Tustin Glider Fly - November 22, 2009

Since I was an observer at the record trials yesterday in Santa Ana and am still really pumped I felt I would share some of my thoughts concerning Stan's performance. Thanks to Lee H. for introducing me to this site.

Cat performance: From past experience I know how difficult it is to contain an indoor glider within any site yet Stan was able to consistently place the roll out of that small glider in line with and 2-5 feet below the top longitudinal roof girder every time. 157 ft.+- above the floor. He did not have 2 lucky flights, all of the times were very consistent. Considering all of the variables going into a cat. launch I thought Stan showed remarkable form. I heard the "he is a machine" phrase several times and that was right on.

HLG performance: For some reason I didn't expect Stan to do much with this event since he already claimed the record some months previous. He chucked up a few test flights doing 1:20 or so each time with little effort. Stan then started an official series and times started in the mid 1:30's and went up from there. The 1:39 flights became ho hum and everyone was rooting him on to eliminate the 1 or 2 small stalls at the top. Stan continued to make small adjustments, less tip weight, a little more skew to tighten turn, etc. All of the time he announced what he was doing. The launches and flight pattern were so consistent that the total time could almost be judged as to where the model was landing in comparison to the middle line in the concrete floor. The 1:43.8 flight landed way beyond the middle line and has been recorded on video and will be posted soon for all to enjoy (see below).

The performance was amazing almost not to be believed. I guess it really hasn't sunk in yet.

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	video 1 One of Stan's 2 record flights, this one was the longer one of 1 min 43.8 sec! YouTube video (with music) When viewing the YouTube video, be sure and click on the dark "HQ" button nar the bottom right of the viewing window, doing so will bring up a "High Quality" screen and the "HQ" button will then be red Original AVI video file as taken directly from Bucky's point and shoot camera This original AVI file is 34 MB, because of it's size, it may be best to save it to your hard drive, then view it. Thanks Bucky for shooting the video!
	picture 21 Nice place to fly!
	picture 22 Another view of the flying site
	picture 23 One of Jon's Kevlar covered wings
	picture 24 Ralph preps a catapult glider
	picture 25 Norm getting out to launch
	picture 27 Norm launching
	picture 28 One of Jon's wings, fiberglass with kevlar LE
	picture 29 Another view of one of Jon's wings
	picture 30 Yet another view of one of Jon's wings
	picture 32 Norm's glider?
	picture 39 Checking washout on one of Jon's wings
	picture 40 Stan's HLG left tip
	picture 41 Stan's HLG right tip
	picture 42 Stan's HLG
	picture 43 A close up view of Stan's HLG LE, it is very sharp
	picture 44 Another close up view of Stan's HLG LE
	picture 56 Stan's HLG
	picture 57 Stan's HLG
	picture 59 Stan's HLG, no stab tilt
	picture 60 Measuring washout on right tip
	picture 61 Measuring washout on left tip
	picture 62 Phillip's entry on LE near root
	picture 63 Phillip's entry on LE near tip
	picture 64 Most of bottom part of airfoil is flat
	picture 65 Top of airfoil from highpoint back is flat
	picture 66 Weighing the model,
	picture 67 Measuring the boom diameter near the tail
	picture 68 Stan used "sand to" marks to better sand the Phillip's entry
	picture 69 Another view of the bottom of the wing, showing "sand to" markings
	picture 71 Jon looks over Stan's model
	picture 72 Measuring the wash-in wedge on right tip
	picture 73 Another view of measuring the wash-in wedge on right tip
	picture 74 View of bottom of right wing
	lee picture 01 Stan with his record 1 min 43.8 sec IHLG
	lee picture 02 Stan with his record indoor standard class CLG

If anyone has something to add, please send me an email to picturejoe@sbcglobal.net and we will consider posting it here