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Glider Racing in the future
TOPIC: "Racing in the Futu Should We Moderate the Impact of Technology?"
John Godfrey (QT) began competing in gliders in 1984. He was elected to the US Competition Rules Committee in 2008 and has chaired the committee since 2013. In addition he has served as Competition Director for National championships, Scorer for both International and US contests, and US Team Captain for the 2006 WGC. John's key interest is in increasing participation by making/keeping racing fun and affordable for people like him (i.e., those unlikely to win a National). In addition to presenting a road map for coming technologies and their possible impact, he looks forward to thoughtful and lively interactions with the audience on these issues. Thursday Feb. 18, 2016 2:30 - 3:15 PM SSA Convention Greenville SC www.ssaconvention.org Flarm on, you flarming Flarmers SF |
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You guys saving it up for John's talk? This is the future. Somebody say something snarky about the future.
SF |
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It's difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.
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Glider Racing in the future
Le mardi 9 février 2016 10:03:23 UTC-5, Pat Russell a écrit*:
It's difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. Easier to predict the past!!!! |
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On Monday, February 8, 2016 at 8:13:23 PM UTC-5, SF wrote:
Somebody say something snarky about the future. Why? "Moderating Technology" is really just trying to live in the past. |
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OLC, no electrons of any sort (steam gauges, no electric varios, cameras), and everyone's vision equalized at 20/40!
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Real men and women, not boys and girls, could then win the races!
Just kidding. Old stuff is really a lot of fun to play with but, to get serious, I like the new stuff! On 2/9/2016 10:02 AM, smfidler wrote: OLC, no electrons of any sort (steam gauges, no electric varios, cameras), and everyone's vision equalized at 20/40! ;-) -- Dan, 5J |
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On Tuesday, February 9, 2016 at 11:14:50 AM UTC-5, Dave Nadler wrote:
On Monday, February 8, 2016 at 8:13:23 PM UTC-5, SF wrote: Somebody say something snarky about the future. Why? "Moderating Technology" is really just trying to live in the past. It seems to me that it is not unreasonable to look at technological change and consider the favorable and unfavorable aspects of those changes so that participants can make informed decisions about them. Otherwise it is only the vocal few that drive the process. UH |
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Truth is, for me, as long as it's all the same (15, 18, Club, etc) then I would be happy. I really don't care if we have computers.
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Glider Racing in the future
Soaring of the future is here - a completely autonomous RC glider has flown a 113.4 km (70.47 mi) open distance. It has also unofficially broken the cross-country soaring out-and-return world record by flying 97.2 km (60.4 mi) declared distance over approximately 4.55 hr.
All the details are in the paper from the US Naval Research Lab that you may read he http://www.dtic.mil/get-tr-doc/pdf?AD=ADA614555 |
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