On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:59:21 -0800, Uncle Fuzzy wrote:

Would that be 1987 Pirelli?? I've heard that sometimes FAI Tan is
comperable. I seem to recall a man-carrying rubber powered plane making
an attemp in the late 1980's or early '1990's.

That value was from a 2008 NFFS Sympo paper for Tan 2. I don't fly
rubber, preferring 50m of towline or a screaming Cyclon 06, but IIRC Tan
2 is now about as good as the best Pirelli and the Tan SuperSport is
coming pretty close too.


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