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Old August 27th 07, 10:38 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Lew Hartswick
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Default No wing runner?

wrote:
On Aug 27, 5:36 am, Steve Leonard
wrote:

Nah, you guys have all got it wrong! Fly a 1-26!
You will land out far more often, get lots more practice
at no wing runner takeoffs, and you have those big
a$$ tip wheels built in! :-)

Steve Leonard
(Never flown a 1-26, but I learned in a TG-3A)



I often wondered about those tip wheels!!

I mean where basic understandings of drag and wing tip airflow even a
consideration in the 1-26.

Regards

Al


Of course not.There were this pair of barn doors and an orange
crate around and ......... :-)
...lew...