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<DIV>The only issue as I see it, and all that know me are 100% sure I'm
certainly no expert, is that "gadgets" fix certain issues...no doubt about
that...the big thing is that the gadgets don't cause an issue with the rest of
the flight envelope...I love all the new things builders and designers are
coming up with, it really keeps things interesting...I can't wait to hear about
all the new stuff that comes from the worlds!!!</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ken</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=bob@toprudder.com href="mailto:bob@toprudder.com">Bob Richards</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, August 23, 2009 9:20
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [NSRCA-discussion] FAT
Rudder</DIV>
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<DIV>Competition breeds experimentation.</DIV>
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<DIV>Think back when Hanno Prettner showed up with an anhedral stab.
Pretty soon most of the designs had it. I remember hearing people say
that pattern planes would only fly well with anhedral stabs.</DIV>
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<DIV>Retracts. I made the comment at the '95 Nats that it no longer made
sense to have retracts on pattern planes. One fellow NSRCA board member
told me in no uncertain terms that fixed gear would completely screw up
the "force arrangement" of a pattern plane. Looks like one of us was
right.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Airbrakes (another Hanno Prettner experiment). Next year, lots of
planes had airbrakes.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Variable CG. In-flight variable pitch props. In-flight mixture
controls. Slow-roll buttons. Variable sweep wings. Winglets on the top
of a fuselage. Side force generators (yes, tried many years ago in
pattern - long before 3D ever existed).</DIV>
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<DIV>IMHO, simplicity wins most of the time.</DIV>
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<DIV>Bob R.</DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Sun, 8/23/09, Phil Spelt
<I><chuenkan@comcast.net></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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<DIV id=yiv1863893657><FONT size=3>All just further proof that
aerobatics competition breeds innovation!
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