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Just a little Faster Please

The following text was simply lifted directly from Cochrane's page with a simple cut and paste.

Upwind and downwind  The theory of upwind and downwind turnpoints. Oct 2006

Circling in Psychological Sink  Musings on how to produce a contest-winning attitude. Dec 2006

 

MacCready and other theory of how to fly contests

Just a little Faster Please  Jan 2007. Condensed and rewrote the article for possible publication in Germany. This version is better, except the numbers are all m/s and km

Just a Little Faster Please July 2000. Article for Soaring Magazine on applying new MacCready theory.

"MacCready Theory with Uncertain Lift and Limited Altitude"  Technical Soaring 23 (3) (July  1999) 88-96.  This version cleans up some typos that crept into the published version. Acrobat 3.0 pdf file  Programs contains matlab and gauss programs for making the calculations.

"The start time game in competition soaring"  Technical Soaring 22 (2) (April 1998) 56-64 . This article analyzes when to start early, when to start late, when a big gaggle will form, and so on. Acrobat 3.0 pdf file.

Notes for talk given at the Midwest mini-convention, Feb 2000  MS-Word doc file. Same general stuff as in "Just a little faster please"

Note the attachments. 

Attached Files   

Math of Glider Racing.pdf WE Jun 27, 2007 2.62 MB
Optimal Soaring Paper.pdf WE Jun 27, 2007 807 KB

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