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Titre | Winning on the wind |
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Collection | -- |
Auteur | MOFFAT, George B. Jr. |
Année de publication | 1974 |
Édition | |
Langue | anglais |
Éditeur | The Soaring Press P.O. Box 960 Los Altos, California 94022 Los Altos (California) |
Pays | USA |
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Nombre de pages | 243 |
Sommaire | Illustrations Preface Introduction TOOLS 1 The Modern Sailplane, An approach to evaluation 2 Four American Metal Ships : Sisu 1 A, HP-8, HP-10 and HP-11 3 Standard Class Potpourri : Ka-6, Olympia 463, BG-12, Foka, Edelweiss and Austria 4 The Calm before the Storm : Skylark 4, Elfe MN, Dart, Austria SHK, HP-14, plus 2-32 and T-49 5 Wood Turns to Glass : Standard Elfe, Standard Cirrus and ASW-15 6 First of the New Breed : Nimbus, Kestrel, BJ-4 and FK-3 7 The View from VRSAC, 1972, More than met the eye 8 Competition Face-off : ASW-17 vs Nimbus II TECHNIQUES 9 Low-Loss Flying, Winning by not losing 10 Contest Strategy, Thinking ahead is half the battle 11 Practicing for Competition, Essential for consistent results 12 The First Big Contest, And how to fly it RESULTS 13 Starting at Chavenay, 1959. How is your technical French? 14 Records at El Mirage, 1962. 15 Thermal Tightrope.1963 Nationals at El Mirage 16 1964 National Competition. And flying a 300-Km triangle 17 A Near Miss. The Nationals at Reno, 1966 18 The First Big Win, Marfa, 1969 19 "Welcome Back, World Champion", A win at the Worlds (Marfa, 1970) 20 Bad Day at VRSAC, The 1972 Worlds in Yugoslavia 21 Winning on the Wind, Contest flying as an Idea-Liberal and Waikerie INFAMOUS LAST WORDS Appendix I Appendix II Acknowledgements |
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Genre | Techniques et Construction |
Mots clés | ## |
Possesseur(s) | Andreas A. |
Version numérique | Cliquez ici [Source du fac-similé : Wally Kahn & BGA UK eBook Collection] |
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