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Re: Designs
Posted: January 13th, 2012, 8:17 pm
by lucwilder42
jander14indoor wrote:Keep in mind that the concern wasn't about getting caught in the rafters, which is a pretty obvious time to stop on for the timers, but occurrences where the spike actually stuck into the ceiling in some cases, but not others that LOOKED the same from the floor and timers couldn't tell when to stop. With a large 'button' on top it can't drill in.
Jeff Anderson
Livonia, MI
Good point. Although we didn't try that last year because of the whole spirit of the rules thing, it was discussed
Re: Designs
Posted: February 29th, 2012, 7:39 pm
by illusionist
So the topic of next year's rules was brought up on the Towers thread. Are we expecting to see Wright Stuff next year, or another year of Helicopter?
Re: Designs
Posted: February 29th, 2012, 7:43 pm
by chia
Hm, was BLG (Balloon-Launch Glider) or some other gliding event ever in Division C? In that case maybe they'll bring that back...
Re: Designs
Posted: February 29th, 2012, 7:45 pm
by thedoctor
chia wrote:Hm, was BLG (Balloon-Launch Glider) or some other gliding event ever in Division C? In that case maybe they'll bring that back...
BLG was a Division B event I believe...
Re: Designs
Posted: February 29th, 2012, 8:57 pm
by lucwilder42
thedoctor wrote:chia wrote:Hm, was BLG (Balloon-Launch Glider) or some other gliding event ever in Division C? In that case maybe they'll bring that back...
BLG was a Division B event I believe...
I certainly hope it doesn't come back, I hated that event. I like my motors
Re: Designs
Posted: February 29th, 2012, 9:25 pm
by chalker
illusionist wrote:So the topic of next year's rules was brought up on the Towers thread. Are we expecting to see Wright Stuff next year, or another year of Helicopter?
Current plan is helicopter and helicopter egg drop for B, elastic launch gliders for C.
Re: Designs
Posted: March 1st, 2012, 5:50 am
by chalker7
chalker wrote:illusionist wrote:So the topic of next year's rules was brought up on the Towers thread. Are we expecting to see Wright Stuff next year, or another year of Helicopter?
Current plan is helicopter and helicopter egg drop for B, elastic launch gliders for C.
However, helicopter egg drop is on a different committee and unrelated to this helicopter event (it is just a coincidence they have similar names and are coming in at the same time.) We'll probably be posting threads asking for suggestions on the rules similar to last year in the near future.
Re: Designs
Posted: March 1st, 2012, 9:28 am
by chia
Elastic launch glider...?
No matter, we'll learn about it later. I'd better focus on helicopter for now, I haven't even had regionals
Re: Designs
Posted: March 1st, 2012, 9:31 am
by chalker7
chia wrote:Elastic launch glider...?
No matter, we'll learn about it later. I'd better focus on helicopter for now, I haven't even had regionals
It's posted as a Trial Event on the official soinc.org website here:
http://soinc.org/sites/default/files/up ... 0.11_1.pdf
Re: Designs
Posted: March 1st, 2012, 6:34 pm
by mrsteven
chia wrote:Elastic launch glider...?
No matter, we'll learn about it later. I'd better focus on helicopter for now, I haven't even had regionals
oh jeeze... thats no fun... I know all this stuff about rubber helicopter and planes it goes out the window... lovely.
Don't you love continuity?