08-21-2013, 09:02 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
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Also, I just found a page on the WhiteWings website that includes their WhiteWings "Trainer" 'Tune by the number' glider kit (see: http://shop.whitewings.com/Educational_c11.htm ). This kit, as well as Norman Schmidt's book "Fabulous Paper Gliders" (see: http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Sea...s+Paper+Gliders ), can help those who have problems getting boost-gliders to glide to understand not only *how* to properly trim B/Gs, but--just as important--*why* the proper trimming techniques work. Since a front-motor boost-glider is essentially a hand-launched "chuck glider" (as G. Harry Stine pointed out in his "Handbook of Model Rocketry"), knowledge of such gliders is directly applicable to designing, building, trimming, and flying boost-gliders (including parasite B/Gs).
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