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Some Atos skids

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Notice that some shrubs and grasses could still whip wrap the basebar.

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http://www.rlinflatable.com/ Inflatable product world tease ...

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From Aviation Week, December 15, 1919, p. 446:

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Consider: broad teardrop basebar that stays neutral AoA until near landing when its AoA may be set for broad-face ski. Perhaps indents in the top surface of the broad-face basebar for pilot finger-hand hold could be explored.

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Watch the horizon fall and rise. Splat challenge here:

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Cousin-to-Safe-Splat flows:

Article

The pioneer years of aviation included both successful and misguided efforts to make the number of safe landings approximate to the number of takeoffs. Here are some notable examples on both sides of that record.

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Landing: What Matters Most?
Answer: how you hit the ground.
OK, so what's second most important?

The final leg of the approach sets up how you'll hit the ground. Consider that everything leading up to the final -- including LZ inspection, runway selection, staging, downwind leg, base leg -- can be custom designed to set up an ideal final for an ideal touch-down in the conditions. Are you noticing the crab angle of your glider on downwind and base legs? Are you adjusting the length of your base leg while on downwind for sink/lift/wind encountered, to still arrive at the top of an ideal final leg? Each leg of an approach increases in importance, because the options naturally reduce.

Everything in service to an ideal Final, which is in service to an ideal touch-down.

... yet have Safe-Splat at the ready for some backup.
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p.164 in FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL, 3 September 1988,
article on Cody

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