Recommended reading

All,

I just finished an in depth reading of Ted Fancher's Imitation and Excitation articles in the AMA digital archives. I highly recommend that anyone with a computer log in and read these artices if they havn't already! They are very, very informative!

Thanks Ted

P.S.
Do you have the "Special Edition" about ready to fly?

LAST EDITED ON Dec-24-03 AT 08:45 AM (CDT)
 
'Tis a pity the "digital archives" are for AMA members only! ..

Just a thought .. Could they be made available in the Pampa site too?

LAST EDITED ON Dec-29-03 AT 06:21 PM (CDT) by LNeumann (admin)
 
>'Tis a pity the "digital archives" are for AMA members only!
>..
>
>Just a thought .. Could they be made available in the Pampa
>site too?

The Archives are available to anyone.

(Edited at Neil's request--Forumhost)

LAST EDITED ON Dec-28-03 AT 07:02 PM (CDT)
 
Actually they aren't available to everyone. A lot of us pay AMA dues and don't particularly appreciate free loading. Your link bypasses the login page where you input your last name and AMA number. So sure you can do it (lousy AMA security), but it doesn't imply that it is suppose to be open to eveyone.

I wquld hope Len will "censor" your post to remove the link.

My $xx.00 (whatever the AMA dues are)

Ooops! Easy Alan.

Note that both Neil and Ken are "furriners", Neil from Canada and Ken, I think, from Great Britain. Much as I'd like to have everyone join AMA as well as PAMPA, it's a bit of a stretch to suggest that those who support their own National Aero Club should feel obligated to support ours as well.

Like most organizations, one of the reasons AMA has a web site is to expose non-members to the advantages of membership. I expect the on-line reprints are a means to that end.

Ted,

Please give us a progress report on the "Special"?

I feel just the opposite, Alan.

These are OLD articles, no one is harmed financially by just anyone reading them, and they promote our hobby.

JMHO.

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"By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean." -Mark Twain

>I feel just the opposite, Alan.
>
>These are OLD articles, no one is harmed financially by just
>anyone reading them, and they promote our hobby.
>
>JMHO.
>
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>"By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I
>mean." -Mark Twain

Hmmm. The SR71 is even OLDer. Anything better come along since?

Ted

p.s. I agree!

To late Allen,

I already spread it all over.

>Actually they aren't available to everyone. A lot of us pay
>AMA dues and don't particularly appreciate free loading.
>Your link bypasses the login page where you input your last
>name and AMA number. So sure you can do it (lousy AMA
>security), but it doesn't imply that it is suppose to be
>open to eveyone.
>
>I wquld hope Len will "censor" your post to remove the link.
>
>My $xx.00 (whatever the AMA dues are)

Sorry to offend anyone with my post. I was only passing on a link and information that was posted on this forum earlier this year by a very well known member. I don't remember anything negative being said at that time so assumed that it was a freely available page that some were not aware of or had not saved. I also did not know that this page is normally accessed through an earlier sign in page.

Again, I apologize for "free loading" off someone else's membership fees.

Leonard, could you please remove my post as it is apparently unacceptable.

tell us how to find the articles. Strangest search engine I've ever seen

I think the Excitation was in Dec '81 and the Imitation was in September and October '79.

These articles are just great reading, filled with lots of information and they are just very well written. I particularly like some of Ted's articles. Search for FANCHER under authors, you will find 71 articles by Ted.
Ted sure had a way with words in these columns. You dont see a lot of writing like that today IMHO. One of my favorite's by Ted is the 1989 Nats, where he opens the column with:

"DATE: Saturday, July 22, 1989. Place: Richland airport, Richland, WA. Today the sun rose in the east and set in the west; the tides of the world's oceans responded to the moon's come-hither flirtations; and Jimmy Casale won the Walker Cup. Rest easy, America, all is right with the natural order of things!"

This stuff is fun reading.
BTW: And if anyone had forgotten, Mike Pratt won the 1989 Nats Advanced title- with what else, the "natural order of things", a MAGNUM!!!
Brian

>All,
>
>I just finished an in depth reading of Ted Fancher's
>Imitation and Excitation articles in the AMA digital
>archives. I highly recommend that anyone with a computer
>log in and read these artices if they havn't already! They
>are very, very informative!
>
>Thanks Ted
>
>P.S.
>Do you have the "Special Edition" about ready to fly?
>
>Jim Pollock

Hi Jim.

Boy, I only wish I could throw one of these things together that quick! The Special Edition is now in one major piece. Just finished installing the flap fairings this afternoon. Finaly sanding, covering of the remaining parts with carbon veil and then the open bays with silkspan and it'll be ready for finishing.

I molded a couple of canopies the other day and have the best of them sitting in some RIT dye hoping to get a decent amount of yellow/gold color into it. I'll fit the pilot and some "cockpit detail" this week while doing the carbon veil and covering.

It looks like somewhere between 55 and 60 oz ought to be doable which will be the lightest T.P. type I've done to date. It's set up to run either of three engines, the PA .61, RoJett .60 or the VF .46. Actually more than that since any of the PA series or the VF .40 would drop in as well. Final choice will depend on what flight characteristics seem optimum.

I've been flying the Final Edition with Brett's RoJett for a couple of months and like some of the things it does better than the PA. On the other hand, the PA does the vertical stuff better than the RoJett! It's truly wonderful to have to choose between so much really great off the shelf hardware. This is really the golden age of stunt in terms of what we've got to work with, isn't it?

No need at all to apologize, Neil. Currell