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Old June 12th 08, 11:13 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default Artificial slope soaring

The "lorries" in The States are big enough, without nailing anything on.
They make a HUGE wave. If you have ever ridden a motorcycle or driven a
small, light car alongside one of them on the superslab, you would remember
it. Particularly when they pull up and pass you. When you are young, you
always have to experiment, at least once, with "draft".

Flash


"Dave Martin" wrote in message
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Getting a big enough slope nailed to the front of a lorry may be a
problem,
what happens when you come to bridges?

See also http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nNOYUWayZOU

For building soaring

Dave



At 06:53 12 June 2008, nimbusgb wrote:
On Jun 12, 6:38 am, wrote:


Personally, I'd like to see one of those wingsuit guys do it during
the indy 500.

Stop laughing Tony, I'm serious!

MM


Sure would liven up watching a bunch of cars going round in circles!
Just imagine if they missed catching the wave. Splat - game over.
Shades of 'Rollerball'