me from the drawing 
> that actually you cannot maintain a constant radius AND perform a 45 degree 
> "LINE" within this maneuver.  If you maintained a constant radius you would 
> never reach a point where you could depart that curve onto a 45 degree up or 
> downline, and intersect the magic spot on the other loop at the same radius.
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> Am I out to lunch on this, or do you indeed need different radii:  1.) 
> blending 45 degree line into loop 2.) looping segment.  Or, the loops are not 
> really supposed to touch each other in the middle, thus there is some distance 
> between each loop?
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> Thanks,
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> Jim W.
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Jimbo,

The loops should not touch. Do the maneuver as it is described in the book: 
5/8ths to a 45 deg  down line, etc, etc.

 What you actually sketched is the figure for the Running Eight. That is not 
the same as a Cuban Eight

regards

Matt
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