X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from mail-iy0-f180.google.com ([209.85.210.180] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.4.2) with ESMTPS id 5306883 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:11:28 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=209.85.210.180; envelope-from=thomasmann51@gmail.com Received: by iazz13 with SMTP id z13so1802588iaz.25 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:10:54 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=fAkdgRgSHJ3xPdtroPJQm/N/m1fRYmukj5rLNVy1iV4=; b=NDEtxD5/cnoP9h8Fh8ORSmidZrl+8vddI4Vf+xlduOISqSSBMyXIGAUUvx5s+p+f7+ QnAAIV1Aps8yMVMyuN/FvtMZU4awtGHMWumLjQCuQmrSVYrgoM+wGy5TV9P2q8kdpid0 5VpwbF6XlbFIYenJvgN7dczBVmMURcZDiaBoE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.50.173.4 with SMTP id bg4mr4998403igc.42.1323997854152; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:10:54 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.42.141.130 with HTTP; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:10:54 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:10:54 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Low idle From: Thomas Mann To: Rotary motors in aircraft Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=e89a8f642ec4c7b76604b42b4501 --e89a8f642ec4c7b76604b42b4501 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Ladder speeds in the pattern put me over the numbers at 80 with a stall speed of 68. The point that John makes is that the canards are very slick and there are additional concerns that are somewhat unique. There was a canard a couple years ago that blew an oil line at 5000 AGL and made it to a normal landing on a runway 16 miles away. Yeah, they all seem to have specific traits and trade-offs, for sure. On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Charlie England wrote: > ** > Now, ask Thomas about his landing speeds....(airliners have about a 20-1 > glide ratio, too). > :-) > > Charlie > > > --e89a8f642ec4c7b76604b42b4501 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Ladder speeds in the pattern put me over the numbers at 80 with a stall speed of 68.

The point that John makes is that the canards are very slick and there are additional concerns that are somewhat unique.

There was a canard a couple years ago that blew an oil line at 5000 AGL and made it to a normal landing on a runway 16 miles away.

Yeah, they all seem to have specific traits and trade-offs, for sure.




On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Charlie England <ceengland@bellsouth.net> wrote:
Now, ask Thomas about his landing speeds....(airliners have about a 20-1 glide ratio, too).
:-)

Charlie


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