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Old 09-05-2012, 04:43 PM
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Default New Performance Mod From A.S.A.

.... We are now offering our super "Performance Mod" for all RVs. More speed, better climb rate, better ground handling, shorter take-offs, shorter landings and less fuel burn. All you need do is purchase our very expensive instructions (Shipping included). Read them, follow them to the letter and wallah, your RV will perform like never before. The performance gains will be incredible and if you can get your significant other to to get involved and work with you on this well you won't believe the difference. Be sure to get your order in early as these will most likely go very fast. Please tell all your friends about the new B & B Mod (Booty & Belly diet) from Anti-Splat-Aero. Wow 50 or 100 lbs. off the plane, sounds like a winner to me. Thanks, Allan...
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Old 09-05-2012, 04:52 PM
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Old 09-05-2012, 05:40 PM
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I could do with losing 10-20 lbs, helping with the weight of my 8 when it's built might be just the incentive I need.
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Old 09-06-2012, 02:32 AM
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Sounds like we're all agreeing that the best way to improve the performance of Vlad's RV-9 is to stop buying him lunch and beer.

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Old 09-06-2012, 03:59 PM
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I once heard Burt Rutan say that one should take all of the options and accessories that are being considered for installation, and throw them into the air...those that come back down are too heavy!

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Old 09-07-2012, 01:02 PM
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As the late great airplane designer John Thorpe said: "Build it as light as possible and only as strong as necessary."
You should read "Boyd." He "invented" the idea of the EM diagram, and also birthed the idea that lead to the F-16 and F-18. Great airplanes until we loaded them down with junk. A heavy F-18 is a truck and performs like it. Slick it off and burn half the gas out of it, and you can hurt yourself!

Amazing what weight does to an airplane. Van was onto something!
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Old 09-07-2012, 02:37 PM
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My wife and I have a recumbent tandem bicycle. It was affectionately called "Freightliner" as it handled like a truck. That was last summer. This summer we are a combined 70 pounds lighter on the bike and in handles like a dream. That was encouragement to keep us going to reach our goals. People pay lots of money to purchase light-weight equipment (for both their planes and bikes) when the best weight-savings that are done are on the body.
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Old 09-07-2012, 04:19 PM
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After many years of working on reducing my "excess baggage," I am proud to announce I no longer have a single ounce of excess body fat. I went on the metric system...

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Old 09-07-2012, 04:45 PM
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After many years of working on reducing my "excess baggage," I am proud to announce I no longer have a single ounce of excess body fat. I went on the metric system...

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Old 09-07-2012, 04:46 PM
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You should read "Boyd." He "invented" the idea of the EM diagram, and also birthed the idea that lead to the F-16 and F-18. Great airplanes until we loaded them down with junk. A heavy F-18 is a truck and performs like it. Slick it off and burn half the gas out of it, and you can hurt yourself!

Amazing what weight does to an airplane. Van was onto something!
'Boyd, The fighter pilot who changed the art of war'. By Robert Coram.
A first class book about the Boyd. A real eye-opener about
how some in the USAF/Pentagon ruined the F-16 because they didn't want it showing up 'their' F-15, among other things. Clever guy. At a USAF fighter training school his rep was that he could clear a plane off of his '6' and get on his adversary's '6' in 20 secs, a bet was involved, I understand he never lost. I think they were using F-100's at the time. He did a treatise on combat maneuvering can't remember the title, good stuff. Predated 'Shaw' by quite a long time.
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