(Gary Osoba) wrote
In the experimental Sigma, modified by Dr. Marsden, then further
modified by myself, there's no choice. The 900 lb. wings are always
fully ballasted and 5/16" aluminum plate skins equate to 12.65 psf.

However, we are able to achieve a measured max CsubL of 2.4 and
therefore the landing speeds are moderate. Still quite an adventure to
land out, which I have done once, much to the chagrin of my friends...
well, some of them now ex-friends

No way, Gary! That wasn't near enough to make any of us into
ex-friends. If that was the goal, you are gonna have to try harder!
I had fun. Probably a lot more fun than the night you went out after
me because you knew that I must surely have landed out, as dark and
black as it was getting where I was. Only to find that I had some how
hung on and gotten out of the path of the storms and made it home.
Dang crew radios not working well enough, anyway!

Steve Leonard
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