It would be better if they prove far superiour to the other F16s and imediatly obsolete ther rest of the fleet.
We have heard many claims of that extent in the last year alone. The LR2 A-cat was going to roll the A-cat Worlds, otherwise the solid Hall spars wing would. The C-class competition was going to be dominated by the full foiling entry. The Moth foilers were going to destroy the moth class once and for all !
Yet in all these instances, the outcomes were directly opposite.
I mean did the introduction of the carbon mast kill the A-cat class in the early 90's ?
Why are we all so scared of NOTHING !
You will all find out once more that I'm right were you all are wrong.
Halve of you don't even really understand what you are talking about.
The other halve is to dumb or lazy to look up past experiences with similar projects and make a balanced judgement. Lots of things have been tried before and by far most of them have been found wanting. It is only the predictable hysteria about "obsoleteness" that gives many of these projects alot more weight then they deserve. Give them a few more months and 90% of them will quietly disappear into the background, never to be heard off again.
When ohh when do we smarten up ?
Wouter
Why are you so angry?
I believe Ben Hall made it quite clear that he didn't know what the wing sail was going to do and nobody in the class jumped and banned it. I don't recall anyone (with any real information) claiming it was going to kill the class. Same thing with the foiling C-class...it certainly had a buzz around it but everyone knew that it was new and there were going to be teething problems. This is the normal progression of things.
I look at instances like this and really feel good about the way the class is running things. They don't jump to conclusions; they didn't shout and have a knee-jerk reaction to Ben's wing...they let it play out. They're very likely going to do the same thing here...let the bannana foil either prove itself or not. The class will decide something only when there is enough information to decide something. Beyond that, this is all conjecture and fun to consider.
I do firmly believe that a rigid wing could be made to be faster than fabric sails and that a foiling C-class will eventually perform better. All of this is only a matter of the time and effort required to hammer out the details and do the development. Currently, the challenges seem to be slightly beyond the motivation of these development minded individuals. But motivations will change, things will progress, and we will move forward.
