From: John Galloway
Date: 3/28/2004 4:53 PM Central Standard Time

Through the contributions to the avoiding VNE thread
runs the theme of the difficulty of avoiding overspeeding
and/or overstressing some modern designs in accidental
spin recovery. This is made more difficult than in
older composite gliders because they had a little more
drag and a little more (fortuitous) margin in the g limits.
etc. etc.
Ok john here we go---get a JATO bottle and mount it backwards in the nose.
Secondary uses. Glider release fails---torch that tow rope! Also very short
roll outs for them off airport landouts.
Along your thoughts for a fuselage mounted air brake--how about two chutes
about two foot in diameter each that would, when inflated, rest a little foward
of the wing T.E. and along side the fuselage. Like a "pilot" chute sorta
thingy deal. They could be released after the, to fast dive, had been
recovered or flown on in to a landing were you close enough to the airport.
Being close to the center line would be a plus if one should fail to open. The
canopy of the chute could even be attached to the fuselage to keep the little
buggers from beating around. You could pop them out of an aft and outward
facing oval ended surface flush tube and leave the "oval cover plate" on the
fabric of the chute. Hmmm--- The lanyard and everything could pack in the
tube. Pop it out with a coil spring.
Ok-- everybody saw it here first. John send me a check for 15% of the
profit on each of these you sell in the future. Now if I'd just get busy and
try this out on that 16 foot span RC motorglider I have hanging in the
basement. mac--- inventor--thinker--under paid