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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: roger on March 07, 2007, 07:25:25 PM

Title: left or right
Post by: roger on March 07, 2007, 07:25:25 PM
 mw~whydo some flyers say: their plane turns tighter:whats up with that? when they really mean :climbs or dives: its already turning left. so say it that way.

roger and out
Title: Re: left or right
Post by: Greg L Bahrman on March 07, 2007, 08:31:30 PM
It's a common phrase........When really their refering to the transition from level flight to vertical flight. You might hear someone say my plane has a really nice corner. Those that it's important to would understand exactly what he meant. The radius that the plane flies when going up or down is often if not always referred to as the corner....Grins....Soon you will be doing it too. It's a control line thing, come on join up and learn the language.

 H^^
Title: Re: left or right
Post by: Bill Little on March 08, 2007, 07:33:39 AM
Like Greg said, "turns" as in turning a corner. ;D

Reference to turning tighter in one direction or the other, as in inside "turns" versus outside "turns", is a common trimming statement.  Don't know why "turn" instead of "corners" is the common term.  ???

Doesn't refer to the plane turning around us in a circle.

Bill <><
Title: Re: left or right
Post by: Wynn Robins on March 08, 2007, 11:35:05 AM
"Turn",
 a change of the direction of a movement or a change in orientation, and it is often also used in a metaphorical sense, contrary to straight

right out of the dictionary.  So the airplane does turn....it changes direction....therefore it IS turning.

nuf said
Title: Re: left or right
Post by: Jim Thomerson on March 08, 2007, 01:45:20 PM
Modern physics to the rescue! S?P  When the airplane is flying level it is flying in a straight line through space, it is not turning.  What is happening is that space has been warped by the control lines in such a way that the airplane appears to be flying in a circle.  :!
Title: Re: left or right
Post by: Dean Pappas on March 08, 2007, 01:59:28 PM
That's right Jim.
We live in a space that is in fact not merely warped ... but entirely bent! n~
later friends,
Dean Pappas
Title: Re: left or right
Post by: Keith Spriggs on March 08, 2007, 05:02:21 PM
Just think, if you were flying at the North Pole your plane would always be on the south side of the circle. Be real bad if the sun was in the south.
Title: Re: left or right
Post by: Leo Mehl on March 09, 2007, 01:55:15 PM
I think what we have here is a failure to comunicate! I have seen pictures of the north pole and I beleive that whole area around the pole is flat and besides it is usualy to cold to get your engine started. And you can not fly using Goretex mittens. Now how is that for logical reasoning. The old flyer from the past. Leo
Title: Re: left or right
Post by: Bill Little on March 09, 2007, 02:41:37 PM
I think what we have here is a failure to comunicate! I have seen pictures of the north pole and I beleive that whole area around the pole is flat and besides it is usualy to cold to get your engine started. And you can not fly using Goretex mittens. Now how is that for logical reasoning. The old flyer from the past. Leo

Would it be the same, but different, at the South Pole??????????
Title: Re: left or right
Post by: Jim Thomerson on March 09, 2007, 03:06:19 PM
As some maintain, there may be some positive effects of global warming. :##
Title: Re: left or right
Post by: minnesotamodeler on March 09, 2007, 04:40:55 PM
Oh yeah...enough, and we'll gain a whole new continent (Antarctica)!  Ready to Settle a New Land?  them danged Aussies will probably beat us to it, though.