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Sun Ship Game on Youtube - Complete
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:57:36 -0700 (PDT), Brad
wrote: A couple of thoughts: 1) Did I see Moffat cutting the tips off of his Open Cirrus and gluing on tip extensions? Was this a certified glider? if so, was it ok to make field mods like that back then? Not only Moffat's ship was modified, Gleb's was, too. Here's the story about George's Cirrus: http://www.classicsailplane.org/Cirr...t/cirrus23.htm 3) Is competition really as filled with broken gliders as we saw in the video? Not today anymore - although I know of a recent one in Europe where quite a few gliders were damaged. But I'm pretty sure that nowadays pilots tend to convert 500 ft into a safe outlanding instead of using Moffat's method of getting another 7 miles... But: Competitions taking place in mountains are very, very dangerous - the fatality rate of Grand Prix's that took place in mountains is devastating in my opinion (3 top pilots killed within the last 2 years). There have also been quite a couple of fatalities in the last years in competions that took place in the Alps (Switzerland, Rieti). Andreas |
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