Masters Cuban 8 w/ 2/4

[george kennie]

That's interesting Matt,
I never heard of a Running Eight! It must be like the Ukie horizontal
eight???
G.

Rcmaster199 at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 6/18/2003 1:31:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> James.Woodward2 at edwards.af.mil writes:
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>> Subj:Masters Cuban 8 w/ 2/4
>> Date:6/18/2003 1:31:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time
>> From:James.Woodward2 at edwards.af.mil
>> Reply-to:discussion at nsrca.org
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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,
>>
>> 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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