{"id":1723,"date":"2003-07-16T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2003-07-16T20:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2003\/07\/16\/zagi-flap-soaring-with-eagles-dynamic-soaring\/"},"modified":"2008-02-05T12:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T20:11:00","slug":"zagi-flap-soaring-with-eagles-dynamic-soaring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/16\/zagi-flap-soaring-with-eagles-dynamic-soaring\/","title":{"rendered":"Zagi Flap, Soaring with Eagles, Dynamic Soaring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I went out with Doyle and Julia to the little Allamuchy baseball  field. I got to see <strong>Zagi Flap <\/strong>for the first time. It freaked me out! I  got it up to about 250 feet and dove at about 80 degrees at full throttle. Only  1\/2 way down it started flapping like a crazed swallow, like 5 times per second!  I thought the battery pack was going to pop right out in mid-air! Well, it  didn&#8217;t but I was so freaked that when I brought it in for a landing to see if it  was ok, I scraped it against a fence, tearing the starboard elevon off for the  third time. I gotta get coroplast elevons.<\/p>\n<h3>Soaring with Eagles<\/h3>\n<p>Yesterday morning after class I was flying at WCCC. I saw some eagles  (hawks?) <strong>catching a thermal <\/strong>at 300 feet so I went up to meet them :-) I  found their thermal at 200 and rode it to about 350 with them. Very cool! I got  pretty close to them&#8230; riding the thermal maybe 50 feet vertical below them. I  thought they&#8217;d be completely freaked out by the plane but they didn&#8217;t give up  their thermal for at least a minute. I&#8217;d like to think they were done with the  thermal but yea, I probably scared them off.<\/p>\n<h3>Dynamic Soaring<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/07\/dynanic-looping.jpg\" alt=\"dynanic-looping.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"150\" width=\"300\" \/>Today  I went out to the Allamuchy field&#8230; it was a really windy day. Though the field  is small and flat (it&#8217;s just 3 little league baseball fields) I tried <strong>dynamic  soaring<\/strong>. What a hoot! All I had to do was loop carefully and I&#8217;d get some  speed fer free!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d come in 3&#8242; off the ground, shoot up 20&#8242;, fly inverted for 40&#8242; and come  back down near the ground. Since the wind is moving faster at altitude, I come  out of the maneuver faster than when I go in! I&#8217;ve still got to work a lot at my  vertical turns. This time around, I could rarely do more than one loop before  pulling out of it to stabilize myself. And I was using a lot of throttle to keep  me going. If I was -really- good, I&#8217;d be able to do this with no throttle at  all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I went out with Doyle and Julia to the little Allamuchy baseball field. I got to see Zagi Flap for the first time. It freaked me out! I got it up to about 250 feet and dove at about 80 degrees at full throttle. Only 1\/2 way down it started flapping like a crazed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}