Snaps

[Bob Kane]

I don't have actual area measurements to verify my claim, but some casual comparison of the wings of a USA Star, the El Nino (Odessey II wing), and a Smaragd show a significant reduction in wing area as you go from oldest to newest.

Bill Glaze <billglaze at triad.rr.com> wrote:Jerry:
I can find little to fault with your discussion on Snaps. But, a 
question: While talking weight, don't we really mean Mass? I realize 
you don't want to get into a physics lesson here, but I'm relating to 
the idea of wing loading/velocity/ displacement from flight path as 
thinking that the typical pattern plane which is designed to do most of 
the other maneuvers smoothly, is now being asked to do something that is 
rather brutal and outside the normal requirements for the design.
In other words, it almost seems as if we need a separate design to do 
(true) snaps well. (as a kind of exaggeration.)
Comments?

Bill Glaze


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