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- From: kaiser@elec.canterbury.ac.nz (Chris Kaiser)
- Subject: Re: National Sailplane Symposium - Trip report
- Message-ID: <Bx9KMy.Ht3@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>
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- Organization: Electrical Engineering, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
- References: <1992Nov3.181415.15932@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <1992Nov5.004627.1837@rtsg.mot.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 22:18:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov5.004627.1837@rtsg.mot.com>, svoboda@rtsg.mot.com (David Svoboda) writes:
- > | He currently holds the worlds records for altitude = 26,990 feet.
- > | 33.3 hours duration (the subject of this talk).
- > | 150 MPH speed record. I don't know what class this is or if was
- > | an old sailplane record that is no longer standing?
- >
- > I don't think it can be right. The current record is well over 250mph, with
- > a glider (that's faster than the powered record--model props don't work too well
- > at those sort of speeds).
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- Wasn't that the record set in Austria, where they thermalled/mountain-soared a
- F3B styled brick (called a "Dassel" or something?) to several thousand feet and
- then put it into a vertical dive before levelling out through the speed course...
- I think the reg's have been changed since then, and it is now required to fly a
- closed course, or do a return run within a time limit, or something like that.
- Perhaps this guy holds the record under the current rules.
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- Chris Kaiser
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- Postgrad, Elec. Eng. Dept.
- University of Canterbury
- Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND
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