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Edit to Mbombela Stadium

I saw that you added the Pumas as a tenant at Mbombela Stadium, though mentioning that it is not finalised. Do you have a source to say that the Pumas will move to the stadium on a permenant or semi-permanent basis. I know that some memebers of the Pumas union have spoken about it since the Blue Buls match their, but am yet to see anything concrete. I do know that the stadium management was trying to get Black Aces to move to the stadium. I won't edit out the Pumas, as it completely likely that they may move, however, some form of a reference would be great.

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Glider types

Tadpolefarm, please make yourself aware of List of gliders and also of the excellent website from Claude Lecombe at [1],. As you will see you have far more than on your list to choose from, maybe you should re-consider the path you are taking with the article.--Petebutt (talk) 08:42, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Petebutt, The table of gliders is still to be expanded so that it is extensive list of the significant glider types that have existed. The sort function of the table is of particular use as this allows the ranking of the types by any of the column headings.

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Thanks for your note on my talk page.

Your animation is an excellent way of allowing people to understand the reactor layout and accident damage to supplement the text. The Chernobyl disaster WP article is too wordy, and needs this kind of thing. I have also seen your work on the RMBK page.

I have seen the video, and it gives an excellent general appreciation both of the reactor layout and the accident. Also helps with understanding the relative size of the core.

Two quick points to note. The positive void effect is not caused only by the increased temperature of the fuel, but by the excessive generation of steam bubbles in the tubes due to failure to remove the heat. At higher temperatures there is self-controlling action due to the decreasing fuel rod reactivity. This ceases to operate below about 700 MW when the negative void effect become dominant. That is why the RMBK reactors are unstable beneath that level. Not all reactors need to be shut down for refueling; for example, pebble bed reactors, RBMK reactors, molten salt reactors, Magnox, AGR and CANDU reactors allow fuel to be shifted through the reactor while it is running.

see https://www.euronuclear.org/e-news/e-news-13/neutron-kinetics.htm Dougsim (talk)

Hi Dougsim. I appreciate the comments and corrections on my video, some information I only came to know after I completed the video. I need to get comment on the words by the knowlegables in my next video before posting it. And I understand better why RBMK was unstable at low power below 700MW at which point the void co-efficient becomes negative.

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History of gliding

Afternoon Mike,

Thanks for the rather flattering note on glider history and today’s prod! I don’t know a lot but have a god library. The best series by far on this topic is the 3 vol set by Martin Simons, “Sailplanes”. If tine and cash allow - it’s not cheap and the model builders hang on because of the detailed, large, 3 views – it’s well worth getting, as Simons lived near my nearest gliding ground, Camphill, in Derbyshire and watched events, including a fatal crash (a Petrel) in 1938. I met him there about 75 years later,when he was briefly resident here. He does pick out the signifiant points in gliding history rather well.

I was glad you started with Lilienthal but think that, if you are going to include the early times when gliders were a path to powered flight, critical in understanding aerodynamics and control issues, then the Wright glider(s) should be in too. Without their 1900-2 (?) gliding experiments, no Wright Flyer in ‘03. It’s also the case that in 1911 they stayed up a long time using (sand)-dune lift; later others in the flatter parts of Europe often flew along the North Sea Coast (Netherlands, N.Germany) loo.king for such lift.

One background event to bear in mind is the post WW1 Allied ban on aircraft building. For some reason, perhaps because no-one took gliding seriously, they ere omitted. Hence the German interest in them which made them the leaders for decades, particularly through their Universities.

There was a large change of gear between th 1920 and 1921 Wasserkuppe meets. Largely hang gliders at the first and rigid, more conventional aircraft at the second. The Vampyr is a good example and is, as far as I know, the first glider to stay up a long time, using ridge lift. You could stay up but not usefully go far. Not sure about the Kakadu it was remarkable in 1928 though other designs came close in aspect ratio.

One important 1928 design was the RRG Professor, fitted with a variometer and the first glider to get lift from thermals deliberately. I’d choose it over the Fafnir for that reason.

The 1933 Minimoa was not the first gull-wing glider- There was the Moazagotl in 1933 and even the tailess Weltensgler fron the second Wasswekuppe- but it helped to cement a trend. I don’t think there’s much evidence that the gull wing was an aerodynamic advantage but I guess it help visibility fro the back seat of a two seater without the ground effect of a mid-wing. In days before flaps, that effect made landings difficult. A bit like the later butterfly tail, it was a fashion that came and went.

The 1937 Reiher was one of the first derssiurgns to emphasise good, low speed, tight circling behaviour for thermals and high cross country speeds to the next, so yes to it.

The lure of laminar flow, using the NASA 6 series airfoils, started soon after WWII. The 1950 US Ross Johnson RJ-5 was one of the first, the Breguet 901 one of many others.

There had been a gradual increase in the use of plastics but GRP was a game-changer. The first “glass ship” seems to have been the FS-24 Phönix in 1957. T-tail as well; another fashion! V-tails also came and went. I’m not sure off the cuff of the first example but the HKS-1 appeared 1n 1953 and led to the HSK-3 that’s on your list.

There’s no doubt the ASW-22 looked and flew well (glide ration 56!), aspect ratio 32. Winglets and other tip extensions test. You last two choices keep us up to date, as well as waving the SA flag! You’ve got off to a good start in the limited overs contest with England, I notice.

Anyway, much agreement and some suggested changes. Fell free to ignore!

Yes, I’d be interested to hear the narrative. It all sounds good fun.

Cheers,

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Thanks TSRL. I appreciate your reply. I tried to get Martin Simons book but the shipping would make it a very expensive book. I am still busily 3d modelling the gliders for the video. When it is a bit further progressed I will let you have it for comment. Cheers Mike Tadpolefarm 10 February 2020, at 16:49

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Thanks PRAXIDICAE🌈 I have tidied up the article. All content now with citations. Please review and let me know what else might be done. Tadpolefarm (talk) 21:16, 19 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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