John: You asked me go weigh in (pun intended). . . I have not ever finished the stress analysis, but will when time permits. I am sure the original weight...
The ST 49 is a new development wingboat class with box rules.The premise of the design is for development of wings for ice and dirt boating. It can be made...
I'll put myself in the non-voting catagory too, but here's my 2 cents on the class developement. I think people will tinker with the design unless you put...
Thanks for asking, John. Too many projects and too much work. Boat is not done. And I have work during Ivanpah... Couple corrections: I live in Plainfield...
It's just a strength issue for me. Hard to break the tang off if its bolted all the way through the wing. I like to weld my eyebolts shut if they are not...
Thanks John. We are still doing the through-bolt concept, but the bolt is an eye-bolt. In the middle is one of those long nuts so that the eye bolts can...
3/16'' is good. the compression plates can be 1/8'' aluminum. Today we put the wheels back on and packed up the ST and Wingnut 3 with the extra wing I'm tring...
cant seem to open the files under st49 drawings  and wd 40 and the cad file started a boat but didnt print all the plans     help ... From:...
John is at Ivanpah, but I may be able to help. The files are simple picture files (*.jpg). You could be able to just click on the files and they should open....
Thanks. My suspicion is that Wally has a really old browser. If you have problems navigating this group, I suggest that you download a new browser. The...
its working today ... From: foiledagain20 <david.p.schneider@...> Subject: [wingboats] Re: The plans are about done To: wingboats@yahoogroups.com Date:...
We have designated Wed nights as build night. Last night we completed framing the second main wing (This is a 2 boat build). It was amazing how fast the...
For those not subscribed to nalsa yahoo group, the land sailing speed record went down yesterday at Ivanpah. 126mph baby! http://www.greenbird.co.uk/...
8 races 8 wins against mostly against Nites converted to class 5. The boat really worked well! It won in light and heavy air by a large margin. It was...
I along with about 150 other people saw Richard smash the record. My nephew took some excellent video of the GreenBird in action. We will post later on....
Congrats and good for you John! Sounds like you have hit here! With all the hard work you've done (R&D and multiple boats) it has to be gratifying. Having...
Thanks! I think it will make a good class that the average guy with some building skills can attain. The size is very nice as far as setting it up and...
On the morning of March 26th, 2009 on the 'dry' Lake Ivanpah, The Greenbird - driven by British engineer Richard Jenkins - smashed the world land speed record...
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