Masters Cuban 8 w/ 2/4

[jim ivey]

George
The running 8 is a maneuver we do in the Senior pattern Association. It was flown in the 60's 70's in AMA pattern.
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Jim Ivey


----- Original Message -----
From: george kennie
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 9:41 PM
To: discussion at nsrca.org
Subject: Re: Masters Cuban 8 w/ 2/4

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:  
   
   
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  
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Hi All,  
   
   
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.  
   
   
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?  
   
   
Thanks,  
Jim W.  
   
   
   
  
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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