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    Posted: 15 Oct 08 at 4:50pm

Originally posted by alstorer

Swinging poles were fashionable when the 4000 was designed? Other than the 400, which was designed by the same guy, what else around then had them?

Bull 7000, not much else.

 
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[Mind you if the Merlin class were ever to permit sprit kites I'm sure we could look forward to pivoting pole systems of mind numbing complexity (he said, after watching someone rigging one on Sunday afternoon with a twin pole system...)[/QUOTE]

Before we built the prototype RS400 (at R+M) we did indeed fit a pole to a Merlin, Spud's Yesterday Man got the treatment and went to Salcombe, at that time the class decided to adopt the longer Symetric pole and larger kite which had also been on trial.

It was also tried in Int 14's with no success.
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Originally posted by alstorer

Swinging poles were fashionable when the 4000 was designed? Other than the 400, which was designed by the same guy, what else around then had them?

 Leaders have them!
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Leaders used to have Normal Kites Ratface, i think they only trialled an assy kite (looked rubbish) We used to have a massive fleet of leaders and many a Leader national champion has come form TCSC
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