Originally posted by probligo
I think personally that you are being extremely ambitious to take on an opening and shutting wing like this without trying out the simple things first. I note Bob Violett's name cropping up in the discussion there. How many TOC's has that guy been to? Use that as a judgement of his skill level.
You know, Probligo, sometimes it's pretty good to say nothing when you don't know what you are talking about...
the TOC is a great turnament, but it judge a certain category of pilots flying a certain category of airplanes. If you don't know anything else, it just show
your lack of experience and narrow focus. Bob Violett is in the hobby since something like 40 years, has won many pylon racing competition before he started into jets. Now his experience is about 10 different kits that he produce under his name, and he won this year Top Gun competition with his F-100 Sabre that he produce. For more references, look there
http://www.bvmjets.com/ And if you have never seen him fly (my guess is that he is about 65 years old), you really miss something. Do you think that says enough about his skill level ?
Bernard
PS- I have seen many "3d" guys fly, who are TOTALLY UNABLE to land a jet properly.....